battery mishap

JimDRIl

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Friend of mine ran into a mishap changing a battery. His wedding ring shorted out and just burned the hell out of his finger. He was bandaged up, but he had taken pictures of his finger after it happened you wouldn't believe the burn he got. He said when he tried to remove his ring it was so hot it almost burned his fingers. He immediately ran to the kitchen and ran cold water over it. Makes me think how the people in the electric chair fared.
 
Yep, you can also catch them somewhere and RIP your finger off.

I have a wedding ring wore one day. After the wedding it went in a jewelry box where it has been for the last 20 years.
 
Most places I work at back before I was retired we could not wear a ring and many places did not like you to have a watch on unless it was a plastic case type watch like the one I wear. I wear a Timex Indiglo watch. Back when I was in the Navy at one time I asked a gal out she worked at an auto parts store I went to a lot. She was missing her ring finger. When I asked her out she then told me she was married. She then explained how she lost her ring finger. She had climb up on a shelve in that store to get something up high. She then figured she would just jump down. Well he ring got caught on a nail and when she jumped down her finger stayed behind. I do not and will not wear ring or other such thing due to how things can go bad fast
 
I've never been interested in wearing any kind of rings, bracelet, watch, necklace, only wear a tie if forced to, and it comes off ASAP!

Never could stand the stuff getting in the way, the danger, but worse was always having grease or solvent trapped under a ring or watch band.
 
Step dad lost his ring finger when he jumped off of a livestock rack on a truck. They found the finger but never found the ring.
 
I had a custom built electric 1952 Ford pickup. It was 144 volts, - 24 - 6 volt batteries in series. I was always scared of it when servicing the batteries but "scared" is what you want to be around electricity. Never had a problem, - just unhook the cells one by one and don't touch anything hot! Volts are not the issue. Amps are what will fry you, - AC or DC.
 

My childhood friend's dad almost lost his entire left hand in similar circumstances . His watch strap shorted against a solenoid , the burn was so severe he needed blood vessel , tendon ans skin grafts .
Years later during the early eighties when chains were the fashion I looked down at the router I was leaning over , the gold chain my mother had given me had found its way into the casing and came close to the brushes . That was the last day I wore it, much to Mum's dismay .
 
(quoted from post at 16:30:38 02/13/20) Yep, you can also catch them somewhere and RIP your finger off.

I learned that lesson in high school. Parents had just shelled out the money for my class ring. Like everyone else, I was proud to wear mine. Was going up some stairs at school when the ring caught on part of the handrail and cut deeply into my finger. Never wore the ring again, and never wore any other ring until the Gold Band.

I got lucky. I think there's a hint of a scar, but only since I know where to look for it.
 
A whole lot of Ewwwwwww. Stories. My dad got close enough with tightening a terminal with a 3/8-7/16 open end. Did you know one of those wrenches can actually GLOW!!! That was the end of that wrench. You could almost bend it with your hands.
 
First safety lesson of any class involving electricity, is to remove all metal from your body. In a former life I was a broadcast engineer working on an FM transmitter. I forgot to take my ring off and short circuited the transmitter. Lucky for me a fuse blew but I still got a hell of a shock. Some of those transmitters have 3 phase rectified to 8000-10000 VDC. Lucky for me, this one had much lower voltage.
 
My Grandfather lost a finger in almost exactly the same way. Got on a ladder or such to get something off of a shelf at work and then slipped or mis-stepped and ring caught on a hook.
 
One rule we had in the concrete block plant no rings,watches,etc lot of electrical work plus a lot of mechanical things to snag.I never wear any jewelry of any type.
 
Horror stories like that and those below are why I did not want a wedding ring when I got married. Now lately the trend is to have a ring tattooed on your finger. That seems like a good idea except for what do you do if/when you get divorced ?
 
I learned to respect the power of a car battery when I saw my brother's old pickup hood. He was bouncing around in a field with a battery that wasn't bolted down (base was rusted out). Hit a big enough bump and the truck just stopped dead with smoke pouring out from under the hood - then a couple flames coming through the hood. As near as he could tell the battery bounced up - welded itself to the bottom side of the hood, burned a big hole through the hood then dropped back down where it belonged - thoroughly fried.
 
Brother almost tore his finger off when
his ring caught a nail and he had jumped
out of barn loft.
 
When I first started working on power systems. I was told to remove any thing metal and keep it off.It is not worth your life.
 
Good afternoon:
Add me to the list of ring injuries; Early in my first marriage, while in the army, I let my wedding ring become part of the battery circuit on a jeep. Luckily I jumped and the ring came away from the battery terminal before I got too badly burned. A jeweler repaired the ring, and forever after, I made sure to take it off before working on stuff. (During my second marriage, I put on a little weight, that second ring no longer fits. I decided that was just ok). Just my story....

Dennis M. in W. Tenn.
 
I did the same thing working on a Massey 82 combine. The wedding band was between the wrench and the frame of the combine. After the instant hot finger I did a lot of hand shaking till I could get to the water hydrant but by then the ring had cooled somewhat. The silver colored ring had a brown tint to it after that. The baloney blister that puffed up around my finger was plenty uncomfortable for a few days and I have not worn that ring since. It happened a little over 40 years ago.
 
Amazing how that memory is BURNED into your long term memory!:) I know.. bad
pun. Man that must of hurt. In my job as a Kitchen Mechanic, I like cooking
and all but in commercial kitchens there is this general rule of Thumb.
EVERYTHING is either HOT or SHARP. Also never ever try to catch that knife you
dropped! I have also found that the most dangerous tool in a kitchen is a DULL
knife. That one really is true.
 

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