Blood, sweat, & tears.

[thewhit]

Has any teams had safety accidents or hard times...? Of course ya have. Tell some stories about your own team funny and serious.

[discusdude]

we had a small explosion on our mill with some contact cleaner and compressed air. everyone was okay though. it was actually pretty funny.

[Danny McC]

We just recently had a mentor hurt his finger. He was paying attention and he drilled right through it.

[Andrew Blair]

Every single part I make seems to have my blood and sweat on it. Especially today... Perf plate is sharp...

[James1902]

Well this year our band saw blade snaped while moving at a high rate of speed. I was cutting and it made a very loud noise and suddenly...I wasn't cutting anymore

[thewhit]

Our claw and arm was being worked on and someone pulled our pulley and it slipped off and fell 3ft onto one of our members head! He was fine and acted normal the whole time...but I ended up taking him to the emergency room to get 5 staples in his head. Accidents are scary.

[Danny McC]

Yeah i was putting a handle on our controllers today and i didnt know it was on >.< And the next thing i know everyones yelling at me and i dont know why. I looked over the platforms were almost on top of one of our mentors

[JaneYoung]

I'm definitely thinking this is a great season for Safety Captains and team members to be vigilant with safety precautions and staying focused and aware of what's going on with and around the robot(s).

[thewhit]

I think everything is worth is somewhat...as a team you learn so much and create such an amazing machine...not all students or mentors in general could go through what we go through. Just an hour ago a metal shaving flew into my eye and i had to get a eye wash and tweeze it out....but then shortly after Im here typing about it and finishing up the robot. So the achivement is so great with these teams that the blood,sweat, and tears pay back in the end.

[Robo_Coyote]

lol that’s why safety glasses were invented, nut ya I had to learn that the hard way 2 years ago during my sophomore year. Note to all other teams expanded aluminum when cut is very sharp I cant count the number of cuts on my hands from this why did I decide this is what my team needed on our ramp. Freaken captain everything ends up my fault lol

[thewhit]

I had safety glasses on believe it or not...and I was not close to the drill bits at all. It was just a random piece dying to get into my eye haha. Oh the joys that come with Robotics.

[DHarris]

We haven't had any serious injuries or anything. During the building of the rack some weeks ago, I kept bumping my head on that middle center disk (I'm about 5'1" so it hit me right square in the forehead), and we've had a few incidents with metal shavings not being cleaned up and people getting little splinters in their fingers. I have like little scrapes but I have no idea where they came from. Oh, and then there's the problem with our exploding Victors...

[Arefin Bari]

haha, well lets see... we didn't have any SERIOUS accidents but there were some.

- One of the parents drilled right through his thumb because the way he was holding the piece.

- There are scratches on most of our hands (up until elbow) from the robot.

- Few days ago, I sliced my left ring finger in half (never listen to the programmers when they tell you how to machine a part, no offense programmers). I should probably get it stitched but I think the alcohol pad and duct tape held up well.

- One of the kids cut his pinky because he "forget" to use a vice while he was using the drill press.

I like the thread title. Each one of us put a lot of hours into this build season. We bleed, we sweat for 6 weeks to create a machine. Once, the 6 week is gone, we want to cry. But, do you know how good it feels to know that you worked as a team?

[StephLee]

"Oh crap, it's really bleeding now..."

That says it all. Our driver should be on razor blade restriction...

[eshteyn]

Where do i start:

1. band saw blade broke 2 times in 30 minutes.
2. debris from hack saw sliced my skin above my lip open
3. mill bit broke and flew into my neck
4. extremely hot (purple and blue) aluminum shavings from the lathe caused 2nd degree burns on my neck.
5. drill pres snagged on metal casing it to spin out of control and sliced my hand.
6. soldering iron burns
7. drill bit snagged hand and drilled through glove.
8. the robot's hand closed pinching the finger of our other machinist on the team.
9. safety captain gets his finger sliced open practically to the bone

this all happened this year and for the record were not jinxes these were all wierd things that in the 2 years ive been active have never ever happened.