E.R. visit due to modeling mishap

[Joe Handley]

Haven't hurt myself too badly with exacto knives yet, but I'm a bit OCD about being careful with them at the same time. The scary incicdent I did have was with an aluminum handled body reamer that fell out of the cap and nearly speared one of my feet

[jas1957]

Been there done that, late 80's. I was working second shift & was home alone in the morning building. To make a long story short put a #11 blade & left index finger together. Wrapped it up with a wash cloth & drove to the hospital, only a 3 or 4 mile drive. The ER was empty, so in a couple hours or so I was home with 5 stitches. One bonus I remember was that the Dr. was a woman & when she was finished sewing me up I looked over and commented on all the blood on the wash cloth I had used. She told me how to get it clean ! A male Dr. would have just said oh well. Of course the moral is as we all know those things are just so d___ sharp you can't be to careful !!

[Rob Hall]

I still have a faint scar on my right thumb from an exacto knife incident from 25 years ago when I was 15...I remember it bled and bled, I kept screaming for my Mom to call 911 and that I had cut my aorta. Well, not exactly..the bleeding eventually stopped..didn't need stitches.

[Tony T]

Cut the end of one of my fingers, side to side. Deep enough for an ER visit, but not enough for stitches. Just before I cut myself, I said to myself that I'd better be careful or I might...slash...cut myself...

Waited for about 2 hours (not bad), got a tetanus shot, a clean-up of the cut, and a butterfly bandage...and the nurse saying on my way out I'm sure we'll see you again!

So far, they haven't!!

[Jon Cole]

"It's only a flesh wound!"

[samm1970]

My wife was kind enough to point out that my lil mishap occured on friday the 13th....LOL

Peace,

Sam

[diymirage]

i remember this one incident when i was 12-13 years of age...maybe even younger

it was the 5th of december and i had gotten a model kit of two helicopters (one being a bell UH1D) from sinterklaas (the original saint from whom santaclaus is plagiarized)

anyway, i take my kit up to my little room and i sit down at my desk

instead of neatly cutting the bag open with a pair of scissors i hold it up with my right hand and decide to slash it with the exacto knife i was holding in my left hand (almost in the same way you would crank a whip or cast a flyrod)

well, my depth perception was off just a hair and i ended up slicing my thumb open

i remember looking in there and seeing what i thought was the bone (turned out to be the tenant) laying like a shiny yellow tube on the bottom of a pink ravine

i stared at it for about half a second and then the blood started gushing out

me and my parent went to the doctor who was on call and my dad was very nervous

being a little kid myself i didnt notice the alcohol on the doctors breath (it being a national holiday he must have been having a few drinks with the family, not expecting to actually get called in) but he sowed me up quite nicely anyway

as i sit here typing, more then a decade later, i can still see the 1 inch scare at the base of my thumb

[59-Desoto]

After a few cuts early on I've learned to pay a bit more attention to where my finger are and the direction i'm cutting or trimming LOL. I know as soon as I reply to this thread I'm going to slip and break my run of luck

[Rob Hall]

I think maybe one of those metal thumb caps sewers use could be useful when exactoing.

[envious8420]

No stitches so far but came real close last week. Not paying attention I let the knife roll off the table.It fell point first and embedded itself in my shoe. I was wearing those heavy rubber crocs, and the blade had enough momentum to push the tip through to where it was just touching my big toe.

Whew

G

I bought some of those triangle shaped grippys for all of my knives just for this reason.

[MoparWoman Jamie]

Oh man, I have a scare from a xacto accident that took place back in 2007. The scare itself is 2 1/4 long but the visble scare piece that you can see real well is about 1 inch long though. I can post what happen and also afew photos of what the scare looks like if you all want to see. Also just for the record I didn't go to the E.R at all.

[Jon Cole]

I bought some of those triangle shaped grippys for all of my knives just for this reason.

Jim, they are well worth it too! I have only two handles, I keep triangles on both.

[Mr. Moparman]

I just slit my finger while trimming a part! No E.R visit but a Band-Aid.

[forthlin]

I was super gluing a pliable part a few years back & when I let go some of the glue flipped up & into my eye. That took an emergency visit to my eye Dr. He put my head in a vice like contraption, numbed my eye & cut the super glue out. Not a pleasant experience.

Edited August 30, 2010 by forthlin

[Joe Handley]

As bad as things have been for us here, be glad this hasn't happened to any of us here....not like it could easily happen in this hobby......................

http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/showthread.php?t=205387&highlight=Save+Brians+bodies+foot

Edited August 31, 2010 by Joe Handley

[george 53]

I bought some of those triangle shaped grippys for all of my knives just for this reason.

WoW! I got about 7 exacto knives an ALL of them have those tri angle "Grippy Things" I try to buy the type that have the 6 sided blade ferrules, they help them to keep from rollin of the tables along with the "grippy thngs"

[BigGary]

I never got it that bad from an Exacto, but I got myself good with a utility knife. It was a doosy of a cut and took four stitches in my "Gold Finger", as I call it. Since 2004 it has had $5500 in repairs done to it, none do to a hobby related injury.

Gary