Worst injury

[blindguyinanorg]

ive got the worst injury on our team. i was drilling steel and the bit cought a bur and snapped in half. the drill torqued out of my had and dropped on my knee. it went all the way down and got some muscle and poped a pretty big vein in my leg(my leg below was cold for a week). no stiches tho im a tough guy.

what made it worse, i was goin snowboarding the next day

[Breanne M]

This year we'vehad a lot of little cuts from saws and metal shavings... lots of minor burns from welding... and oh yeh... that little incident where i got hit by a car on my way to a meeting lol.

[OneAngryDaisy]

sawed through my finger with a hacksaw.. almost avoided another severe injury when some teammates and I had a incredibly stupid idea.. geared the FP motor too fast, shot some PVC pipe through our ceiling (11 feet high)- nobody got hurt, but we remembered to angle it from that time on..

[evulish]

I got pushed out of the way by Jeb Bush's body guards at Nats 2 years ago. That hurt my pride that I wasn't important! That's the worst out of the rest of knicks/scratches/cuts/bruises.

[Tigertron222]

Me personally, the worst injury that i have substained is a board falling on my head and it cracking my skull open it required 8 stapples.

[duckshepherd]

Last year I cut the back of my hand on a sharp piece of aluminum. I was tightening a bolt and the wrench slipped off the bolt head and my hand went flying into a freshly cut, non-filed aluminum edge. It cut the back of my knuckle; when I clentched my fist to widen the cut, I saw white... first time I've ever seen my own tendon before.
Now our team files everything before we start working on it.

[Descartes]

We have a team member who we swear hides an infared emitter in his pants somewhere. Everytime we try to run autonomous the robot somehow manages to hit him. He's been run over, spun around in a circle, had his ankle broken and lost two cell phones.

[IMDWalrus]

Originally Posted by Descartes

We have a team member who we swear hides an infared emitter in his pants somewhere. Everytime we try to run autonomous the robot somehow manages to hit him. He's been run over, spun around in a circle, had his ankle broken and lost two cell phones.

Wow. Just wow. Does your robot have a grudge against him or something?

As far as my injuries go...well, I've been lucky. I'm just a programmer, and nothing bad has happened to me yet. I'll see how long that lasts when it comes time for regionals...

[Aaron Lussier]

Mostly I have just gotten deburring cuts and various other little scratches from knicking myself on stuff.

-Aaron

[Arefin Bari]

unfortunately i had to the worst injury on my team this year. i have no clue what did i do but i got a 5 inch cut right underneath my elbow... it was deep... and didnt realize i had a cut until i saw the blood on the floor... oh well its all good...

[Mike641128]

Most are minor the most painful was the time I was drilling plasic and I was told "don't use a clamp, just rest it against it's self so when the plastic is forced to turn it runs into the drill press and doesn't move." Well it somehow bent and whipped around and lashed me in the stomach and scratched up my arm. Other than that I had a lot of close calls where one time my fingers were close to the gears of a moving milling machine because I wasn't looking where the switch to turn it off was.

[Vivelation]

Last year, one of our members was fiddling with wires or something in the robot, and suddenly the arm clamped down, and so his arm got squished, and it broke his arm.

This year, we've had a few major injuries: disc sander --> couple fingernails, and finger required I don't remember how many stitches; drill --> gash on arm; wheel spun around while someone's finger was in the spokes --> gash all around the finger, and then later, on another finger, another gash from something. Minor injuries were just little cuts or blood blisters, things like that.

[nancienancie_47]

worst injurys?don't even ask!, i don't want to hear no worst injuries. *nAncIe-naNcIE_47*
*B CAREFUL WATCH YOURSELF, DON'T GET YOURSELF HURT!!

[KevnMajikskech]

not the worst injuryand it didnt happen in robotics but one of the ones that freaked me out the most: this idiot was playing w/ a low power nail gun cause he was bored and was being stupid and taped back the saftey so it would shoot for as long as he held the trigger. someone called him to help them and as i walked behind him he droped the nail gun and it fired. i felt like someone had nudged my hand and looked down to see a good inchand a half long nail sticking out of my hand. it didnt hurt much and there was no blood but it was unnerving to have a nail just sticking out of my hand

p.s. I know a kid who because of a faulty trigger button got a model rocket shot into the side of his head but he was lucky and had a thick skull

[Elyse Holguin]

i've been lucky to get only a few cuts and bruises, i'm too short to have last year's BEAST whack me in the head like it did most people on the team, i think the worst thing that's happened was taking a few layers of skin off with the sander last year. however, one of my teammates almost drilled through my hand and sawzalled it off in the pits at west michigan regional last year when he wouldn't take the batteries off, and then pull the tools out of their bins while holding the on switches.