DIY Accidents

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Spent a interesting afternoon in A&E with my nephew, people came & went.
Then a woman was brought in with a nasty gash on her foot, she had been wearing trainers & had been using a angle grinder which kicked back & ran through her foot.:eek:

It got me thinking, 30+ years in the building trades,plus diy at home & I've only been to A&E once for minor accident in all that time.
Had the usual cut & grazes, just lucky or me being my usual over cautious.

What accidents have you lot had, doing diy or if your in one of the various building trades.
 
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Ive fell off stepladders a few times, once fracturing my right ankle. A few months later i broke my left ankle, (not work related though). Aside from that just a few little cuts and grazes, nothing that warranted any time off work or hospital visits.
 
I love it when people trip and/ or fall, especially off ladders. Some dude at work was carrying too much cardboard to the baler in the warehouse round back (he couldn't see in front of him) and he tripped over a trolley and came crashing down, LMAO!

My Dad's hit his hand whilst hammering before.
 
Exactly the same as that woman OP..

Was on the farm mid summer doing some baler repairs. (door wouldn't close properly)
I had welded a new catch on the baler framework and was just in the middle of grinding everything smooth.
Basically I was straddled over a metal box framework, I finished the work and let go of the grinder with one hand to extricate myself from the baler.
The trigger banged against the framework as I was getting out which started the grinder up (no soft start in those days) so it went straight to 9000 rpm and span the thing out of my other hand. Well it hit the floor disc first and then travelled sharpish sideways... straight over my also trainered foot..

Phew I thought, as I got out of the frame, that was close, looks like it just mis.... OH ****.... Blood, lots of blood.
MEDIC...
I hobbled down the drive, went straight into the office and rang mother at work saying I need to go to A&E STAT.
By the time I finished the very short convo (I think she realised I wasn't messing about) the pool of blood on the office floor was about 3ft in diameter. :eek: :eek:
9" Angle grinder @ 9000rpm vs 1 big toe and a tendon..

The grinder won!

Oh and then there was the time I was in the orchard, I jumped off the tractor into the long grass to hitch up a trailer, only I jumped straight down onto a broken pallet and nailed part of that pallet through my welly straight into the bottom of my foot. **** me the pain of nail meeting bone is something I NEVER want to repeat!

Didn't go to hospital at all for the nail, just had to endure pulling the bit of wood off my foot myself
The grinder one there was a bit more to it. They couldn't stitch it back together as it was a grinding disc (which is about 6mm wide) so it took 6mm of my flesh away. I had to dress it for about two months while it grew back itself.

Thankfully nothing since. Only ever broken one bone too, collar bone, doing jumps on a BMX. :D
 
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Not as bad as the previous angle grinder incidents reported here, but I was using one to help extract an ARB drop link from my car when it kicked back and bounced off of my chest. Fortunately I was wearing lots of layers and overalls and I only ended up with some grazing. It was ******* scary though!
 
i was sleeving cables for a new computer build and did this *gore warning*

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thats the worst one i think, but ive also got lime dust in my eye, drilled a hole in my leg, stood on a nail and slit my wrist on some glass!
 
Not through me, but I cut the corner off the coffee table the other week when using the circular saw and not having the workbench out. That went down well.

I did drop a car on my hand though before. That was nice. Pinned my hand between a window maker scissor jack and the floor. Had to pull my hand out to free it.

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The main accident I had was cutting the top of my hand on some glass. it went straight through my glove and cut my tendon :(.

Spend 4 days in hospital as every day i was supposed to have the operation to stitch the tendon there were worse accidents that took priority. Then after geting it stiched and put in a splint i had to have 8 weeks off work for it to heal. I was self employed as well so lost a fair ammount in wages.

Have also drilled straight through my little finger when a 6mm SDS drillbit snapped and the snapped part went straight through the finger. Luckily it missed the tendon, or that would have been another 8 weeks off work.
 
Hit my finger with a Club Hammer and took a load of the skin off my finger as i was hammering in a post and my finger was on the side of the post OUCH !!!
 
Took a chunk out of my little finger with a circular saw. Pretty lucky there as really there was nothing stopping it running through all my other fingers as well.

Damaged something in my back filling a skip when I was 14, that has come back to haunt me a few times.

Had a ladder slide out from beneath me, so I'm left hanging onto this thing as it slides down the length of the wall, scary.

Electrocuted myself whilst testing an alarm panel, quite close to dying on that one.
 
sports_brah said:
Put my fingers in a light socket.

Two times. :/

The shock so nice, he tried it twice! :D

(Not sure if its actually dangerous but it did bloody hurt at the time)
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Voltage doesn't kill you it is the amperage.

"Currents of approximately 0.2 A are potentially fatal, because they can make the heart fibrillate, or beat in an uncontrolled manner."

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/JackHsu.shtml
 
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Was using an angle grinder with a wire brush cup wheel once and it caught on my overalls, luckily it got twisted all up before coming into contact with my skin!

Had a guy in the unit next door to us ask to use our table saw, next minute his thumb is off..
 
sports_brah said:
Put my fingers in a light socket.

Two times. :/

The shock so nice, he tried it twice! :D

(Not sure if its actually dangerous but it did bloody hurt at the time)
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Did that as well however must not have learnt because i proceeded to do it again except it was eating the thing rather than putting my finger in it :(
 
I've smashed the back of my hand with a hammer many times and sure I've cracked or broken a bone there many times.

I've cut through my finger with a saw after missing the wood.

I've broken a bone in my foot when pulling a concrete lintel out of an old fireplace. It was heavier than I expected and I then dropped it vertically straight down onto my toe. My wife then accidentally dropped a large bag of sand on the same foot several hours later.

Never bothered with going to A&E though.
 
cut my hands loads, angle grinded my skin off my hand too..

used circular saws before and i never get how anyone could put one down without checking the guard has gone down...
 
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Not done anything of note myself but my dad once had the great idea of spinning something on a drill while using a chisel to shape it, there was a vice involved in it somewhere but it predictably ended up with the chisel spinning around a few times and then flying off embedding itself in his leg and missing an artery by a fraction of an inch.
 
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