Worst work injury?

ergonomics

What's the worst you've ever injured yourself in work? I was chopping food the other day, missed and got my thumb. Had to get 3 stitches for my trouble. Although it wasn't a life-threatening injury I was scared (I'm a girl) and it made me wonder what's the worst everybody else has been injured?

Pighead

Worst work injury was back in 2003. Black eye and a split lip. Got them from my manager when he found out Pighead was lying to him about having a "nasty dose of bird flu"

leninbenjamin

i got a few deep gashes from sorting glass back when i worked in the pubs...
the worst was simply a cut i got through a glove, but didn't notice... 10 minutes later i go to put something high up on a shelf and a load of blood pours out of my glove... it was a weird sight...

I put my hand through a window on my WAY to work though... does that count? nearly slit my wrist it did...

Steyr

Dislocated Shoulder, Stood on Pallet safe standing area except someone built it to have the middle missing so i stand up on it and went right down....arm stayed up.....

rugbug86

tripped up and fell down a flight of concrete steps, but knocked my ankle on the corner of a step and chipped the bone

arybvtcw0eolkf

Worse was two broken elbows and a broken wrist, believe it or not I was knocked down by a cyclist. The little cvnt got up and cycled off. That put me out of work for 11 months!.

My dramatic was in 1988 in Lebanon. I was working on a roof when the Israeli Defence Forces started an artillary bombardment of the village I was in. I was knocked off the roof and fractured by wrist and concussion!. I was medi-vac'd by Heli to UNIFIL HQ hospital.

Toto Wolfcastle

Not exactly an injury, but I got a searing pain in my chest after my boss bet me that I couldn't drink 3 pints of water in 3 minutes. (I might have the time/amount of water wrong.) It sounds easy but it's actually quite hard for a skinny person like me. (Of course the boyfriend put us all to shame and did it in less than a minute!)

Then my boss told me not to get sick on his phone. (I took phone orders in a take-away.)

Other than that, a few paper cuts, and at the moment my new thing is walking into things.

Oh, I also managed to avoided a nasty burn when I was carrying a hot pot on a tray and it burnt through my cheap uniform. Customers got quite an eyeful before I realised.

(Suppose I've been lucky, touch wood.)

delta_bravo

Mairt wrote: »

My dramatic was in 1988 in Lebanon. I was working on a roof when the Israeli Defence Forces started an artillary bombardment of the village I was in. I was knocked off the roof and fractured by wrist and concussion!. I was medi-vac'd by Heli to UNIFIL HQ hospital.

Pfft, i once broke a nail

roy123456789

I got a pain in my knee once, I think it was a R.S.I, can I claim?

star-pants

hmm... tripped over a pallet, bruised my knee

another place I pulled all the muscles on my left flank (no idea how)

lezizi

A guy i know's leg was rolled over by a stick boom( see link below) in work. His leg was crushed he has no heel, he has had 3 surgeries and numerous skin grafts over the last 2 years and he still can't walk.
Now thats a bad work injury.
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Zzippy

Nothing major, or even minor really. Escaped serious injury when I rolled a van over at 50mph, thank f**k for seatbelts. Burned my hand in a lab fire once, had to jump through flames to get out the door, that got the heart racing! A few stitches once or twice.

mikemac

Working as service staff at a wedding.
You know "Beef or Salmon", "Tea or Coffee"

Carrying a tray of maybe 20 bowls of soup.
Gob****e of a duty manager came in the wrong swinging door and hit my tray. I got second degree burns on my hand and forearm.
Spent the night in casualty due to infection risk. My cotton shirt wasn't helping matters.

Oh and I was part-time staff so I lost my job as I couldn't work for a few weeks so I was easily replaced.
No compensation, no backpay, no apology, just a P45 :mad:

L1011

Hammered my finger once when I was doing sat installs and trying to get a reluctant expansion bolt in. Lovely blood bruise under the nail for weeks.

Other than that I've got terrible circulation in my fingers and my doctor blamed using CDJs when DJing.... I'm not sure thats true though.

RoyalMarine

hmmm was sleeping at work once, and i woke up and tubridy tonight was on the tv.....

worst injury ever.

rain on

I used to get some vicious paper cuts when I was a library assistant.

kowloon

RoyalMarineComm wrote: »

hmmm was sleeping at work once, and i woke up and tubridy tonight was on the tv.....

worst injury ever.

Was going to talk about accidents with a grader, HF burns and the like, but i think that would trivialise the suffering above

the_syco

Multiple burns on each arm from hot trays (loaded said trays full of spuds into an oven, to steam them) when working in a kitchen of a restaurant.

Ruu_Old

Someone shot me with an industrial staple gun, the staple (1 1/2") went through my hand but didn't hit any bones. I was happy though as I got to spend some time at the hospital to get it out..helloooooooooooo nurse! They ended up having to get a workshop pliers to pull it out because the other instruments didn't work.

kowloon

the_syco wrote: »

Multiple burns on each arm from hot trays (loaded said trays full of spuds into an oven, to steam them) when working in a kitchen of a restaurant.

