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mojo84 wrote:Just for the record, would these incidents be considered accidents or negligence?

In my case, I consider it to be negligence.

I would classify something as an accident if there was an outside force, that was not reasonably forseeable, that led to the injury.

So I decided to sharpen my carry knife on Sunday. Grabbed the little mini sharpener and sat down to watch some TV. Second pull through and I experienced the sickening feeling of the knife sliding directly into the knuckle of my left pinkie finger. A lot of blood and 4 stitches later and I am struggling to type this while I have my finger splinted to keep me from pulling the stitches out inadvertently.

Doc gave me some pain meds but I'm trying not to take them to punish myself for being so dumb.

Fortunately I managed to not cut my tendon or do any serious nerve damage. And I was able to use this as a learning experience for my 7 year old son on the importance of being careful around knives. Hopefully seeing me getting stitched up will have an impact.