Injuries sustained while working on cars?

[AudiA8Quattro]

never sustained any injuries as i carry out maintenance correctly 

 

Have you never even scraped your knuckles? 

no unless you include my daily ones dragging them along the floor 

If you want scraped knuckles then try working on an Audi 

[Tazzy]

a few cuts from cutting speaker cable with a stanley knife, scratched knuckles, the usual stuff

the closet ive come is when i was putting a wheel back on, but the car rolled forward off the jack, as mychands were on top of the wheel, i just moved my hands when the car came down onto the wheel, had the wheel not been there, the car would of hit the floor, or had my hands been there still, i wouldnt of been able to type this now, lol

[nige_s]

I have to get in the zone to work with an angle grinder.  They're, evil things and have seen a few accidents too, luckily for me in other persons hands.  Worst one I saw was a guy using a regular 4.5" grinder with a 2mm cutting disc, in between grinds he turned it off and put it on the floor, nothing unusual about that except he accidently stood on the disc and cracked it slightly.  Continued to use it cracked (without realising)  the disc hung on for a bit and then let go at full rpm, with shrapnel crash landing up his arm from his wrist up to elbow taking the flesh out as it landed.  Chunks of muscle and tendons destroyed and he still can't grip properly 15 years on.  He had safety glasses on but otherwise his arms were bare (T Shirt) and hadn't worn gloves.

Gear up or lose a body part or the use of one.

[Screech16v]

Over the years ive sustained a few injuries cause im a cnut for not wearing gear, heres a few
Metal shards in the pupil several times 4.5" + 9" grinders no glasses 
Cutting disk injuries, leg,fingers, knuckles
Welding flash to many times  ,colliege is a sh!t for striking up with out warning!
welding spatter in the ears,arms,legs ,hair, well what hair i have,chest,oh and ball bag
Burned both arms doing big welds in a tshirt,had gloves on though,it was like really bad sunburn 
plasmaing and a blob of molten went in my boot and i couldnt get the boot off,now that was fookin bad,did a rate good dance though 
various cuts bruises and black finger nails
Admittidly most of these were boatbuilding related,but i do have a mk3
from now on i am going to be Mr ppe,enough beating myself up!

[ToddyGTi]

Other than a few cuts and scrapes, pinches and stuff I've been pretty lucky and not suffered anything major.....

A word to the wise though, if you have an open wound never ever use Masking Tape to stem the flow etc. It contains arsenic and if left in contact with the skin long enough will remove all your flesh to the bone. Seen it happen and the guy lost the bottom half of his leg because after a bad cut he wrapped his leg and didnt get it checked out until 8 hours later 

[Tazzy]

to extend from my previous post, although ive never had any major accidents/injuries working on my other mates cars, ive never bothered to use PPE, i and hate angle grinders

athough at work, i refuse to do something unless im wearing the correct PPE, i wear steel toe caps 5 days a week, so its comfy trainers on the weekend

[AlexMozza]

Ive had a few, mainly burns whilst cleaning oil away from an F3 engine just come in from a race, Crushed my hand in an engine...long story, 1 year on i still have a sore finger and marks

[Dolly]

using a half inch ratchet tightening an engine mount bolt, slipped and wacked my self, split my head open so off to A&E, superglue job no stitches lol.

I was an apprentice, i now tighten pushing away from my face, or i use an impact gun 

[VeeDubGTI16v]

have injured myself loads working on cars throughout the years, usually slipping with the ratchet or similar and punching something pointy.


done that with an angle grinder ^^

[AudiA8Quattro]

Ouch