A tool safety reminder for all

[TAB]

Long story short, I had a carbid router bit explode on me thrusday.  I am very glad I was wearing a heavy cotton shirt, jeans,  and a face sheild.  Other wise it would have been alot worse.




That pic was taken about 12 hours after it happen, it was alot deeper then it looks.  Nothing like diging hot carbid out of your skin with a razor knife.  Then it was the old wrap it in a rag and duck tape and back to work. 

I've always said i fear a router more then I fear a table saw.


Just a friendly reminder, to wear that safety gear and practice safe tool handling. 

PS, there is nothing like hiting a hardend steal rod in the middle of a butcher block counter top to shatter a router bit.  Destroyed the router as well.
  Lucky for me I know this doctor that can patch me up on the cheap *wink*

[crusader rabbit]

Ouch, Dude.  Really glad it wasn't worse. And having competent medical help on the other side of the dinner table is a definite plus.  Stay safe.  You have given me (and others) something to think about next time one of us gets a plunge router out for a job.   At least you still have all the major parts still attached.

[tombogan03884]

Part of my job involves deburring the inside of some tubing, I use a small bench grinder with an arbor mounted horizontally and a 1/2 inch sanding drum.
The other day the sleeve of my T shirt got caught as I turned away and the bench grinder was instantly trying to climb up on my shoulder like a friendly cat  
The off switch was pretty much in my face so I just shut it of and set it further back on the bench.
As it happened it was funny, the machine jumped up on my shoulder, but a bigger machine could have been very bad, When things go to crap, it happens instantly, you have to take every precaution before hand.

[jaybet]

In my former twenty five year life as a carpenter and contractor I (fortunately) never hurt myself with a power tool. My nemesis was my utility knife, which sent me to the hospital for stiches half a dozen times. It was the glancing blows that caused the most damage. Straight on you can just duct tape it and keep going, but a sidelong slice is a huge mess.

[tombogan03884]

In my former twenty five year life as a carpenter and contractor I (fortunately) never hurt myself with a power tool. My nemesis was my utility knife, which sent me to the hospital for stiches half a dozen times. It was the glancing blows that caused the most damage. Straight on you can just duct tape it and keep going, but a sidelong slice is a huge mess.

Eyes, Piece of sawdust once when I was not wearing Safety glasses, and a piece of fiberglass that got around the glasses.
Also got hit in the eye ball with a drop of paint, but  I got that out myself without going to the hospital.

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[GUNS-R-US]

Is this the how bad can I hurt myself thread???

[TAB]

In my former twenty five year life as a carpenter and contractor I (fortunately) never hurt myself with a power tool. My nemesis was my utility knife, which sent me to the hospital for stiches half a dozen times. It was the glancing blows that caused the most damage. Straight on you can just duct tape it and keep going, but a sidelong slice is a huge mess.

the worst are carpet knifes, I think I can cut myself just looking at them.

[alfsauve]

Hope it heals well TAB, sorry for your injury

A reminder that many accidents happen at home, when we have our guard down. 

Here's a reminder of how easy it is.   I wasn't  hurt, but shook up a bit when I had a ladder collapse under me while I was coming down.   Just a reminder to inspect the equipment, and to be safe out there.

[fightingquaker13]

Damn near lost my trigger finger (my second favorite appendage) opening a thrice damned plastic shrink wrapped package at work. The only upside to this was that my boss gave me the display model Gerber Gator that caused the problem as a consolation prize. He said it was poetic justice, I think it was an evil sense of humor, either way, I still have the knife, and the scar. Whoever posted that laeral wounds are the worst was not wrong. Seeing your finger peeled like a bannana sucks. Likewise  I did the ladder trick as well Alf. It was hurricane Jean and I had put up plywood/shutters at my granddads, great aunts and my mom's place when I had a heat stroke and fell off the ladder under a 5/8ths" sheet of plywood.A night in the hospitile (at least I got A/C and ice) . Still, not the best of times and a reminder that no good goes unpunished.

[MikeBjerum]

I think everything that can be said has been said, except ...

Wait for it ...

Did you get Mrs. Tab to play Dr when you got home