Paul Airhart
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- Location
- La Quinta, CA
worst injuries while working on your jeep...
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WebDog
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- Center City, MN
I plugged my grinder in without gloves once and skinned a knuckle lol so since then i am the same way about the grinder.
IGOCOMMANDO
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- Location
- Idaho
Non XJ injury. I was putting a console in my CJ5 and sitting in the drivers seat mocking up the mounting location. picked up the console and swung it out the drivers door. pivoted my body to get out and somehow my left foot got caught between the seat and lower door opening. When my right foot hit the floor my left ankle made a sound quite similar to a gunshot. Snapping bones can be very loud in an enclosed space. I carefully set the console down so as not to harm it, turned my body around and had to climb back in the CJ to get my foot unstuck. Then drag myself about 50 yards to the telephone to call a buddy to come get me and take me to the ER where they stuck me in an exam room and forgot me for over an hour. Had to have surgery to re-attach the medial malais with some pretty screws. They caused me so much grief that I had them removed as soon as the bones fused.
jeeperjohn
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- Temecula, CA
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jeeperjohn
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- Temecula, CA
I caught my crotch on fire one day because there was oil on my jeans and the grinder was throwing sparks on my pants. I almost had roasted nuts!
Laurent Wagoneer
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- Location
- Boyle Heights,CA
i have a turndown on my exhaust before the rear axle, and the day after I got it done i rolled my XJ into shop class and racked it to change the rear shocks. while i was in the tool room checking out my tools i heard a bang and a yell, my buddy had decided to help me and break the upper bolts loose. well one snapped, i knew they would, and i was laughing thinking he banged his hand pretty good... laughing till i saw the blood on the floor and the fingertip of his right hand laying on the ground. i yelled to the teacher to call 911, and i found him in the bathroom going into shock, washing his hands over and over saying "the blood wont wash off" and turning white. i grabbed the stump and pinched it off as best i could with my hand, and sat him down till the ambulance got there. it turns out when the shock bolt snapped his hand holding the ratchet ran into the end of the freshly cut exhaust pipe and lopped the end of his finger right off. every single time anyone (including me) has worked on my jeep, they bleed. even when i change the oil for some damn reason i always end up slicing my hand on something without noticing it. she has a thirst for blood
:shiver: what happened to his finger?! did it get stiched back in place?!
GrimmJeeper
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- Gardena, CA
nope, i put it in a baby food jar, filled it with jack daniels, and gave it back to him when i went to see him after they released him.
they never even asked where the piece was, even though i told them it got cut off clean. :dunno:
- Location
- Rainy side of Washington
I swipe disposable earplugs from work usually - or rather, I bring them home after using them once instead of throwing them out as per company policy. Only got one auto darkening helmet (for me), the silly little paddle-with-a-window one that came with my welder is for the observer. My old beat-up leather jacket is my welding jacket, I use the cheap lincoln electric welding gloves if I need to do anything that might hurt my hands and doesn't require much dexterity.
That really sucks :shocked: Luckily I learned my "gloves while using an angle grinder" lesson with minimal loss of skin, and 5 minutes later I hit myself again right across the back of my thumb, from the look of the glove I probably would have taken it down to bone.
Don't need em in my line of work, and I don't really feel like paying for another prescription, otherwise I'd be on those like white on rice.
Oh yeah that reminds me. While I was cutting some bolts on a junker a friend was parting out, I wasn't careful where the sparks from the angle grinder were going, turns out they were going into my coat sleeve instead of along the outside. Felt a rather sudden unwelcome warmth halfway down my forearm, held it upright and a large amount of smoke poured out of the sleeve, the liner was on fire. Ended up making a snap decision (choices: put out fire by clamping it against my arm, get small burn. rip arm out of sleeve and burn a strip down whole arm, get large burn.) and still have a 3/4" diameter bright purple scar on my forearm. It didn't even hurt for two days, ended up being a third degree burn.
bigalpha
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- Tucson, AZ
Hardcore.
skull_black
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- Location
- casa grande/anaheim
just many crushed fingers, stuff in my eyes (i hate safety glasses), and scrapes on my hands face and other areas
- Location
- San Diego, CA
I frequently break a nail, or wreck my nail polish =).
