hanbdymann

I can tell you that this is NOT a myth. I still have a piece of the hammer head that shattered deep in my arm. The other piece clipped an artery on the inside of my elbow badly enough that it needed to be stitched, after the piece was removed. My father-in-law, Bert simultaneously managed to get another piece of the shattered hammer head in his knee. Bert was a doctor so I was lucky enough to have him do the surgery on me after we drove to the ER, but he had to bear the jokes of his peers while they fixed him. The culprit was a half hatchet that he was using to split wood while striking it with a large old ball peen hammer. The accident happened about three seconds after I said, "I don't think it is a good idea to hit that with the hammer."