Any accidents you had?

[Perfect_Cut]

So have you had any accidents with guns, knives, multitools, or anything you've got your hands on? Let's keep it ontopic and let's not discuss a sprain or a broken bone we got from a non EDC-item...

I've had quit a lot of accidents so far but here are 2 of them... (already posted in the How did you get your name-thread but let's put them here as well)

I just had my Mtech033 and I began trying it out by cutting some stuff. Well I eventually tried cutting up a box but somehow I slipped and made a cut on the top of my hand. Right where your thumb connects to your hand. Well it was pretty deep and was perfectly straight and was a slight laceration... So my friend said are you ok? I said sure just let me stop the bleeding and see if I need to go to a doc. I decided not to go since you usually have a 3 hour waiting line in the hospital and didn't think it was worth it. It has turned in quit an ugly scar though but I don't care... I don't mind scars really...


I almost stabbed myself one day... I was sharpening my knife and as usual I put the sharpening stone on my leg so I have a little more grip and a stable ground to work with... But as I was sharpening I slipped and it pushed on my leg... I'm just soooo damn happy that I wasn't finished sharpening and that I was just at the beginning stage of sharpening that knife otherwise it would have gone right through my jeans and into my leg :(



So tell me about yours

[Big Bob]

I had a very common mishap with an Spyderco ATR that I had just finished washing and was in the process of drying. I dropped it (it's an SS ATR so it's very slippery when wet), and stupidly tried to recover it in the air before it hit the floor. It was an instinctive reaction. Will spare you the gory details, but it wasn't pretty, and my handwriting was almost illegible for a while.

[Crocodilo]

Only very small ones:

1. Seven years ago. Bored, playing with and old Leatherman like it was a butterfly knife. Lost grip and point of saw blade penetrated lightly on the back of my right hand. Small triangular scar.

2. Six years ago. Had just bought the Cold Steel Paradge tanto neck knife. Fits really well on the kydex sheath. Opened it with a finger placed were the edge would pass, so sliced open the head of the ring finger on the left hand. Three stiches.

3. Four years ago. Scaling (removing the scales) a parrot fish after some spearfishing, and I got to push the knife onto the other hand, as it slipped in the wet fish. The knife point penetrated between the thumb and index finger on the left hand, quite deep but narrow. Four or five stiches, and after that I got a special tool for scaling fish.

4. Yesterday. Pulled my celular phone out of the fannypack while walking with my kid seated on my shoulders. A folder I had there dropped to the stone ground, opened and flew, cutting lightly half an inch on one of my toes. I was in flip-flops.

Damn. I guess this makes me quite a clumsy guy.

[parnass]

I had an original Gerber multitool, a poor design with almost no clearance between the 2 handles when the pliers is fully closed.

Several years ago, I was using the Gerber's pliers and they slipped off the fastener. Flesh from my palm was trapped between the 2 handles. The pinching action caused a painful blood blister. I have avoided Gerber multitools ever since.

[unterhund]

A couple of months before our wedding, my wife and I traveled to meet her future in-laws. One day while she was driving, my mother asked me to cut a piece off an Abba Zabba bar she'd bought. Too chewy for her to bite through, for some reason. I'm in the middle front seat, my mother to my left and fiance to my right. I pull out my Wenger Fisherman and proceed to cut. Right through the candy bar and into the knuckle of my left pointer finger. The scar is a small but visible reminder of knife safety.

Hey, at least I didn't get blood on the candy.

[scríbhneoir]

I once forgot that I had traded out the PE Ladybug on my keychain, replacing it with the SE. A PE Jester is on the same keychain. I was going to make the PERFECT CUT ( :laugh: ) on my cigar, and I opened the bug, saw that it was the SE, but instead of closing it and reaching for the :jester: , I said to my lazy self, if I'm careful, this will work. NOT. The cut was ragged on the cigar (ptoo-ee–cigar bits), and I had to work it a little to cut it, and pressed it oh so gently into the flesh of my thumb, leaving a little dotted line of lacerations. Miniscule bleeding. But I've not tried it again. Other than the occasional pointy jab in a digit with one of my sharp and pointy friends, I have been very good with my knives, except for the slicing of my left index finger with a big 'ole Henckels 4-star in the kitchen slicing potatoes several years ago. I just taped it together really well. A nice clean little scar...

[bubbajoe]

Week ago Monday I was cleaning and sharpening some knives. I was on my last one , My Cold steel hunter. I had the blade half open trying to clean the gunk out of the liner lock with a Q-tip . I wasn't pay attenion to where my finger was and the knife closed on my right index finger . right across the knuckle. Its a very sharp knife. very clean cut but very deep. i washed it and put some butterfly strips on it and call it a day. the next day i noticed i couldn't bend the last knuckle on the finger!! i had to go to the med center. >:(... i may have cut the tendon . one week later i still can't open the finger all the way , looks like i broke it, has that funny bend in it.

that will teach me not to play with sharp things :(

[Deaths Head]

