anyone got good glass injury stories? [Archive] - The Melting Pot

explodingbunny

02-08-2007, 12:12 PM

Yo, I'd be interested in hearing good glass injury stories. ...anyone have any? I'm currently recovering from the worst I've ever had.

A couple weeks ago, I nonchalantly(sp?) walked into a garbage can en route to my kiln. This is a garbage can that I had been thinking about cleaning out for days but too lazy. Yes, I'm a complete dumbass for this. But, the can had a nice 5 mm rod sticking out of it that entered my lower thigh, pierced my quad muscle, and shattered into three pieces deep inside my knee. It was painful as hell! ... and I lost my ability to walk immediately after. I had surgery that night, and since glass is virtually undetectable in an x-ray, the surgeon had to open a large incision to make sure he could get all the little glass scraps in my leg from the shatter. Then, he left a drain in my knee for a couple days to be extra cautious.

This was three weeks ago and I just started walking again a few days ago. It sucked badly, but taught me a valuable lesson in staying careful.

So, anyone else got stories? It would be nice to read them. Don't be embarrassed for stupid accidents. You can't be anymore of dumbass than I was with my knee, that's for sure. If anything, hopefully my story can serve to stress how important it is to stay careful. thanks.

CripSkillz

02-08-2007, 12:35 PM

hehehe droped a punty the otehr day and picked it up in the midle then came to find out teh hot end was in my hand ouch

onion

02-08-2007, 12:53 PM

i did pretty much exactly the same thing as you did, 5 mil in a bucket stabbed about and inch and a half into my shin, right alonhside the bone, hurt like all hell and bled a large amount. im pretty sure i can feel a nice chunk all wrapped up in scar tissue

ACE

02-08-2007, 01:12 PM

i caught my boob on fire last year. seriously, a flaming titty.

the first day i ever lampworked a peice of moltent morretti flew up my nose, so i burned my nose AND my finger trying to get the glass out.

a few years ago i got a peice of molten glass in between the walkman attached to my hip, and, my hip. i couldn't get it off in time, it ended up taking off a lot of skin. i don't know man im a clumsy ass bitch, i have tons of these stories....:guyonfire hahahaha......

explodingbunny

02-08-2007, 01:23 PM

the first day i ever lampworked a peice of moltent morretti flew up my nose, so i burned my nose AND my finger trying to get the glass out.

Yeah, that would be scary as hell... I'm glad it didn't travel to far up your nose and you were able to get it out. I once dropped a molten bead from my tweezers and instinctually caught it with my hand. that was stupid. :bangHead:

The flaming titty is pretty funny. Hopefully it wasn't too bad.

explodingbunny

02-08-2007, 01:26 PM

skip

02-08-2007, 01:40 PM

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aSl_c2DuehQ

Not exactly glass injuries but they look like they hurt.

canaan

02-08-2007, 01:49 PM

interesting thread. This could indeed be used as a learning tool for all beginners. So, to summarize :

Big long punties sticking out of garbage pails could cause serious injury.

Inhaling flaming soft glass is not good

Lighting your boobie on fire is one way to get him to stop squeezing it
sidenote : this may lead to vigorous patting with heavy cloth objects

Electronic items fastened to your person make neat hiding spots for molten glass

Mike_Aurelius

02-08-2007, 01:59 PM

Lewis Wilson has a very funny story he tells about his brother. Maybe he'll see this thread and tell it again. I can't do it justice, but: bath robe, hot glass, scrotum.........

ACE

02-08-2007, 02:22 PM

skip, thats one the funniest things ive seen in a while yo....

gravdigr

02-08-2007, 02:27 PM

You can refer to my thread Busted my nuts, literally (http://www.thegldg.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9320) for one of my escapades.

I haven't run any glass into my body yet, only been lampworking 2 months or so. But before that I did 12 years of welding and fabrication. Hot metal can suck pretty bad too. See the writing beside my avatar. I am covered with scars from stupid shit I have done, most of which I cannot remember.

