work injurys?
03-14-2005, 10:48 PM
#32
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Re: work injurys?
Holy ----, if you count getting cut a work injury, I could write a book with the number of time that I have cut myself or taken out large chunks of flesh. Some injuries that where a little more serious though:
1) Walked out the back door of a new car dealership cause I was testing the range on a remote start, it was winter and they had not salted the lot and the back parking lot was a complete sheet of ice. I slipped, flew up in the air and came down on my head. Split open right above my right eye in a y shape. Took 5 stitches inside the cut and 13 outside to close it up.
2) I was pulling on a metal tab with a pair of needle nose pliers and they slipped off. Well, since I was pulling upwards and looking at was I was doing, I stabbed myself in the face right at the edge or my eye socket. I hit myself so hard that my vison went black in that eye and I thought I had stabbed my eye out, it hurt like hell, but it scared me even worst, I thought I was gonna be blind. No stitched, just a puncture wound.
3) Working on taking out window frames in concrete block, using a sledge hammer and other tools. While slinging the sledge, I felt a sharp pain in my wrist a few different times and it hurt pretty bad that night, the next day and for about a week before I saw a doctor....his response when he came back with the x-rays....yep, you broke your wrist, WTF!!! In a cast for 7 weeks, lol.
4) Drilling through a 16" thick beam with a LARGE drill and a 1.5" paddle bit, the bit got caught up and twisted my arm around really fast and hard, causing a very sharp pain. Couple weeks later, it still hurt and I decided a trip to the doctor was in order. results....torn cartilage, casted wrist for 6 weeks, physical therapy, blah blah blah. 9 months later, I somehow tore it again and was in a cast for another 7 weeks, PT, etc...it's not healing and I may end up having to have surgery on it soon.
5) I somehow tore the cartilage in my left wrist while I was still casted from the second tear in my right. I refused to let them put a cast on it because I had only been out of the other one for a week. That decision will probably come back to haunt me.
6) I have a herniated C7-T1 disc, that I am not sure what it's from, work, car accidents or some serious hits from high school football years ago, who knows.
7) My knees sound like creaky door hinges because my knee caps don't track properly and I have funky grooves gouged into the cartilage that lines the back of the kneecap. All the kneeling down on concrete makes it worse and sooner or later, they are gonna have to go in and "grind" them smooth again, I am sooooo looking forward to that
8 ) Oh yea, I was putting a screw in something once, the drill slipped on the screw head and the driver tip went between my thumbnail and the skin of my thumb coming out the backside with a nice bloody + mark, that felt real good.
Ok, I will stop here, my wrists hurt from typing, lol, but I could probably go on for a while.
1) Walked out the back door of a new car dealership cause I was testing the range on a remote start, it was winter and they had not salted the lot and the back parking lot was a complete sheet of ice. I slipped, flew up in the air and came down on my head. Split open right above my right eye in a y shape. Took 5 stitches inside the cut and 13 outside to close it up.
2) I was pulling on a metal tab with a pair of needle nose pliers and they slipped off. Well, since I was pulling upwards and looking at was I was doing, I stabbed myself in the face right at the edge or my eye socket. I hit myself so hard that my vison went black in that eye and I thought I had stabbed my eye out, it hurt like hell, but it scared me even worst, I thought I was gonna be blind. No stitched, just a puncture wound.
3) Working on taking out window frames in concrete block, using a sledge hammer and other tools. While slinging the sledge, I felt a sharp pain in my wrist a few different times and it hurt pretty bad that night, the next day and for about a week before I saw a doctor....his response when he came back with the x-rays....yep, you broke your wrist, WTF!!! In a cast for 7 weeks, lol.
4) Drilling through a 16" thick beam with a LARGE drill and a 1.5" paddle bit, the bit got caught up and twisted my arm around really fast and hard, causing a very sharp pain. Couple weeks later, it still hurt and I decided a trip to the doctor was in order. results....torn cartilage, casted wrist for 6 weeks, physical therapy, blah blah blah. 9 months later, I somehow tore it again and was in a cast for another 7 weeks, PT, etc...it's not healing and I may end up having to have surgery on it soon.
5) I somehow tore the cartilage in my left wrist while I was still casted from the second tear in my right. I refused to let them put a cast on it because I had only been out of the other one for a week. That decision will probably come back to haunt me.
6) I have a herniated C7-T1 disc, that I am not sure what it's from, work, car accidents or some serious hits from high school football years ago, who knows.
7) My knees sound like creaky door hinges because my knee caps don't track properly and I have funky grooves gouged into the cartilage that lines the back of the kneecap. All the kneeling down on concrete makes it worse and sooner or later, they are gonna have to go in and "grind" them smooth again, I am sooooo looking forward to that
8 ) Oh yea, I was putting a screw in something once, the drill slipped on the screw head and the driver tip went between my thumbnail and the skin of my thumb coming out the backside with a nice bloody + mark, that felt real good.
Ok, I will stop here, my wrists hurt from typing, lol, but I could probably go on for a while.
03-14-2005, 11:07 PM
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Re: work injurys?
This is great I just cut my hand at work yesterday, the box cut got stuck and then broke loose and sliced my had, its only about 2mm and has 3 stickes but I watcht the thing open up when i cut it and I was like holly ---- and saw some of the meat in my hand, it was kinda deep... any ways heres a pic:
03-14-2005, 11:30 PM
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Re: work injurys?
i was sitting the in the wheel well of my car while doing the upper balljoin, my feet were under the car, the car fell off the jack and i was pinned under there, I was more scared then hurt cause i thought i'd never be able to walk again, i just kinda sprained my feet, thats all, i was walking good the next day. I can still remember the sound of the car slamming down on the ground.
03-14-2005, 11:40 PM
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Re: work injurys?
I always cut my hands working on my car and doing construction work. I had some pretty good cuts working at the steak house, quite a few times I would spend 30 minutes sharpening a knife then just cut the ---- out of myself with it because I was used to pushing really hard with a dull knife and being able to flip the knife and not worry which end I caught. good news is, in 4 years I'll have a nice desk job and I'll only get injured from working on and crashing my car and other vehicles.
03-15-2005, 12:39 AM
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Re: work injurys?
i was drilling out a screw head that was stripped on my brake rotor. well i musta been putting to much force on the drill gun because the bit broke and i ended up drilling into the lower part of my thumb. so when i was lookin at the cut and was feeling it, somethin didnt look/feel right... ended up goin to the hospital and they said i had takkin some good chunks out of my bone, so they had to take the peices out with tweezers. it felt pretty good 
i still have the brokin drill bit in my tool box, a little omen 
i have done a lot of other ---- to my left hand. almost cut my finger off(8 stiches), lost a finger nail(skatebaord accident), and took a chunk out of the thumb(taking off header)
my left hand seems to take a lot of punishment
i still have the brokin drill bit in my tool box, a little omen i have done a lot of other ---- to my left hand. almost cut my finger off(8 stiches), lost a finger nail(skatebaord accident), and took a chunk out of the thumb(taking off header)
my left hand seems to take a lot of punishment
03-15-2005, 12:44 AM
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Re: work injurys?
Originally Posted by Loserkidwac
This is great I just cut my hand at work yesterday, the box cut got stuck and then broke loose and sliced my had, its only about 2mm and has 3 stickes but I watcht the thing open up when i cut it and I was like holly ---- and saw some of the meat in my hand, it was kinda deep... any ways heres a pic:
you could have just taped it with packing tape