Is it true that you get used to the burns and stop noticing them when you've worked in a kitchen for a long time?

Duiske

Fell off scaffolding 4 years ago, lost the sight in one eye and fractured my neck. Doctors told me that tecnically I had a broken neck, but tbh it did not really cause any problems. Took a while to get used to the lost eyesight though. Was in hospital for 5 weeks, and 8 months off work.

RoyalMarine

Duiske wrote: »

Fell off scaffolding 4 years ago, lost the sight in one eye and fractured my neck. Doctors told me that tecnically I had a broken neck, but tbh it did not really cause any problems. Took a while to get used to the lost eyesight though. Was in hospital for 5 weeks, and 8 months off work.

did your eyesight ever return?? man thats a harsh thing to go through!

Duiske

RoyalMarineComm wrote: »

did your eyesight ever return?? man thats a harsh thing to go through!

No. The optic nerve was damaged. A tree branch caused the eye damage. I don't remember anything about it, and don't even remember going to work that morning.

RoyalMarine

ah wow. that must be somethin!
sorry to hear it

Alessandra

For my part-time job at school and holidays I worked in a chipper. Always getting burned from chips and grease and oil etc. Once we had a rush on and the place was a state. I slipped on grease or something down the kitchen floor and grabbed the first thing in sight. The burger grill!!!!!!:eek::eek: Burned my whole arm. Pain is not the word. Skin started to bubble and there was only me and boss on and he rang my parents who live 10 miles away to bring me off to get seen to. Hospital, lengthy car journey in agony injection and plenty of drugs, Spent the whole night with arm in a bucket of ice, unable to sleep cos of pain and drugs. Its been 5 years and the scar isn't too bad (wrist to elbow). Was back flipping burgers after a week

5starpool

I was going to say when I bit my lip or something by accident, but then I remembered I worked on a building site in NY on my J1 and hit my finger with a hammer rather stupidly and the nail fell off a couple of days later and my finger was quite sore.

monkeyfudge

I'm sure there are a few nasty ones...

But the only one that springs to mind at the moment are all the horrible splinters I got lowering a 1.5 metre satellite dish off the roof using just a horrible old rickety ladder that wasn't anywhere near tall enough to reach the roof.

Sure I could have fallen or been crushed... but I got away with just bunch of the worst splinters imaginable...

I gave the dish away to another boardsie... can't remember his username... but it was funny seeing him strap the massive dish to the top of his little car.

vektarman

Fractured my finger in a few places when it got caught in a machine in work, weirdest bit was watching my fingernail flying away, SQUIRM..

Mahatma coat

HAH you puny Leetle fingernail losing wimps:rolleyes:

Try workin in the timber/Forestry business

injured meself in the same manner twice -have finally learned not to stand directly behind the blade on the Canadian bench- was benchin some flitchers to recover Steptreads when one broke on the guy tailing and spat back across the bench striking me in the chest and breaking 4 ribs. second time was a smaller piece of timber 150 X 50 but it still managed to fracture 2 ribs and poke my ribcage so badly out of shape that walkin, feck even standin was difficult for a few months.

Drove meself to hospital too on both occasions.:cool:


course thats just some of the things that have happened to me ( and I still have all my fingers - well a small nick to the right thumb )

If you want truly terrifying tales ask any of the loggin crew about Free helicopter rides:eek:

big b

happened to a good mate of mine, and I was there, watching, helpless......

on an oil rig, running a seriously heavy piece of kit down to the seabed, one of the 2" steel wire ropes broke, whiplashed & cut my mate into two pieces, both of which fell into the sea.

A really really nice, fun guy. What happened that day still haunts me at times.

RIP Kurt

RxQueen

paper cuts are the worst i have to deal with in work, have a qutie i collection of broken bones during my time but they are form me just acting the eejet!!

my dad once got a steel nail in his eye, he also crushed his finger, andthen drove himself to the hospital, he had to get a pin in his finger, then about 3 weeks later when collecting me form school, he goes to open the door form the inside of the car for me and catches his finger in the door handle somehow and rips out the metal pin!! ahhhhhhhhhhhh looked sore!:eek:

cance

big b wrote: »

2" steel wire ropes broke, whiplashed & cut my mate into two pieces, both of which fell into the sea

and mythbusters said that wasnt possible! my condolences :eek:

worst i got was when i was working in the butchers.

stabbing a 6 inch boning knife 2 inches through the palm of my hand and out the other side. that was fun i can tell ya.



i'm still stabbing myself in the hand requently with screw drivers even working in IT, damn rack mounting nuts and their fiddly corners.

cee_jay

Worst that happened me was when I was working in the local pub. At the end of the night, got up on a chair to close the windows and pull down the blinds (in front of the local football team ). When I jumped back down from the chair landed awkwardly on my ankle and wasn't able to stand back up again.
Luckily my uncle was in the bar and was able to take me to hospital where it turned out I had torn the ligaments in my ankle.

