That HURT (injury)

[coldcupofjoe]

I put a screwdriver through my hand one time at work.

I was working in a shop in east texas as an assistant mechanic when my boss asked me to sharpen a screwdriver. Never did find out why. I was using the bench grinder and the screwdriver got away from me whipped around the wheel and planted itself in the back of my left hand and poked its head out the other side to say hi.

[myswtghst]

Somehow I just came across this one, and must add my own.

I've managed to not hurt myself at my current, paying job, given that it's in a call center, but I've had several other jobs that caused injury.

When I was working at the zoo, I had countless bruises from climbing on top of cages and slipping after I hosed down the penguin habitat. I also cut up my hands a few times cutting up fish for my otters. Smacked my head a few times, either with a broom or on an overhang in the low exhibits. Multiple little injuries over the year I was there.

As far as the animal hospital goes, I got scratched across the cheek by an angry kitty once, and I had a flying squirrel bite through the pad on my right index finger to show me that he didn't appreciate getting his nails clipped. I also got my fair share of bruises there, from wrestling with the "shop" dogs, particularly Beau, a feisty bull mastiff.

The most severe and most memorable of my injuries have occurred during my time in theatre and film. There was a very good reason they didn't allow me to use the nail gun when building sets.

-The first major incident occurred while striking the set of the musical my senior year of high school. I was in the wood cage, on top of a 10-12 foot high stack of platforms, helping load stuff up for storage. Everyone left me in there, so I jumped down on my own, and caught my right hand on a bench. Either broke or dislocated my pinky on that hand, and to this day, it still cracks sideways. At the time, I just wandered out of the room with a dazed look on my face, got painkillers and tape from the guy with the first aid kit, then got right back to work. Our director was actually quite peeved when he saw me later and found out what happened.

-The more recent injury occurred on set, filming for a TV show we're working on called Off Loop. I was actually just there to script supervise and keep continuity/production notes for the director, but while moving a chair, I managed to sit down in it without getting my (stocking) foot out from under the leg, which was thin and made of metal. I managed to break my toe and tear off half the skin on it, so I bled a bunch, then spent the rest of the shoot doing my job with an icepack in my sock.

[crazylegs]

While attempting to stop a shoplifter at my previous job (who only stole two CDs

He did the following
Headbutted me breaking my nose
Threw me to the floor
Proceeded to punch and kick me whilst on the floor
Then began to stamp on my chest

As I was wearing my body armour (as always, kids don't go out without your vest on! ) there was no serious harm but as soon as he started to run I did get back up and (yes I'm a sucker for punishment) grabbed him again and held on until back up arrived.

[Tithera]

Let's see.


Paper Route:
-several dog bites

-flip flop caught in chain, catapulting me over the handle bars. The flip flop stayed put, which brought the bike toppling over on me. Huge gouge on my knee, front wheel of bike is bent to hell and the chain snapped. I was about 6 blocks from my house and only halfway done with the route. Much fun.

-ice ball to the face, thanks to my lovely neighbor hood wanna-be gangstas next door

-glass shards to hand after tripping over large branch (was not paying much attention to where I was stepping and was after a lovely storm hit)

-flu after riding in a trenchial rain and almost being electricuted by the lightning storm that ensued afterwards.


Cooking:

-slicing the top of my thumb knuckle while slicing potatoes into homefries (several times)

-dumping a large pot of frickin' boiling water all down my front, with cooked potatoes following shortly after (also several times)

-burning my hand on pots and pans that were seemingly cold (seemingly as I asked the other cooks and they said were fine)

-slicing fingers open when slicing tomatoes/lettace/meat

-burning hands in burning hot dish water (when I had to take over for the normal dishwasher when she wouldn't show up)

-dropping heavey boxes of frozen meat/dough on toes (again, several times)

-slipped in bacon grease left on the floor and sprained ankle/knee/wrist

And I only worked there for not even a year. I am so glad I am done with that place.

[Bluenomi]

With some of these stories I don't know weather to laugh or wince in pain

I've gotten paper/cardboard/plastic cuts thousands of time and always seem to find the corner of my desk with my hip bone, which really, really hurts.

Best injury was when I worked retail. Our counters had drawers underneath them to put coathangers in. Someone pulled it and left it out. I walk around the corner and straight into the nice sharp corner on the open draw. Ended up with a 15 cm long gash in my leg, bleeding everywhere. I was the only person on the floor so 1 calmly walk to the back of the shop, opened the door to the back and asked someone to take over. When asked why I showed them my leg covered in blood. Someone went out I got the first accident report for the store since we were new

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I smashed my hand at work today.

After I got done auditing all the furniture I decided to straighten up some of the furniture backstocks. I was moving a TV stand and I had my hand on the back of the box. As I was sliding it down off the shelf the back of the box came up and smashed my hand into the shelf above.

