My shop teacher who only had 9 fingers was a teetotaler.
Used to work with a guy whose middle finger (I forget which hand) was missing the entire first joint.
Asked him why, he said he lost it on a planer when he was a teenager, not using a push stick.
He said he didn’t feel a thing until he saw blood spurting all over the place.
It was his dad’s workshop and he wasn’t suppose dto be using the equipment without his dad being there, but he didn’t get ‘the lecture’ when dad got home..............