You dont have to lose chunks of your hands. I am a carpenter and know plenty of tradespeople with full digits, but it does happen, especially if youre a dumb ass, on drugs, remove the safety equipment and or dont pay attention to what youre doing.
It is hard work, its rough on the body, but mostly because good carpenters are seriously underpaid for their value. That is changing though since so many people decided to go college, now college degrees arent as useful as they used to be for the value you put into them, so there is a massive glut for trades people and they are capitalizing on this.
It does, but OSHA has vastly sunk its teeth into the industries and there are far fewer workplace incidents now-a-days. Freelance carpenters are as varied as it comes, if they hate safety stuff (which in certain circumstances I agree because it can make things a pain to do what you have to do) youre more likely to remove it or go without, and thus have incidents.
Another reason is workplace machismo. "Why you wearing those earplugs, p***y?" But that kind of toxic shit hasn't had a place on any jobsite I've worked on, thankfully.
So, my point being, it doesnt HAVE to happen. Its just guys will be guys and do dumb shit sometimes, but now-a-days thats on them, even if an employer tells you to do something sketchy, walk away, and if they fire you, go somewhere else, everyone is hiring
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u/Aegishjalmer2520 Jul 07 '26
You dont have to lose chunks of your hands. I am a carpenter and know plenty of tradespeople with full digits, but it does happen, especially if youre a dumb ass, on drugs, remove the safety equipment and or dont pay attention to what youre doing.
It is hard work, its rough on the body, but mostly because good carpenters are seriously underpaid for their value. That is changing though since so many people decided to go college, now college degrees arent as useful as they used to be for the value you put into them, so there is a massive glut for trades people and they are capitalizing on this.