Mine was before my FMA days. I purchased an Emerson Karambit and saw the video of Ernest twirling one in each hand. I was twirling it in my right hand and started to twirl it as fast as I can. Then it happened. It stuck my right on my wrist. I covered it up right away. When I peeked at it, the cut wasn't really bleeding. I was able to see how deep it was. I could see my tendons inside my arm. I couldn't drive because everytime I try to shift I would have a tremendous sharp pain shoot up my arm. My wife had to drive. At the ER, they taped the cut closed with a special tape called steri-strips, prescribed some antibiotics, oh and, gave me a shot in the *** with a tetanus injection. When I got home I looked at te knife and saw the shiny discoloration that was left on the blade. I measured it and saw that it had penetrated at least 3/4 of an inch at least. Later that week, I had to be seen by a hand specialist who told me that the knife stabbed me right between the 2 main tendons that you can feel on you inner wrist. I couldn't use my right arm for about 3 weeks. I could write and hold a remote and things like that, but really not much more. After about 5 months I gradually recovered.

[pipedreams]

As a young man, I used a No.8 Opinel to scratch a mosquito bite on my ankle. That bite still itched, even after the eleven stitches.

todd

[Nightwatch]

I rarely cut myself with my own EDC, I make use of other people's tools to wound myself. 4 Years ago my mother and I conspired to give my father a hand forged swedish wood axe for Christmas. As I had not gotten to admire the fine workmanship of the axe I asked my father to let me examine it. It was well balanced, finely crafted and razor sharp. I went to put it back in its leather sheath which was a wee bit tight from not being regularly used and the axed slipped neatly out of the sheath taking a hemispherical bite out of my left thumb.

Did I mention that the axe was razor sharp? The cut right at the upper portion of where the thumb webbing connects and was deep enough that I saw my thumb's "inner workings". I do not remember handing the axe back to my father, I do remember running to the kitchen for paper towells (an essential part of any first aid kit!) and utilizing Boy Scout first aid training applied pressure to the wound.

It was quickly decided that the wound was severe enough to require professional help (no duct tape here) and off to the Emergency Room I went. The nurse on duty took a look at my finger and decided I needed 3 stitches and a tetanus shot. She also complemented me on wounding myself with such a sharp blade as it made the stitching easier! While the wound was not all that long, it was rather deep. Fortunately I did not sever any tendons, though I did nick a nerve and I still have a section of that thumb bereft of feeling.

[heathah]

I sliced my left index finger open with a "new" Spyderco Mini-Manix while trying to cut a zip tie off some cables.* Blood was everywhere before I knew it.* I didn't get stitches although I probably should have.* I did, however, get a nice character mark from the whole incident.* :)

Moral: Use pliers to twist off zip ties.* O0

[Pyro]

I've had plenty of "bites" from my knives (not just my EDCs though), alcohol is quite often a factor in them though, but for that reason I EDC a packet of steri-strips, a plaster and an anti-septic wipe in my wallet :D

[gordonk]

Last fall, I was helping my wife in the flower garden cutting down some tall flowers. I was using a Buck Diamondback (large one) and was gathering up the flowers with knife in hand. Blade tagged the top of my right thumb, between first joint and hand. It looked like a simple little cut until it started to bleed :( Ended up with 14 stitches - took out 90 per cent of one tendon, 70 of the other. When I'm doing leather work, I constantly tag myself with the needles when I'm stitching. Also the odd little poke when I'm sharpening and don't pay attention :)

- gord

[greenLED]

...With my very first ever SAK. My dad brought it for me from Switzerland. I was "examining" *cough* playing *cough with it, and when I closed the blade I neglected to keep my pinky away...

The second one hapenned while I was trying to slice a plastic tube in half (with the same SAK). The blade slipped, and I cut my hand. I still have the scar from that one! I remember washing my hands and putting a band-aid. Two days later my mom saw the cut and was about ready to drag me to the doctor's office for stitches! :D I was little and didn't think much of it.

Other than that, I pretty much cut myself everytime I sharpen knives; 2-3 of my fingerprints have been permanently "altered" because of this. (ouch!)

[kamkazmoto]

more cuts from my pocket knives than I care to think about. One of the worst was an an accident while sharpening a knife. It was the same thing that happened to perfect cut but the knife was sharp and I was wearing shorts. OUCH.

[robertrock]

Cut my right index finger this morning cutting styrofoam. The tip of that new Spidey Dragonfly if freakin' sharp. :P
Luckily, I had bactine, bandaids, and neosporin in the BOB! I knew there was a reason I carry all this stuff!* O0



robert

[ericb445]

I had an original Gerber multitool, a poor design with almost no clearance between the 2 handles when the pliers is fully closed.

Several years ago, I was using the Gerber's pliers and they slipped off the fastener.* Flesh from my palm was trapped between the 2 handles.* The pinching action caused a painful blood blister.* I have avoided Gerber multitools ever since.



Thats funny
I have given two of those older multi tools away with warning of whats about to happen to them.


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I have Spyderco Police I really dont EDC, Because every time I take out to even look at it, It cuts the hell out of me. Even jsut this last tuesday I had it and was messing with and sure enough it got me, and ended up dropping it bending the tip >:( >:(

[pipedreams]

I've been bit by Gerber multis, too. OUCH!

todd

[ericb445]

I have found that the newer style Gerbers are made different and don't pinch your hand any more.