Ice Fishing occupational hazard ?

[icecold]

Wow.  Its now official. everyone I regularly fish with has been (neatly or not )sliced by a blade on their auger. 
I was talking with my brother today and he was telling me about my nephew being stitched up last week after the blade on his auger sliced his thumb.  Me, I got my hand cut last year when I foolishly tried to use a blade to cut a piece of plastic off my new rod handle.  My brother cut his finger about ten years ago.
 Most of you guys are thinking we must be a bunch of dumb aaaaaaaaa's which might be in some situations but I have to believe that others have done the same.
Even though I had ice fished for just shy of 40 years before I cut myself I guess you can never be too careful.

[fozsey]

I am proud to say that I have never been attacked by my auger...How does that happen? I am sure it wouldn't take much to get cut but I keep the cover on mine any time I am not using it and I treat it like a loaded gun when I am using it.

[crappieslayer22]

it happens by a slip of an hand puttin on the blade gard...or slippin and fallin on it...ive had to get stiches before for an auger blade

i heard a guy fell on a nils once cut his leg wide open

[irishjigger]

Cant say Ive ever had to get stitches but I have a pair of pac boots that have a nice patch on the top of the foot . Happened in a bit of a fog one afternoon , drilled a hole,  started talking to my buddie , put the auger on my foot and bingo Im leakin . The worse thing about it was I had just gotten the boots .

[GAMBELL]

I can't believe I'm going to tell this story.  I was 19 years old and it was June.  I just got back from Irondequoit Bay after killing the walleyes that night.  I was sitting on the couch and saw lightning out the front window.  I ran out through the back porch (enclosed) to cover my boat.  It was dark and I didn't bother to turn on the light.  At the time, I stored my icefishing equipment on the back porch.  All the sudden I hit my foot on something and it stuck there.  I ran back to the kitchen on one foot.  I took my hand off of the bottom of my foot and the blood was pouring out of my foot.  I was rushed to the hospital and had stitches put in my foot.  I had hit my foot on my gas auger blade (auger cover was not on my auger correctly), and sliced my foot to the bone.  The cut was 4" long and to the bone all the way.  I was on crutches for a month and a half.  I would post the picture but I do not have a scanner.

[pikemaster789]

I was walking in off the lake last year and bumped my leg. There was a good cut in my pants and a dull "punch" of pain. Didnt think much and kept walking. Got inside and went to check for a bruise and blood was all over. Had to go get stitches. It was a real deep cut that you could see a bunch of fat in

[hunters08]

I was walking in off the lake last year and bumped my leg. There was a good cut in my pants and a dull "punch" of pain. Didnt think much and kept walking. Got inside and went to check for a bruise and blood was all over. Had to go get stitches. It was a real deep cut that you could see a bunch of fat in

my friend hit his leg with the auger and it went through a pair of carhart bibs,jeans ,long underwear and his lacrosse burly's and still cut his leg not bad but still all that and cut him.I told he is lucky he didnt have a lazer!!!!

[walleyeslayer]

i sharpen my fillette knife all the time.  ive cut my fingers more than ever this winter lol.  i have a bandaid on my middle finger as i type this.  man that knife slices deep when the fish slips    also the other day, i didnt take my ice spikes, my feet slipped out from under me, and landed right on my shoulderblades, i bounced up, aas manlaw requires, and laughed it off,. i thought my hand was broken lol. now my armpit hurts

[capt.shay]

Yup, putting the cover on my finbore III.  Darn thing was so sharp that it didn't even hurt.  I could see bone!  Super glued it together.

[crappie66]

A couple years ago I was walking up a somewhat steep hill after fishing, I fell and somehow in the process the auger blade cover came off of the Laser and got my thumb in the tumble.  At first I got up and picked everything up, not thinking much about it.  Then I started to see blood drip from my glove.  I didn't feel a thing when it made a perfect slit through insulated gloves and went deep into my finger.  I left the gear on the hill after I discovered the cut, went to the car and ripped part of my tshirt off to wrap around the finger and then used electric tape to tape it up nice and tight.  I went back and got my gear, and proceeded to go home.  About half way home I started to feel funny, maybe it was shock sinking in late, I don't know for sure.  But I made it home, took off the tape, cleaned up the cut and rewrapped it, probably should have required stiches since it was almost to the bone.  As it heeled my finger turned a pale white.  Ever since then I am always paranoid about the auger blades.  Be careful with the blades, sharper than you can imagine.