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I used to work in a plastic blowmolding factory. We were running some new parts, that required a lot of work, and doing it rather fast.
Basically you had to open the door on the machine, pick the 3 1/2 foot long part off the floor, throw it on the table, close the door, push start, then pound off as much flashing as you could with a hammer(which wasn't much), then cut the rest of with a knife. Scrape it flush as possible, then flame it down, and then throw it on the rack for the next person to do whatever to it. The cutting was a pain, hurt your wrists, and you had a whole 85-90 seconds to all this.
Well I was holding the part with my left hand, and cutting the flashing off with my right using a pearing knife. I'd cut the back going to the right, then was cutting the front, not thinking, going to the left... when the knife slipped out, and went straight into my arm. I was pushing pretty hard on the plastic when it slipped out too. Luckily I've got fairly decent reflexes, and I pulled back before it went through my arm, although it must've gone in 5/8". I missed everything important. It barely even bled. I just looked at my arm, watched the skin pull back and the fat start to ooze out, and just put my glove it, walked over to my boss, showed him, and said "I stabbed myself."
And then the next day I did an alignment for a guy at work during my lunch. Got $25 and a 12 pack of dew for it.
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