Work accident
 

So has any one wonder what would happen if a spring compressor unloaded while compressing a coil spring for a strut??
Sunday while at work ( I work at Sears Auto Center) I was compressing a spring to replace a binding bearing plate on the front strut of a caravan. I went to pull the bearing plate off, the spring compressor slipped and let the spring rebound about 3 inchs, jamming my finger between the bearing plate the top of the spring compressor...

heres the aftermath
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the finger is broken, smashed to hell obviously i'll try to get pictures of the x-ray as soon as i can figure out how to get them clear enough to see the fracture

so now i'm screwed, i can sorta work, but only light duty work, and only can use my left hand :(..but i am on vicidan :)

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If you piss clean, worker's comp covers your ass. You are not screwed (anywhere other than between the ears, and maybe in the ass if you mix those vikes with alcohol in a gay bar) just go file.

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as far as i know, workers comp only covers 85% of my benifit rate.. and i beleive my benifet rate is taken by my hours work divided by the amount of money i made AFTER taxes, and then they will take taxes out again when the pay check comes which is shitty compared to what i was making before

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Peddle your ass on the street, son. It's the only way you'll survive.

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If you're over 26 the doc can just cut it off for you. Under 25 is usually the cutoff (hehe) point for amputating crushed fingers. Even if you ask!

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holy ----, diddnt know it was that bad. lol looks pretty sweet. tho. get better

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amputation is the easiest way out of your situation. go for it 8)

either that.. or THOUSANDS of dollars in bills and ---- if ur bone is crushed like u say it is.. it wont heal.. ittl get infected..

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Ouch. Reminds me of when we had the tranny+driver's side mount situatued and were trying to get the rear tranny mount lined up with my thumb doing the stupid business.

Ripped my thumbnail clean off and smashed the ---- out of it in the process. The vicatin just barely made up for the incident..

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/7571/thumb1jr.jpg

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Just walk it off.

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ouch

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yeah that really made me sick to my stomach

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did you scream? :D

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actually no, i stayed semi calm... about as calm as i could have been, surprised the hell out of me

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I smashed my finger like that and now the nail grows back all fucked id go for getting it cut off :X

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jesus dude, u really got ur ---- fucked up.... gl n hope u can keep ur finger

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I smashed my finger in some car ramps and it turned ugly purplish like your thumb, then a week or two later the fingernail fell off.

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ur fucked, id definetly cut the finger off if i were u, jk

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i bet this guy screamed

http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/1...nknife3ws5.jpg

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i agree just cut that ---- off!!! :y

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be a man.. some cooking oil in a frying pan get it hot to where it starts to burn.. use a butchers knife to cut off the tip then stick it in the oil then run it under water..

you can thank me later :6

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lol it really doesn't hurt that much, doc says it should be alright. just the tip is fractured..

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did springs on my friends car a few weeks ago and the compressors started to slip. springs looked like a banana. scary ----. thats what i get for using princess auto compressors. you should be fine. just taker easy.

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damn that sucks dude, get better :-\

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im happy that happened to you. honestly

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i don`t think he did, BTW Bukey i always "update" myself at ogrish.com so thats pretty much a repost for me :-*

Now i am pretty sure these guys did. RIP

http://www.ogrish.com/archives/2006/...nezuela_08.jpg
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;D

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whoa...... that was a disturbing image :3

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the archery guy lived.. so did the guy with a knife in his eye that i posted :P

but hey killed by a truck seems like they got it over with quickly :P

the carnage is horrible tho :P no open casket for them :P

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Workers comp is obligatet by law to cover all expenses incurred my injury on the job. At least where I work, they pay everything. Even my prescriptions. ^-^ They damn well better. They dont offer us any benefits...bastards.

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if they cover 85% of your check good for you, But I know for me it was only 63.3333% cheap bastards :7

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Has any of you guys ever worked on a garage door.. Last year I was replacing that spring on top of the door and didn't realize how tightly it was wound up.. So I started looseing the bolts and as I was working on the last one the spring unwinded and shot out with full force and of course my hand was in the way.. It was bleeding like crazy. Four of the fingers on my right hand was useless for a couple months.. Now that hurted

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they actually just called me, they are covering all expenses for the injury, like ER bill and the ortho doc i have to see.. but still haven't heard anything about what they are covering for my wage

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Did you cry?

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damn, that looks pretty wicked, good thing the cavy is an auto. So when you put on the turn signal do you have to karate chop it? I had to do that when I broke my fingers skateboarding

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that's a good one there ry. workers comp FTW

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Good thing you didnt do that working at home. Same thing could have happened then I think you would have had a lot of problems getting work to pay for it. Although I dont really know.

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DAMN!!!! Hopefully you got dissability! also, how long was your finger caught till a co-worker opend up the spring again??? :-X

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i dont even think workers comp coveres 85%. When my gf was on workmans comp she was only getting like 66 percent :l