question: I slammed my hand into a mechanism at work and my friend is convinced it is a wart now, even though I am convinced it is merely an recovering injury, I took a big chunk out of my finger. My friend also says it means that I have HPV inside me. The injury has old skin around the edge, new red skin around the outside of what I believe is a scab but I'm being told by my friend (who is not a doctor) that it could possibly be a wart. I didn't think plantars warts grew in injuries.