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Back in '07, it was myself and Jon, the team captain in the shop, and he was drilling a hole on the robot with a power drill. The bit jumped and grabbed his Tshirt, wrapping it up like spaghetti. After he got the bit out of his shirt, he went around and shook everybody's hand for just being there. I think he was a little drifty after the almost-incident.

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Our season went pretty smoothly in general in terms of safety, but I somehow managed to give myself a nasty cut from a polycord QuickConnect piece. The gash didn't go away for weeks.

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As usual, you can find traces of my blood on the drive train. Chains are SUCH a pain.

Re: were there robot related injuries on your team?
 

The team captain accidentally dropped a recently sharpened 1 inch endmill with the chuck on his foot it sliced through his pants, sock and ended up making a nice gash in his foot. He kept working until his parents (who are doctors) showed up and used some "glue stitch" to patch him up.

and i've cut, scratched and scraped myself almost once a day (most painfully I missed with the di-burring tool and sliced my middle finger) It happened so many times that we needed to buy more band-aids. :|

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we made it through the build season with the only injury of note being our electrical mentor slicing open his finger striping wire.

Then i sliced open my fingers moving regolith on a clean up day.

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Last season I was making the bumpers for the robot, and we were using an industrial hot glue gun to stick the noodle to the plywood. Because it was used industrial, the glue was heated by a flame, and the glue gun had been on for a good period of time. While moving a bumper out of my way, the glue dripped off the bumper and onto my pinkie finger :ahh: . It was so hot I had to let the glue that was on my finger cool off before I could do anything otherwise I would have burned myself again. I ended up with a nice blister on the outside of my finger. It took a while to heal because ripped of the blister right after I burned myself because it hurt so bad, which caused it to ooze for the next week.

Other than that nothing bad has happened (just the usual cuts and bruises) besides a student getting his hair wrapped in a drill.

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I am pretty sure that I got the worst injury on the team, and all it was was a small cut on my knuckle.

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For some weird reasons our practice robot's PWMs were outputting very high voltages. This guy just wanted to touch the pins and he got a small piece of the pin embedded in his finger and the pin was completely burned! :O Luckily he was okay.

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one of the girls on our team has an arrow shaped scar on her arm from a burn. there have been others but that was the coolest.