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Franklin High student who sheared off part of finger sues district for $4.7 million

The suit faults the district for allowing students to use shop class equipment that didn’t stop when contacting skin.
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A Franklin High School student and his parents have filed a $4.7 million lawsuit against Portland Public Schools after he partially amputated one of his fingers while working with an electrical piece of wood carving equipment.
The lawsuit states that the then 15-year-old student was in shop class in June 2022 when a teacher gave him a “brief introduction” on how to use a pattern router, which was equipped with a rapidly rotating electrical bit. The teacher then turned his attention elsewhere, and “within moments” the bit grabbed the boy’s finger and “mutilated, severed, and disfigured it,” according to the suit.

Portland Public Schools declined to comment, citing the pending litigation.

The suit faults the district for allegedly providing minimal instruction about the router and supplying shop class students with equipment that didn’t include a safety feature that causes the equipment to automatically stop when coming in contact with students’ skin.

The suit also faults the school nurse for allegedly telling the teen’s mother to bring her son to urgent care instead of an emergency room. Once at urgent care, they waited to be seen before staff said the teen needed surgery that they weren’t able to perform and that he needed to go to the emergency room. The teen’s finger, which was on his dominant hand, ultimately was partially amputated.

The suit also faults the district for allegedly contributing to the teen’s embarrassment after the teacher allegedly told the story of the teen’s partial finger amputation as a cautionary tale to other students’ using shop equipment. The suit says talking to other students about the injury has exacerbated the insensitive jokes and ridicule over his disfigurement.

The suit was filed May 30 in Multnomah County Circuit Court. Milwaukie attorney Michael Jacobs is representing the student.

In a completely separate piece of litigation, a former student at Realms High School in Bend filed a $1.25 million lawsuit in April against the Bend-La Pine School District, stating that he lost his middle finger and fractured his pointer finger when his hand came into contact with the spinning blade of a jointer machine while in class. The district denies that it was negligent.

— Aimee Green covers breaking news and the justice system. Reach her at 503-294-5119, [email protected] or @o_aimee.


I read the article. I also take the journalism with a grain of salt regarding the details of the situation.

I'm not a parent, and honestly don't like being insensitive but I'm not great at it. This kid took a lot of experience away from only getting the tip of his finger taken off. Lots of people that didn't get a second chance working with equipment.

So what does inexperience or "brief introduction" really have to do with this situation? I've seen guys 30+ years doing construction fuck themselves up, some of these guys genuinely have the respect of every one of their co workers as to their safety and craftsmanship level. Shit happens sometimes.

Equipment and machinery gives zero fucks, just like mother nature. He gets to walk away with ALL of his digits minus some meat on one of them. Your outlook changes with a mishap and will be much more attentive next time working with equipment.

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Is this a fine example of negligence on the shop teacher? Did teacher just hand him a board and say get after it?

4.7million seems like a lot and I cant imagine the family suing for that much if there wasn't negligence. They are loading it on about being ridiculed for disfigurement....I mean it's just some meat off one finger. Just sounds like a meal ticket opportunity to me. Yea they should have some retribution on top of any medical bills, but damn that's a lot of $krilla.

These are also the same people that wanted teachers to get paid more during the Portland teachers strike, then after about a week of striking and having their kids at home said teachers should get back to work and coddle their children with no increase in pay. That strike went on for about a month :homer:

I think the kid and family should be made whole financially from the medical bills etc, and probably a little bit extra. Walk away to see another day and hopefully smarter/safer next time with equipment. But I don't think that's what this family is really going for.

When I was 18 I was out in the yard loading a truck , one of our foremans was in the shop ripping down plywood and had the shop door open. I heard a noise and then a loud holler, and Louie came stumbling out and hit the dirt. His jeans were busted open right near his cock and balls. Little bit of blood. Plywood kicked back and the corner of the sheet hit him in the thigh and the edge hit him in the junk.:eek:

He got into his truck, put ice on his junk and drank his whiskey that he kept under his seat. Passed out about an hr later. Woke him up at end of day and he drove home:lmao:

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A router is a dangerous tool that requires an introduction followed by supervision. Big fuck up on the teacher's part, that resulted in a kid loosing some factory parts. I'd be more inclined to see the teacher lose his job and be replaced with a competent one, but competent teacher's are few and far between, so a surprise chopping off of the teacher's finger tip seems fair. And maybe 50 bucks to the kid.
 
Wired my lamp wrong in 6th grade wood shop. I didn't insulate the wires around the brass part were the switch is, so plug it in and you're getting shocked when you go to turn it on. I told all my buddies I got shocked. We then took turns grabbing it until the shop teacher told us to cut the shit. :laughing:

My father was a really good machinist, very well respected in the industry. He constantly had deformed fingers/nails from Knicks. Wrap it and go back to work.
 
