That HURT (injury)

[Anakah]

It was my first week at family dollar and I was doing truck and one of the boxes fell off the conveyer belt. I went outside the back door to get it and I wasn't looking down and I forgot there was this very high curb there... Well needless to say I fell off the curb. It hurt sooo bad. I immediately (and embarrasedly) got up and kind of stood against the wall on one leg because my right ankle was killing me.

The truck driver saw me and my manager just heard the truck driver asking me if I was okay. She asked what happened and trying not to I told her I fell.

My ankle was swelling. We went inside (with me limping) and I filled out an incident report. Now, at the time I didn't have a car. And I had no way to get to the doctors! The manager (she's awesome but I could tell she was pissed that I fell) asked me how I normally got around and I answered by bus. There was no way I was getting on a bus, I was hurt.

So, I called my boyfriend and his best friend just happened to be visiting and had to come and get me. That was just horrible. In the end I was all scrapped up and sprained my ankle.

It was a nightmare... I had to go on workmen's comp for a month or so and I live on the second floor. It was really embarassing. And I felt bad that I had to leave the manager to finish the truck on her own. And let's just say for the remainder of the time I was there I wasn't allowed to do truck because they were afraid I'd fall again. Fine by me.

[Anakah]

On the more recent accidents I've smashed my hand in my money drawer. Now, these drawers are different. They roll out and they're heavier than normal drawers. They have eighty thousand dollars in them. They're wooden too. It hurt like hell and took off a good bit of my skin.

I had a friend who worked at KB toys. She was in the backroom and tripped over a toy gun and hurt her wrist. When she was on the phone telling the higher ups about what happened they laughed when she mentioned she tripped over a toy gun.

We used to have these massive drawers on wheels, they had three sections and were heavy and hard to move. Well of course, I ran over my toe. No damage but it hurt.

Oh this one is my newest one. I was going down the employee stairs talking to someone from house keeping and things were normal until I found myself on the ground. I fell weird. I had my back to the stairs going down them but after falling somehow I turned around, fell on my butt and had my back facing away from the stairs. I hurt my thumb. It was tweaked a weird way. I kind of got smushed up against the wall too.

I had to go to security and fill out a report. They took pictures of my shoes--to see the tread. Apparently I had good tread so nobody was quite sure how I fell. At least I had witnesses. But they then told me had I been wearing the company shoes I could've sued for a lot of money. Now why wasn't I wearing those shoes?? Just kidding. It was my fault I fell. I am a huge klutz.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I was getting a fork or something from the bottom shelf in our breakroom, and when I stood up I cracked the top of my head on the top of the shelf unit. Hurt like hell and bled a little bit.

My worst work injury was when a woman came to pick up an order of like 96 copies of a book for a school order. I blame the receiver who packed the order for this one. It was in 2 boxes, one longer and flatter and the other closer to a cube. I assumed that they were half and half. I picked up the cube-shaped box and it was heavy but I could just handle it. So I carry it to my register and go back for the other box. Turns out they were split up 1/3 and 2/3...so the second box was twice as heavy. I didn't discover this until after I had wrenched my back so bad I couldn't stand up straight. Had to call the manager and she had to pull the guy working in music out to help the woman carry them out cuz he was the only guy in the store that night. I had to fill out an accident report. After I rested a bit I was ok to finish the night, but the next night I was so stiff I spent slow times lying on the floor behind the cashwrap and went home 2 hours early. Got a hot chocolate on my way out and took a hot bath when I got home. Ahhhh...

A woman I worked with had a stack of calendars slide from a shelf in receiving onto her head. She got a concussion from that and was out for a couple days.

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[Bella_Vixen]

A few years ago, when I worked at the place where my mom still works, I was soldering something and dropped the iron on my finger right under my nail.

I ran to the bathroom and then one of the ladies from the office helped me put burn cream and gauze on it.

I wandered back onto the work floor and saw my mom. My first words to her were, "Don't worry. It's not as bad as it looks." Mom wasn't amused. She freaked out a bit until I told her it was a tiny burn.

I still don't think she's forgiven me for that and it's been at least 6 years. :Þ

[HYHYBT]

No paper cuts from file folders... but from fry cartons, and even corrugated cardboard boxes, yes!

[Becks]

I was wrapping pans today and something above my right wrist POPPED. It didn't hurt for long, but I wonder what that was.

Every once in a while, I'll actually be standing still and my left knee (you should FEEL it...no one wants to anymore ) will try to invert.

If I'm this way now, I wonder how I'll be when I'm 40...

[myswtghst]

When I worked set crew on a play, I was working in the wood cage, stacking things on top of a huge pile of pallets I monkeyed my way up on top of. Well, I got left back there by myself, and decided to jump down. When I did, I caught my hand on a bench and broke my pinky finger. I walked out of the cage holding my hand, looking stunned, and just taped it up and went back to work. Our director was not terribly pleased.

Working at the zoo, I ended up with countless bumps and bruises from running into things, dropping stuff, and carrying heavy things. The closest call was when I was tossing hay from the second story hay loft down onto the pickup truck, and actually tossed myself out too. Luckily I landed on the hay in the truck, and just ended up a little shaken.

The one I remember most was when I worked at the vet, and got bitten by a flying squirrel. We were clipping it's nails, one person holding him, one clipping, and I was holding a pen in his little mouth to keep him occupied. I looked up for a sec, and the next thing you know, it had sunk it's little teeth almost all the way through the pad of my index finger. That hurt like you wouldn't believe, and it took everything in me not to cuss out loud.

[Sliceanddice]

My first month at my current job i still worked at my old job (i was finishing up training before i put in my notice.) One day when i was scheduled at my first job i was called in early because A (someone ive mentioned before) never showed and they need someone to help the manager at lunch.