*Page*

Black eye, cracked eyebrow (the bone), busted lip, bruised cheek...

I was working in a shop and i had to climb ladder and i was not in appropriate foot wear for climbing ladders (new rock boots).
Boot got stuck and i fell up side down hanging head two rungs away from hitting the floor. But i did hit my face hard off the ladder... and broke my new rocks...
Then latter that day the same ladder fell on top of me as i walked past it.

cance

*Page* wrote: »

but i did hit my face hard off the ladder... and broke my new rocks...

thats what you get for wearing stupid shoes.

*Page*

i said they werent proper for climbing but when you work in liffey valley on the floor the scumbags leave you alone if you wear big "scary boots" as the scumbags at liffey valley called them

JayoCluxton

I know a guy who once caught his member in the bacon slicer. He was fine but she got sacked!!

Rovi

I broke the left side of my face when trying to recover a stuck tracked digger (Hymac type) from a boghole.
We had a heavy chain hitched to the undercarriage directly under the cab, and a large industrial loader was on the other (hook end) end of the chain pulling while I drove the digger.
I had the front window of the cab open for a clear view of proceedings, and I distinctly remember looking at the chain disappearing under me and thinking: "If that lets go, I'd be in big trouble."

Can we all guess what happened?

During a particularly vigorous pull, the hood disengaged itself from the industrial loader and flew (with the rest of the chain following it) in through the open front cab window and struck me on the left side of my face.
All I remember was hearing a BANG and everything going white.

The local A&E loaded me up with anti-tetanus, antibiotics, and painkillers, cleaned up most of the blood, stitched my flappy bottom lip, and x-rayed my head. I had two broken teeth, a broken nose, and the lower part of the orbit of my left eye was smashed.
I finished up in the Eye & Ear where they fished out the missing contact lens (:eek:), and checked me in for surgery a couple of days later.
They removed the broken bits of skull from under the eye, lifted it back up out of the sinus where it was migrating, and installed a polythene sheet with titanium rods and screws to support it in its correct place.

To this day (10 years later), my left eye is approximately 1mm further back in my head than my right, but that's the only residual consequence of the incident; my eyesight wasn't affected at all.
I was blessed lucky to be honest, if it had hit me pretty much anywhere else in the head, there's a good chance I'd have been killed or blinded.

big b

cance wrote: »

and mythbusters said that wasnt possible! my condolences :eek:

It's possible alright. Published details at the time were very scant, supposedly to protect his family from unneccesary horror. The reality of course was that it was to minimise the impact on the rig owners & operators.
There were RAF nimrods flying around for 2 days afterwards looking for him. No traces ever found.

Sam Vimes

micmclo wrote: »

Spent the night in casualty due to infection risk. My cotton shirt wasn't helping matters.

i would think that casualty is probably the worst place to be if you have a riskk of infection. that's where all the people who have infections go


i was sitting badly at a desk using a computer for a few months and damaged a facet joint in my back. there's one on each side of each vertebrae and they allow them to move against each other.

so the right side of my back effectively has no support and droops down. i have to use all the muscles in my back to physically hold myself up when i'm sitting and i avoid sitting if at all possible.

got me one of these which works wonders when sitting, and not just for people with back injuries

i've been to a chiropractor, two physiotherapists and two gps, all of which effectively took my money and didn't help. finally about a year and a half after the injury the second gp suggested i go swimming and its finally getting slightly better, but it'll never be fixed

the_syco

kowloon wrote: »

Is it true that you get used to the burns and stop noticing them when you've worked in a kitchen for a long time?

Not really. It's still as sore as hell, but after the 2nd weekend of it happening, it's less of a case of "ow", and more of a case of "must avoid that from happening", if you get me.

c4cat

micmclo wrote: »

Working as service staff at a wedding.
You know "Beef or Salmon", "Tea or Coffee"

Carrying a tray of maybe 20 bowls of soup.
Gob****e of a duty manager came in the wrong swinging door and hit my tray. I got second degree burns on my hand and forearm.
Spent the night in casualty due to infection risk. My cotton shirt wasn't helping matters.

Oh and I was part-time staff so I lost my job as I couldn't work for a few weeks so I was easily replaced.
No compensation, no backpay, no apology, just a P45 :mad:

You should submit a claim through PIAB www.piab.ie you will find you have good chance of getting a few thousand euro in compansation for pain, injury and loss of income. Companies have employee liability insurance for these kinds of accidents

c4cat

Has anybody tried getting compansation for work related injuries, I am in the process of claiming for one that happend 2 yrs ago and would be interested in finding out what settlements others got for what degree of injury sustained