That HURT (injury)

[mrsmarit]

I too have a few of these stories


My most painful one was this past April

I tripped over an exposed computer cord landed on the tile floor of my office with ALL my weight on my left elbow.

Much cursing and crying insued and I went to Urgent Care. It was bruised not broken.

It took me a month to get all my range of motion back. Since then I have had intermittent pain in the elbow (it feels like it pops and then aches for hours)

I am now in physical therapy as they think I did damage to the muscle.


I have also tripped over stairs, slammed fingers in doors, papercuts galore and burns from various jobs.

[Gypsy-Rose]

I can honestly say that nothing serious has happened to me...

But, let's see......Been dragged by dogs, pounced on and knocked off my feet.
Hit my head more then once on a steel bar as I was standing up in a cage.
Hmmm,..been scratched by cats, hissed at by snakes, and overall had dogs threaten to rip my throat out.

Which has caused me fumbiling back into a steel cage, banging my back and head.

Had a foot go through a pallet a few times, twisted my ankle, slammed my fingers in between steel and crates, had boxes attack me and customers trying to run me over.

Occasionally bruised from my knees to my upper thighs, making me shy away from wearing a bikini in summer.

I have a bad wrist, so that has been twisted on many occasions, I have now a mysterious bump in my finger that wasn't there, have no clue where it came from, and on many occasions looked down to see my hand cut open.

My brother on the other hand had the back of his hand hit a blade, when he looked down, ..lets just say that I dropped him off at work that morning at 545 am, we didn't get home till 1am, three hospitals and countless doctors later, he sliced his tendon in his middle finger in half. Needless to say, he was in a cast and therapy for almost a year.

Sooo, that being said..Lol, compared to some of yous and my brother, I count myself lucky, bruises and all...and oh yeah...

DON'T GET HURT AT WAL-MART....There policy is to bandage you up and ship you back to work...(But it depends on the managers..we do have some good ones.)

[evilhomer]

Just did this one a couple of hours ago.

You know how when you're going down stairs, you get to what you think is the bottom, step on air and drop? That's basically what happened to me, except this was coming off the back of a truck.

I was walking close to the edge, with all my weight, I took a step sideways, presumably to the surface but unfortunately into air. This took me over and straight down for the three foot drop. I actually had enough time while falling to think about how many teeth this will cost me. Fortunately, I managed to get both hands out to absorb most of the impact of my upper body. My chin took a healthy wack, but no damage up there. Unfortunately my lower body quickly followed and the only thing to take the impact was my knee. I don't think I broke anything, but it still hurts like a MFer. I'm going to have to see how badly it stiffens up to see if I need to take time off.

[Becks]

You know how when you're going down stairs, you get to what you think is the bottom, step on air and drop?

Something similar happened to me, but since it wasn't work related, I didn't mention it here yet.

Might as well give the short version.

I was upstairs in my room, doing last minute packing for a trip I was taking. The phone rang, so I ran down the stairs to answer it. Missed a step or three, landed, pulled down the phone and answered it.

My ankle wound up swollen, and my foot was massively bruised. A few days later (while still on my trip), at the insistence of others, I was taken to the ER.

Diagnosis? Torn ligaments. I'd been trying to walk on that foot for a few days. I'm lucky it wasn't worse.

[draftermatt]

I had this thing with knives when I worked at Quizno's. I was wiping a bread knife by holding a rag in my hand and dragging the knife through the rag. The rag moved and I sliced my left ring finger good. Still have the scar. I cut myself quite a few times there, but that was the worst.

The worst here was when I got a piece of dry concrete in the eye.

[Bob Blaylock]

I can't count to ten… (Note-Injury picture)

• One (right thumb)
• Two (right index finger)
• Three (right middle finger)
• Four (right ring finger)
• Five (right pinkie)
• Six (left thumb)
• Seven (left index finger)
• Eight (left middle finger)
• Eight point nine (what's left of my left ring finger)
• Nine point nine (left pinkie)

Due to an injury that occurred a year and a few months ago, I get about a 1% error now, when I try to count to ten. I only get to 9.9 instead of 10.

I was working at a thrift store, at the time, and was helping to load a piece of furniture into a cutomer's car. The furniture moved in an unexpected way, causing the tip of my left ring finger to get caught between it and the inside of the car.

Below is a scan of my left hand, made just after I completely removed the bandages and Gelfoam for the first time, a few weeks after the injury. The black mark around the base of the injured finger was meant as a surrogate for my wedding ring, which I was advised not to wear until the finger healed; and which I felt rather strange about not wearing. I've had to give up wearing my ring anyway, because ever since the injury, it seems that my finger no longer remains a constant size. Sometimes, the ring is too tight, and sometimes, it is too loose.

