Ok here is my story: Iwas finishing the construction of my garage, it was about 11 pm I had one more gypse board to cut to finish the inside of the garage, so basically I draw the line on the board take a long ruler and start cutting with my right hand, the left hand keep the ruler tight on the board but what I didn't notice is my left index is over the ruler so when I started to cut the board because my index was in the cut line I cut the side tips of my finger with half of the finger nail, it was pretty deep and could see the bone, my finger was bleeding like a puncture compressor hose. I didn't go to the hospital, I kind of fix it myself, but let me tell you that I couldn't sleep that night it was pretty painfull.

 

Ouch! You should've went to the hospital.

 

Was actually in the driveway, tried to jump off of a car hauler that we had to move and somehow clumsily smashed my kneecap into the corner of one of the steel beams that make up it's structure. Cut my kneecap down to the bone, you could see it when you moved the skin on my kneecap around. Knee still aches when i have it bent in certain positions for extended periods of time such as driving in the car.

Worst in the garage was damn near chopping off the end of my finger with a brake drum when trying to bang it back onto the brake shoes... that was the worst pain I can recall ever experiencing - worse than the aforementioned knee incident which was pretty painful. It was unbelievable. Only time I've ever gotten dizzy and nauseated from pain. I had to sit down on the garage floor.

 

Ohhhh okay i got a PAINFUL one. For those of you who have done alignments, on an older hunter machine, you know you drive the car onto the alighnment rack. Well theres the 2 center scissor jack type lifts that just raise it off, well i was lowering it and my index finger was kinda resting on the top, and i was warned about this, i didnt evne realize it, i think yo know where this is going, i started to lower it, and it lowered and i just about lost my finger. I almost passed out because of the pain, i was just laying on the shop floor, i thought i was going to puke, i got really hot and sweaty, just laid there for 10-15 minutes or so just swearing about how i did something so stupid. required a few stitches lol.

 

I had forgot about this one, one night I was in the garage with 2 friends and my cousin talking and drinking a beer, my friend dropped his glass of water on the concrete floor so the glass litterally exploded, many pieces felt underneath the front of the max, ( the engine bay is empty and the car is jacked ) so basically in an effort to pick up all the broken pieces, I had to go in the engine bay to pick up the left over pieces, while getting there, both of my hands where flat on the floor and I kind of slide my hand to the floor in order to get in the engine bay, but there was a 3-4 inches piece of broken glass that I didn't saw, it was almost like an arrow, it basically punctured my hand and went thru the wrist but underneath the skin, that piece was about 2 inches inside my hand. I didn't realized right on the spot but after maybe a minute or so it started to kind of burn, I took a look and saw that piece of glass inside my hand, there was maybe a 1/2 inche left outside, I was like wtf. It was painful but I could take it so I asked my friend to get the long nose and try to pull the piece of glass as I couldn't do that by myself. Once he started to pull it suddenly became very painful, it was very very intense I was also bleeding like a pig, so at that point I felt I was almost loosing consciousness but I manage to sat in a chair for a couple of minutes before and get off that dizziness state. That was the first time in my life that I experienced the feeling of loosing consciousness, even though I had few broken bones/ribs, dislocated my 2 shoulders and knee, I have to admit that I would have never expect that a small piece of glass in my hand could be so terribly painful. I mean once that piece was extracted the rest was almost a joke.

 

This is great to read while you're eating lunch...

 

You guys have some disgusting stories that make me hope that if I ever have kids, they will won't work on cars.

So anyway my turn,

Back in the day, I was installing speakers into the back of a '00 Altima. You have to essentially tear the whole back end apart to get to these speakers and nissan doesn't grind down the edges of the metal so they are razor freakin' sharp. I'm underneath the speakers and not paying attention to where my forearms are and one grazes the edge of the metal pass-through. Needless to say it cut the crap out of my forearm. It didn't bleed at first and then a minute later it gushed like no other, blood all over the shop floor and all. The funny thing was I was yelling at my manager that I got cut, he wasn't looking and just said to go get a band-aid. He finally looked up and saw the stream of blood trailing down my forearm started going holy s***, and giving me crap about how if I wanted to go home that bad, I should've told him. 5 stitches.

Another time I was doing a remote start installation on a car. I put the soldering gun on the floorboard and then without paying attention I rested my arm on the stupid thing. To this day (2 years later) I have a scar that looks like the soldering gun tip, I essentially branded myself.

