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Darn that must have hurt.
Oakie
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I went to a job today, to talk to my lead mechanic, and the place was surrounded by cops and an ambulance. One of the siding guys, cut his fingers and thumb off, with a compound/miter saw!!!!!!!!!!! Ouch. Those fingers were gone. Nothing but ground meat left. The poor kid when he wakes up tomorrow. He took it very well and was smiling as they took him away. He told the ambulance crew, he didn't feel a thing. Must really stink to not have any finger at 25 years old. It was his good hand too. Prayers for this young man , if you have any. Oakie
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Poor fella. That stinks. Surgeons are doing some amazing things, though. I’ve seen folks like that where they remove a couple middle toes and relocate them to the hand. Can work surprisingly well as functional fingers/thumbs.
My Great Uncle lost most of his thumb, his pointer finger and part of his middle finger on his right hand in a piece of farm machinery when he was a teen. He still served as a Medic in the Army Aircorps during WWII.
That does tend to put a damper on a jobsite. I can remember getting a call of an employee having a heart attack and passing away on a roof. Still upsetting after all these years.
I did that. Had my first massive heart attack, while talking to a builder and his customer. One second we were talking about the heating system, and the next thing I remember was waking up in ICU. They said I was dead for four minutes. I don't remember a thing, except feeling very tired and uncomfortable.
Didn't they gather them up & send them with him?
I don't know the hows and ifs but I've seen a couple reattached that I wouldn't have ever imagined.
There wasn't much left, but they packed what was left ,in a guys lunchbox and ice. The blade pretty much destroyed them, from what my guys said. I talked to his boss tonight, and they couldn't save his fingers. They amputated them back to his hand and sewed everything back up. He said his guy was in good spirits and wanted to come right back to work. Tough kid!!!! Hope he makes out alright with everything. I will keep you all updated if I hear anything else. My one guy, Bob, was smart enough to pick his fingers up and put them on ice. His boss wanted me to tell him thank you from the kid. Very scary accident. You never know what is going to happen day to day.
He might want to put a fresh blade on that saw so next time he gets a cleaner cut instead of mangling em.
Wow sad for sure I know he will regret it for years to come
I had a construction supervisor any years ago decent fellow he had a few fingers missing
I ask his story of course
When he was a carpenter apprentice and very young
While cutting some boards with a circular saw and it was running and cutting
He put his hand under the board to see if the blade was set deep enough to pass thru
Obviously it was but by the time I worked with him he had hears every possible comment
By the way two years or so ago I was using a table saw and yep let my mind wonder for just a second and not using a push block Ran my thumb right thru the blade
I did not even look just called my youngest son said come and get me he lives about a mile away
What saved my bacon I have always set a blade to just clear the material by 1/16 or 1/8 inch
By the timey kid got here I had unwrapped it to see how stupid I was. And how bad i had a nice Grove on the inside of my thumb
Doc at the ER added a couple stitches and we talked as he did his needle work
My family doc toot out the stitches as a follow up
he told me he came close with a radial arm saw he hit the blade when his hand slipped but lucky glance off and suffered only a oh crap moment
Now it's just another scar and changed my thumb print to being unique lol
I was so glad it was just a get your head put of your butt reminder
I don't know how many times I've heard stories like this. Even seen it a couple times. Never ever ever never ever get your hand in line with the blade!!!! NEVER!
Poor ol' kid. Did it take all of his fingers, @Oakie ?
