"Wally" wrote:
"CANDChelp" wrote in message

Has happened to two friends of mine....I don't wear a ring

You know TWO people that this happened to? I guess it's a more
common injury than I thought.

I don't know how common it is, but rings were all but banned when I worked
for a phone company years ago - the scenario there was that, when climbing
telephone poles, the ring could catch on a step if one slipped, resulting in
precisely the sort of injury you linked to. Those who continued to wear
rings were admonished to wrap insulating tape around them to minimise the
chance of the 'hook' effect. (Those who didn't wear gloves, anyway.)

I was a gymnast in college. My coach broke his ring finger when it got
wrapped in my sweatshirt while he was spotting me on a sommersalt.
They had to cut it (the ring!) off in the ER. That taught me never to
wear jewelry when doing anything active.

Frank