Machine Shop "Accidents"

[mechanicalbrain]

Lets see... I burnt a tiny hole through my hand when I got a shock from an LCD screen that was plugged in, didn't hurt too much but smelt horrible. The bad one I've seen wasn't first related. In middle school a kid cut his middle finger straight off with a sheet metal sheer (The type that has a foot pedal you step on). So they call a ambulance for the kid. Then a second kid goes back, sees the finger, and feints. Needless to say they had to call a second ambulance.

[AmayaSaria]

We didn't have any accidents...I mean some, but very horrible accidents...

...so far we only made a mistake when we were creating rewards, and we spelt something wrong on it....We had to do all of them...^^;

[oaktown1188]

well two years ago one member almost cut off all his fingers on a band saw,
last year a team member broke his finger while cleaning off the drill while it was on and the rag broke his finger,
last year one guy tripped and had a steel pole fall on his head-stitches and blood,
our driver has been burned and cut
then theres the cuts that occur and bruising and metal shavings

[anna~marie]

If you were around me for just a few moments you would see that I am seriously the most accident prone person ever...
this year's favorite:
I got stabbed with a 800 degree soldering iron...

[Cody Carey]

Last year one of our seniors stabbed me in the hand with a soldering gun... I still have a scar.
Some kid in our school's votec program left the key in a lathe chuck, and crushed the top half of his pointer finger off when he turned it on... I now call him "Stubs".


P.S. the soldering thing was an accident ... I think

[Arefin Bari]

The 5" scar is still there from 2004 season. And just now looking at both of my hands, there are atleast 11 1" scars.

[anna~marie]

aw it just adds character!

[Andy A.]

I've received soldering iron burns then I can count. No machine shop injuries outside of the odd aluminum sliver or cut from a sharp edge.

This is odd since I spend an overwhelming amount of my time in the shop and no where near the soldering stuff. When I do end up wiring, it's usally because we are pressed for time and they need all the help there is (even hack electritions like me). It just goes to show that speed kills.

The worse injury I've seen on my team happend on a lathe and the kid was amazingly lucky. He was using a strip of emory to polish a part, and he was trying to use as much as the strip up as he could. His thumb got a little to close to the chuck and it whacked him _hard_. He got away with a bad bruise and black nail. He could have lost it.

I wonder about the cumalitive effect that all the fumes, greases, heavy metals and such that we all breath in, get stabbed with and rubbed into our skins.

-Andy A.

[Andrew Y.]

I managed to stay pretty safe this year. The usual scratches from working with metal, blisters.


Worst thing for me was probably when i was minding my own business when a dremel bit came flying at me and hits me right inbetween the eyes.

Moral of the story - Wear your glasses EVERYWHERE

[Tytus Gerrish]

Oh no. i think i should pick my battles this time and stay out of this thread.

[IraJason]

Worst thing to happen during build season was that one of our members was drilling a bigger hole for a battery wire and it got caught on the drill and cut his hand. Nothing a band-aid or two couldn't fix.

The worst thing to happen to my in our lab was I was working on a project for class and I was holding down a block of wood so someone could put a screw in. The drill came off of the screw when it was all the way down, and the screw bit started drilling into my finger. After a trip to the nurse and some confusion over the last time I had gotten a tetanus shot, it was deemed that I would be OK, and just have to wear a bandage on my finger for a bit while it healed.

[DHarris]

We haven't had any major accidents, but I have my fair share of cuts, scrapes and bruises, especially from the pit at Regionals. I have one particularly nasty little cut on my left arm (it's actually 3 that intersect and hurts like a mofo ) from when I had to reach into the robot to turn it on because my teammates who put it on the field didn't know how to. My mentor almost took off a finger when she was cutting some strapping tape with a scalpel (dunno why she didn't just use the shears sitting next to her), but nothing that a band-aid couldn't fix. The only substantial injuries that happened this build season were to people's egos

[Matt Attallah]

Can't say we've had anything above the usual nicks n' cuts here at team 5.

Now as for me at my job...My hands/arms are covered in scars from cuts/burns...

[Pavan Dave]

So I'm the electrical guy on my team and I am also a rookie so I can bet any of you that I have stabbed myself with more Copper Wire than any of you other guys combined lol. I have also almost crimped my finger :$ along with a bunch of ther stuff lol.

Pavan

[George A.]

My senior year I had my pinky partially amputated when I was using a chop saw. I cut the material, then the cut piece (not the one in the clamp, but the one that came loose) got caught in the blade and shot into my hand...that hurt,

after they sewed it back up and all that it turns out the top two bones in my pinky fused together into one superbone...so I can't bend it anymore, but I am on my manners at tea parties.