Thing that make you swear ultrasonically. Yikes. I wacked a chisel once and a shard 1" long buried itself in my thumb. That was good for 7 hours in the hospital and I was the one who finally got it out. I knew an air tool salesman who was bragging how safe a framing gun was and promptly shot himself through the wrist. He didn't say fudge.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
Bruce - I take it you missed the bone. That will be awhile healing. I saw that happen in the shop and know exactly how you did it. I hope it heals quickly for you.
Pulling all nighter's fishing is one thing, but this kind of all nighter you can do without....friend of mine shot himself in the knee cap with a 16 penny spike...lock his knee/leg up bent in an L...he was working alone.crawled to his truck and got to the end of the road where he layed on his horn till someone showed up..in the hospital they had nothing that would get it out, so they hit up the maintance shop and got a pr. of visegrips and a large hammer...clamped on the grips and banged the nail upwards and out...he said if he knew they were going to do that he could have done that on the job site: