I use an electric starter and it still happened to me. I hate chicken sticks.

The chances of a hand contacting the prop is greater than what you might expect. For one, when the engine is running even at idle the prop is almost invisible and you have to remember that it is there. Just reaching to remove the glow starter is risky. Unfortunately, I do think everyone will have a mishap at one time or another even if they are cautious, but hopefully I will be wrong on this one. There is always that one slip up and that is all that is needed.

Please be careful everyone. I can't stress that enough. Take it from my experience and a lot of others that have experienced this, when your hand, digit, leg, etc... touches a moving prop, it is by no means a please experience. Since my incident, I try to be even more cautious. I use nothing but electric starters, but I may use a chicken stick once in a while, but don't care for them a whole lot. I have seen people get nasty bruises from a kick back using a chicken stick. I'd rather the kick back hit the electric starter head instead of my finger/hand.