Guess the cause of the accident?

Very true. I keep a couple quarts of betadine solution around the homestead..but most folks have alcohol handy. And frankly..if you wash it pretty well with dish soap...then give it a run over an open flame on the stove..shrug

"A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences."

- Proverbs 22:3

Without spending a half hour researching why ice cold water really works on burns if done Immediately...Ill leave that up to you.

However...I once witnessed a friend of my dads, lean back against the deep fat fryer in his restuarant..and drive his hand and arm, nearly up to the elbow, into the fryer. Dad went over the counter and pulled the now frozen cook out, while screaming at me to fill a plate tray with icewater and immediately stuck the now screaming dudes arm in.

To make a long story short..there was only a faint fadeing to the shade of his arm skin tone a week later.

Gunner

"A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences."

- Proverbs 22:3

Okay, so I'm late and catching up, but Gunner wrote on Sat, 18 Feb 2006 19:41:02 GMT in rec.crafts.metalworking :

I know it works. "I'm a machinist not a doctor!"

Good for everybody.

Okay, so I'm late and catching up, but "Tom Miller" wrote on Sat, 18 Feb 2006 23:38:32 +1100 in rec.crafts.metalworking :

I hate it when you get cut and bleed on the parts - makes them hard to sell.

I'll look into the "bandage in an spray can", too. I've been using bandages and tape to do the same. I flipped piece of "downfall" and it left some nasty little nicks in my fingers. The really nasty part is that coolant gets in there and stings!

Yesterday was the company health fair. I went to have the blood tests done (Cholesterol & Glucose), and the gal talking the blood for the Cholesterol did a good job, and when I mentioned I was next for the Glucose test she said "Well, go now and you won't have to get stuck again." Bit of amusement all around, and the Glucose gal said "Ho, looks like you've enough for everybody's blood test." Me thinks that Cholesterol lady hit a vein, and not just the usual capillaries. :-) (Oh yeah, and the results were "good": Cholesterol is 200, but Glucose is 83. "I can live with that." Going to have to, aren't I?)

tschus pyotr

I did something like that thirty something years back as a 16 year old. I must have had a low blood sugar (diabetic). I'd cooked myself some chips (fries) for lunch and had eaten them. Then being a good lad, I'd poured the fat out of the pan back into the jar where it was kept.

Unfortunately I missed and poured it all over my hand. I put the pan down, went to the sink and poured cold water on my hand. Small problem... We used lard in the chip pan. I ended up with a layer of solid pork fat on my hand insulating the burn underneath it.

I scraped the fat off with an eating knife and kept pouring the cold water over it for some time, then I walked the three miles to the doctor's surgery. They sprayed on some of the, benzocaine containing, cooling spray that was quite new then to kill the pain and wrapped a burn dressing around it. On the way home I stopped at the chemists shop and got some for myself.

The burn had covered a large part of my hand and the skin fell off that area and re-grew, but these days you can only tell where is was if you look very closely.

Mark Rand RTFM

This article implies you'd best keep it as much out of the cut as possible:

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

• Growth of skin, needed to close the wound.

Joe Gwinn

Ya, but how many times? :)