I was reminded of a particularly painful shock install on my '72 today, looking through the forums, and it inspired me to start this thread. What's your ugliest wrenching boo-boo been? Pics if possible

First pic is before I cleaned myself up. Somehow I thought it was important to take a picture, even though I had no sight from the eye whatsoever. The second is of it a few days later, although the eye stayed blood red for 2 months following.

So I was removing rusty bolts from the old shocks, and the wrench slipped, sticking itself squarely in my eye. I thought the hot red liquid streaming down my face was coming from my eye itself, thankfully it was not, and my vision was fine after a few hours, by which time i had long since finished installing my new Rancho's and taking it for a test drive.

 

THAT looks painful as hell!

I pulled a hamstring while wrestling with the tranny on my Ram. Didn't take photos. Getting a sports related injury while working on a truck is not easy........but can be done!

 

Haha I think i pulled a tricep last week doing the same thing, but it might've been the previous nights workout, who knows haha

 

My left eye was blood red for a few weeks after my accident.

Anyway, this is the scar from using a air chisel to cut the door handle out of a civic at the body shop I used to work at. It slipped and I ended up basically punching the cut edge of the steel.

Went straight to the bone at the bottom of right hand middle finger knuckle (near back/palm of hand) and scrapped the bone across the knuckle and stopped on the other side. Ended up severing the tendon.

Second pic is how far back I can stretch my finger back compaired to the others.

The f'd up thing is, it didn't even hurt. Accually if you were to pull a hair out it would hurt more.

 

Hard to tell from the pics, but doesn't look super pleasent.

 

I don't have pics...... but, DO have some neat scars.

Burn mark on my foot where some welding slag dropped into my shoe. (and also a scar in my hairline where I smacked my head on something sharp when I noticed my foot was on fire.....)

Nice little scar on my forehead where I cracked my head against my truck when the IMPACT socket I was using to break my lug nuts loose (with a three foot breaker bar..) blew apart, and I went down HARD. (knocked my happy *** out for a minute or three..... had a nice knot for a couple days......) Little did I know that in this case "Impact" didn't apply to the tool to use it with, but, to what happens to YOU when you try and use it.......

 

^^^ funny stuff, but not...

I have hole in most of my socks from my old welding job, singed shoe laces too...

 

No pics here either but I have a scar on my forearm from when I installed my headers. I started the truck and walked around to the passenger side of the engine to see if I could feel any leaks where they attach to the y-pipe. What I didn't know is that those things get hot enough to burn the crap out of you within about 3 seconds after starting the truck.

Another time I was under the truck and dropped a 3/8" ratchet with a 6" extension from arms length and the end of the handle hit my cheek bone under my eye, It split me open and gave me a black eye.

Then there's various fluids that have found their way into my eyes and a bunch of peeled knuckles but those are common when wrenching.

 

Is your name Eddie Murphy??

 

Accually healed up fine. It's just the lack of pulling my finger back on its own is the only end result other than the scar.

That's the worst "visible" injury. Have had the typical objects in the eye, cuts, burns, etc.

Only other thing is my back is screwed from moving (dragging) SBC's across the garage by myself and no mechanical help like a come along or anything. <This one was my own young and dumb fault though when I was 17.