At one point we ran out of everything in the front (well the most popular stuff) and where still busy so i ran in the back to grab some stuff.

As i passed a seperation counter/wall i knocked over the Health Department clipboard.
I moved to catch it.
I SLAMMED MY WRIST INTO THE OVER LIP OF THE COUNTER. hard.
There was the echo of a large slam in the room. I was crying hard and yelped.
I continued to grab the stuff, washed my hands and went back to work.
I noticed soemthing funny.... I COULDNT MOVE MY FINGERS.
Apparently i really damaged a ligament and almost had to have surgery.
I put in my notice after i filed for workmens comp because even if i wanted to work their, it wasnt worth it if i wouldn't be able to do anything for them for monthes but could still work at my new job.

(BTW i still have some problems with that wrist.)

[lbgoofy]

Accident Prone

My managers call me accident prone, if there is a way to get hurt, I manage. They joke that I am not allowed around sharp objects. Working in the photo lab, I smashed my finger in the photo machine so bad, my nail bed was damaged for months, and reqiured medical attention for a few months. While opening a disposable camera once to remove the film for developing, I slipped with the scew driver and have a 3 inch scar on the top of my hand. At a job I had at a previous employer, I had 2 memorable injuries. I ran into a large support beam, this beam was painted safety yellow, and had a fire extinguisher attatched to it, how I didnt see it, I will never know, but it was about 9 years ago, and my son wont let me live it down, yes I did break my nose. Also at the same place once when I was leaving for the night, I dropped my car keys, and bent over to get them, the automatic doors opened on my thumb, and it was another nail bed injury.

[BusyBee]

So far, nearly all my injuries are my jamming my fingers in things. The register drawer, a DVD case, a door jamb as the door closes, my locker door, between the chair and the table as I push the chair in... It's probably a good thing I never followed up on my idea of becoming a cabinet maker, with my luck with fingers!

[JustADude]

Aside from the usual bumps and bruises, I seem to get burned a lot, like I've got special magnets that only work on hot metal and grease. Let me tell you, pressing your arm up against the side of a pizza oven by accident is NOT fun. No blisters, but it stung like hell for a couple hours.

[Andara Bledin]

*wince* Cardboard cuts are eeeeevil. Cardstock paper cuts are pretty vicious, too.

My best injury was more of a recreation thing than work, but I was "on duty" at the time.

I was attending a renaissance faire, and one of the things every guild had to do was have a couple of volunteers spend some time at the front gate doing greetings and such for flavor. It's light duty and can be pretty fun, if a bit boring.

The setup at this particular faire had a structure at the main gate with a ladder leading up to a small upper area. There were three of us, and it was nearly closing on Sunday evening. We were tired, a little bored, and feeling quite silly. I kept yelling down to people that they were going the wrong way, and that the shops were behind us. If they yelled back that they were out of money, I'd complain about them wasting my time. It can be fun to heckle.

There were these little pennant flags stuck up at the corners of the tower and we had grabbed them to wave them at people. During a stretch with nobody going by, me and the guy decided to do a little bit of flag fencing. So we fool around a bit, and then I go to set myself in the classic en garde position; one arm back and up, the other forward, and one foot planted a bit behind me.

I go to plant my foot, and it doesn't plant. The very first thought to drift through my head was, "I can't believe I did something that stupid." And, yes, the time dilation made everything happen very, very slowly. The second though was, "This could be bad." Then I started falling.

The really, incredibly stupid thing I had managed to do was try to plant my supporting foot in the space where the opening from the ladder was. As I start falling, I throw my arms out to each side, and press against the deck with the foot that is still above it.

I stop with my shoulders partway through the opening. I figure out which points of support are keeping me from falling the 20 feet or so to the ground, manage to get an arm up so the guy can help me up, and then we have a good laugh about just how bad it could have been.

I get permission to get changed out of my faire garb and back into semi-civilian dress. Taking a look at the damage, I had a nice abrasion bruise along the outside thigh of the leg that fell from when it hit the ladder on the way down. I had another nasty pressure bruise on the inside of my other thigh where it hit the edge of the opening. I had minor bruises on the undersides of both upper arms, also from the opening. And I had a really wicked bruise that was already turning a nasty dark purple on my side from where my body hit the top of the ladder. Thank god for my leather bodice.

I got xrays done to make sure I hadn't broken anything. The doctor told me that I looked fine, but that I would want to take regular deep breaths to guard against the possibility of my lung collapsing from the impact.

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[Bella_Vixen]

I was wrapping pans today and something above my right wrist POPPED. It didn't hurt for long, but I wonder what that was.

Every once in a while, I'll actually be standing still and my left knee (you should FEEL it...no one wants to anymore ) will try to invert.

If I'm this way now, I wonder how I'll be when I'm 40...

Wow. I had the wrist thing happen to me last Saturday.

My knees take turns doing that. Especially when walking up/down stairs.

[Catwoman2965]

My first ever retail experience; i worked in a major dept store, during the holidays. I was in the costume jewelry dept, and to open the cases to show things to customers, you had to pull the door up, and slide them in. Then, since they were about hip level, you would bend down, and take out whatever the customer wanted to see.

well one night, i apparently wasnt' paying attention, i lifted up the door, and bent down to get something out. oops...forgot to slide it in, and it came down and cracked me hard on top of my head. it hurt so bad i swear i saw start! they insisted i fill out an incident report, but i only had a headache for a couple of days.

[Jack7957]

I got a cut on my thumb one time when I was working on a computer. Normally not a bad situation, throw a band-aid on it and you're good to go. Except I did while I was in a pharmacutical lab. So reports had to be filled out, my boss had to be notified, I had to meet with the safety director, etc. One little cut took a couple hours to "fix".