Ouch I hate it when that happens

[Argentum Vulpes]

Most painful non-construction

I'd have to say the most painful injury I gave my self is a toss up between the many metal slivers and cuts I get when I'm changing cutting heads and cleaning the turret milling machine I'm responsible for maintaining in the shop I work at and the time I electrocuted myself with a PAC. The electrocution story is great though. My friends and I were salvaging a bunch of junk cars from an old farmstead on of my friends fathers just bought, and we were cutting up some of the larger pieces back at the ranches shop that the field PAC and cutting torches couldn't handle. I was working on a main frame of an old 3 tonn truck (heavily rusted) got my two grounds installed on the opposite side of where I'd be for the cut, (after 15 min with a wire wheel and an angle grinder to clean up the ground spots) and light off the PAC. The next thing I know I'm on the ground five feet away from the frame and smell the slight smell of burnt popcorn. Some how to this day I still can't understand why I grounded myself with that daffy PAC, and also managed to pop bloth the GFC on the power supply and in the wall, that most likely saved my life. The only thing that was damaged, after the three weeks it took to regain all feeling in my arm, was my watch that was completely destroyed.

Most painful construction

This one is also the most annoying. I was laying down plywood for the roofs of a subdivision I was working on and managed to shoot my self in the foot with a nail gun. Now before you all wonder how stupid I was that day these houses are in vary snowy south western montana and building codes require steep roof grades to deal with snow loading. This sight also had a major OSA presence so where I'd of liked to have an extra step place on the roof to help me get up to staple the top of the sheet I couldn't per regulations. So to get to the top I had to streach into almost splits and boom when putting down a line got my self in the foot. Heres the kicker of it, had to go into the emegracy room, (2 hours away) for a bandage, and supposedly an X-ray of my foot until the doctor said not to worry since it was a graze, (any one who was not blind could see that).

 

[loseyourname]

Oh, wait! Didn't you have a long list of near catastrophes?

Yes I did, but I rarely sustained any injuries.

 

[devil-fire]

iv got a vary close call for you.

i was in a metal shop doing some welding on a long "box" to be used in the production of paper. i was seated a computer chair with the back and arm rests removed, so its a padded stool on wheels and i was TIG welding at about chest level. i had something like 200 inches to go and i was in cover alls and was generally quite hot. for those who don't know, TIG welding involves a 'torch' in one hand to melt metal with electricity jumping from the work to a tungsten electrode and one length of rod about a meter long of whatever metal you want to add (in this case the rod was 1/8 of an inch thick) in the other hand. in this case i was working with stainless steel so my tungsten electrode was close to razor sharpness. well it was getting hot as i was saying so i hung my 1/8 metal filler rod off the box and draped the torch over my thigh by the cable while i took a second to cool off. it seems the friction between my torch's power/gas line and my cover alls was low, because it sliped, almost falling off my thigh (not a big deal by itself) but the vary hot piece of tungsten stopped the fall by catching the crotch of my coveralls. i remember staring off into space and feeling a warm, wet sort of heat on my scrotum and thought "wow. i think iv just urinated myself... been a while since i did that" and then i smell smoke and look down to see a piece of metal that was just at the same temperature as liquid steel a moment ago piercing the groin area of my pants. i jumped up so fast i shot my stool on wheels back into the piece of work behind me. i thought i just seared the nerves to quick for the information to really process in my brain, like people who have suffered a horrific accident and say "i didn't feel the pain till i looked down". it took me a few moments to conclude i wouldn't need plastic surgery to remove any scar tissue. when i checked the damage in the bathroom later, the sharp hot metal went through the coveralls, the genes i was wearing and was close enough to my loose fitting boxers to scorch them

i happen to know for a fact that when metal that hot touches skin, it really is just like a hot knife through warm butter. its as if the heat makes your skin become a lubricant between bone and metal

 

[Kerrie]

Kerrie in the bathroom: *Clink*

i remember wanting to know when i would pass it...but my 5 year old attention span quickly forgot about it.