Thanks for your responses.
I'm definitely not trolling. I really want your help. If you can suggest any places where I might get an answer, please say.
I did a similar thing for my first novel – I joined a police forum to get some info from serving police officers on police procedure.
I'll tell you what I have in mind for this scene and you can tell me how ludicrous or plausible it is.
The setting is a closed environment, like a prison. Someone is instructed to mow a lawn using a walk behind. He has been set up for this. Halfway through, he turns the mower upside down. He wants to see if he can remove the blade and keep it as a weapon. So he has a feel around and manages to get his fingers behind the blade to see if he can remove it.
This means his wrists are touching the blade. Then the mower starts up by the people who control the place he's in. But the motor can't pick up speed because his arms are in the way. I want the blade to jam against his wrists and cut into the skin but not cut off his hands.
He's trapped, unable to remove his fingers from the 'safe' space above the jammed blade. Then I need him to ease his fingers out, perhaps fingers bent, to protect his fingertips, but expose his knuckles.
Could he get his fingers out in time? Or would he lose his hands as he pulls away?
I'm hoping he only gets slashed or severed fingers that can be stitched and bandaged up, and that he can go on to cause havoc in later scenes using his hands.
What do you reckon?
I appreciate any help.
Cheers
Greg