re: How Did You Get Your Worst Injury?

Circa 2008 running an industrial lathe, cutting stainless steel. The tool I was using cut a steep angle. Stainless steel tends to make a "tumble weed" instead of clean chips like carbon steel. The machine had a conveyor that moved chips from the tool area to a bin where it was taken away for recycling.

Well, the tumble-steel would get stuck every now and then, so we had a gaffe that we used to pull the clogs out. I inadvertently got one of the "strings" of the tumble weed caught under my index finger as I tightened my grip to pull.

It cut through leather gloves like they weren't there and filleted my finger from inside the first knuckle up to the tip. Didn’t even feel it. I only noticed when the inside of my glove felt wet from blood. I wrapped it up for that shift then superglued it shut when I got home after the 12 hr shift.


To this day I cannot feel much except slight pressure in that finger tip.