Fekins saftey tip of the day... watch what your doing with a Stanley knife :)

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Ouch! I hate it when such things happen.

Some time ago, I was removing an old, ugly splashback with a hammer and a tile bolster. One of the tiles cracked, in a bad way, and sent splinters flying through the room. One of them hit my arm. It wasn't a big piece, and the cut wasn't particularly wide or anything, but it was deep. I bled like a ****ing pig; blood literally poured down my arm. I couldn't find my first aid kit, and it wouldn't stop bleeding, so I borrowed some super-glue from the customer and glued it shut :rofl:

That stuff was originally used to stop bleeding, so I mean, why the hell not? 🙂

And oh, I ruined a carpet while at it :rofl:
 
very sore indeed,
about 2 months ago i had a full house to start,had only 6 days to finish it
.I got in another tiler and my usual helper,anyway first morning the tiles arrived and i thought we better all help unload the trailer !!!!! i jumped up in,armed with my lovely snappable blade stanley knife to cut straps holding boxes of tiles together,i cut away and handed the boxes down,near finished when i slipped the blade into my thumb !!! ouch !! throught the top and down 1/4 of my nail or more !!
damn sore.I'v had a few slips with them lately,have to be more careful.
 
Stanley Knives ! - ahh memories....my best one...

when I was a lad I was helping to rewire a house - having marked out the conduit runs on the walls I had to score the plaster and paper with a Stanley prior to chopping out with a bolster - it did give a neater finish.

I remember steadying myself, one hand on the wall, fingers splayed, pulled the Stanley up through the line and sliced the end of my finger off, blood everywhere.

I had seen a programme earlier about some chap chopping his arm off in an accident and taking it to the accy hospital in a bag of ice where it was successfully re-attached.

So I put my finger tip in a bag with ice and arrived at the hospital. I showed them the finger and the bag and watched several nurses stifle laughs as they pulled out my finger tip about the size of a pitza from the bag.

Rule one - pack limb etc in a bag and then in the ice - mine had absorbed the ice cubes.

Finger healed up - just a bit flat at the top now

happy care free, risk assessment free days:yes:

frogeye
 
When I sliced myself up, my customer was so sympathetic she wrapped my hand up in cling film so I could finish her tiling without getting blood every where!
 

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