Lab DANGERS!

Danger lurks everywhere in the lab!

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[Psi]

Yep.The most satisfying use of a lab microscope. Easily removing splinters from people.

[Bobbias]

Worked in a steel stamping factory for 6 years. Got slivers like that daily. Luckily that one was sticking out quite a bit, so you had plenty to grab onto. It's way worse when you get something completely embedded and too small to locate properly, let alone pull out.

[iamdarkyoshi]

From the intro I thought it might be a glass fibre. Get them in my fingers all the time at work because we're a PCB assembler

[erikdenhouter]

These pieces often come from the surface of Dremels and hot air gun motors where they collect (magnetic), and stand strait up (polarized) waiting until you put your hand around them....

[grantm]

As someone with a carpet, I'm so glad I went SMD and no longer have the risk of stray thru-hole resistor legs piercing my foot!

[domatan]

Seems like you missed an opportunity to connect a meter to the new "test port" and run a full diagnostic.

[E-Box]

These "hazards of the lab" remind me of the hazards of the playground at a school I went to. Instead of using sand, woodchips were used. Inside of these woodchips were fiberglass slivers.
Kids would get seriously itchy and couldn't usually see the fiberglass. Those who could didn't know what shimmering things they were looking at and didn't know how to describe what they were looking at. I knew what it was, but didn't know how to report it. I've tried telling teachers and staff at the school about the fiberglass contamination, but they looked at me like I was an idiot and obviously failed to report it to anybody. It really sucked.

[airmann]

Me every week at least once as a welder... Especially when I bring out the die grinder haha. I've pulled these from the bridge of my nose even. So much pain for something so so so small.

[christopherjackson]

I'm pretty sure I inhaled an 0402 once....

[jthomas.]

Dave: pulls out splinter...promptly places it on the table where it will soon poke him again.

[geoffreykeane]

Reminds of when Cody from Cody’s Lab embedded a magnet in his finger.
He could literally tell direction from it.
Not a recommended experiment however.

[Elberto]

30 years as a sheet metal worker, I feel your pain 🤕

[knarf]

Yep. Get this at least once a week. Trouble with keeping a bench active and all. Glad to see im not alone!

[Rob]

Good that you were able to remove it!
I got a sliver under the skin of my thumb that I cannot get out anymore... I feel it when grabbing something.
It has been there for many years...

[FelonyVideos]

I am glad we built the internet so I could see someone get a splinter out halfway around the world.

[IanScottJohnston]

Dave's home surgery channel....love it! Wonder what's in the next episode!
Yep, these bits of wire strands have a nasty habit of jabbing in guess we've all been there.

[awesomename]

Had this happen on my foot. For a couple days I wondered why it hurt for no apparent reason. Eventually I looked close enough to locate the microscopic strand of copper that was the culprit.

[XSpImmaLion]

Got a whole bunch of that this past week adding a few more 20A outlets around the apartment... whoever wired them originally did a piss poor job of properly tucking the wiring in.

[ACombineSoldier]

Had a similar experience this morning, only it was my foot as it went into a sandal. No idea how a shard got in there.

[PRiMETECHAU]

I think I had one of these in my eye at one time not long ago. Fun!