The hand is unusually dirty because I needed to keep the injured area dry, which prevented me from washing that hand very well.

[k66]

All the injuries I have suffered this year have occured at work. At the restaurant I work at we have a hot water dispenser with a very very sensitive lever. I walked past it one day and sent a stream of scalding hot water down the side of my midsectin while trying to avoid bumping into a coworker. Apparantly the lever was facing the wrong way.

We have a few dishes that requires the use of a portable gas stove. The problem is these dishes are really popular and there are never enough stoves. I had no luck trying to find a working one until my manager comes over to help me. I was holding the stove with one hand while he inspected it. I didn't realize he was going to attempt turning it on until the flame ignited....with my thumb on the grill. We had a good laugh about it since it was my stupidity for not unlocking the safety feature and his for trying to roast my thumb.

[Pezzle]

One time I smashed my fingers really bad, I couldn't help but utter "Shit !!!!!!!" And rather then do the proper thing and ask if I was ok, all I got from my PIC was "You better be glad Tom (the store director) didn't hear you, you would have been written up!"

In the same vein, I had a 9 AM class the next day and management told me I was too tough to need more than 6 hrs. of sleep so they kept me and had me put up a display (More money for me baby).

I headbutted the warehouse door after a customer pissed me off.

...it won.

..I think I concussed myself.

[Bella_Vixen]

I was stocking smokey treats at work today, and was standing on the step stool to reach the top shelves, which are over 6 feet off the ground. I was stepping down to help a customer when I completely miss the step and fell like a ton of bricks. It was pretty embarrassing.

I managed to scrape a small bit of skin off my right hand (not really sure how), but am otherwise fine.

The town paramedic was concerned when I told him my fall, though.

I did manage to jump up and yell "WOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOO I'm OK!!!!!!!"

[Antisocial_Worker]

I'm so glad this thread got brought up again. I was thinking about it just the other day because I've been in constant pain for the past week and a half. I cracked my rib at work again.

How, you ask? I was giving my boss a hug.

Her shoulder hit my chest in just the right way because there was that silent gunshot of pain, and I haven't been right since. It was tolerable for a few days though, and then I got it into my head to do six large, heavy loads of laundry and that cracked it a little more and then it was not tolerable, especially when I tried to breath deep. I sneezed a couple of days ago and nearly burst into tears from it.

Thankfully, I'm healing quickly. Two days ago I regained my ability to yawn and take deep breaths without wanting to scream.

[Department stores *sigh*]

2 stand out in my mind. one my fault and one i feel was more nigh crew fault.

My fault:
i had a new knife that was more like a hunting knife. I was esting how sharp it is b cuting through a wooden box and it sliped and hacked off my knuckle. My pal saw me do it and i pretty much said 'We say i was opening a box with a normal knife.'

One of my 'wtf was I THINKING!?!?' moments that im not proud of and glad i didnt cut my hand in half instead.

Night crew fault:
heavy item + top shelf + irate customer + noobie stock guy = trip to first aid room with blody hand. Wasnt to seriouse but i got a scare from both these scenarios.

[friendofjimmyk]

I sustained an impacted radial head fracture on my left arm at a restaurant I used to work at. I think I posted about it somewhere on here before.

The restaurant was filling up - I was busy. I was not running, but doing that fast-paced walk. Turned the corner to go into our kitchen and slipped on something. I put my arms out to catch myself and pain shot up my left arm. I thought for sure it was my wrist. So, I stood there, in pain fearful of moving it. I started to move it slowly, then a little quicker and thought "cool! I didn't break it!" then I went to put my arm down and the pain shot right back through my arm.

From what I understand, the fracture is just like it sounds - my two arm bones (I forget their medical names) my lower arm bone and my upper arm bone smashed together when I fell and caused a fracture. Nowadays, they don't use casts for a lot of fractures and breaks. They go for physical therapy. If they would have casted my elbow, I would've been out about 4 - 6 weeks in a cast and then out another 8 - 16 weeks in physical therapy. Instead, I just had 16 weeks of physical therapy.

[Tria]

From what I understand, the fracture is just like it sounds - my two arm bones (I forget their medical names) my lower arm bone and my upper arm bone smashed together when I fell and caused a fracture.

Upper arm = humerous.
Lower arm = Ulna and Radius.

[Becks]

Today while I was at work doing the salad bar thing, I dropped a 5 lb. plastic tub of seafood (or was it chicken?) salad right on the top of my foot. It hurt. No funny story to go with it, though.

[friendofjimmyk]

Upper arm = humerous.
Lower arm = Ulna and Radius.

Yeah, those two. The Ulna is connected at the elbow to the humerous, right? Well, it was not so humerous when I fell!