A case of {{TruthInTelevision}}, sadly: This tropers remembers reading an article about a motorcyclist being accidentally decapitated by a chain used to prevent access to a private road, because he didn't see the chain in the dark.

This troper remembers his dad telling about how when he worked for a logging company, he had to worry about the chain holding the logs coming loose and flailing about.

Same thing with the cabling used to lift steel coils. You ''really'' don't want a 2-inch thick steel cable flailing around near you

Ever put a nozzle on a garden hose, turn the water on, and watch the hose whip about? Okay, now imagine a hose two inches thick and carrying a hundred times the pressure. That's the feed hose for industrial pressure washing, or hydroblasting. Those hoses are segmented, and an important part of the safety briefing is what will happen if one of those junctions gives way under pressure. (for this reason, each junction is supposed to be equipped with a double-looping cable called a "whip check". Supposed to. Unless you work for the cheap-and-stupid kind of companies this troper has also seen.)

This troper recalls a story of a man who was hit by a car and thrown into, then bisected by, a line on a utility pole.

This troper has gotten his hand hurt by the rather rigid flat things sometimes used to hold packages closed. When you cut them they tend straighten themselves very fast, and can cut you pretty bad if your hand is on the way.

This troper saw a track sprinter get their throat sliced on a finish line that was held too high.

This troper worked on a research vessel that that employed a cable to lower gear into the water. We were expressly warned to keep away, as the moving cable was capable of snipping off a limb.

This troper flies alot of kites, and can say from witnessing it happen that you need to use gloves when flying the really really large ones; if your trying to bring the kite line in, and a sudden gust of wind occurs pulling it back out, the resulting friction and sawing action from the line can cut ''bone.''

This troper lived near a Riding for the Disabled field and stables. The head of the group was missing a finger from an accident with the black plastic twine used to tie straw bails, teaching this troper a very important lesson: never loop that stuff around your finger, it is strong and your skin and muscle will give first.

The first time this troper changed strings on his guitar, he had a dumb moment upon switching to the higher strings, whose keys were on the bottom of the headstock. So he tightened the B string until it snapped, wrapping around his arm and drawing blood.

This troper's inattentive friend had the same thing happen to him, but with a bass's E string. I think he was hospitalized with a huge cut through his arm all the way to the bone.

This troper, who is practically incapable of tuning a music instrument, just lost any and all desire to play one.

The first time I ever played a guitar with steel strings (I learned on nylon) I thought my fingers were going to be reduced to hamburger. It got worse the first time I tried a 12-string guitar - bear in mind, this was just NORMAL PLAYING, not snapping strings!

This troper used to(and still does) keep his hair long. Every few weeks, he'd find microscopic tears along his ears(and less often, his face). Turns out whipping your head rapidly back and forth when your hair is fairly tough can really do a number.

The thing about tuning a piano is that occasionally you have to replace a wire, some of these wires are wound pretty tight, and occasionally an ignorant amateur will think it's faster to just snip these and then unwind them. You can recognise these amateurs by the long thin scars.

When I was at college, a tiny Malaysian girl broke a string in an ''11-foot concert grand'' at the beginning of her recital. Fortunately, the low E flat snapped near the hammers, so the the string flew away from her, and she wasn't hurt. If it had broken at the far end, she could have been seriously hurt. (The piece she was playing was by Franz Liszt, a composer renowned in his day as a piano smasher.) CMOA for her: she mentally went through the rest of her recital, then went on with the show - that E flat wasn't needed again!

This happens with violins, too. Since the easiest way to hold the thing while you're tuning it is with the pegs next to your face, it can be... nerve-wracking.

This troper has seen a picture series of an impromptu tug of war with a wire cable (participants using gloves). When one side lost their footing, the cable snapped free and tore an arm off from one of the participants. It was pretty gruesome sight.

This troper used to work on xerox-type office copiers. They use electric current through a very fine tungston filament to generate a static charge. If mishandled, this filament can give one a very nasty cut. AFLE

I don't go shopping very often. I grab a plastic bag, stuff the stuff I need in it and head home. So when I have to get alot of stuff, it takes me a while because I'm not sure where I'm supposed to get it or what kind of thing I'm supposed to get. I get home and let go of the plastic bags in both of my hands, and realize that the plastic handles have wrapped around themselves and my hand, causing them to get tighter and tighter without me really noticing. I looked like an emo that couldn't tell where his wrists were.

The leash for {{Muffinz}}'s dog suggests this in the instruction manual. Paraphrased: "Warning: Contact with cord may cause amputation of fingers and hands" ...Ummm...

Just FYI, you can't clean out a razor with floss. Shame, because it seemed like such a brilliant idea.

There is a real life case of a prisoner using dental floss to cut through the iron bars of his window. He did however end up slicing his gut open on the razor wire.

This troper was trying out a wire saw - a cheap, flimsy one, I would discover - to cut a piece of wood. In the middle of it, the wire broke and whipped back. It didn't cut so much as BURN a welt into my arm.