A couple of years ago my hubby did something similar. His was a small axe though. He kept stiring them in a high block of wood blade first and I'd said something about it a few times as caught and knocked them off myself before. His turn to knock it off and it landed pointed edge down in his big toe. I was out, miles away, at the time so he had to get himself to hospital. It severed some ligaments, so the toe doesn't move fully any more, but he now stores axes at ground level!