[Histonet] Protect fingers during Microtomy

Tue Oct 28 04:19:46 CDT 2008

Knock on wood, I have not cut myself in several years. However, over the years I have had several staff members who have done it. When I was in the Navy back in 81, one guy took off a finger tip at the first joint. I had a new Tech right out of school that cut herself pretty good, took off one side of finger tip, fortunately not deep. My only comment to her was to tell her that now she was an official tech, then had another tech take her to the ER. What I find funny is I have one Pathologist that complains about us locking the handle on the cryostat when we clean it.

Tom Podawiltz, HT (ASCP)
Histology Section Head/Laboratory Safety Officer
LRGHealthcare
603-524-3211 ext: 3220
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Subject: RE: [Histonet] Protect fingers during Microtomy

(These Histonet Halloween topics just keep getting better and better...)
I've cut my thumb on a cryostat blade a couple months ago - forgot to lock
the wheel while adjusting the specimen in the holder.  Thank God it left an
intact (though rather large) flap of skin on one side, so no need for
sutures, just kept it compressed for oh several days.  Yeah I've cut myself
on microtome blades prior to that as well, though not as badly.  But then,
I tend to be an absent-minded clutz at times!

Merced

--On Monday, October 27, 2008 4:03 PM -0500 "Tapper, Sheila J."
<STapper <@t> smdc.org> wrote:

> We keep a "tip" jar.  So far we have had 2 donations!  It is a good
> deterrent if nothing else!
>
> Sheila Tapper HT(ASCP)
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> Yes, nicked the corner of a steel blade reaching for slide. This was
> back in 78 or 79. It was a Saturday, working by myself and I had to wait
>
> for 3 hours in the ER. No preferential treatment for employees in a
> county hospital.
>
> Victor
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> Victor Tobias
> Clinical Applications Analyst
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> Jackie M O'Connor wrote:
>> OK - time to poll - who has had sutures from microtomy?  Me!    23
> years
>> ago - 8 months pregnant, and not paying attention to what I was doing.
> Oh
>> yeah, and one other time, I cut off the tip of my finger beta testing
> a
>> microtome safety invention from EHS.
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>> Peter Carroll <carrolpb <@t> umdnj.edu>
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>>  > I am looking some think (like gloves)to protect the fingers during
>> microtomy
>>
>> No offense, but if you're that prone to injury, I recommend steering
>> clear of microtomes in general ;)
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