One humorous thing I did do that has nothing to do with glass but is a good read. Back when I was in high school the nylon shorts were in style. So I was wearing a pair of these shorts and driving home from school while smoking a cigarette. At this time I did not have a whole lot of experience driving or smoking, let alone doing both at the same time. So I'm holding the cigarette in my steering hand while making a turn and the cig slips out of my fingers and lands in my lap. Now these nylon shorts react in a certain way when exposed to heat and more or less turns into shrink wrap. You can draw your own conclusions from here.

kbinkster

02-08-2007, 02:42 PM

Stained Glass Injury: I stabbed myself in the forehead with a pair of needle nosed pliers during a lead came stretching mishap. They x-ray my head to make sure there were no bits of lead in there and then I had to come back later to have my blood tested for lead (I think I did, anyway - I can't remember if I actually went back or not).

Lampwork Injury: I once burned the insides of my lips because I was blowing on a stringer to cool it down so I could break it off. Well, I ended up kissing the bead I was making and burned my lips. I called for my son to bring me a Fudgecicle. It helped, a lot.

billtcat

02-08-2007, 03:26 PM

I had a glass punty break off about a 1/4 inch from the marble and roll down my arm alternating between poking holes and burning from wrist to elbow. Quite and interesting pattern actually LOL

ech

02-08-2007, 03:42 PM

Like the third day into my lampworking career I firmly grabbed a red hot tube. It instantly turned the sweat on my hand to steam, which gave me a third degree burn, and slid through my hand shattered on the floor and proceeded to set a whole bunch of little fires around my garage. I couldn't work for two weeks.

To the beginer: Don't do that, it hurts!

Spider

02-08-2007, 03:48 PM

Don't want to relive the ones that really hurt - but the funniest pain was this:

way back when working with no shirt on in a heat wave making unicorn profiles and had one fall off the holding rod and branded my belly with a perfect unicorn tattoo.

I was gringing at that glass up the leg story -

The Lorax

02-08-2007, 03:51 PM

with soft glass i was fucking with some glass on a blow pipe...
i forgot how but i lost control of it and it went flying towards the dude who owned the studio.
it ended up burning his sock and not him luckily... he was kinda pissed.

lucidvisions

02-08-2007, 05:39 PM

Recently had a piece fall out of the kiln with a 12mm punty. The punty broke in half, richoted (sp?) off the floor and into the front of my shin. Looked like someone took a cheese baller to my shin. Should have gotten stiches but duck tape works pretty well.

Josh

kbinkster

02-08-2007, 06:27 PM

Something about glass in the shin just gives me the willies. *shiver*

onion

02-08-2007, 06:31 PM

i dont wanna sounds like a queer or nothin,but i think unicorns are totally kick ass

:D

Meerkat

02-08-2007, 07:08 PM

i dont wanna sounds like a queer or nothin,but i think unicorns are totally kick ass

I effin worship that movie !!!!!

thejackstraw

02-08-2007, 08:24 PM

Doing scientfic work I was setting up a "jig" to hold a ground joint that was going on a busted KD flask. The ground joints come with several extra inches of tubing which are to be scored to the appropriate length. Lesson: Score the tubing after it's set in the jig, not before. The tubing snapped when I was twisting it into the jig and I was extremely extremely extremely fortunate that the puncture in the palm of my hand missed the tendons and the doc was also able to reattach the tip of my finger. I keep that shard on my bench as a reminder that a sticth in time saves nine. Fuckin-A that still humbles me to think how lucky I was.

canaan

02-08-2007, 10:28 PM

way back when working with no shirt on in a heat wave making unicorn profiles and had one fall off the holding rod and branded my belly with a perfect unicorn tattoo.

There are people who would pay good money to be branded by handcrafted glass sculptures. i think you've unknowingly opened up a whole new market for yourself.

hippieandrew

02-08-2007, 10:42 PM

ACE

02-08-2007, 10:47 PM

holy shit that looks like a tumor!

i've stuck my finger in the flame before (it didn't look like that!) and i didn't feel anything for a few hours....

smutboy420

02-08-2007, 10:51 PM

Does a tiny pcs of glass flecking off and making a pea sized burn on my arm that 6 months latter never healed right and turned in to lil bit of skin cancer. Does that still count as a glass injury???? Even if it was indirect?

nick84

02-08-2007, 11:10 PM

I was doing a wrap and rake....rod snapped and stabbed me in the finger...didn't stop bleeding for like 2 days...then for the next 3 months I dug the glass chunks out of my finger.
Nick