He has his pinky and ring finger left. His middle, index and thumb are gone
Well I guess at lest he has enough left to help grasp with some effort and time
I use to watch a fellow on youtube not to far from me he was truly inspiring and had adjusted to his life
As just a young kid i think like 5 yrs old ? he seen another family member grandpa at a grain auger and went over it tore off both arms and one his shoulders
So many things fell in place that day that saved his life two being ex medics from Vietnam and fast thinking by the family
He passed away a few yrs back cancer I think
I am sure his videos are still.out thee including his story
and maybe his family is still posting the farm life
He went by harmless farmer
My youngest son had met l him a few times
If you have a couple minutes look him
Up . Using his feet to use tools to work on the equipment drove every thing
He used his feet better than some use their hands
Sorry i dont mean to be taking away thseverity y of the poor kids accident its a life altering accident
I truly wish him the best
Here’s an example of that Toe-to-Hand transfer procedure I mentioned. Maybe something that could help get the young fella back in action some day…..
Terrible for the kid. My dad had two fingers missing and it never affected him. If they could make him a thumb out of his big toe, he would be good to go.
Reminds me of a friend who lost her thumb when she jumped on a bears back that was mauling her husband. She reached to turn the bears head around and ‘chomp’ ,,,,,,,, she’s now missing a thumb. And no, they didn’t find it.
Never heard of that happening on a miter saw, table saws yes because you can be pulled into the blade but you have to pull a miter saw down into the work piece ..... can't see it.
So sorry for the young man, prayers for him.
I once saw a fella fall from the third floor of a condo under construction and land on a 2x4 grade stake taking out his entire crotch area ................... he was. 22 years old.
Construction sites are extremely dangerous places, you can't let yourself get complacent or bad things happen and they happen fast.
You can loose a couple fingers and still make it through life fairly easy, but to loose a thumb that’s a bad one, you loose the ability to grasp things.
I had a great aunt that died at 106 years old. I noticed and remembered at the funeral that she had a finger missing, and as a kid I remembered she kind of always kept it hidden. As the story was told, her dad was chopping wood and she thought that it would be funny to reach between his legs and grab the piece of wood while he was swinging the axe. She had three fingers cut off and her mother sewed two fingers back on, the reason she didn’t sew the other one on was, a chicken grabbed it and ran off with it. That’s how the story was told over the years. The closest town to them was over four hours away by horse an buggy back then.
Construction a whole different environment so much activity and contractors all trying to get as much work as possible out of each hour
I had a labor Foreman / friend his head was crushed with a back hoe bucket
Long story but my dad and the guys son were right there when it happened
the operator on the backhoe was a close friend of Ted's He was messed up mentally for some time
Different jobs a iron worker fell landed on some rebar stubbed out of a short wall DRT
a fellow died on another job fell 2 stories to a concrete floor some one unbolted a sheet of plywood and moved the caution tape the guy used his foot while walking backwards pushed the plywood out of the way while rolling a scaffold his dad was on DRT
I was part of the team that cut the hole and had it secured just a few days before
Had two friends one was in a ditch cave in and DRT
Another friend on a job site they were sitting pre fab walls wind blew one over he was smashed like a bug had to scrape him up
one of my old bosses got knocked off into a hole by a track hoe swinging but just got several broken bones and was lucky if you can call it that but didn't die
I had a few accidents were scary and minor injuries but came real close four times over the 13 years i worked construction i though I was a a goner but my guarding angel was working hard those times and i was super lucky but scared the daylights out of me .
Looking back I realize how lucky I really was
RIP to all my old working buddies
Got careless just for a second,,,,
My dads friend had that done. Lost a couple of fingers reloading. Don't know the whole story, but something exploded and took off two fingers. He had a toe removed and sewed on as his trigger finger. If memory serves me right, I put a forum member in contact with him, that was considering the procedure.
most dangerous job i ever had was roughneck on a well drilling rig .Multiple ways to get killed and or maimed .My boss was missing part of a finger from a crush type accident . Lucky I never had a problem
When those things happen with a sharp saw and attention being on the item and not the hands many don’t even know they cut anything off until it is too late.
My father lost part of finger on a table saw at work and he said with the saw noise when running and watching what he was cutting he did not know he cut off the finger until he saw the blood.
One of our maintenance guys lost half of his right hand about a week ago. Crushed/pinched off from his wrist to pointer finger. Farm machine accident.