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One of the members on our team got savagely attacked by a zip tie. He still has the scar.

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The funniest i've seen was last year at Palmetto Regional. We shared one side of our pit with 1618, so I was watching them fix their robot. They turn it on to test it and Billfred is lucky enough to be standing in front of their CIM driven arm. Not even my good ol physics teacher from the appalachains could produce a louder "yelp".

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I learned not to reach across the table while someone else is holding a soldering iron. Burned between my fingers.

And heh, a story about another team member, our 2007 Head of Software/Electronics was soldering, and a mechie was next to her.

Mechie: "Wow, I could never solder that stuff together so fast..."
Head: "Well, that's why I'm Head of---OUCH!"

Excellent timing.

Oh, and now that I remember...our school, back in 07, used sports as a theme for their Back-to-School Dance. So obviously, 5-6 of us went in our TKO blue, resistor earrings, etc. I decided, idiotically enough, on a "zip tie ring". Had to bite the darn thing off when I realized my finger was a few shades too dark.

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Hey! I thought i was the only one with stupid injuries!! last year i was holding some metal things together for another person to drill...and well...the drill skipped a bit and hit the right side of my right hand...i lost most of the feeling on the right side for a month or two...i learned my lesson for helping guys out without wearing gloves!! :yikes: :cool:

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So many people on our team have been hit with these STUPID arms that we have....In the knee, in the arm, and in the head. I mean, seriously!

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These happened this season and were too funny not to post. Not that injury is funny or that I'm saying safety is a joke, but everyone enjoys someone else getting hit (providing it's not serious).

One of our mentors was testing our prototype, and we used a screwdriver as a release that we had tied to a strap. Well he pulled on that thing and couldn't get it out, so he put his foot up on the side of the prototype and pulled as hard as he could, and that screw driver came whipping out. You get 7/16 of a guess where it hit him. He was on the ground in pain nearly instantly. Of course no permanent damage (that we know of) was done, and hopefully someday he will still be able to have children.

Student *Hits aluminum with mallet*
Mentor "No, do it here where my finger is"
Student *Hits EXACTLY where finger is*
Mentor *PAIN*

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This isn't machine-related, but this happened at the beginning of build season this year. That Friday, we're out in the hall waiting to let a team-mate in outside of the workshop. Our coach had gone to the restroom and was coming out. Coral, another one of my team-mates, went to check the workshop's door to see if they were there instead, thus closing the door and locking our coach and me out. He went up to the door knocking loudly. Michael came up to open it, not knowing our coach was directly behind the door, and opened the door really fast. The door hit our coach right in the nose, knocking him back in pain (at least I thought he was in pain, he's a good faker). I thought his nose was broken for sure, so I asked him if he was alright. So, he stopped groaning in pain, got up and said cooly, "Yeah I'm good." He scares me to death and just walks away from it, gees. :rolleyes:

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i was emory papering a wheel shaft down so i put the shaft in the drill and then i turn it on and i put the emory paper on the shaft. well... the shaft started catching and i didnt loosen up and it compleately caught and flicked my thumb around.

today is the morning after and my thumb is 2 times as big.

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Saturday one of the guys were marking a spot with a scratch all for where to drill...and he was underneath the robot. he went to hit the scratch all and it fell in hit him inbetween the eyes!!! Nice shot!! :eek: He has one big bruise from it...and i don't think he'll be underneath for a while!!!! :p ;)

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This is definitely an interesting thread. Most of mine come form talking while working, or not looking at what I'm doing. Like the other day, I was cutting velcro with an Exacto knife and suddenly my finger was bleeding. Alot. I had to to do a whole bunch of stuff to get it to stop. Its not that I was goofing off or doing something clearly stupid and/or dangerous(those two things seem to walk hand in hand), it was purely an accident. Things like that just happen. People on my team hurt themselves accidentally all the time, its a lab with a bunch of tools and we're there for long hours, something's bound to happen. But usually, we take care of our cuts and scrapes like adults( BTW, alchol pads hurt like heck on open cuts!).

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Some minor student injuries (burns from drilling chips etc) and one stupid mentor injury (me) I was machining a plastic part on the lathe, (making the final cut on the last part for the robot) and the tool grabbed (too much chip buildup pulled the tool into the part) and the whole thing flew out of the lathe and hit me in the forehead:mad: . Three hours and 20 stitches later, I was good to go:o .

Oh well, at least it wasn't a student:]

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Talking about the stupid things we do as a team and what has happened to my coach, now (happened today and is twice as bad of an injury I posted about the other day). I just talked about this in another thread. Today, our coach and a few male members decide to have our coach hold up the track ball to his hip, waist area while the boys run at him. The first two had no effect. Then our big boned member, Joey, about 190 lbs, runs at him! Not only does our coach ricoshe (I don't know how to spell it) off with the ball in hand, he flies back 7 feet into the tables and stools at the side of the room. Let's just say he got a bit of a head injury and a loose tooth. Later, he injured his right leg, within 3 minutes of the last injury, but instead he ran at Joey holding the ball instead. Sigh, I love my team! :D