FJC11 said:
No shit, when I was in HS we had automotive, wood working, welding, electrical and so on. that was the shit and my absolute reason I liked HS.
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Same. Our shop teachers in HS and college were guys that had actual experience in the trade they taught. Knew the equipment and how to work their craft.

I have no idea if that is what it's like today at a public school, or if it's the liberal arts teacher filling in bc the school "budget" can't afford it.

There has to be some accountability for what happened, right? Is it black and white the buck stops at the operator/student. Or some rabbit hole where parents aren't doing enough with their children, or public education is a sham and mismanaged budget can't hire proper teachers for their curriculum. I know there are some tangents I'm throwing out there and maybe it's a little bit of everything.

It's probably a bigger problem here than a kids finger, society as a whole is fucked.:homer:
 
Squamch said:
A router is a dangerous tool that requires an introduction followed by supervision. Big fuck up on the teacher's part, that resulted in a kid loosing some factory parts. I'd be more inclined to see the teacher lose his job and be replaced with a competent one, but competent teacher's are few and far between, so a surprise chopping off of the teacher's finger tip seems fair. And maybe 50 bucks to the kid.
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But apparently the parents didn’t actually want supervision or instruction of the risk… because that’s just as painful

The suit also faults the district for allegedly contributing to the teen’s embarrassment after the teacher allegedly told the story of the teen’s partial finger amputation as a cautionary tale to other students’ using shop equipment. The suit says talking to other students about the injury has exacerbated the insensitive jokes and ridicule over his disfigurement.
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I had shop class in 3 different high schools didn't lose any fingers or toes.

Had to wait like 5 years after the USN to drop a Cummins crankshaft on muy big toe.



Behave in here or I'll post pictures of it.
 
Squamch said:
A router is a dangerous tool that requires an introduction followed by supervision. Big fuck up on the teacher's part, that resulted in a kid loosing some factory parts. I'd be more inclined to see the teacher lose his job and be replaced with a competent one, but competent teacher's are few and far between, so a surprise chopping off of the teacher's finger tip seems fair. And maybe 50 bucks to the kid.
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I like that:beer:

I have zero info on this story other than the article. I do know the area....I do know the type of people that occupy Portland and my general sentiment is those folk are spineless. Not everyone, but the majority is my opinion.

So when I read that article....I wasn't surprised at the 4.7 million suit bc....well that's the type of people in Portland. Buuuuuuut I also know the public school system there and it ain't anything to brag about at all. So I also wasn't surprised about this happening.


From that point forward all I can make is assumptions. If it was some jag off that shouldn't be teaching shop....well, that's a bit fucked. The parents seem like real shit bags suing for 4.7 million and not too long ago they couldn't stand the thought of their chirren being at home while teachers had their strike. Doesn't seem like they give 2 shits about teaching their own and looking for their big pay day.

All the while I got no skin in this game other than somehow I'm sure I'll get taxed more somehow someway for that 4.7million.

So I'm just gonna go drink a beer....count my scars, think about how much solvent ive had all over my skin, burns, broken bones, all the drugs and booze loose woman ive had :lmao: well not that many , Im not too good looking!!!

Kid is probably just a pussy.
 
Void_of_Light said:
Will he or any of the kids present ever do that again? Learning accomplished.

We had fantastic shop teachers and it’s a miracle nobody got maimed. Not due to their lack of attention, but simply because we were total idiots.
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When I was in middle school we had a kid in my class cut two of his fingers real bad with the band saw. African shop teacher gave him a disposable epoxy cup from the trash and lectured him in poor English about how he was gonna lose a point off his final grade for every drip between where he was handed the cup and the nurse's office.

And then he told us to clean the band saw but not clean up the drips between the band saw and the trash because he wanted to use them to warn his next class.

Dude was a great woodworker and it was all wasted on us. I feel bad because I can't even remember his name.
 
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Sounds like a dream come true if you're the type of person to capitalize on something like this - crotch fruit loses part of a digit and you get a chance of a few million out of it

How do you honestly lose a finger with a router?:shaking:
 
Is there even such a thing as a saw-stop style router? I don't think it even exists, to have mentioned it so many times.

Routers demand your full attention. Even more than a table saw .
 
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So I should have gotten paid for doing this to my finger because I stuck it somewhere I wouldn't stick my dick?
 
Ksand said:
A kid in the shop class before me thought he could hold onto a big ass forster bit and keep the drill press from turning. The drill press looked like a horror movie, but his new palms grew in quite nicely.
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there's a video online of a kid trying to hang onto the chuck key on a lathe
his leg ends up in there
 
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