What is your pet peeve injury in the workshop?

[tibi]

Hello,

are there any injuries that you cause yourself due to lack of concentration again and again and you are angry that you did the same mistake as before?

I have one. It is when I am planing a board with a hand plane and I pull the plane too far on the back motion. The toe of the sole drops down from the board (esp. no.4 plane) and I hit my front hand to the wood with a vigorous force

 

[mwinfrance]

metal swarf in finger tips, after deciding "x" can be deburred later, and then touching "x" again before deburring.

 

[Sideways]

Metal swarf likewise when turning or especially when milling. I've taken to using nitrile disposable gloves because the fine splinters don't dig into them the way they seem to find my fingers.

 

[mwinfrance]

I have found that keeping ultra strong neodymium magnets in the atelier allows me to pull out even the tiny bits of swarf that get embedded in finger tips, but the hole still smarts for 10 minutes or so, or again later when using some "active" type solvent if it gets onto the finger tips.I've got lots of gloves, but it always happens when not wearing them for even 10 seconds.

 

[AESamuel]

Hand planing a nice sharp 90 degree corner when dimensioning wood, then slicing my hand when I pick the piece up.

 

[thetyreman]

Hello,

are there any injuries that you cause yourself due to lack of concentration again and again and you are angry that you did the same mistake as before?

I have one. It is when I am planing a board with a hand plane and I pull the plane too far on the back motion. The toe of the sole drops down from the board (esp. no.4 plane) and I hit my front hand to the wood with a vigorous force

done that several times, that's one of the reasons I stopped using the no4, it never happens with a no7 or 5 1/2 as the front bit before the mouth is too long.

 

[paulrbarnard]

Little nicks from sharp tools. All too easy just to brush an edge and slice the skin. It rarely draws blood but often leaves a ‘catch’ point in the skin

 

[Bingy man]

Splinters that find their way into your skin and then turn into a chameleon- you know it’s there but you just can’t see it. A day or so later as it starts to get infected it shows itself.

 

[Woodwork Journey Dean]

I can cut myself alarmingly easily on pretty much anything metal. Often not too big but I don’t realise until little puddles of claret show up on the work piece

 

[ajs]

I find the bulk of my injuries come away from doing the job proper but other handling operations. Cuts while sharpening used to be a big thing but it's moved on recently. I did quite a bit of chiselling over the weekend now my hands are covered in fine nicks. All caused either applying or removing vaseline to and from storage.

 

[stuckinthemud]

Catching my hand on a sharp saw blade

 

[TheUnicorn]

I loose count of the amount of times I've forgotten that a drill bits gets scorchingly hot from friction

 

[Andy's Shed]

It's the bl**dy chisels that have it in for me. Just simple things like removing the little nubs from something I've turned on the lathe.

 

[Johnwa]

Mine is finding blood on my hand and not knowing how the hell I cut myself. I think its an age thing

 

[mwinfrance]

Mine is finding blood on my hand and not knowing how the hell I cut myself. I think its an age thing

No big deal, if it's your blood and there is n't much of it.
Apparently the older one gets, the more things leak.

 

[Johnwa]

Mwinfrance. Tell me about it, I could write a book lol. Don't cough!

 

[Molynoox]

Tennis elbow...
Oh I'll just lift that massively heavy thing, I'll be careful, it won't make it worse...

 

[imageel]

Mwinfrance - same here - although I don't have a clotting problem most cuts seem to bleed profusely before stopping and many a time the only time I've known I had a cut is when I wonder why my fingers are stuck together or in summer when some toes are 'glued' to my flip-flops!

 

[aet1]

Mine is finding blood on my hand and not knowing how the hell I cut myself. I think its an age thing

And the bruises

 

[Spectric]

As we get older I think we can tend to get a bit more untidy and this is a sure way to end up having an accident.