Worst injury

[Aaron]

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.

[Jay H 237]

Originally Posted by Aaron

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.

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.

[uzneko]

Originally Posted by Aaron

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.

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.

[Koko Ed]

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

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by uzneko

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... .

Do you ever wonder if your teamates are trying to get rid of you?

[Aaron]

To add a few of my own injuries i has inclued the following...
- inch long second degree burn on my left fore arm from a soldering iron
that'slight wasn't working
- scar in the shape of a 7/16 1/4-20 nut on the inside of my left elbow from
a hot nut that went flying after someone cut it off our robot with a sawzall
(thanks Marc)
- bloddy scrape on all four knuckles on my left hand when my work got
caught on a belt sander and pulled my hand in
- hit in the back with a 4-6" piece of extrudes that someone didn't clamp
when they were cutting it with a table saw
- sliced my thumb nail on my left hand off when the piece i was drilling got
loose from the viceon the drill press
- i got tripped into a wood joiner and left a huge joiner shaped welt (like 6"x
12") on my stomach and chest (thanks Don)
- there are many more that drew less blood or didn'tleave a scar that are
too numerous to metion

hey its true what they say, you learn through experience

P.S.- can you figure out that i am left handed?

[ReggieB]

We had a lot of problems at anap, once the robot fell off the cart and the chinup system hit someone on the head. He had to go to the hospital and get 3 staples, but he was back later that day. While watching a later match where we did a chinup and got 185 pts (!) the jumping up and down and such caused it to start bleeding again. Back to the hospital, 3 more staples. He's fine now, and has forgiven the chinup system since it helped us win!
He was fine the whole time except for the bleeding, and apparently got some interesting pictures of him smiling with blood on his shirt, etc.
Those that were there might remember the guy from the naval base, before the "quiz" said "I know your head probably hurts by now...." to which dave said "you dont know the half of it!"

Right before we were called up to get our trophy/metals the grandfather of a teammate (who had also helped the team with his machine shop) collapsed. He was also taken to the hospital, and I'm told he is going to be fine as well.

[Drawman]

I squished my finger putting our pit together, during the Great Lakes regional this year. It is still purple! OUCH

Personally, my injuries have been nothing big.

Last year, I tried out for comp. team and myself and another student, Joe, were picking the robot up. Joe stand taller then I do and when he picked up the one end...it tilted to the side and well...I ended up getting knocked in the head. No blood lose or anything though.

And just today our robot was running autonomous when it suddenly decided I was prey. It zoomed off target and straight at me. Luckily, I didn't get hit and hey...Since I happened to be holding a camera, filming, I got a great shot of the robot going straight at me!

I think Video Crew has had more then one bad incounter with our robot trying to get at us. I don't think it likes being on camera

[Melissa Nute]

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

[Yan Wang]

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.

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

[kjohnson]

Originally Posted by D.J. Fluck

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

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.

[SlickChicFallen]

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
Scary...

[golf_cart_john]

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.