Doing the same to my finger index finger that is back in 2005. Got it caught in a belt and pulley drive.
Just maybe 15/20. Mins earlier I had taken off some big thick cowhide insulated gloves that likely would have prevented it but instead was just wearing some "cut-proof" gloves.
Got it caught and walked about 10-15ft away thinking I must've torn the nail off. Started pulled the glove off finger by finger and by the time I got to the index finger, the finger came off inside the glove.
I was the lead man outside the truss plant I was working at and training a new guy and had an 80 foot truss coming down the rollers and the new dumb fuck hit the lift on his side leaving one half of an 80 foot truss just flopping in the wind ready to snap so I had to scream at him with fist clenched up so it wouldn't spray blood everywhere which didn't work very well, eventually got the truss down and I took my glove inside and gave it to the lead man inside and told him to get my finger out and he freaked out and panicked and didn't know what the fuck to do so I had to go upstairs to management and explain to him "I think I need to go to the hospital" and show him my finger and all this idiot gave me was a couple tissue papers LOL.
The finger initially was cut off at that first knuckle and. I asked the doctor if that nail was going to grow back he said no and I decided to make a joke about one less thing I had to worry about but sure enough after about six months the fucking nail grow back even though I have to like sand it down with sandpaper or a sanding block......
Right after that is when I caught my arm robbery charge when I had my finger wrapped up like a fucking bowling pin, how the fuck was I supposed to pull a trigger with a finger wrapped up like a fucking bowling pin? Idiots that goes to show you my incompetent defense attorneys, anyways..
The workers comp settlement was a whopping $1,200 and took a good nine months before it finally arrived while I was sitting in county jail on the robbery charge.
I2 kept the remains of my finger in a plastic bag in a freezer which is long gone by now. Funny thing is the vast majority of that finger actually grew back from that knuckle to the tip since it was cut off at the knuckle and it grew back at least a centimeter and a half pass that knuckle.