I despise wearing latex gloves, and attract grease like crazy. I can get grungier watching you work than you do.
I've had wire brush spines bury themselves in my thigh thru my jeans, torn the back of my hand open pulling off a hitch, pinched/squished/removed small chunks of me, gotten misc fluids in my eyes & ears (automotive fluids, that is!), and ended up with some very interesting bruises, but overall been fairly lucky.
I despise wearing latex gloves, and attract grease like crazy. I can get grungier watching you work than you do.
I've had wire brush spines bury themselves in my thigh thru my jeans, torn the back of my hand open pulling off a hitch, pinched/squished/removed small chunks of me, gotten misc fluids in my eyes & ears (automotive fluids, that is!), and ended up with some very interesting bruises, but overall been fairly lucky.
WebDog
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- Center City, MN
haha, funny how you have to be specific, but then again with all the sickos on this site it was a good idea...
this wasn't on my xj, but my j10 so it's still a Jeep at least.
We were putting the finishing touches on my freshly rebuilt 350 when I cranked it over (disconnected coil of course) to get some oil in it. My uncle, who was my engine rebuild guide, started hollering stop because it was squirting oil all over. Turns out there was a oil galley we missed a plug for.
I reach in next to the alternator and start the plug in the thread. I hear this sizzling sound which puzzled the hell out of me because I didn't see anything near me that could have made that noise. A few seconds later, I realized it was my wrist, and it was burning!
I guess what happened was the stainless steel watch I was wearing grounded out on the engine block and the sweat on my wrist (it was summer) created a reaction with the watch band, turning it into a battery of sorts. Damn near burned me to the bone.
We were putting the finishing touches on my freshly rebuilt 350 when I cranked it over (disconnected coil of course) to get some oil in it. My uncle, who was my engine rebuild guide, started hollering stop because it was squirting oil all over. Turns out there was a oil galley we missed a plug for.
I reach in next to the alternator and start the plug in the thread. I hear this sizzling sound which puzzled the hell out of me because I didn't see anything near me that could have made that noise. A few seconds later, I realized it was my wrist, and it was burning!
I guess what happened was the stainless steel watch I was wearing grounded out on the engine block and the sweat on my wrist (it was summer) created a reaction with the watch band, turning it into a battery of sorts. Damn near burned me to the bone.
toyotawrench
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- anaheim ca
AJTorris
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- California
I have gotten some type of metal in my eye twice before i learned to were good eye protection. Had to have my eye "buffed out" twice. Thats the only time i had to go to the doctors office.
Hellbent
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- Location
- san diego, california
also got a small chunk of metal in my eye a few years ago, it was in there for about a full day-drove me freaking crazy. like a 'tard, i was using a grinder on the jeep without eye protection. got it out with the help of a friend(ran a machine shop-very sharp guy...pun intended) and a nice new no.2 pencil. used the nice, clean, new eraser to "brush" the sliver out of my eye. rinsed it well with eye wash afterward, never had a problem. it did, however, leave a stain in the white of my left eyeball. :gee:
- Location
- Rainy side of Washington
Yeah, they "polished" my cornea with some sort of small tab thing and some special eyedrops the last visit I had. Freakiest shit ever. Had I realized the metal was still in my eye the morning after it happened, I would have used the magnet in a glove trick, but it had been two days and it had already started healing over.
I've learned my lesson after once... I never want that to happen ever again. Went from a minorly itchy eye to severe pain, severe light sensitivity, constant tear production, and a smallish infection in two days. I couldn't drive without blinking furiously or holding that eye shut.
bassthumb - the alternator output post is connected directly to the battery positive usually, so you probably had the band of that watch heated up about red hot. :scared:
jeeperjohn
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- Temecula, CA
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- San Diego, CA
Oh yeah...and non-automotive fluids in my ears or eyes when I'm wrenching would be particularly disturbing & distracting...:eyes:
I know!! :shocked: And I figured the wrecking of nail polish might be a fairly rare injury in this group...OH MY GOD THAT'S HORRIBLE!!!
