"...x-acto knife..."

Lots of them too. In fact, that was my first. Hurts, huh???

I can kinda sorta maybe see the blade popping out from the impact with the floor, but not the falling part. And it had to have been out during the fall, or you wouldn't have received the cut...

except I might have forgotten to fully retract the blade - it was WAY out when I got home, so it could be my fault. I'll have a safety talk with both kids, reminding them to put things away, but

It might be better this way. Daddy messed up and got hurt pretty badly. We don't want anyone else to get hurt like this - ever! OK?

Sort of suggests that putting objects with blades on high shelves might be a bad idea due to fumbling - falling - catching sequence.

Lotsa ways to get hurt. Hard to totally prevent it. But it's worth trying!

I had something sort of similar happen to me once while cleaning the garage. I bumped into some tubular steel that was leaning against the wall and tried to catch it as it was falling. It was heavier than I expected and it drove my hand into the edge of some very greasy/dirty expanded steel (it comes that way from the supplier). So I had a very rough, very dirty cut on the top of two of my knuckles. Oh, and I was also at home by myself.

I was able to stop the bleeding, and drove myself to the ER (hand above my heart, wrapped in gauze and paper towels). It's a good thing they numbed it well because they had to literally scrub the grime out of it. I could feel the pressure, but I think the pain might have made me faint if I could have felt it. I got 4 stitches on one finger and two on the other.

When I called my wife to tell her, I started with, "Honey, don't panic, but I'm at the Emergency Room..." She still gives me a hard time about that.

That's about how the safety talk will go

The shelf was 2 ft off the floor - I was kneeling down, looking under the desk for something that I thought might be under there, when I knocked over said shelf, and grabbed the plane....