installation injuries

[Civic96Lx 10+ year member]

anyone have any stories?? i just finished up an install today and end up putting a nice gash on my nuckles while trying to strip some 4 guage with a pocket knife..

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[ultimate157 5,000+ posts]

You're not doing it correctly unless you draw blood //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[BumpinBabe 10+ year member]

Unfortunately I no longer have the rugburns on my knuckles from ratcheting my ground down but they were pretty bad for a while. My favorite, though, is getting little tiny pieces of copper wire in my skin that I can't even see to pull out. Every time you brush it on something it stings like hell and stays there for days. ugh.

 

[PSturmer 10+ year member]

my hands get cut all the time...nothing special

 

[SethPhillips 5,000+ posts]

my hands get chopped up allmost every day beeing that im a installer.. have been for the last 6 years.. ive lost fingertips with drinders and sanders, ran screws threw fingertips and hand's.. the last one that was pretty bad and i remeber is holding a tweeter pod and drilling into it.. the drill caught and spun the round pice of wood in my hand.. cut and burned at the same time.. still not all healed up yet..//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[Civic96Lx 10+ year member]

....yikes

 

[DB_DRAG_SPL 10+ year member]

anyone have any stories?? i just finished up an install today and end up putting a nice gash on my nuckles while trying to strip some 4 guage with a pocket knife..

 

[the727kid 10+ year member]

I always draw even a lil bit of blood on every just about every install.

 

[groundpound4200 5,000+ posts]

yup... I got some scars. The worst is the split second after you realized you just sliced your hand wide open and its about to bleed everywhere //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

i had a friend loose a finger with a miter saw...it wasn't really funny when it happened but we laugh about it now.....It was laying there with blood all over the sawdust and the saw...the finger was sorta quivering....we picked it up put it in a cup of ice...and wrapped his nub...and rushed him to the hospital....after a reconstruction operation the finger was saved...though he can move it now...you can still see the scar and he claims there is no feeling in it...i'm always tempted to hit it with an air nail every now and then to see if he is telling the truth or not //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[mokedaddy 5,000+ posts]

yup... I got some scars. The worst is the split second after you realized you just sliced your hand wide open and its about to bleed everywhere //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

Dont forget the quick grab for the electrical tape and tissue paper before you get it all over the car

 

[Civic96Lx 10+ year member]

a.s.s.

 

[MyFartsStink 10+ year member]

with car audio, I just get little nicks and cuts on my hands. But when I did tile work, I have almost cut my finger off, Droped a huge heavy *** tile on my toe when I had my shoes off and the corner hit my thumb toe and it was purple then black, then the nail came off. I was angle grindin a curve cut and the **** thing caught on my arm and ran all the way up it. Those are some of the worst I had. I ****ed up my shoulder really bad carying something really heavy and somehow poped my shoulder wrong and it came out of place. I poped it back in, but it still hurts till this day.

 

[IDSkoT 5,000+ posts]

My worst one was reaching up into my door through the speaker hole to grab a wire, and a piece of metal caught my arm, and cut me all the way down. A good 6" or so. People joked I tried to kill myself for weeks.

 

[southwest713 10+ year member]

I always draw even a lil bit of blood on every just about every install.

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