I built all the custom cabinets shelving, trim, 2x10 walnut shoe molding, chair rails and banisters working for a badass cabinet making nut, he had a contract with the spurs benefactor foundation that raised money for good causes by building these fucking crazy huge mansions and then use 70% of the purchase price for what ever shit they were giving money too. Was a great gig honestly. So unfortunately one night after a job in San Antonio, ol Marc and I and a couple hand me that’s, getting drunk on a Saturday, cutting up some spruce and poplar, just some square cuts to toss them in the plainer, we go to set up double blade ghetto fab dado blade for the table saw, I walk outside to have a cig, that place was combustible as fuck. Anywho, I come walking back in and the beers have nailed my boss Marc to the wall a little more than he thought, I did put the blade in, he says he will set the depth ect, so he flips it on why he yelling at this kid fucking off at the mitre box lost on degrees or some shit, I hear a ZIIIIIIP
POW, (old school real deal table saw, now human contact was NOT stopping that thing) a rooster tail of blood whips up and across the ceiling, and I duck away from hunks of 3 fingers from his right hand. he turns blue, hits the floor, I tell the asshats to call an ambulance, one of you see to Marc, and the other has to find what’s left of his fingers, dude instantly had a penguin flipper instead of a fist, I run behind the shop to his moms house, best lady ever, 6 days a week that women woke up to feed us assholes with out fail, I snatch a cooler off the mud room floor, fill it with as much ice as possible, and head back to scrounge for fingers. well, they where fucked what was leftover of his digits, he thought his career was over, he adapted with his crab claw pretty fast. Kept us eating. Tough sob all told.
I also used a pass load and had a ring shank framing nail blast through a stud, that went through two of my fingers giving me a permanent peace sign gesture hahaha. That fucking sucked haaaaard, ring shank nails have a tendency to seal up the wound really well, and you know damn well this asshat ain’t abiding that shit, Jack Daniel’s to the chin, my buddy cut a wedge of wood to stick in between my fingers so I could let him extract the nail, (typing this is taking me back there, fuck it was brutal.) well he got it out no problem, on the 6th attempt. The nail brought boars heads new captspaulding meat with it.
So, never take a co2 pass load to use without yourself adjusting the nail depth gauge, or you too can win a Darwin Award.