Safety First... or someone may lose a thumb.

[Bruce Whitehead]

OUCH! That must hurt so much...

Have to say it really does... been throbbing and itching all day. First time I did this it was with a clean blade so a really clean cut, and they always hurt less. This was the equiv of getting cut with something the width of a key spinning at high speed, so the skin and flesh is really damaged (and really hurts).

Those guys drive me crazy. They rarely come home after getting hurt, and half the time sew themselves back together with fishing line.

I grew up in a family of rig workers... my brother has a "pincer" hand (only has a thumb and middle finger left).

And my first thought was that after I got it bandaged up was that... "yeah it hurts, but I can just change tasks for the day"... I had to make a point of acknowledging that indeed I could go home.

Which is actually I think why my boss assumed I would stay. Most guys that work in these jobs will stay and finish the day out.

At least you still have all your fingers

I celebrated by coming home and playing with hatchling BPs. Everyday with all my fingers is a good day to play with snakes.

I've seen enough severed fingers to last a life time... actually I'm pretty sure any severed fingers is too many for a lifetime...

I cannot imagine. I have a bro that witnessed a freak accident on an offshore rige and ten years later he still loses sleep over it.

Bruce