Thread: a minor prop building accident

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So yesterday hubby was cutting some hard plastic for my mourning widow. Would'nt you know, just seconds after he got done telling himself that he was going to get cut, he cut himself. A fresh new blade in the boxknife slit his finger down the outside from knuckle to knuckle. After a visit to the ER, he's got 6 stitches and a tetanus (sp?) shot. Could have been a lot worse. I felt especially bad being that he was working on something for me. Just wanted to share and kind of vent to you all - knowing you'd understand and that prob. lots of you have had things like this happen. I was pretty upset about it yesterday. Thanks for letting me offload this.

Glad it worked out ok.

To cheer you up, here's another way to look at it:


Ah, but now the prop has tasted blood. BEWARE. It will hunger for more! And it will be all the better as a result. Pay it proper homage and offer it the blood from these injuries!

Way off topic, but that actually comes from an old job I had. Packaging Fram Air Filters. There was this machine that did the packing, and I was the team lead. Our mechanic couldn't always get to the packing area, so we got to play mechanic on it. 3 shifts, 30 people, the machine only consistantly worked whenever myself, or the mechanic that trained me were around. Was it because we knew more than everyone else? Perhaps. But, he was a superstitious sucker, and had made a little altar of broken pieces on the top of it, and would make blood offerings, dripping a few drops in there, whenever he got cut working on it. Not one to question what was apparantly working, I was the only other one to practice this bloodletting, and the thing ran like a song for me. Just perhaps, it was a reward for the blood offerings.


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I have a small chemical burn I'm just getting over as well. Never went to see the doctor, though. Those places are scary.

Ouch!! I barely avoided a similar fate cutting hot glue (cooled, of course) off of a Bucky skull last night. I actually bought myself a pair of those automotive mechanic gloves to wear while building props, and they have saved me a few different times thankfully. Not sure if they would thwart a thirsty blade (or prop, or air filter packaging machine), but they definitely help.

Liam

Ouch BooBerrie - that really stinks. It definitely can be a hazardous business - building props. Power tools, nails, staples, foam fumes... I hope your hubby feels better soon and doesn't lose the urge to build!!

Ouch. Hope he heals quickly.

My DH power nailed his thumb last year right before Halloween. In a couple days, it started to look infected, so he had to break down and go in for a tetanus and a penicillin shot.

Nailed it again a week later.

Good thing we love this.

good news it was minor and not life threatening but it hurt anyway hope everything will be ok and many more prop will be built in the future for ya !

Were you able to use the blood on anything? Just kidding of course. Sorry to hear about the injury but glad it wasn't too serious!

Always remember to cut away from yourself--and toward someone else. (Heh, heh...)

That's going to leave a mark for sure. I have been doing the hot glue dance lately. It is me or are those thing heating the glue hotter now a days. I have pok a dots burn marks on my legs.

I was using a dremeling with a routing bit on it and moved it across my fingernail. It cut through my fingernail and across my top part of my finger (it sounds worse than it was). My finger nail took the most of the damage. It barely cut into the top of my finger and only bleed a little. I was lucky. It always happens when you don't respect the instrument and take chances doing things you know you should not be doing. I knew I should not have had it at that angle. I was cutting a peice of wood for a staff. With a pruning saw too close to my hands and cut through my knuckle. Don't take chances with saftey.