Installation earns me a trip to the hospital

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

Here's a new one.

I've worked with MDF plenty, but it's always been new stock. I made two speaker rings day before yesterday using MDF that spent the last 3 years in my trunk getting baked by the heat. Caused it to discolor a bit. My guess is the glue broke down a bit. Anyway, the night after routering this stuff up, I start itching like the dickens all acros my stomach and hands and knees. Get home the next morning and have hives all over. It started to clear up but last night my hands started o swell and so did my eyelids. Drove myself to the emergency room and got two shots for my trouble. My best guess is that the altered glue from the MDF is quite a skin irritant. I don't have allergies, so these things are usually pretty easy for me to figure out the cause of. The old MDF was the only different thing I was exposed to during the preceeding day. The spots that broke out were where I was sweating so there was something to carry the dust and glue into my pores.

Long and the short is that I ended up in the emergency room for something related to my install and don't even have a good scarto show for it, unlike a box I was building in HS where I bumped into the arm of the radial arm saw I was using and got a tiny scrape on my chest that didn't even bleed but left me with a two inch scar across my chest.

Anyone else fell like sharing war wound stories?

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[954runner 10+ year member]

haha funny story

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

dang that sucks.

i had a 14" x12" 3/4 inch pice get caugh up in the table saw and had it hurl back at my stomach, the box still came out great though

 

[dleccord 5,000+ posts]

i always get major eye boogers after working on one of my boxes, anyone?

 

[forceofwill 10+ year member]

Oh man, don't think I'll be using that old MDF in my garage, it's discolored as well.

 

[espguitarist91 10+ year member]

Umm, i sneeze alot from the saw dust........//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

Thats all i got.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[krouchchocolate 10+ year member]

dang that sucks.
i had a 14" x12" 3/4 inch pice get caugh up in the table saw and had it hurl back at my stomach, the box still came out great though

did u bleed like crazy?

 

[Fast1one 10+ year member]

I got scared when I started reading about MDF lol I thought you lost an arm or something //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[forbidden 10+ year member]

Does getting a part of a tape deck stuck in your hand count? Pulling out a old 2 shaft about 20 years ago and the thing was a little stuck and need coersion to come out. Well, it came out and lodged the shaft into my hand quite nice. A nice 4" scar to to show for it.

Dodged a bullet the other day, was in a hurry and my guide touched the table saw blade, knocked 3 teeth off the saw and one just knicked my right ear. Good thing I never ever stand directly behind the blade.

End result, stop work, go have lunch, send all employees to have lunch and then have a tailgate meeting and watch bum for an hour. After that we all went back to work nice and safe.

 

[JAZN 5,000+ posts]

I dropped a 4-layer fiberglass mold for my doorpods on my bare foot. Hadn't dremeled off the edges yet so all the dried mat edges stabbed into my foot.

 

[TSL13505 10+ year member]

Itching = Sucks

 

[Lakota 5,000+ posts]

A few pics would be nice:naughty:

 

[danteBirosel 5,000+ posts]

A few pics would be nice:naughty:

you horny bastage!! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[4runnercrazy 10+ year member]

the copper in the wire sparked as i was hooking it up and it scared the shit outta me

also countless times that copper pricked me

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

that sucks, man

i got home saturday after routering circles into my box with no fan to discover my water heater was broken, and i couldn't take a shower //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

That shit really burns the insides of your nose, and if you ever look at the MSDS //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif