Having inspired myself by reading the recent 'oh bum i've hurt myself' threads i went on to come up with a corker of my own.

I was wearing safety glasses, a clear full face grinding mask, ear defenders but sadly no gloves!

I forgot to tighten the disk when i put a new one in and this was the result as soon as i turned it on, i didnt even have a chance to touch it against anything before it grated my hand and i chucked it on the floor!


hand

My other hand to prove that i dont just have fat hands and no discernable knuckles!


knuckles

And my swolen hand showing that you can barely make out my knuckles.


swolen hand

I got some funny looks when i was in the checkout queue holding 6 pairs of gauntlets with a battered hand!

I wont forgo the full safety gear agine i tell you.

P.S typing with one hand is SLOW!



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what happened then? did the disc come off and hit your hand?

no,

with the disk being loose it was way out of balance and at the speed a grinder runs at it was shaking that violently that it just wabbled out of my hands!

Oh boy that looks bad, hope it gets better soon, More serious point - are you able to lift a pint with the other hand ok?

Ouch, that looks really sore

I have to admit to taking some liberties with respect to safety equipment, but angle grinders worry me enough that I always tog up. I can remember having a 1mm disk on and slicing through my leather gauntlets and putting a nice groove into my skin. Would have been a whole lot worse with the gloves.

" 'tis merely a flesh wound"

I caught my thumb with an angle grinder last week. The had to open up the cut so they could put a stitch in the tendon. The plaster comes off next Wednesday so the can remove the stitches. They can then asses the thumb to see if the tendon has stuck to the skin's scar tissue. They may have to go back in to free it off.

Typing with one hand is very slow, isn't it?

Ouch!

The amount of peeps on here with angle grinder related injuries, from cutting through ones thigh to getting metals sparks in the eye, is ridiculous!

Caught the back of one hand (holding the work) with 'The Tool' once. What a blinkin mess that made!

Made my boxing a little harder for awhile too!

Cheers,
James

Thats going to smart a bit in the bath.

owch

i was not wearing goggles when my coil exploded today nearly got hot oil in my face.

hope it heals soon

ditch

Looks a good one that. I had a decent one the other day when I bought a hole cutter from the pound shop (!) the blade broke on one side came loose and left a quarter circle cut in my palm. I only wanted for 3-4 holes and it didn't even make one, well only in my hand

Col - have you been fighting again????

aint your hands hairy!!!!

Hope you get better soon matey, glad it aint your drinking arm!

( have you started another project then or have you been breaking another disco?)
speak soon
all the best -Greg

And there was me thinking I was silly wearing those surgical latex gloves when using a wire wheel.
Yes grabbed the glove and my hand.
Fortunatly one very small cut.

So another safety warning use latex rubber with care.

Looks bad mate, hope you get back to "normal" soon mate!

Steve

^^^^^TWAT^^^^

LOL
Off to bed after a boat load of ale to ease the pain!
not to mention the burn i got on the same hand tonight....thats a different story! - what a cock eh!

Fledgling skin does not react well to 1000 degree C bbq flames!

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aaaarrrrr....
My work here is done

Gloves and glasses, I always put them on when I go in the shed unless I'm just fetching something out. I've heard people say they can't work in gloves or that they catch things with them but I prefer a ripped glove to what you have there Col. Hope it gets better quick and the pelt grows back alright

Looks sore, but not deep so should heal quickly. Could have been much worse.

Last time I was using the grinder I made the schoolboy error of turning it round to get to an awkward bit rather then moving round. Shower of sparks straight into the face - fortunately I was wearing safety specs and a face shield but a bit still bounced up and hit me on the top of the cheek.

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Originally posted by Peteff
Gloves and glasses, I always put them on when I go in the shed unless I'm just fetching something out. I've heard people say they can't work in gloves or that they catch things with them but I prefer a ripped glove to what you have there Col. Hope it gets better quick and the pelt grows back alright

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Originally posted by blakep82my local engineering dude never wears gloves. he was telling me of a guy who was doing some work with him ended up getting a glove caught in a machine, and machine tugged the glove and pulled his thumb off. he reckons it wouldn't have happened, or certainly not been as bad

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^ i always wear gloves! i'm just saying thats what he told me, and thats why he never wore gloves!
i set fire to my trousers once too. crotch more specifically. i decided to point the sparks the other way after that...

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Originally posted by Peteff
When I was fettling a bloke I worked with...

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It's like seat belts, 99% of the time they make it safer, but there are the occasional accidents where people have been killed/injured more badly because they were wearing one.

But in all the accidents where a glove causes a hand to get dragged into a machine the operator has had their hand where it shouldn't have been anyway, and generally would have done significant damage even without a glove.

Oooooh no!

Actually i was squeezing some lemons to make a marinade for some chicken that day after i did it, i was concentrating on using my right hand only but the i stupidly used my left hand under the 'empty' lemons as i walked to the bin.

All the juice off my right hand and the juice dripping out the lemons ran through my fingers on the bad hand and onto the back of my hand

I retired from the kitchen at that point and began drinking lol