That HURT (injury)

[Pezzle]

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

Actually there is muscle in your hand... don't forget the interossei in between the fingers. The FINGERS however have no muscle to speak of just connective tissue.

[jb17kx]

Well there you go. Suffice to say it was pretty deep burn.

I can also add that I now have a huge graze on my left bicep after catching it on the protective cover of a bench grinder. Funny how those little things like grazes and papercuts seem to hurt more, at least to start with, than the biggies...

[Bella_Vixen]

I burned my wrist on a hot muffin pan the other day. No blister, and not even shiny. Can't even see it unless you know where to look.

[Becks]

I was getting containers for the salad bar and the plastic decided to cut me...twice.

What makes it even worse is not too long after that, I somehow got lemon juice in the wounds.

[needleninja]

unfortinatly i have two medium burnt marks, and their still there from about 4 or 7 months ago -- --

[Eric the Grey]

What's even worse is managements complete lack of compassion when an employee gets hurt.

What you should get: "Does it hurt too much to work ? you need to go home if it does"

What you REALLY get: "Bandage it up, forget about it and get back to work"

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!"

I was like, thank you SO much, Aaron..your sensitivity is overwhelming, really it is. Asshole.

Hmmm, That's sad.

I've only had one on the job injury. It was two years ago this past January, I slipped on the stairs and landed hard on my back. I was a contractor and not even a full-time employee of the company I work at (I am now...) but one of their HR reps went to the emergency room, and sat there until they released me with an Ok bill of health. The hospital bill was covered by workman's comp and all, along with the pain killers they gave me, which I didn't use. The HR rep even went over the things I needed to know in order to keep the workman's comp insurance people from taking advantage of me.

Almost exactly a year to the day later, I fell and broke my leg and ankle (not at work) and had to take time off... January has been a bad month...

Have I said that the company I work for is awesome? I'm glad they finally decided to hire me.


Eric the Grey

[PepperElf]

gawd. how long can my list be?

i've hit my head against a lot of things on the wall, especially while moving cables around. i'm kinda use to it now

tho one time i did slip on a wet floor and really hurt my head enough that it needed stitches.

and the other day i had a week of training (so yay for - mostly - not having to go into work) and on the way to my training session i tripped and fell, got a nice road rash on my hand and some bruises.

oh and once, while working, i turned my head quickly... caught my temple on a sharp corner near my eye. no eye damage, but i did get a small cut.

oh. and i sat on a knife once. ... yeah.
i was using a utility knife, put it on a table... was sitting on the table too and scooted back... ow.

heh

[coldcupofjoe]

I just about cut the tip of my finger off on something on the inside of a dash. That was rather painful. I thought I was done until I realized I had left a socket down insode somewhere. I ended up with cuts the whole way up and down my arm before I got done. One of them is still bleeding 6 hours later.

[boringscreenname]

1. Working at Steak 'n Shake, my ex was hanging out by the grills randomly waving a grill fork around. I bent down to grab the trash, and when I came up, put my hand up to stop him from waving the grill fork around. Grill fork went right between two of my fingers, and it was still hot. Pulled it out ran my hand under told the manager I was going to be sick or pass out and went home.

2. Again at Steak 'n Shake. I pulled a hot basket of fries and set it on my arm instead of the rack.

3. I was working at Kohl's Distribution Center with the ex again. We were both just pulling boxes off the conveyor belt, scanning them, then scanning the pallet they went on and stacking. He was pushing boxes down way too fast and I yelled at him to slow down because they were falling off the belt. I bent down to scan something, and the next thing I know a 50 lb box of Sketcher shoes has landed on my right shoulder blade. Filled out an accident report, went home, and never went back.

4. I was working at a factory that manufactures car exhaust systems. I was working on a bending machine that basically bent tubes of steel into tail pipes. The tubes were taller than me. I loaded one into the machine held it in place, and started the machine. The machine jerked my hand under the pipe and between the machine. Mangled my index and middle finger on my left hand. They were swollen and purple, I thought they were broken, but they were just really sore. Filled out an accident report and went home, fired the next day.

About 3 months later I get a call from OSHA regarding the accident. Turns out my wonderful supervisor, claimed he knew nothing about the accident, and that I was completely fine. Turns out he never even turned in the accident report and carried it around on his clipboard instead. OSHA found it and wasn't happy. I guess OSHA was receiving daily complaints about this company and a lot of people were injured on the machine I worked on. There were also major safety issues with the machine and the factory. I filled them in on a few things they should look for and now the company is being hit with massive fines and a huge investigation.

[Becks]

I'm rather afraid for myself if they ever let me work in the meat room. Even the butchers hurt themselves on occasion.

If it happens, though, I'm sure it'll make one hell of a story!!

[AnqeiicDemise]

I don't know if I mentioned it before but the pie-oven story reminded me of it (and you'll see why).

I was working in a L shaped kitchen on the short end(pantry). Normally, the Pantry is a cold station as it often fills desserts and salads but ocassionaly, there are some hots plates we have to fill out... like the bruiscetto grilled cheese sandwich with its poached egg. In that kitchen in my section, we have a small two burner stove next to a flat-range that is next to the deep fryer.

So I'm making my sandwich when I hear the guy next to me ask if I can take out a chicken he has warming in my oven. Its ubber busy so I decide to be nice and assist him as my station's fairly slow. As I reach into the oven, there's a loud "FUCK!" from Idjit at the other end of the kitchen. (mind you, it was an open kitchen so the whole restaurant went quiet to stare at the ktichen)

Idjit had picked up the pan without a towel and burnt her hand.

At the scream, my chef (who was just behind me), jumps up and back, bumping into my behind, thus shoving me forward. He's, of course, worried about other idjit...only to freeze.

Because now *I* am screaming because he's got my fucking arm pinned in the oven. AND because he had jumped back when I had begun to open the oven, my sleeve roleld up, got caught on the door and now my skin was fusing itself to the hot metal.

We were both sent to the emergency room for 2nd-3rd degree burns on the busiest day of the week. HER hand peeled, my arm's got a perma pout. (The scar is in the shape of a rather large pair of pouty lips)

I *did* get in trouble because I argued that I wanted to finish my shif.t

[Becks]

On Saturday morning I was minding my own business, and working, if you can believe it, when I dropped a five pound tub of Barley Lime Fiesta salad on my foot.

Fun for all involved.

[XCashier]

4. I was working at a factory that manufactures car exhaust systems....The machine jerked my hand under the pipe and between the machine. Mangled my index and middle finger on my left hand. They were swollen and purple, I thought they were broken, but they were just really sore. Filled out an accident report and went home, fired the next day.

About 3 months later I get a call from OSHA regarding the accident. Turns out my wonderful supervisor, claimed he knew nothing about the accident, and that I was completely fine. Turns out he never even turned in the accident report and carried it around on his clipboard instead. OSHA found it and wasn't happy. I guess OSHA was receiving daily complaints about this company and a lot of people were injured on the machine I worked on. There were also major safety issues with the machine and the factory. I filled them in on a few things they should look for and now the company is being hit with massive fines and a huge investigation.

Karma's a bitch! I hope you get properly compensated. That's a company that deserves a massive hit in the wallet.

[Bella_Vixen]

On Saturday morning I was minding my own business, and working, if you can believe it, when I dropped a five pound tub of Barley Lime Fiesta salad on my foot.

When were you planning on tellingme this?

[Becks]

Big sis, I'll tell you when I remember while I'm calling you.