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Last year, one of our mentors was using a bench grinder to grind down the edge of some aluminum extrusion, and wasnt using a vise grips to hold the aluminum. He slipped and ground half of his thumb off on the wheel. It was pretty bad.

Beside that injury, except for a few tools being dropped on peoples feet or having hands filled with metal slivers, nothing too serious.

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Hmmm I remember in 2003 before the shipping date, the team was testing the robot and autonomus. I was sitting in the carpet and the driver suddenly drive foward too much and rammed my legs.

And this year. I was testing the arms of the robot and the arm swinged fast slamming the robot (no damage done). I was standing in the front and i dodged the arm but it went back down and hit my back. Hahahaha it didn't hurt much anyways

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Okay, so not so many ROBOT related injuries this year...

Our arm op, Shaivya, did get his head bashed by our arm though. And then he got glow stick liquid in his eye. Looooooots of fun :rolleyes:

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Phoenix:

Okay, it is really embarrassing when you have to go to the first aid person two times during a regional when you are the safety captain. The even more depressing thing was that it wasn't from the robot! The first time I got hurt was when I was carrying the team's control box. The fiberglass or whatever was so sharp it cut through my arm. I have a nice scar from it, although it didn't hurt at all. All after that incident I was in the pit, with a file, making sure no sharp edges existed, ANYWHERE!. My second injury was when I fell down the stairs and twisted my ankle. That wasn't a surprise. For some reason stairs just don't like me and I fall down them constantly...

Lone Star:

I was in the pit talking to three judges along with a few members of the team. Everyone else was working on the robot since they heard a scraping sound (ALL THAT NOISE CAME FROM ONE STUPID NUT!!). So we were doing the "delay of game, hey look at this" dance with the judges. 2 were the all around judges and the other was in charge of safety. I notice the team to the right of us had their robot slowly creeping closer and closer to us. Being the paranoid person I was I moved away the teammate that the robot was right behind. I'm glad I did because a second later the robot took off and attacked a freshman that was working on our bot. I'm not sure if it was on auto. mode (since we are covered in green) or if the joystick was uncalibrated but it sure gave us a shock. Luckily a few people including myself jumped on the robot and pulled it back before it actually hurt him, although we did have a quite shaken freshman on our hands.

Do be careful
 

2004: One guy grabbed a soldering iron to move it - it had only been unplugged a moment before and naturally he grabbed the business end. My son lost a bit of skin on the big belt sander when the piece grabbed - it could have been much worse.

2005 - I think I slightly cracked my thumb this year. I was cutting aluminum angle on a compound mitre saw. When backing up out of the cut, it caught the small cut piece and launched the piece I was firmly holding down into the air. It whacked my thumb but good - stung like crazy. Was sore for about 1 1/2 months.

Do be careful out there.

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We seem to have injuries that don't really hurt all that much, but still are funny. One that has made a freshman on our team famous was when he tripped in front of the entire Sacramento regional. flat on his face.

Another was the the silicon valley regional. Our battery guy was running down the stairs to our pit to replace the battery when he tripped, and his ankle decided it would crap out on his landing. Needless to say, others on the team had to follow the paramedics to find out which batteries were charged.

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I have a couple from the this year. The stupidest one ever was when i was changing the type of bit holder for our lathe, and the knob at the end of the handle just shattered into 2 pieces and i got cut pretty bad because it was sharp plastic. I wasnt even pushing on the handle hard, it was realy low quality plastic. Another realy stupid one was when i got tap magic (for cutting aluminum) all over my hands by accident and i didnt realise it was a skin irritent until the next day, it went away in a few days though :] . Another potentialy very bad injury almost happened to my friend, he was working under the robot and the stand collapsed. I was the only person that had enough common sense to grab the robot and lift it off him, it took like 30 seconds of yelling at people to help get it off him! Thank god he didnt get hurt.

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Team 836 almost killed our lead mentor, well the robot almost did. We were testing the autonomous mode and the robot was supposed to go down the hall and turn right to line up with the vision tetra and bring up the arm. Our lead mentor though it would be a good idea to check the progress of our programming team and stands to the left in the hallway. At the line the robot takes off down the hall, turns left and pins our lead mentor against the wall with the arm between his legs, right as the arm was going up programming disabled the robot and saved our lead mentors :eek: family jewels :eek: .

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most of the injuries on our team have been pretty minor, probly the most serious was when one kid, who wasnt too experiencd with tools, was taking out a drill bit from the drill press, and the bit fell off and slit his finger, he had to get stitches
I have gotten a bunch of minor injuries like cuts or metal in my fingers, but thats just part of the experience of working in the machine shop
also last year one of our mentors was hit by our robots arm, and he hurt his shoulder
probly one of the most serious injury didnt happen to a person but to the machine shop that we were workin in. in 2003 we were testing autonomous and the robot didnt turn and went right through the wall, the mentor (who was the owner of the machine shop) was really mad, because there was a huge hole in his wall the size of our robot, to this day u can see the outline of the bot, even though they reparied the wall

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The only "injury" we had was the robot running over my foot just before ship. It was slightly blue for a day or so, but that HURT. Our driver was nearly decapitated when the robot took off at full speed during autonomous testing(a lesson to the programmers the hard way about speed), but thankfully he dove out of the way so it didn't hit him.

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our robot (from stack attack) used to have this huge arm and when it was all the way forward our robot would like tilt and wobble
so one day sumone leans on the controls while its holding a crate...and it whips around
it almost decapitated our whole team that was standing there....except sumone warned us and we all pulled a matrix (if yknow wat i mean)
we still talk about it

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Apart from me getting my finger caught once in the 2003 bots lifter (silly mistake, didn't do any damage) not much has happened luckily. Apart from running my foot over several timeS ( i wear toe tectors nowadays ;) ) not much has happened to us.

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Man, i guess we need to pay more attention to safety, I can't believe this thread has gone to seven pages

The only Injuries 340 encountered was during auton programming with everyone watching at 2 AM, not exactly fast reflexes:)

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There was a close miss while building the bot. Our capes and the design on are shirts are bright green, so we figured out the hard way that our robot's autonomous was working when it started chasing us around. It was quite scary because our grabber is three huge spikes, and when the robot meets green, it shoots/lifts spikes up. It would have been very painful if it had caught us before our programmer frantically shut it off. (the autonomous functions that tried to kill us are controlled by Victor #3, which also likes to shock people working on the electronics: hence my avatar and signature.)

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ooh, I just remmebered one, not really an injury, but an amusing story.

We were testing out our camera stuff (which failed miserably in the end), but we did get it to follow green at one point, anyway, so I was working in the hallway because hte lighting was better, and i had someone about 30 feet down the hallway holding a green triangle. Well, I was apparently taking too long tweaking things, and he fell asleep, behind the triangle. Well, it tracked the green really well, ran right into the sleeping guy holding the triangle. He jumped like 8 feet into the air. Then he ran down the hall and had the robot chase him, it was amusing... and the only time our camera worked :(