I was fixing a commercial kitchen appliance today, replacing a burnt cord on a proofer/warmer, and the owner just wanted me to cut the cord and splice a new one on it, instead of tearing into the electrical module to disco the cord from the circuit board stuff (the right way). I was cutting the age hardened 3/4" diameter cord with a pair of poultry shears, since my dykes wouldn't open that far, and the stinkin' handle broke on me, at maximum squeeze, of course. The broken end of the handle got me in the web between thumb and index finger, and tore a hole in a cross shape, 1"x1"x1/2"deep. I did this about noon, and had to finish the stinkin' job to get the machine back in production for a huge catering job by 3pm. Luckily, it didn't bleed much, but the first aid kit only had a gauze eye patch and some stinkin' paper adhexive tape and a betadine swab. I used half a roll of electrical tape to hold that mess in place and got it fixed, and it took 15 stitches to close it up this evening when I finally admitted it was too big and deep for butterfly tapes. Glad I went in. The ER MD showed me the nerve bundle draped across the hole, and did extensive tactile and movement tests to make sure I didn't have any nerve damage.

The moral of this story is:

Don't let the idjits tell you how to do the job...