Worst injury
 

Recently one of my teammates partially amputated his finger and had to get stiches at the hospital. OOCH!!

So my question is, what is the worst injury that your has sustained. :eek:

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Do you mean "worst injury that your team has sustained" or "worst injury that you have sustained"?

As for my team a student caught his finger in an end mill a few years ago. He had shut the machine off but tried to measure something while it was still coasting. It sliced his finger good and required stiches and he was lucky it wasn't worse.

As for me I fell backwords when I was little and gashed my head open on the coffee table. I had to get stiches and the coffee table was permanently removed from the living room.

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Personally this year? Had the table saw kick back on me, got cut a bunch of times with a hacksaw, got pushed into the sander which led to a nice gash and had a "situation" involving our robots are and someone trying to be smart by attaching a hammer to it...

the worst I can think of this year for the team in general is a massive burn on one of the freshmen's hand. it's in a really creepy circular shape and has been swollen for a few weeks now. yeech.

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I cut myself on the bagel slicer trying to retrieve my snack during a meeting. :o

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I think this year we have been rather well off. I've just lost a bit of blood from randomly just slicing my finger with a steel shaving and that has been it for the team :D

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One of our great student machinists, Jennifer, was using the mill when the end mill snapped... one piece hit Pierre (a college student) in the forehead, the other hit his safety glasses dead on. Luckily he had glasses on and the gash was small and insignificant.

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Nothing this year, but last year at the midwest regional i was using a hand drill and I slipped and drilled into my thumb...it was pretty nasty

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Sounds nasty. I don't think anyone on our team has been hurt, other than everybody running into an exhaust pipe that we took apart...we finally duct taped a rag to it so at least now its soft.

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well... this part that we wanted to use, which we fondly called "The Monster", very aptly named, because whenever someone picked up this thing they were GUARANTEED to cut themselves AT LEAST once. One of the guys cut his hand so many times, with all the bandaids and all, it looked like his hand had been hit by a lawn mower :ahh:
Scary...

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Our team's worst recent injury was at a regional when someone forgot that a soldering iron was turned on. He grabbed it by the tip and got a small burn, I think a second degree burn. The soldering iron got a small black fingerprint.

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ive got the worst injury on our team. i was drilling steel and the bit cought a bur and snapped in half. the drill torqued out of my had and dropped on my knee. it went all the way down and got some muscle and poped a pretty big vein in my leg(my leg below was cold for a week). no stiches tho im a tough guy.

what made it worse, i was goin snowboarding the next day

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This year we'vehad a lot of little cuts from saws and metal shavings... lots of minor burns from welding... and oh yeh... that little incident where i got hit by a car on my way to a meeting :D lol.

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sawed through my finger with a hacksaw.. almost avoided another severe injury when some teammates and I had a incredibly stupid idea.. geared the FP motor too fast, shot some PVC pipe through our ceiling (11 feet high)- nobody got hurt, but we remembered to angle it from that time on..

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I got pushed out of the way by Jeb Bush's body guards at Nats 2 years ago. That hurt my pride that I wasn't important! That's the worst out of the rest of knicks/scratches/cuts/bruises. :D

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Me personally, the worst injury that i have substained is a board falling on my head and it cracking my skull open it required 8 stapples.