Ever have any injuries/accidents working on the hobby?

I got stiches on my left hand middle finger, a pulled back, more clunks on the head then I can remember, multiple soldering iron burns  and that was just the past couple of years. Guess what, it was all worth it.

Do hammered fingers count? If they do I have a dozen plus incidents over the years....

Peter

My lab hit me in the bag while soldering.  Painful-manhood and soldering iron burn.

Mildy shocked a few times, cut myself a few times, burned myself a few times, cut on my feet or stubbed toes from stuff on the floor..... yeah I'd suffered for the hobby.  

GRAMPSTRAINS hahah 

I'm not sure teenage boys should be allowed near x-Acto knives, soldering irons, spray paint, Cyanoacrylate glues, Skil saws, and many other tools of our hobby.

I bought a soldering iron not too long ago and I said to my girlfriend, "This brings back a distinct memory of seeing a raised blister on my palm and index finger in the exact size and shape of a soldering iron which I got from reaching without looking and grabbing it from the wrong end."

Those marks are somehow not permanent, however.  To look at my thighs even today you'd think I had smallpox when I was a kid.  I'm exaggerating a little, but I do have some scars from sitting on the floor, under the table as a teenager, reaching up and soldering over my own legs while wearing cutoff jeans.  When the molten solder drips from up above and lands on your legs, you get to show your mother all the new words you learned on the football field.

The jury is still out concerning whether I've gotten any smarter....

Steven J. Serenska

I got a splinter in my right eye while drilling a hole under my layout about 15 years ago.  Had to learn the hard way to always wear eye protection.

Curt

Too many to count really, they are almost a daily occurrence anymore. Most aren't too serious though, scratches, cuts and blisters are the norm. I did recently have to do a round of physical therapy on my shoulder which at least in part, was due to layout construction.

Dropped a bullet proof Williams on my foot. I was rolling on the floor for hours. It was a SD90

Mostly burning myself with solder or hot glue.  I keep a yogurt cup of cold water on my work station when doing these jobs.

Alan

I laid my arm across my soldering gun once.  Won't be dumb enough to do that again, I hope.

Dennis

I keep an open bottle of CA on my bench, saves on band-aids. 

Last week I put a screw in the side of my thumb by accident.  15 minute later I hit the same thumb with a hammer.  It was thumping all week.....

Dennis posted:

I laid my arm across my soldering gun once.  Won't be dumb enough to do that again, I hope.

Dennis

I keep telling myself the same, but still manage.

It's amazing how quickly you can forget a freshly soldered panel is hot!  Until you smell 'burned ham' in the work shop....

I  picked a piece of Dremel Cutoff wheel out of my cheek. The old, small cutoffs were not safe. I now use the fibered disks.

Dick

     Ran a drill bit through a board under the layout with my hand on the other side. I had to reverse the drill to back the bit out of my hand to get it loose.   Manny holes in my head from screws and nails sticking down from the roadbed and tracks. Smashed fingers that needed holes drilled into the fingernails to drain the blood. Various cuts from knives you know just your average scrapes, bumps and foreign material in the eyes even with safety glasses on. Just rub some dirt in it and keep on going.  Choo Choo Kenny

Yes I have. Anytime I get a ding, burn or scrape while working on any project, I can almost hear the differing sound effects from the 3 stooges and the looney toones.    This thread reminded me of the old Tim Allen show "tool time"  when he would hit his head, every time, on the low hanging pipe to his basement.

Ouch!  Reminds me of the old Saturday Night Live skit with Billy Crystal.  "I hate it when that happens!"

MLNTRAINS posted:

Yes I have. Anytime I get a ding, burn or scrape while working on any project, I can almost hear the differing sound effects from the 3 stooges and the looney toones.    This thread reminded me of the old Tim Allen show "tool time"  when he would hit his head, every time, on the low hanging pipe to his basement.

Darn it, I have one of those pipes too!

Got hit in the hand with my Die Cast American Flyer K5 Pacific whild trying to push the track together while it was running when I was 12 back in 1965. Hurt more than the minor cut it made lol.

Few cuts from tubular track, few splinters from plywood, few pinches from pliers and a hematoma from banging my head against the wall, figuratively speaking.

What, me worry?

It takes genuine talent to injure yourself beyond trivial scrapes and burns working on toy trains. I've only had two injuries worth mentioning with hobbies - a broken ankle jumping out of an airplane (which I thought was only sprained and didn't find out until years later that I'd actually broken it) and a concussion in a high-speed crash skiing. Anybody who gets hurt with toy trains did it to himself. 

In this hobby, no. My other hobbies, yes, and almost got killed/crippled.

