My fingers are ******

Mikey444

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Mazda 3 & RX-8
Had a work accident last night dispatching an aircraft. I was closing the door of an aircraft, these doors on these aircrafts in particular are heavy and are a bit of a struggle to close. So once the door is bout 95% down since they slide in the aircraft upwards and down when you close them, there is a latch on the left side of the door that you bring down that seals the door in place and locks it, the flight attendant thought she would give me a hand by helping me to close it from the inside and 2 of my fingers got crushed between the latch and the body of the aircraft, about 400 lbs of pressure. With only those 2 fingers I attempted to lift the latch against the pressure she was putting on the other side and was screaming stop.

Lacerated and crushed 2 fingers, by miracle no fracture, they had to clean my fingers under the massive cuts at the hospital and sew it back up. Still hurts a bit, trying to stay off pain killers with success so far. I realise how much worse this could have been, I could of really got my fingers sliced off.

Anyways since this thread is aviation related I'll ad a couple of pics I took at work this week.

One picture is just before I had to tow the airplane and the ohter is a random shot.
 

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glad to hear things turned out relatively good for the situation, sounds like it really could've been alot worse. As it is, it sucks, and i hope the heal up well.
 
reminds me of when a co-worker of mine had part of his finger cut off

he stopped by a hardware store to get some last minute stuff for an install(we do pro audio in churches and stuff), and one of the people at the store asked him if he could help him get some wire, and the wire rack fell, and one of the spools landed on his finger, and severed it, but he got it put back on soon, and he can use it now, it was like 6 months ago
 
Welcome to aviation! I know the feeling I work for AA , in my case is even worse because I fix them!! Glad to hear that you are ok!! Oh well; I love more jet engines than the ****** motor on my Mazdaspeed!!
 
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