Minor injuries while working on the Charger

[Rolling_Thunder]

Umm... going out on a limb here, but wouln't you say that shorts and flip flops aint the best work wear?

Anyone that comes to my home shop wanting to work on anything, they know to wear proper clothing or I send them down the road thinking about it

That being said, lucky it didn't gash your artery   

Yep - Was working late one night and wasn't doing any heavy lifting - mostly office work -  got motivated and said something along the lines of "Oh I'll just do this one thing...."   and paid for it.   

[FLG]

Is there ANYONE here who hasn't drawn blood on the back of their head from hitting that damned hood latch???

The meat hook of death? Yeah, you learn to avoid it or put a tennis ball on it afterwards....funny seeing other people get it though 

[71 b-body charger]

Trying to get the floor pan out of my 72 Charger SE the other night and i put a 1/4 inch deep gash in my arm from the sheet metal, didnt know it was there till i could feel the blood going down my arm  ! I now take you all seriously when you say you put blood sweat and tears into your car

[Dino]

Trying to get the floor pan out of my 72 Charger SE the other night and i put a 1/4 inch deep gash in my arm from the sheet metal, didnt know it was there till i could feel the blood going down my arm  ! I now take you all seriously when you say you put blood sweat and tears into your car

I did something similar when I was a body man apprentice many years ago.  The car was on a cart and I was lying on my back and cutting open the rocker skin with a hammer and cold chisel.  I didn't notice I was slowly reducing the angle my arm made to the rocker and when I gave it another good whack the side of my wrist went over that razor sharp edge and dug in so deep that for a second I was stuck.  When I pulled my arm back the blood was eveywhere.  Luckily I didn't hit an artery.  Looking back it was one of those life lessons but damn that hurt!

[BigBlackDodge]

Is there ANYONE here who hasn't drawn blood on the back of their head from hitting that damned hood latch???

My old man would knock his head on that all the time while helping me figure out a wiring issue. He's GM guy so I always giggled quietly to myself when it happened.


BBD

[Ghoste]

Not Charger related specifically but not completely off topic, I had my own freak deep arm gash some years back.  I wa standing on an open trailer playing tug of war with the dog.  Someone yelled out from the shop and as I looked over the dog pressed the advantage.  He gave his head a sharp yank and pulled and since I had my end of the rag wrapped around my hand, he quickly dragged my arm across the top edge of the licence plate that was attached to the rear of the fender of the trailer.  Like you, it missed the artery but was deep wide and blood everywhere!  I still have the big "suicide" scar on my wrist.

[Fred]

My charger draws blood whenever I get near it
She's one hell of a bitch!!

[Finn]

I was cutting the quarter panel off the charger with a cut-off wheel when I caught the rocker with the blade. The whole thing jerked out of my hands, slammed up against the panel, broke part of the blade off, then proceed to skid up my thigh, wrist, and arm, cutting me as it went. I had about 7 gashes perfectly spaced up my forearm by the time the stupid thing stopped spinning. I didn't want to take the time to go get stitched so I just let them scab up. I got so many "why are you cutting yourself?" questions that I just wore long sleeves everywhere until the scabs peeled. Still have about 4 scars from that. 

[Fred]

WARNING!................. Tools are dangerous.

[Topher]

I was working on the Charger in the driveway one day and had my then 2 year old son(he's 21 now) sitting on the fender. He picked up the screw driver off the fender and proceeded to whack me across the back of the head! I said OW! What'd you do that for?! He said "I sorry daddy, com'ere I kiss it and make it better"

Some of the more serious injuries were: burning my wedding band to my finger when I wrapped my hand around an ignition switch to "protect" the positive terminal and touching the frame of the dash with the ring/blowing the end of my ring finger out with a hammer while putting in a u joint(5 stitches across the tip, and it's still crooked from some of the meat missing)/multiple schrapnel removal from both eyes and having to have the rust ground out with a small dremel like tool/ cracked eye socket from a 1/2" air fitting blowing apart and hitting me in the side of the head/ no blood shed, but I did have to go to the hospital when a drop cord reel fell 16' and hit me in the neck-it almost put me to my knees.

Stay tuned, I'm sure there's more to come!

[MoparManJim]

Each scare on my hands and arms and feet has story behind them from the charger. pick a scare and you will hear a story of how that scare got created.. 

[Fred]

Each scare on my hands and arms and feet has story behind them from the charger. pick a scare and you will hear a story of how that scare got created.. 

So what is the story on your charger Jim?   All those scars and no pics to show for it.  I'm still waiting.
This post is no good without pics!!

[MoparManJim]

Each scare on my hands and arms and feet has story behind them from the charger. pick a scare and you will hear a story of how that scare got created.. 

So what is the story on your charger Jim?   All those scars and no pics to show for it.  I'm still waiting.
This post is no good without pics!!

Alot of folks ask's me that question. 

[Fred]

Each scare on my hands and arms and feet has story behind them from the charger. pick a scare and you will hear a story of how that scare got created.. 

So what is the story on your charger Jim?   All those scars and no pics to show for it.  I'm still waiting.
This post is no good without pics!!

Alot of folks ask's me that question. 

Well, what's the answer.  is there an answer?

[bull]

Yea, pretty much every time I touch the thing I end up bleeding, smashing something or bumping my head.