Another time I under the hood of cherokee and the prop rod came out while I only had my arms underneath the hood. It slammed AND locked!! Thank god I was at the shop and one of the other guys ran over. Didn't cut anything but hurt like hell and left an indention in my forearms. I seriously thought I was screwed because it wouldn't open and I couldn't move my arms.

 

drilled my thumb with a 2.5 inch hole saw bit, looked like a baby sharc got a kold of my thumb and was jerking right to left. no stitches but took 4 weeks to heal. and skin is still peeling off...

 

Hot radiator cap + lack of patience = scalded arm

 

Listening to the exhaust and had my friends truck roll over my head. cracked my skull and messed me all up, i always get massive headaches now and that is why iam a tad restarded

 

Are you serious?

 

yes, i was bleeding from the ears and all, i was in the hospital for awhile

 

Pics? Did you sue your friend?

 

no pics, dident sue, iam not that kinda person,. it was just a bad accident

 

I hope you dont get permanent injury though, you could have made arrangement with your friend, like you could have sue him and give him a compensation after, see what I mean, many people does that in order to:

1- Have a financial back-up in any eventuality ie: (losing some of you ability, and not being able to work and support yourself and your family).

2-I understand this is an unfortunate accident and you want to keep your friend, but in any eventuality will your friend support you and help ?

Even though he is your good friend, in any eventuality he wont pay your bill, mortgage, insurance, car, food and support your family.

For those reasons I would have sue him, I mean suing his insurance and you guys could agree for him to have a small compensation for is cooperation.

My 2 cents.

 

I've been lucky - worst accident was working on a siezed windshiled wiper linkage on a Saturn. After I got it unseized and reassembled I turned the wipers on to ensure they were working. Then I turned them off so I could do some more adjsutement.

Thing is, I accidentaly turned them to "Intermittent", not "Off". It gave me enough time to stuck my fingers into he linkage and then it grabbed my hand it dragged it along the edge of some sheet metal. I was wearing blue nitrile gloves so I didn't realise how bad it was at first - plus I did that "If I don't look at the injury then the injury doesn't exist" thing for about 15 seconds. Then I pulled the glove off and the effect of the sweat diluting the blood made it look like an arterial bleed... Off to the ER. P*ssed off my wife becuase I was back working on the car the next day - one handed, though, becuase I had splints on the damaged fingers. No lasting injury.


The worst near-accident came when i was removing an engine/trans/xfer case from a Rav4. I had the usual problem of finding a chain in the shop that was strong enough for the load but with large enough links to get a bolt through but small enough links so the head of the bolt is secure. I picked a chain for it's link size, not strength. Even though it had welded links, afetr I used the cherry picker to lower the whole assembly to the gruound and was removing the chain I notice a link had broken it's weld and had partially opened up. My head was under that assembly a few times while checking for forgotten wires/hoses as I lowered the engine slowly... Needless to say, a failure of that chain while my head was under the 700lbs engine/trans/xfer case/subframe assembly would have been instantly fatal, and maybe even comical in a Darwinian kind of way. I now have a VERY good selection of chains and only hoist loads with at lead 4 independent chains, one for each corner (instead of two chains attached ina V-pattern with a single link conencted to the load balancer and therefore one link failure can cause the load to fall.

 

here's my latest accident. Was running inside my shop and i fell and hit the alignment rack. went to the ER and got stiches. 2 weeks later had to cut the wound open again for a 2nd surgery because I tore a muscle underneath and the ER didint catch it. mmmm yummy

 

Ouuuuuuchhhhhhhhhhhh ^^
btw ppl i dont have any lasting injurys from the prior accident, iam 99.9% the same :P

 

its all good, i had a worse accident then that, it was a head on car crash, but thats for another thread.

 

A pic!

 

Wow. Is that bone?

 

Not knowing how to take out a windshield at the time(and not having the right tools) I was using a large X-acto knife to cut the windshield gasket out of my Dodge pickup a few years ago. It slipped with a lot of pressure right into my hand. It had enough force behind it to send it almost all the way through my hand. I was too shocked to pull it out right away and went and showed it to my dad. He started laughing which made me start laughing because I did kind of see some humor in it. I was able to pull it out and get it cleaned and bandaged, but my whole hand ached for quite a while.

 

This doesn't seem like a ing matter.