Thread: Man's wedding ring rips off finger in freak accident

Many decades ago when I was working on IBM mainframe computers the IBM engineers all wore three piece suits (known as IBM overalls) they had to remove their jackets all rings chains and other jewelry before commencing work. They also had clip on ties to avoid being garroted.

While I was still farming my ex-wife was bringing up the truck for me at seeding time. I finished reloading the seed drill, got back on the tractor and took off. I do not know just what made me do it, but as soon as I was moving I looked back at the truck and my wife was hanging down off the cab protector. The cab protector had some heavy mesh on part of it and the end of a piece of it was sticking up and not welded down. It had slipped between her wedding ring and finger and she was virtually hanging off of it as she swung down. I managed to lift her up and get her off. She had to go to hospital to get the bloody ring off and tidy up her finger, which they managed to save.

It still makes my hair stand on end when I see somebody wearing a ring. It was always a big problem working offshore where all the gung-ho, I'm the greatest, could not understand why I used to get so ****ed off about them wearing jewellery.

An acquaintance of mine lost his wedding finger when jumping down off his truck in the NT in the 70's.....caught in the weldmesh of the cattle crate. He put it in a match box but it wasnt much good by the time he got to Darwin the next day.

Climbing up the transom of my boat, after surfing an offshore reef, I slipped back into the water. Unfortunately, my wedding ring got caught on the gunwale and partially stripped my finger.
Was a painful trip to get it stitched up. I had to winch the boat off a surf beach, load it onto the trailer and drive my old RRC off the beach, then to the hospital.
At the hospital they had a "special tool" to cut the ring, but it was too blunt to deal with platinum and burnt the good side of my finger. They ended up using a hacksaw from the hospital workshop!
No long term problems - just a small scar and a lump in the palm of my hand where the partially severed tendons retracted
My missus wanted to get the mangled ring remade, but Ive not worn any rings since