Dang nammit that hurts!

jon f mn

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• Jan 23, 2018

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Boss bought us a new snow pusher.

Works good! But when I was getting out I slipped a little and grabbed the blade. You would think it stuck my hand in a meat grinder! Where I grabbed was a piece of welder wire sticking up.

Who would think a hole you can't hardly see could hurt so much, must have hit a nerve directly. The last time that happened I was still in my welding shop and I poked my thumb with a hot wire on the gun. It went in right behind my thumb nail all the way to the bone. It goit infected and since it touched the bone my skeleton got infected. I poked it Friday, Saturday I was in the hospital and near death. My thumb swelled til it split, giving me this nice scar.

I spent a week in the hospital and 2 weeks at home with my wife giving me antibiotics through an IV. Hopefully this one won't get that bad. Lol

 

DoubleO7

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Location

Crystal River, FL

• Jan 23, 2018

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Dang.
I would have thought the hot wire going into your thumb would have cauterized as it went in.

 

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Cliff Nelson

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• Jan 23, 2018

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So... Is the wire still sticking up on the blade? Hope it heals without any problems.

 

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flying H

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• Jan 23, 2018

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that looks like a tang that the supplier attaches metal I.D. tags on raw steel to identify size and thickness.

 

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jon f mn

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• Jan 23, 2018

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Thats exactly what happened and why the
docs thought it got so bad, it didn't bleed
so the hole stayed open.

 

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jon f mn

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• Jan 23, 2018

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The wire, along with another on the end are gone now.

 

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Adirondack case guy

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• Jan 23, 2018

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I make some of those prickley spines with my mig also, but usually I make them on my ground clamp after clearing a stuck tip.
I do have allergic reactions to welding burns though. Little burns get really big and blistered.
They take a couple of weeks to heal.
Loren

 

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FBH44

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• Jan 23, 2018

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Get a tetanus shot.

 

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Billy NY

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• Jan 23, 2018

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Certainly a valid concern given the one causing a hospital stay. I have seen this a few times, both resulting in a hospital stay with the arm/hand elevated and extreme swelling. All from wood splinters. This time of year usually is not so bad, but the hot humid summer weather makes for good conditions for an infection.

Those puncture wounds can be tough to heal. Got stabbed with a big ole knife once. Upper and outer thigh, to the bone. There's still a hole to the bone to this day, 30 years later. Closed up but you can press to the bone and it still hurts. Darned lucky that did not get infected. It hit one of the pipes, real hard time getting it to stop bleeding, filled my darned shoe with my toes squishing in it. Nurse pulled the packing off and it blasted her. Sure took a long time to heal, swelled like a grapefruit too.

 

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jon f mn

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• Jan 23, 2018

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That thumb thing is what sent things out of whack and eventually led to me being intetesting to the docs. Lol

 

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jeffcat

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• Jan 23, 2018

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How about you raise holey hadok with the manufacturer of that blade?
If you get infection and or hospital visit you could have a court
case. That is their fault and crummy quality control. Don't laugh.

 

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Philip d

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• Jan 23, 2018

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Doesn't need to be big to hurt like the dickens,keep
an eye on it

 

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RBoots

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• Jan 23, 2018

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Can't believe whoever built that didn't
have enough pride in their work to have
never allowed those stickers to be left
there in the first place. If the person
that welded it forgot about it and didn't
see it, for sure paint or paint prep should
have. It'd never left my shop like that,
even as simple of an issue as that is.

 

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carvel minne farmer

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• Jan 23, 2018

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(quoted from post at 17:22:15 01/23/18) I make some of those prickley spines with my mig also, but usually I make them on my ground clamp after clearing a stuck tip.
I do have allergic reactions to welding burns though. Little burns get really big and blistered.
They take a couple of weeks to heal.
Loren

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ADC., john's first rule of welding; IF YOU SMELL SOMETHING BURNING IT'S USUALLY YOU

 

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carvel minne farmer

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• Jan 23, 2018

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OUCH been there done that! try and stop doing that jon, it's not a good habit :wink:

 

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carvel minne farmer

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• Jan 23, 2018

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I agree with RBoots on this one who ever is supposed to be doing the quality control and inspecting at the plant that built that needs a few days off with no pay to get his or her attention. or a swift kick on the rear end!

 

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carvel minne farmer

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• Jan 23, 2018

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(quoted from post at 17:21:34 01/23/18) The wire, along with another on the end are gone now.

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jon just a suggestion here, maybe have your boss phone the people who built this, let them know what happened, and ask if they are going to pay the medical and lost time on this. might give them a little wake up call. and send them those pics you took.

 

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Cory Schmidt

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• Jan 23, 2018

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ouch.Even I would of felt that burr. Likely done by a robot, I've seen more stickers like that on parts off the robot welds then the human welded.

Speaking of factory sharps. I had to sand off lots of tool marks on hydraulic lines, that are made where I work, because they were sharp that's on top of my "base" job cutting and deburring the cut ends.

Was over on the paint line for a spell today. Another person kept putting parts to the side, I asked em why. They asked if I could feel the bumps in the paint. I ran my hand over the suspect area and said nope don't feel anything, my hands are so rough and calloused it has to be big for me to feel a difference.

 

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K Effective

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• Jan 23, 2018

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Hang in there, jon, it will feel better when it stops hurting.

 

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kruser

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• Jan 23, 2018

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Kinda makes me hurt looking at it !!!
Probably like a wood splinter under a fingernail ?

 

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37chief

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Location

California

• Jan 23, 2018

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That hurts just looking at it. Wonder how many people saw that at the factory before it was shipped. Same thing happens with safety wire when the previous mechanic fails to curl the cut end. Stan

 

Larry EC-OH

Member

• Jan 24, 2018

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OK, I'll be the bad guy.
Why wasn't this caught by a safety inspection before this piece of equipment was placed into service?

 

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larry@stinescorner

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• Jan 24, 2018

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that looks painful,,sorry to hear it,,,best of luck from NJ

 

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RJKeith

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• Jan 24, 2018

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Looks like angle grinder time!

 

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rrlund

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• Jan 24, 2018

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Must be they're not as fussy as Caterpillar. When my son was in college,he worked for a sand blaster. He said they'd get brand new Cat blades in and have to sand blast them so they could be re painted if there was even a paint run on the face of them where it would have worn off in the first few minutes of use.