were there robot related injuries on your team?

[Chris Sturrock]

This year, there was an accident with a student and a lathe. She was working on the lathe, and while she was tightening the chuck, she forgot to take the chuck key out, and she also forgot to take her hand off the chuck key, before she turned the lathe on. she split her finger open almost all the way across, she lost her nail, and she broke the bone. she immedietly went to the hospital.

it is almost healed and she can help here and there now.

[JakeM]

Last year, there was a senior team member who tried to convince a rookie that the big red button on the controller was a self destruct switch. Of course, he pushed it and the robot went into its dead reckoning autonomous across our shop and into the desk I was working behind, pushing it along with me into the wall. There was no lasting effects, but it sure was interesting.

Last year, again in the off season, our team was moving our equipment into storage in a semi trailer, so our tool chest needed to be disassembled. While putting it back together, I slid the loaded hammer drawer onto its runner and as I prepared to do the same on the other side, the clip gave and the drawer fell, leaving a gash around my thumb leaving the ligaments visible and partially severing a nerve. It took 5 stitches to get it back together.

And on a completely unrelated note, I have been working this whole build season with a broken wrist.

[maltz1881]

Well as many of you know by now Team 1322 has had a very serious accident. Our top mentor lost 2 fingers building our battery plug in case. Every team has by now read about us and Team 663. Our condolences, thoughts and prayers are with 663. Accidents happen but when somebody is hurt, maimed or even worse it is not a funny matter. Safety should always be the fore front of everybodys mind. We always preach it to our kids but do us adults always take the same precautions when the kids aren't around. We now have a sign on our door that reads " Do you remember the Alamo, maybe not but always remember the Joe". I would never ever want another team or family to go through what we have since Saturday night.

[jonathan_powers]

our big injury this year was actually a member of a different team that we helped start. they figured they could throw a robot together in a few days and it was easy well 3 weeks into it they came to our lab with a unopened kit of parts needless to say we built them a rolling box and were going to help them with a harvister this weekend. so im going a mile a minut trying to get a kit bot frame put together for them and i hand 1 of there 4 students a piece to cut and a hack saw well needless to say he almost took his thumb off then after lunch i find him randomly cutting on the band saw but its all ok because he wsa wearing his safty glasses lol

[techie_Britt]

Originally Posted by maltz1881

Well as many of you know by now Team 1322 has had a very serious accident. Our top mentor lost 2 fingers building our battery plug in case. Every team has by now read about us and Team 663. Our condolences, thoughts and prayers are with 663. Accidents happen but when somebody is hurt, maimed or even worse it is not a funny matter. Safety should always be the fore front of everybodys mind. We always preach it to our kids but do us adults always take the same precautions when the kids aren't around. We now have a sign on our door that reads " Do you remember the Alamo, maybe not but always remember the Joe". I would never ever want another team or family to go through what we have since Saturday night.

Okay well I'm a little late on things...what happened to team 663?

[Kirk]

This last Sunday I was using out compound miter saw to cut some aluminum and my finger got sucked into the saw blade. Lucky I didn't loose then end of my finger. Here is a like to a pic after the doctors in the ER stitched it back together.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT!!!

But here it is 4 days later and the finger is feeling better and I am back working on the robot like nothing ever happened.

Kirk

[Rachika Garcia]

The jist of the injuries were to our robot. This year we were out on our field in front of the school, testing on how fast our balls were shooting. Just as we pulled the triger the sprinklers turned on. To make it a little worse, our robot was exactly over the sprinkler head wasking our electronics.

[fnsnet]

This thread is HUGE!

Back my Senior year (2003) for Stack Attack, on one of our MANY late nights in the Ag shop programming auto I swore the robot had it in for John while he was keeping the Programming cord from bring run over. I made one little change in the code that made the robot want to run him down... but the disable button saved him :-D.

To further that, ALL teams should have a disable button created and post someone at that button at all times during testing. It ought to be a MUST in your testing phase. Don't just use a switch, get one of those two position mushroom head stop buttons that you push in and pull out... and have them near it like they are getting ready to hear the million Jeopardy question. It could save a trip to the hospital.

Also, every team member that is going to use dangerous equipment should be properly trained by a mentor, weather or not they have used the machine prior to the current build season. People forget, or get careless... a refresher every now and then can't hurt. Train them, show them, Watch them. Be safe, don't rush, and get it done with all fingers and toes in tact.

[maltz1881]

Originally Posted by techie_Britt

Okay well I'm a little late on things...what happened to team 663?

I am sorry to say that Team 663 lost 1 of there mentors due to carbon monoxide poisoning in his garage. I was asked to write an email on safety that went out to every coach, attached to my email was a statement saying that he had passed away on 2/10/06. Please keep his family and Team family in your thoughts and prayers

[rocketdawg3000]

Last week our team (845) had a mentor that cut his thumb half an inch deep using a band saw....it was pretty nasty

[CaseyKasem_1251]

Luckily we havent had anything too bad happen on our team but most recently we had a senior burn himself on the robot we had just had the frame welded in a few places and while carrying it back it was still very very hot and his wrist rubbed up against it, think it was a 2nd degree burn.

[pyroslev]

Originally Posted by fnsnet

This thread is HUGE!

Back my Senior year (2003) for Stack Attack, on one of our MANY late nights in the Ag shop programming auto I swore the robot had it in for John while he was keeping the Programming cord from bring run over. I made one little change in the code that made the robot want to run him down... but the disable button saved him :-D.

To further that, ALL teams should have a disable button created and post someone at that button at all times during testing. It ought to be a MUST in your testing phase. Don't just use a switch, get one of those two position mushroom head stop buttons that you push in and pull out... and have them near it like they are getting ready to hear the million Jeopardy question. It could save a trip to the hospital.

Also, every team member that is going to use dangerous equipment should be properly trained by a mentor, weather or not they have used the machine prior to the current build season. People forget, or get careless... a refresher every now and then can't hurt. Train them, show them, Watch them. Be safe, don't rush, and get it done with all fingers and toes in tact.

Thanks for the publicity man!

[DHarris]

Well, I forgot to set the robot on some books before putting some autonomous codes in, and it took off towards me pretty quickly, but I was lucky enough to get out of the way with only a bruised hip from hitting the corner of a table. The robot itself has been getting pretty banged up lately though, with all the running into walls and lockers

[lil' kim]

one guy got knocked down and I got my foot ran over but other than that fairly uneventful.

[mancub1254]

2004 was our rookie year and our senior programmer was also our robot driver. We wernt at the competition 5 min. when he stabbed an X-acto knife through his palm. Keep in mind he was a programmer (typing) and our driver (operating joysticks). His face went pale and his eyes glazed as his cupped hand filled with blood. All we could get out of him was, " Close my laptop, close my laptop". just like a progammer.