ChrisL Posted November 20, 2019 Share #1 Posted November 20, 2019 I never got too banged up as a civilian but had to miss time due to a concussion as a result of a traffic accident while driving for work. I also fell off a rappel tower in the Army due to faulty equipment and that jacked me up pretty good. I was on light duty for a while. Other than soreness due to fights I never missed any other time due to an injury. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Far ★ Posted November 20, 2019 Share #2 Posted November 20, 2019 I categorize this post under "Never mention the no-hitter while the pitcher is still pitching it." 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsnip Totin Jack ★ Posted November 20, 2019 Share #3 Posted November 20, 2019 I’ve had some bad hangovers, but nothing to go the hospital over. On a lunch bike ride, I tapped wheels and went down. Fractured my collarbone. Left work early and got the X-rays to prove it. Nothing too serious, riding again in 3 weeks, all healed up in six. Orthopedic doctor told me not to ride the “skinny tire” bikes. I told him I won’t tell him how to operate on people if he agrees not to tell me how to ride. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Far ★ Posted November 20, 2019 Share #4 Posted November 20, 2019 We had a guy get pinned under a1500# crate of glass windows. His femur looked like a piece of PVC pipe that had been struck with a hammer. Kinda like this, only with a few disconnected pieces: 3024 × 4032 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted November 20, 2019 Share #5 Posted November 20, 2019 This could get real ugly real fast. My worst was probably the head wound and concussion I got jumping onto a boat at the dock when I forgot to duck and hit my head on the top of the boat, or the bad contussion to me leg that I got from trying to step onto the back of a ski boat and completely missing and falling with my leg between the dock and the boat. Thought I broke the leg, but it was just badly bruised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Silly Posted November 20, 2019 Share #6 Posted November 20, 2019 I had a car accident while driving from one building to another. I broke my and had had a concussion. I didn't enjoy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR46 Posted November 20, 2019 Share #7 Posted November 20, 2019 I had a few wires run through my fingers and hands over the last 35+ years of working in the spring factory. Now hobby injuries are another thing. They were way worse than any job related injury. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted November 20, 2019 Share #8 Posted November 20, 2019 5 minutes ago, Mr. Silly said: I had a car accident while driving from one building to another. I broke my and had had a concussion. Did that JUST happen???? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted November 20, 2019 Share #9 Posted November 20, 2019 7 minutes ago, Razors Edge said: Did that JUST happen???? Like you have never broken your repeated word filter. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted November 20, 2019 Share #10 Posted November 20, 2019 2 minutes ago, jsharr said: 10 minutes ago, Razors Edge said: Did that JUST happen???? Like you have never broken your repeated word filter. And I should have used an interrobang! I'm a doltish n00b Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Silly Posted November 20, 2019 Share #11 Posted November 20, 2019 11 minutes ago, Razors Edge said: Did that JUST happen???? Wasn't that good English? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted November 20, 2019 Share #12 Posted November 20, 2019 3 minutes ago, Mr. Silly said: Wasn't that good English? Just ask the ER nurse to re-type it for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirtyhip Posted November 20, 2019 Share #13 Posted November 20, 2019 This is bad luck. <backs out quietly> 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted November 20, 2019 Share #14 Posted November 20, 2019 1 minute ago, Dirtyhip said: This is bad luck. <backs out quietly> agreed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted November 20, 2019 Share #15 Posted November 20, 2019 I got this killer paper cut once... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted November 20, 2019 Share #16 Posted November 20, 2019 7 minutes ago, Don Cherry said: I got this killer paper cut once... You might appreciate this story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffJim Posted November 20, 2019 Share #17 Posted November 20, 2019 My last company had a lady get her loose sweatshirt caught in a machine. Ripped off half her face, and nearly kilt her. Her 2nd such injury, the other was decades earlier. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted November 20, 2019 Share #18 Posted November 20, 2019 3 minutes ago, BuffJim said: My last company had a lady get her loose sweatshirt caught in a machine. Ripped off half her face, and nearly kilt her. Her 2nd such injury, the other was decades earlier. Stephen King writes short stories about things like that! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Silly Posted November 20, 2019 Share #19 Posted November 20, 2019 While cooking at restaurants, I burnt myself about 2,394,491 times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Far ★ Posted November 20, 2019 Share #20 Posted November 20, 2019 I was at a safety confab yesterday. The topic was complacency. One of the guys related a story of Bob, who was the machine expert, the guru of all thing mechanical, the go-to guy when things were FUBAR. Bob came in on his day off, had cleared the machine, then reached over the safety curtain to cycle the mechanism. When he hit the contacts with the extended screwdriver, the front of it rose up suddenly and cut Bob in half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted November 20, 2019 Share #21 Posted November 20, 2019 OK, there was a time when I landed at Aspen and the ground crew didn't chock the nose wheel. It was snowing and windy so I got out of the airplane, pulled my jacket hood up, grabbed a pair of chocks and walked straight into the pitot tube. Fortunately, it was still hot enough to sear the circular cut in my forehead. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris... Posted November 20, 2019 Share #22 Posted November 20, 2019 I have never broken any bones or been in a car accident Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted November 20, 2019 Share #23 Posted November 20, 2019 The school in which I taught was originally open-space - incomplete walls between classrooms, and several of us teachers occasionally built our own walls using our own labor and money. At some point, it became cheaper to use metal studs instead of wooden ones. I'd never worked with them before. Standing on top of a counter, I grabbed one of the metal studs for balance, not realizing the edges were as sharp as razors. I could feel it cutting three fingers, near the inside of the last knuckles and the tips of the fingers and instantly realized I had to let go and let myself fall to avoid more damage. I wasn't hurt by the fall, had other teachers wrap my hand and I drove to the emergency of a hospital that was very close to the school. The doctor who stitched the fingers on my right hand said that I just barely avoided permanent nerve damage and let go just in time. The skin on the ring and middle fingers was just barely attached enough that they could be stitched without needing a skin graft. I got something like 6 stitches in the ring finger, 9 in the middle finger, and 3 in the index finger, the current scars shown in the pic below. I was extremely lucky it wasn't worse and that there was no permanent damage and that it happened to my right hand and I am left handed. I didn't miss any time at work but I had to have the hand treated as an accident that occurred at home since we weren't authorized to be doing construction at the school! Fortunately insurance covered it all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted November 20, 2019 Share #24 Posted November 20, 2019 3 hours ago, Dirtyhip said: This is bad luck. <backs out quietly> Be extra careful with that stapler this week. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted November 20, 2019 Share #25 Posted November 20, 2019 I cut off a finger tip once with a knife. It was sewed back on in the field and it was many months of fighting off infection and stuff to save the finger and maybe even more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted November 20, 2019 Share #26 Posted November 20, 2019 Crushed spirit. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted November 20, 2019 Author Share #27 Posted November 20, 2019 3 hours ago, Dirtyhip said: This is bad luck. <backs out quietly> Discussing past injuries isn’t bad ju ju. 1 hour ago, Chris... said: I have never broken any bones or been in a car accident This however.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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