What's your worst blade-related, blood-drawing cut, and what were you doing?

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I was in the attic once, off balance, and cutting a string that I had in place to bundle some cables to a truss. I knife'd through my thumb on my other hand that I was keeping my balance with.


So far (knock on wood) I can't recall any major food-prep-related cuts (not counting some slices from the lids of cans). But I recently bought a mandoline slicer so maybe my streak will end.
 
There are several knife wound threads if you do a quick search, pictures included if you have a strong stomach. But I have done a quick draw with a sharp katana in my idiot days, without getting my thumb clear of the blade. At least the cut was clean. At another point I thought it was a good idea to cut a branch off of a tree with my BK 9 while standing on a ladder. That ended up with with me watching a piece of my glove fall to the ground, realizing that there was a small piece of my thumb still in it. Wisdom comes slowly sometimes.
 
lets see, "knife-related", well, i was making a knife when i heard a noise behind me, i turned and accidentally put two fingers straight into the rough side of my bench grinder. there comes a certain point where friction injuries are treated like burns. you could see tendons. now for one that's a direct result of a blade. I was making an axe handle a few days ago and i was inside with my shoes off (remember this). i was sitting down and holding the handle with my feet. when i pulled back on my spokeshave i pulled too far and took the side of my toe clean off. now this had happened once before but barely deep enough to bleed.you'd think i'd learned from last time
 
I was walking about 1/2 mile from car to picnic area and carrying lots of things, one of the bags had a steak knife in it and the person who packed it wasn't thinking when they put it together. I thought the edge of one of the bags was just kind of rough plastic and irritating my calf as it hit it with each stride until I got a really sharp sting and realized it was the steak knife and had punctured my calf probably 1/2" deep, it wasn't extremely painful but there was a surprising amount of blood, still made it through the picnic just fine.
 
Had a puma that I was carrying horizontal scout style and was crazy sharp. I went to put it away while walking on a trail, and rolled my right ankle, fell to the side, and burried nearly the whole blade into my gluteal muscles. I was incredibly fortunate it was just muscular lacerations.
 
Many years ago when I was a teenager I had a thing for building tank models. I was cutting turret parts off a tree when the Xacto cut right into the side of my left pointer finger. Right on the outside knuckle. The blade actually lodged in bone slightly and it made quite a mess on the dining room table. Still have that scar some 20 years later.
 
Cutting open a box of paper for our blue print plotter. Worst accident in the company last year which does concrete and concrete cutting. Sliced thru the tendon had to have surgery 3 days later and still wearing the splint. Please be careful it happens so quick!!

 
I've told this one before, even though these threads make me cringe. A copy and paste from a previous telling:

A garbage truck hit the tree in front of my house and so I cut a broken branch off the main limb, then trimmed it down to throw it in the yard-waste bin.

I used a Swamp Rat Ratmandu that i had just sharpened to a polished convex the night before to hack off some smaller branches, and cut once towards myself.

The knife cut through the matchstick-thin branch and fell no faster than gravity pulled and the blade bounced off my left thumb. I was initially relieved that it was just a bounce and I didn't cut myself until I looked down and saw about four different colors of tissue and bright white tendon exposed!

I ended up needing a ton of stitches, exploratory surgery to locate the severed tendon ends in my wrist, and two months wearing a splint and physical therapy. Luckily, the therapy worked great so I have 85% mobility and about 95% utility of my left thumb.

It wouldn't have been so bad except I knew better and I was just dumb for a moment. And then I had to explain to lots of people that I knew knife safety and get lectured on knife handling - very humbling. Especially because I am an assistant scoutmaster and had to face my boys and their parents. :foot:

It left a cool scar though! A big smiley face to remind myself to not take life too seriously...:D

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Just a little one, for me. Up a manlift, cutting off some crusty electrical tape, I decided to use my knife, because it would be faster than going down after the right tool.

In a perfect world, stitches would have been applied. But in this world, it would have meant four hours, and an off-site drug test. So I taped it up, and kept working.
 
I didn't think there would be graphic content can someone add that to the thread title, I get a bit queezy when I see that kinda stuff.
 
Worst cut I've gotten was trying to close a lockback knife one-handed. Now I know better than to buy lockback knives.
 
food-prep-related cuts
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It's not the food that will get you . . .

Once upon a time . . . long, long ago . . . on a different planet . . . (not really but in some ways it seems like it now) . . .
I had purchased a really nice Japanese kitchen knife, pretty big one, as a wedding gift . . . well I was doing what any self respecting, curiosity filled , super noob, knife nut would have been doing . . . I was preparing dinner with it . . .

I mean who would know right ? I had never used or touched a knife like that before so I wanted to get my money's worth so to speak before giving it away.

So I'm cruising along in happy land, slicing and dicing and just generally doing my knife nut in happy land thing . . . when . . . out of the bowels of Hades comes my girl "friend" . . . (and we are house sitting her friend's house so things are unfamiliar and weird enough with out adding any more) and she starts in with what she always did best . . . be a flaming obnoxious B**ch . . .

Well I start to pay some sort of attention to this barrage of BS and before I know it I have the edge of this super shallow angle slicing implement of culinary destruction buried half way through my thumb and the only thing that stopped it from saying clunk against the cutting board was my thumb nail slowed it down enough for me to call a time out.

Argue or cut up food for dinner . . .
NEVER DO BOTH AT THE SAME TIME !
 
Mo2,

I get a bit queezy when I see that kinda stuff.
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good for yah
builds character . . .
Noooooo I didn't look at it !
I saw your post and stopped scrolling in time.

(thank you :))
 
Cutting along a ruler with an exacto knife when it clipped across the ruler and removed the tip skin if my forefinger.
Other than that some stuff I can't remember as I don't cut myself often other than the occasional small cut that I don't even notice till much later.
 
1. Stabbed through my thumb trying to open a can.
2. New and freshly-sharpened Douk-douk snapped shut on my finger.
 
1. When I was stabbed in high school (not oops)
2. When I cut the end of my thumb off cutting pickles on a meat slicer while working at a deli (stupid oops)
3. When I pulled a bread knife out of a knife block that was placed too high, and in doing so inadvertently caused a small hook bill paring knife to fly out, bouncing once and then flipping over before landing like a lawn dart in my forearm (stupid oops)
 
Had been drinking, it was about 3am. Someone was asking questions about my sword display.

I messed up performing noto returning a hanwei katana to the saya and cut my index finger halfway off at the base.
 
I probably shouldn't even admit to this, but...

I was watching tv in a recliner and stropping the edges on a few of my knives during the commercials. I dozed off, knife still in hand. Apparently something exciting (read sudden and loud) happened on the show and I suddenly jerked awake... and cut a 2 1/2" gash on my thigh. I didn't even feel it right away, but it bled like a stuck hog. Fortunately it was a very clean, straight cut, so it healed up pretty quickly.

Watch out for those Helle's. Norwegians are notoriously bloodthirsty. ;)
 
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