Oh Man.... Injury!!! :P

Bryce Frazier · Mar 23, 2016

Was working in the shop last night, pounding on something with a sledge and a punch. Well, I let the sledge drift off of the punch on one of the hits, and I I just smashed my left hand, like right between the thumb and the index finger, but in the meat of the hand.

Hurt really bad for a few minutes, and then kind of went away. This morning it is so swollen that I can hardly move my thumb!!! :/

Off to work I go!! Have a good day my friends..

Bryce

David G · Mar 23, 2016

Just wait 30 years, you will forget about it after it heals, and the pain will come back.

jeffcat · Mar 23, 2016

He should have ICED it! I have to take warrafin and I would have blown up like a tick.

DGinVT · Mar 23, 2016

You may have a barometer for life.

Janicholson · Mar 23, 2016

OOPS happens. My dad nailed himself through that spot into a grain bin with a ball peen hammer when he was 17. He waited (and got hoarse from yelling) for 2 hours. Jim

old popper · Mar 23, 2016

BTDT, that is what makes things more interesting later in life.......70s.

greenlovinsynnie · Mar 23, 2016

sounds like you might be able to tell the weather for awhile! should take a job as a weatherman - would be more accurate

GeneMO · Mar 23, 2016

It just about made me pee my pants reading your story!!!

Damn I hate it when that happens!!

Take care, hope it gets better.

Gene

w1ebb · Mar 23, 2016

Bryce, I'd go to the doctor and let him/her check it out. You will need your hands to work well the rest of your life.

Good luck

Scott

fixerupper · Mar 23, 2016

The good side to your story is you still went off to work instead of sitting around whining and using your sore thumb as a reason to stay home. The guys who tell you it will annoy you later in life have it pegged pretty good.

Hank ABAB · Mar 23, 2016

Bryce, I agree with w1ebb, go to see a Doctor.
There may be more damage than you think.

Bill in IL · Mar 23, 2016

This is a bit too late for you now but when I have to resort to punch and chisel I use a heavy welding glove on the punch hand. It's not going to stop the blow but it really helps to deflect some energy from that hammer.

ss55 · Mar 23, 2016

Holding the punch in a vice-grip style pliers is another way to reduce the chance of injury by moving that hand away from the hammer arc.

Dick2 · Mar 23, 2016

They make handles that will adjust to hold a punch, or use a vise grip. Most of us have learned that lesson the hard way - and many of us are suffering again for doing that. I haven't seen those handles around in tool stores for quite awhile; we had 2-3 of them back on the farm.

dr sportster · Mar 23, 2016

I always leave my thumb unwrapped on the chisel just barely holding with my fingers .If I miss it will just push my hand down off the chisel .

mj · Mar 23, 2016

(quoted from post at 11:05:58 03/23/16) This is a bit too late for you now but when I have to resort to punch and chisel I use a heavy welding glove on the punch hand................

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After nursing too many injuries from too many 'misfires' I started holding the punch or chisel with a pair of ViseGrips. 8)

NCWayne · Mar 23, 2016

Done it many times.....Hurts like the dickens as you discovered. Like my Grandpa used to tell me, "It'll get well before you get married".....LOL

That said, if it broke the skin you might want to go see a doctor. Dad caught the web of his hand like this once and it made a small cut. Inside the web is nothing but 'space' and it's a breeding ground for bacteria. In his case, it wound up getting infected. They wound up having to put a wick in it for it to drain for a good while, until the infection was gone.

Hope yours doesn't get that bad, and heals quick. When you work with your hands, being down even a percentage on one side, puts you at a definite disadvantage.

Billy Shafer · Mar 23, 2016

I let someone else hold it. So if I miss it doesn't hurt.

I thought hitting your hands was just part of working.

37chief · Mar 23, 2016

There will be many more. Like someone else said we have all done it. Stan

Jim in Ma. · Mar 23, 2016

I have one of those handles and they work good - If I remember to use it. lol

Fred Werring · Mar 23, 2016

Was at a tractor dealership, heard some banging then some yelling coming out of the shop area:

YOU JUST HOLD IT, I'LL HIT IT!

made me laugh

Fred

Eldon (WA) · Mar 23, 2016

(quoted from post at 14:45:57 03/23/16)

(quoted from post at 11:05:58 03/23/16) This is a bit too late for you now but when I have to resort to punch and chisel I use a heavy welding glove on the punch hand................

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After nursing too many injuries from too many 'misfires' I started holding the punch or chisel with a pair of ViseGrips. 8)

I learned the vise grip trick at a young age when my Dad told me to dismantle an old 2 row Minneapolis Moline corn picker. It had lots of nice angle iron in it, but it was all riveted together. The 16 oz ball peen hammer and chisel was slow going so I switched to a 12 pound sledge. A couple of misses and the vice grips came out....and my hands are still functional!

01gentdc · Mar 23, 2016

been thinking along those same is similar lines , yes use vise grips , ezpeceally when you come out with the big BEUQuITICUS-WHOA hammer ,. I got a cancerous growth on my left hand that was removed 3 yrs ago ,. what happened to me is similar to Bryce and your dad,, whackt the web of my hand with a hammer,..and it seemed like all summer I was always injuring my hand in that area, I burned it on a exhaust manifold , scrapped it,each time it was ready to heal up,,, ,,. really did not hurt much ,,. but it seemed peculiar that my hand would not completely heal,.when I burned both hands equally that time ,, theleft actually heat blistered while the rte was fine , by fall I developed a growth that resembled a half grape that was stuck in the web of the top of my hand ,,.today it kinda all adds up , in farm boy barn yard logic ,apparently , my colon cancer problem may be a dormant 5 yr old ailment,. funny the cancer polyp in my colon lookt just like the half grape on my hand ,,.I don't think I was injuring myself ,, I think that my hand was unable to heal because of the poison try to get acquainted and a foothold in my body,,. but that's just my farmboy logic

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