Hurt like a bitch for a little while but no permanent damage. I can still use that hand with no problems. It's just got a little gouge that looks like a cut closing up and it's a little red all around that.

No accident report. I won't go to fill one of those out myself unless the injury is truly debilitating, but if management asks me to I have no choice.

[purplecat41877]

Yesterday, I was putting a six pack of water bottles in a bag and it fell on my big toe. It still hurts a bit but not as much as it did when it happened.

[jb17kx]

I had a brainfart last week and touched a peice of steel I'd just had in a spot welder.
It stung like a mother for a few hours (remember, this is enough heat to instatly melt two peices of 2mm steel together) and left a lovely scar - a perfectly straight line, like you'd see if you pressed a peice of cold metal into your finger and left it there for a while.

I've actually burnt the muscle underneath the tip of the finger, but there seems to be no real damage. Doesn't mean it wasn't a stupid thing to do, though.

[edible_hat]

I tripped over my own shoelaces and did a faceplant right into a pile of cardboard boxes. A box corner got me right near the eye and it felt like a black eye for a couple of hours, but there was nothing visible.

[Custard Chick]

I've gotten cut by the shake machine at the custard stand I worked at a few times. That thing is deceptively sharp! I've shut my fingers in the till before and banged my hand against the marble counter several times.

Also, I have this bone spur on my right hand, just a little bump, nothing serious, but every so often I get into grooves where I seem to hit it on EVERYTHING - which is kinda odd because it's on top of my hand, about an inch above my wrist, just a weird spot to be constantly hitting. One night at work I hit it so often it swelled to about 3-4 times it's size and was perpetually tender and red for about the next 24-36 hours. That sucked.

At my new job I'm positive I'm going to slip on the floor and crack my head, and it'll be my own damn fault because my shoes have noo traction.

Bad shoes + wet floor + slick tiles = one very unhappy and unsteady Custard Chick!

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Apparently I seem to be on a crusade to turn my body into one massive, collective bruise. (remember me smashing my hand a couple days ago? It's bruised from my thumb to about my ring finger)

Last night I was backstocking like a madman and I set a big crock pot on a shelf above me so I could put away something else.

The crock pot fell down because I left it teetering off the edge, and hit my arm.

Got a nice red and purple spot started where it hit.

[worddork]

I don't know which was worse, dropping a copy of "The Physicians' Desk Reference" *think of a book the size and weight of an unabridged Oxford English dictionary *on my foot, or smacking the back of my head on the underside of a table every time a SC hit the customer service bell with whatever book they wanted to buy.

[Lil Bunny]

While working at Red Lobster, I swear the machinery had a necessity for a human blood sacrifice. Namely mine. What was that one movie with the possessed machinery? The Mangler? Yeah pretty much that but in a pint sized fruit cutting device.

Ok to be fair, it was a regular fruit slicer. You put the fruit in the top and then pressed the lever down to push it through the blades so you got those cute little wedges for your drinks. You bastards.

I still have scars from where my fingers got caught and sliced. The worst time, I brought it down and my finger went into the blade and um...I had to work to dislodge the blade from it. Yes, I had gloves on and yes I tried to use that wonderful cutting glove. And if you've ever used that wonderful cutting glove you KNOW how it doesn't work well for doing actual cutting. You can't grab crap.

I sat there after the um, dislodging of the blade, with tons of napkins and one of those finger cots trying not to draw attention to myself. My boss said basically that since I was still standing I'd be ok to work. I couldn't exactly keep making drinks/cutting fruit/doing set up since the damned thing kept bleeding out but they had no intention of letting me go.

Argh.....

[Pezzle]

I can't really say I've ever had any great injuries at work... it's been thus far very hard to break me.

I mean my hands are covered in little knicks and slices from moving shelves, pallets, whatever. I trip going up the ladder sometimes and get my foot caught, but nothing I can't shake off. I think the worst I have ever done is concuss myself on the tech bench at Circuit City, but even then it was a little one.

More interesting things need to happen to me at work.

.....Unless you count my stint at Chuck E Cheese's work related injuries, then I could not even begin to count to you the sprained ankles, times I've passed out from dehydraton, and gut punch bruises. ... ... and um bite marks on my arms from kids. Sprained... or something finger from where a kid thought he could pull my finger back all the way. Bloody noses from getting punched in the face by adults.

-curls up into a ball-

[thegiraffe]

I've actually burnt the muscle underneath the tip of the finger, but there seems to be no real damage. Doesn't mean it wasn't a stupid thing to do, though.

Actually, there's no muscle in your hand. All of your movements are caused by tendons that run from your wrist to the tips of your fingers. That's why people who get carpal tunnel syndrome have problems with their wrists as well.

/end random knowledge