Lets see using a small ( jewelers Screw driver ) to pry or scrape something and it go into your hand/finger ( done both ) burn from soldering iron lost count, shocked, have a 2055 fall on my toes and not wearing any shoes at the time just soft slippers ( still hurt like #$% ) 3 1/2' drop. ( nose first. ) 

Do any of these count? 

Maybe a splinter?  I'm amazed at some of these stories.  I'm starting to think all of these out of the box failures are due to some really unlucky/accident prone people?

Jon  

Over the many years  I've been pinched, sliced, stabbed, shocked, impaled, stubbed, smashed, bumped, tripped, burnt &  hit and still at it.  Thank goodness for my Aflac insurance!

If you do enough big projects long enough it could happen to you also.

Oh yea - hot glue.  I do not know why that section of my brain that holds the information about hot glue staying really hot for a bit does not register with me.

if I ever had to be finger printed they would have to do my toes.

Ed

Well having built 4 houses, and nothing,  it could happen,  but  why not just take 30 seconds to position the ladder best ,  instead of short cutting, that

thing when you know it could slip out from ya.   Honey   I was just reaching for the observation, car, to swap out !!!!!!!!!!!!  

1. Back, just before Christmas my credit card was severly damaged. It is still recovering.

Ha... I have one that would make you laugh. Went to the Doctors complaining about my Kidneys. Sides were warm to the touch and severe back, side and groin pains... Doctors says your kidneys are fine, are you sure you did not hurt your back?

Then I thought to myself for a moment and realized I just put in 3 duckunders on the layout and have been moving heavy boxes and boards under them for a couple of weeks! 

Big_Boy_4005 posted:

Too many to count really, they are almost a daily occurrence anymore. Most aren't too serious though, scratches, cuts and blisters are the norm. I did recently have to do a round of physical therapy on my shoulder which at least in part, was due to layout construction.

Oh yeah, Do you remember I was worked on your furnace duct box with framing 2x2 and used your sabre saw and I got lost balance and sabre saw made the cut on my left hand,maybe 1/4 long.

CGWforever posted:

Big_Boy_4005 posted:

Too many to count really, they are almost a daily occurrence anymore. Most aren't too serious though, scratches, cuts and blisters are the norm. I did recently have to do a round of physical therapy on my shoulder which at least in part, was due to layout construction.

Oh yeah, Do you remember I was worked on your furnace duct box with framing 2x2 and used your sabre saw and I got lost balance and sabre saw made the cut on my left hand,maybe 1/4 long.

Ah yes Patrick, I almost posted that, but I'm glad I left it for you to tell. It wasn't my injury, but it was by far, the worst one working in the train room. I was standing right there, and I could see it coming. You were bleeding pretty good on my crappy carpet. I thought you might need stitches. We got you cleaned up, and made a bandage from a clean paper towel and a wrap of duct tape. Gave you a couple Tylenol, and you went right on working as if nothing happened. I felt bad about that, but you healed very nicely. You're one tough cookie.

I've cut my left hand really badly on two separate occasions while using an xacto knife unsafely.  Now I wear a thick snowboarding glove on that hand whenever I cut stuff while holding it in my left hand

Choo Choo kenny posted:

     Ran a drill bit through a board under the layout with my hand on the other side. I had to reverse the drill to back the bit out of my hand to get it loose.   

My wife is a paramedic and she laughed out loud at that. Sorry.

Mine was when I was 7 or 8.  I seem to remember sneaking up to my bedroom for some reason with the Lionel Type V that had been my father's before me.  The cord on it, by then 30 years old, was apparently very brittle and cracking.  My father could/should have replaced it - but for some reason had not.  Plugged it in and got a nice 110V wakeup.  No harm done other than the buzzing in my hand for 30 minutes or so.  He replaced the cord that night when he got home.

I still have a healthy respect for electricity to this day (which was reinforced after playing around with a tube tester at Radio Shack a couple of years later) - and that V (with its cord replacement) still powers our layout today.

Choo Choo kenny posted:

     Ran a drill bit through a board under the layout with my hand on the other side. I had to reverse the drill to back the bit out of my hand to get it loose.

Good thing it was a reversible drill, eh?

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.

When I was a teenager, was pressing on something with a hot soldering iron and it slipped and jabbed a finger in my left hand -- a minor puncture and a burn all in one.  Last year I stepped on a wallboard screw and it somehow turned upright and went through the bottom of my shoe and into my heel.  Back when we were teenagers, my brother was re-doing our control panel one summer, and I went down to the basement to see how he was doing and there was a blue pall of soldering smoke in the air.  I went around and opened the windows to clear it out.  We've both lived another 35 years, so I guess it had no lasting effect.

Too many to list.