Nasty accident with a mitre saw ***Graphic content***

[Lazurus]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9038791/Security-officer-49-chops-HAND-electric-saw.html

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Wtf

Self inflicted.

How on earth do you get your sleeve slice enough to the blade to get caught

I've skinned my knuckle once when cutting extreme angles and that's it

 

[jack-daniels]

 

[Mark 2]

And next on his list, the poisoning of his family after burning an old shed in his log burner.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Thankfully I'm ambidextrous in all but writing.

Come across a fair few trades than can't use a drill in their non dominant hand.

 

[TechnicAl]

They could have sewn it back straight

 

[MattF]

Thankfully I'm ambidextrous in all but writing.

Come across a fair few trades than can't use a drill in their non dominant hand.

Same here. By the sounds of it, a trait we've adopted for good reason.

 

[Pete.]

That guy would have been better off having a prosthetic fitted coz that hand's never gonna work again.

 

[bigegg]

It's the mail.
I wonder if it was actually a "miter saw", or possibly an RAS?

 

[Kram]

I imagine re attaching is a little like doing electrics where all the cables are just a bit short. Do you think they trim an inch of bone to get extra length?

Amazing what they can do. I know somone who landed badly breaking both legs, but the impact tore her foot off, just a bit of skin kept it attached. I wasnt there but Ive seen the photos. It is more functional now than most peoples.

 

[Nick DV]

One unlucky 'lucky' bloke. I reckon he didn't put his arm to the saw, more likely that due to the saw not being fixed down, the weight/shape of the wood he was cutting tipped/pushed it onto his arm!

 

[Bobtail4x4]

I almost had similar a couple of weeks back, the log I was cutting with my evolution rage 355 saw jammed, the hinge/frame snapped and the spinning bit jumped in the air, cut through my overall and fleece, it took 3 good cuts out of my arm as it went, healed over now.
it was the arm I was holding the saw with.

 

[TechnicAl]

One unlucky 'lucky' bloke. I reckon he didn't put his arm to the saw, more likely that due to the saw not being fixed down, the weight/shape of the wood he was cutting tipped/pushed it onto his arm!

I watched the Idiot next door trying to cut a piece of wood by standing the wrong side of the saw and pulling it towards him.......also it was an abrasive disc for cutting metals

 

[Nick DV]

I watched the Idiot next door trying to cut a piece of wood by standing the wrong side of the saw and pulling it towards him.......also it was an abrasive disc for cutting metals

Nothing surprises me these days! I cannot believe some of the things I've seen over the years of people doing things that are potentially lethal, yet they never so much as get a scratch

 

[badabec]

I like the way they put an arrow on the affected arm, just to make sure they sewed the hand back onto the correct arm.

Necessary though, wrong kidneys have been removed before now

 

[jerrytug]

I won't be buying the 'Challenge' brand anytime soon, after seeing that photo of it covered in claret and bone swarf

 

[Welderpaul]

My Ma used to work with this fella. She sent me this over last night, I don't think she was suprised

Horrific doesn't cover it It would have been good if they had put it back on straight

Technology at fixing it back together is pretty good now i suppose, i guess they just use crimp lugs to connect the ends back together.
Poor fella though, it's a life changing injury, bet it feels like someone elses hand.....

 

[Bobtail4x4]

I like the way they put an arrow on the affected arm, just to make sure they sewed the hand back onto the correct arm.

Necessary though, wrong kidneys have been removed before now

yes that what killed my uncle, turned out the surgeon was qualified as a GP but not as a surgeon.

 

[drjim]

It's as straight as they could get it, will have been tissue and bone lost.

Vessels and nerves tend to stretch a bit to fit, they sew the nerve sheath together (like outer insulation on a cable) and the nerves then grow back from proximal to distal hence the taking a year or so for sensation to return. If you're lucky they all grow back to the right connections.

Saw loose and chopping awkward bit of wood = problem. My saw is thoroughly fixed down in the workmate for all cutting.

Oh and they instinctively mark op sites irrespective of how obvious the area, it's a checklist thing.

 

[Shox Dr]

Ouch

This is what happens when common sense is removed and nanny state isnt looking over your shoulder