Welder Shares Picture Of His Torn Thumb For Our Own Weird, Curious Benefit

A welder's thumb was torn in half when his glove got caught in a drill machine.

Jason Paint was drilling holes into a steel beam at work when the accident happened.

Instead of switching off the machine to push a plug near the drill-bit, he left his glove on and did it while it was still spinning as he always did.

But on this occasion the material became caught in the Mag Drill machine, dragging his hand inside - and the thick metal drill-bit sliced straight through his thumb

Gross photos show the mangled remains of his hand after the accident.

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The 46-year-old's workmates rushed their pal to A&E but an other colleagues then found his knuckle on the metal beam.

Jason later had 18 stitches to repair his thumb and is still off work after following the accident

He said: "It happened so quickly that my hand got pulled in and luckily my glove broke, so it pulled my hand out.

"But the damage was already done.

"The knuckle of the thumb got ripped out and the thumb was broken in three places.

"To be honest, I didn't feel any pain. It was a small bit of pain, but I was expecting a lot more. It must have been the adrenaline.

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"When I saw it I was just in real shock. I said, 'You'd better take me to A&E straight away,' and they did.

"I got in the car and it was quite funny because I got a phone call from one of my workmates.

"He said, 'I'm not sure I should tell you this,' so I said, 'Go on then.' He said, 'They found your knuckle on the steel beam.'"

Jason later underwent an operation at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital on Guernsey, near his home in Vale on the island, to reconstruct his thumb.

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Eighteen stitches later and after having his thumb in a cast for six weeks, he's been left with a huge scar - and he still can't use it properly.

Jason never took action against his bosses because he should have turned the machine off, but he said he thinks it should have had a guard on it and it didn't.

The company he was working at the time, New Way Fabrications Ltd, has closed down since the incident in September 2013.

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Topics: injury

James Dawson

James Dawson is a Journalist at LADbible. He has contributed articles to LADbible’s ‘Knowing Me, Knowing EU’ series on the EU referendum, the 'Electoral Dysfunction' series on the 2017 general election, the ‘U OK M8?’ series tackling mental health amongst young men, and for its ‘Climate Change’ initiative in partnership with National Geographic.

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