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Well we had a few...Last year we were working on the arm and theese two fools were playng around one of our veterans who was doing something with this thread I believe, well in a nutshell one kid pushed the other and hit the arm or something and than the veteran nearly lost his finger. >.< Wow theres alot of finger related injuries during building season...

Hmm so descriptive... :ahh:

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This is why, usually, the chuck key has a springloaded end so that it is impossible to leave it in the chuck without pressing it in with your hand. That way, injuries of this type are avoided. Sometimes these injuries can be really serious. I have heard of people leaving the chuck key in a lathe, and when they turned it on, the key was shot out as if it were a bullet (people have been killed this way).

Personally, I have never been seriously injured while working on the robot (except for minor scrapes and cuts), although yesterday I got a blood blister on my middle finger when I accidentally pinched it in our bearing press (ouch!).

Once though, one of the members of our team (I believe this was 2002) drilled through his hand while trying to build one of the rolling goals for Zone Zeal. Another kid also scratched his cornea (I forget how) in 2002 during the Championships in Orlando. Nothing very serious has ever happened since this though.

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Another injury we had that wasn't related to anything of the arms was when we had this milling machine and we were cutting this peice. Someone didn't close the door correctly of the case of the CNC Milling machine and we had some sawdust in there, and well long story short this guy got some sawdust in his eyes. Its not really an injury but he had some problem trying to get the dust out of his eyes. :/

Sometimes after an injury has occured you can look back and laugh at it, especially if the victom makes fun of it :P

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We had a close call not too long ago. A metal cutting 10" sawblade on a mitre saw had damaged teeth. The fellow using it didn't notice, and had another tooth break off and fly into his safety goggles, right in line with one eye. It put a rather significant crater in the lens, but didn't penetrate. ALWAYS WEAR EYE PROTECTION.

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Didn't Ken Stafford say his teacher demo'ed it by leaving the chuck key in and then placing a wooden board between him and the machine? something about the key almost ripping through the wood...

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I've cut up my arms and hands a bit while working on the robot before, but as far as I know nothing major's happened.

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We Have Three count em' three first aid kits just in case and just in case happens a lot ;) ;) :rolleyes:

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Yesterday was a very... unique day.

After I read this thread a dodgeball game erupted in the workshop (I know you're thinking this won't end well). So after not playing the game in 7 years, I eagerly joined in. Once I had my fill, I ran into the wood closet for shelter. However, the walls don't reach the ceiling, and the guys threw balls over the wall.

One of them hit a metal T-Square and the edge landed right in the back of my neck. So now I'll have a disfiguring scar across my back forever...YAY!

And remember, this all happened RIGHT AFTER I read this thread...

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our driver was cut on her face by our robots arm and our human player, during a round in atlanta I believe, had a robot fall and hit her while she was standing in her human player box.

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I saw a robot fall over on someone's head in 2005 at Portland. I've read about other incidents on CD. I STILL cannot imagine why FIRST didn't require hard hats last year. It's a miracle that no one was badly hurt.

Can't see much use for hard hats in this year's game, though. And that's a good thing...

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i have been giving only a moderate amount of blood to our robot this year.

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i had one today where i had a stupid moment and got out of the chair and walked right into the robot, which wasn't even powered on and scratched my leg

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Not any serious injuries on our team, hopefully it stays that way. As far as minor injuries, i got hit on the side of the head w/ a poof ball we launched out of the robot, i almost got nailed in the balls by a poof ball, and then right after that i got hit right in the face with a poof ball, it didnt feel to great

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our teacher didn't demo it to us but he did say that he lost a co-worker that way, permanently I mean...

probably the most lethal machine in our workshop (unless of course you play tag with the drills :ahh: )

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well last week our team had one of our first injuries... i was making a hole larger on one of the copper battery terminals and silly me rushed through and forgot to clamp it down and sliced up my thumb pretty good when the copper caught the bit. but luckly it didnt affect my abilities too bad