Stupid injury of the day award goes to me.

[BobTheBuilder]

Caught my little finger on the edge of the hook while unracking the fully loaded bar (142.5kg) on it

Skin came clean off the top just below the knuckle, wierdly I didnt even feel a cut just a bit of weight on my finger and then looked and saw this huge chunk of skin completely comming off.

Result? Lots of blood. Hope I can manage without a finger on next workouts deadlift.

To add injury to insult, I didnt even get my 3x5. I guess I was struggling, lost tension somewhere and had to widen arms to compensate. I went on to do my bench however, and use the finger as an excuse to deload and do things strickly Dave T style!

No pullups today though because I'm not quite man enough under the circumstances.

[atypical1]

Ouch! I've had that happen before so you're not the first. Heal quick.

james

[pangram]

What the hell? You mean you lost the part of the finger below the knuckle? I'm hoping my knowledge of English is at fault here

Edit: Reading James' reply above, probably not. Still, have a speedy recovery.

[BobTheBuilder]

Sry for the big file size, here's what it looks like !!

[eLvarouza]

You ripped it off racking or unracking the bar? I've hit the uprights with my fingers before when racking the bar, but it was never too terrible: just a small gash.

My gym's rack pins form an edge at the bottom. The shape is like a corner of a square, and the bar goes in there. Anyway, I was once doing hang snatches inside the rack and smashed my finger into the edge of one of the pins on the way up. Made a nice little gash.

[BobTheBuilder]

Caught it under that while unracking. The hook edges are narrow, welded on and nearly razorsharp. I really think I could have taken my WHOLE finger off on the danm thing. I guess I'm lifting above specifications with this rack!!! To come to think of it, I must have been so close and was really lucky and reacted in time. I already nearly lost my other little finger on my other hand last year already sigh.

I think its dodgy figuring out where your particular hook is on this rack, and then where to manoeuvre the bar and where you fingers are while getting under the bar??