Worst injury

[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.