dannypills

May as well share in the hopes that even a single person can learn from my idiocy.

I sit here now with my left hand in a splint after an accident almost 3 weeks ago; ring finger was cut through the top of the 2nd knuckle and almost totally severed. Middle finger is missing the tip, the rest of it looks like it went through a meat grinder. Index finger is now half the length it was. One of the earlier posters was absolutely correct in saying that not all saw cuts are clean, a blade can also mangle quite efficiently!! In my example, the blade not only cut, but also pulverized bone and tissue.

I had completed a cut, and for some ungodly reason, something possessed me to reach down with my left hand to push the cut off piece away from the still spinning blade onto the floor. In my 20+ years of owning a saw I've never done such a stupid thing. As my hand touched the piece of wood, the piece contacted the blade and pulled my hand into it.

Lack of focus for the task at hand was my undoing...coupled with a level of complacency.

On the wall above the saw I now have the specimen jar the ER gave me which contains my cut-off wedding band as well as some bone and nail bed fragments I found after coming home from surgery to serve as a reminder of the dangers of a wandering mind.