What's the worst thing that's happened to you in the workshop?

[kbalch]

Not in the workshop, but related, 2 items:

1) Just for the record; Catalina Island Fire of 2007:

2007 Island Fire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"According to Associated Press, the blaze was started by contractors cutting steel wire with a torch for day-time only AM radio station, KBRT.[3]"

I've been up in those hills above Avalon harbor and it's dry as a bone much of the time. Hard to believe it took until 2007 for a major fire to break out.

Ken

[Hotz]

Well I had an accident with my left arm, my shirt arrested in the lathe plate. My luck was in high gear, and the engine locked.

In short I have a scar with suture 32 points.

[Nadogail]

I was cutting a small (1" cube) piece of wood on my table saw, from a very short piece of 2 X 4, too small to hold. Wound up slicing the edge of my left thumb.

Wrapped it up with a clean rag and drove myself to the Emergency Room.

The surgeon complimented me on making a very smooth cut on the bone. I said that's what happens with a sharp 12" carbide toothed blade..

[Workshopshed]

No fires yet but I often set off the smoke alarm whilst welding. There's a great video of The Salvager (Rico Daniels) setting fire to his trousers with a grinder

[kbalch]

I'll admit to having always been intimidated by table saws. So much potential for mayhem. Be careful out there, guys!!

Ken

[Normbournespidermonkey]

I was rebuilding a series Land Rover engine when I tripped and fell, managing to impale myself, in the back of the right knee, on a 3/8UNF stud.

I became faint but managed to reach the house where, my wife, bless her took control. She was most concerned in that I have the normal old age conditions, heart and lung problems, and by this time I was in a faint on the floor, but she kept her cool and rang for an ambulance.

I subsequently learnt that although the stud had gone in deep, it had missed a major nerve, which controls the foot, and had hit the tendon, fortunately with no damage. It had also missed the femoral artery....&$!?&@..! by a whisker. My daughter, who is a nurse,
subsequently told me that had it hit the artery, I would have had an immediate loss of blood pressure, a loss of consciousness, and I would have bled out.

Anyway, a couple of days in hospital and all's well, but I certainly admonished myself about keeping a tidy workplace, I tend to be a bit of an untidy worker, leaving gear all over the floor etc.

Needless to say, the engine was completed without further incident and now takes pride of place, in the engine bay of my, in progress, series 2a landrover restoration.

Norm.

[DIYer]

That was a lucky miss Norm! Hope to see that restoration when it's done!

[jmayaa]

I have an accessible attic above my shop. Went up there one day to get something. Not all of the upstairs has been sheeted with flooring.
It's only a storage area.
Long story short,
Fell through, straddled a joist, banged up my right side pretty bad.
Couldn't do anything for a few weeks due to the bruising of my ribs.
Not only did I bang myself up pretty good, I had a big ol hole to patch in my drywall... LOL...
Then of course there are the usual things, cuts and burns.
My wife has threatened to install a monitoring system.

[kbalch]

I have an accessible attic above my shop. Went up there one day to get something. Not all of the upstairs has been sheeted with flooring.
It's only a storage area.
Long story short,
Fell through, straddled a joist, banged up my right side pretty bad.
Couldn't do anything for a few weeks due to the bruising of my ribs.
Not only did I bang myself up pretty good, I had a big ol hole to patch in my drywall... LOL...
Then of course there are the usual things, cuts and burns.
My wife has threatened to install a monitoring system.

Sounds painful!! Hope the drywall didn't fall on anything important…

Ken

[neshkoro]

I've had a number of things happen as you guys have mentioned already.
I get chills and goose bumps when I think ablut my injuries!
I'm not talking about them anuymore!