Congratulations! You’ve joined the elite club of people who have, through their own carelessness or inattention, drilled through their own hand while working on their car.
You know this because when you stopped drilling, the hand that was holding the drill dropped neatly to your side where you store it for future use, while the other hand–the hand you were …
I put a deck screw through my finger once. I have it saved in a jar on my desk to remind me never to do it again.
Realize that into and through one's hand are significantly different things, especially if it's the later.
Can't you just reverse the drill?
DanielCut wrote: Can't you just reverse the drill?
I'll admit that putting the drill in reverse and slowly backing it out would be my first instinct...although it might not be the medically safest thing to do.
You had me at Donketorium.
WWTOD
What would Todd Orr do?
SilverFleet wrote: You had me at Donketorium.
Is a really nice donkey enclosure called an ass palace?
One of my best friend's dad used to be a contractor and it felt like every week one of his employees would shoot a nail through his hand with a nail gun. That may or may not have had anything to do with the stupendous amount of beer cans we used to find at his job sites.
Fueled by Caffeine wrote: I put a deck screw through my finger once. I have it saved in a jar on my desk to remind me never to do it again.
The screw or your finger?
GameboyRMH wrote:DanielCut wrote: Can't you just reverse the drill?I'll admit that putting the drill in reverse and slowly backing it out would be my first instinct...although it might not be the medically safest thing to do.
I'm not a doctor, but I don't think an impaled hand carries much risk of bleeding out. Might as well put that shock and adrenaline to use and yank it out before it starts hurting like hell.
A lot depends on the bit type/size. A small pilot bit vs. step bit vs. hole saw will require different decision trees. And curses.
Thank you for making today suck less.
And I have done this.
And welded through a finger.
And screwed my hand to a wall.
And gotten second degree burns on my nuts.
My father had a saying: do as I say, not as I do.
This thread delivers in spades. Large quantities of plus 1 content. +1 
I have never had the pleasure of drilling, screwing, or nailing through my hand. It is a experience I expend a fair amount of energy avoiding. Successfully, so far.
That damn 4" grinder on the other hand...
DanielCut wrote: Can't you just reverse the drill?
So, for the record, this did not actually happen to me. to this point in my life, I have avoided any major shop injuries. I have apparently traded that, however, for an endless string of minor shop injuries, suffered every single time I do darn near anything. I can't wipe off a greasy wrench without drawing at least a little blood, apparently.
Anyway, the original idea for the story comes from Elliott Harvey, and it regards a guy he used to work at a Nissan dealership with. Apparently the dude drilled through his own hand and pinned it to the inside of a fender. As true friends are wont to do, the rest of the techs stood around giving the guy crap while they waited for the ambulance. When someone finally suggested that they just reverse the drill and back it out, I guess the guy finally passed out. Luckily they caught him before he just hung there on his hand.
The worst is when the NiCad battery gives out and it's stuck in there.
You just back it out enough to clear the fender. Leave it in the hand hole to keep from bleeding out so much. Although you could unchuck the bit to make transport easier.
Toyman01 wrote: That damn 4" grinder on the other hand...
I wrassled with a machine that has a 24x10" grinding wheel. It won, but I still have most of the tip of my finger. 
Detach the bit from the drill, then pull off your hand. Easy peasy.
Never drilled through my hand. I always manage to get it stopped at just a puncture.
I was twelve and had an interest in woodworking. Retired cabinet maker across the street had an old old old table saw. It had a jointer on the other side of the table, that shared a motor with the saw.
Jointers have a smooth barrel with a sharp blade that isn't always visible at top dead center. As I stared at the smooth barrel and wondered how the heck it planes the edge of a board, I decided to touch it.
At the same time, neighbor fired up the table saw.
A hunk of my finger was soon dangling, and I bled a lot. I learned how a jointer works, and to stay away from it when the table saw is in use, and to respect power tools.
It scared the E36 M3 out of me, but I'm sure he felt worse than I did.
A buddy of mine was working on a house he bought to flip. He was the only one in the house. He was pushing 2 2X4s together that were holding up a temporary staircase. One was twisted. Somehow he shot a large spike thru the back of his hand and into the 2 boards. Couldn't remove the nail or get his hand free. Stayed that way for several hours until the mailman heard him screaming. Worst I have ever done is a roofing nail in my inner thigh as I played the gun in my lap to grab another shingle. That wasn't too bad.
I'll take a drill bit to the hand over the lawn mower any day.
I build custom hot wheels for people, while drilling the rivets out my son asked me a question....I looked up at the same time the bit went through the rivet and post AND body AND finger. Ouch
I once was holding a panel in a trade show booth while we made on site repairs and the guy on the other side used a 4" drywall screw instead of the 2" that would have sufficed, needless to say the oriental owners of the booth were more unintelligible than normal as they screamed at the screw out my hand and the copious amounts of blood. I was unhappy; I had to relaminate the panel on the show floor and that thing was throbbing pretty good after twenty minutes of so!
I just had to explain to my beautiful wife why I was crying so hard from laughing at "donketorium".
Best. Word. Ever.
I have nailed my hand to a truss while standing on an eight foot ladder. Had to ask a helper to get me a claw hammer so I could free it. It went through the meat resting on the bone of my index finger. I then used my razor knife to slice the meat along the nail and pulled it out the side. At that point my helper fainted. I didn't really bleed much, wrapped it in duct tape and continued working. I would much rather that than drill into my hand.
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