Ubatuba

02-09-2007, 12:34 AM

I did turn my flesh into what looked like raw bacon when a punty snapped on a vessal i was flaring at corning, and the weight of it dipped my hand into a full blast delta flame...
Another time working in the hot shop i dropped a cookie foot on the marver table and knelt on the ground to center it to the bottom of my piece. Little did i know they was a jagged 1" random shard on the ground where i knelt down, all of my weight went to the shard and it stuck IN my kneecap when i got back up. I pulled it out, gushing blood everywere it did one of those squirts, i got some duck tape and some paper towels, wrapped up the wound, and finished the piece 45 minutes later with a blood soaked shoe and sock. After that i went and got five stiches on my knee cap.

nasty

02-09-2007, 02:05 AM

a frit rocjk popped off my punty and hit me in the nose, while it was fucking orange hot...noone would look at me forever...

explodingbunny

02-09-2007, 09:43 AM

stuck my hand in my flame at full blast for a split second. didn't even feel it, even as it healed. nerve damage i think.....:tongue2: the picture is 3 days later

http://www.glassartists.org/Images/ThumbNails/000132000/Thm132997_PA080018.JPG
http://www.glassartists.org/Images/ThumbNails/000132000/Thm132998_PA080017.JPG

Whoa, that's a serious burn. Did you end up popping it? People always tell me that I should pop the burn blisters. But, I'm always scared of infection.

explodingbunny

02-09-2007, 09:44 AM

a frit rocjk popped off my punty and hit me in the nose, while it was fucking orange hot...noone would look at me forever...

Hahahaha ....Roze. I remember when that happened.

explodingbunny

02-09-2007, 09:52 AM

Bryan

02-09-2007, 11:40 AM

anyone kneel on glass to press a flat spot before. Makes a nice hole in your knee that will fill a sock up with blood in no time, oh yea takes awhile to heal, such a pain to get injured on joints. I will make sure the next time a large rod pops apart i get all the pieces off the ground...

onion

02-09-2007, 12:03 PM

i also had a piece break violently and a little peice of hot glass found its way past my glasses into my eye... luckily it landed on the whitey stuff and didn't seriously damage my vision

hippieandrew

02-09-2007, 01:12 PM

yeah, i hang sheet rock for my job, so by putting my hand into my tool pouches it popped about a week after it happened. i let it pop naturally though. i did go into "now care" and they said it was the worst burn they have seen cause it was so direct, and wanted to charge a shit load for silver cream. so i said fuck it and just used neosporin. i only put the neosporin around the blister, not on top and just made sure as hell it didn't get infected. i always kept a bandage on it also NOT GAUSS!!! i got some curad not sticking plastic covered thing and then put pretty much what ever i could find to cover it and athletic tape. took about 2 months for it not to be sensitive. and it still has no feeling to heat.....but still does to touch. lol but to my amazement, it barely left a scar, just kind of a birthmark looking patch on my hand. ill try to post a pic of it now.

Mac Maestro

02-09-2007, 10:07 PM

I posted this once before, but it seems like we have another gross out thread.

I think it was just a case of a rod snapping while I was drawing with it. Where as a clear rod could have taken the pressure I put on it, the color rod I was using must have had a weak spot...

Healed really nicely. Nicer scar than the ones that actually got stitches.

smutboy420

02-11-2007, 01:23 AM

How did it turn into cancer? I did not know that burns can turn into cancer.

I din't either. and on top of that I did't know a burn could turn in to skin cancer. I always thought it mainly came from sun exposer. When it was from burns atleast.

But any injury can increase the chance of some thing not healing right and the cells going hay wire and shit. it only takes one cell to take hold and it can go from there. it ended up becoming the one spot from where the burn was and then a few other spots right next to it started to become the same way.

Good news is its the least worrysome kind of the 3 types of skin cancer.
its basel cell type with is only on the top layer of skin. and in most cases DOES not turn in to other types of cancer or kill you like melanomia type.
and they just cut it out as an in office type procedure.

Its pretty common and I just need to be even more carfull of my skin then normal. Because it means I do have the protensial to get it.