Little accidents at work?, Let's see your scars!! (No gore!)

[johnny7]

Hi all

A few years ago I was burning some scrap railway lines and bars at work, They were on a concrete floor and it popped with the puddle of molten steel, A 5p sized bit of concrete went down my glove (Which was a bit tight!) and ended up with a bit of a water blister!!

And a couple of weeks later..

Back in 1999 we were picking up a 250t press frame up, Four 100t steel ropes were used which are very stiff, All your weight had to be shoved against it to make it go on to the lifting trunions, Just as the crane was taking the weight, My feet slipped in the sand and I was falling face first on to a 10" solid steel lifting trunnion so I had to grab the rope, It nipped my finger end but I pulled it out, Removed me glove and the flesh pad was still in it!!

There was no pain at all but I was mighty miffed as i'd just coughed up £90 for a course of guitar lessons!! (Had to learn to finger pick using the middle finger, Ring finger and pinky!!)

It's fine now but a quarter of an inch shorter than the l/h index digit!!

Another time I was throwing a pallet against a wall and somehow trapped me finger but this time the pain was immense!!

Excuse the grubby fingers, I'd been mixing a heap of Bonsai compost that had sharp gravel and composted bark!!

Lets see your scars!!


John

 

[Melvyn Best]

Ah! Comparing old idiot rashes.?

 

[dobbslc]

Most of my work related scars are the mental type!

 

[cardiffrob]

How 'graphic' can the photos be? I have a couple of good ones from my past but this is a 'family forum'

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I am not allowed to post the C02 burn.
I was put on the naughty step.
Some have seen it.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

This is 4 weeks after the "incident"

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I'm not posting any of mine - anyway, they're mostly on the top of my napper from when I've forgotten how tall I am in relation to the shed (or annexe as my friends call it) door(s).

I can see this thread turning progressively more gruesome with time.

 

[Maker]

I can see this thread turning progressively more gruesome with time.

The title is "scars" not "grotesque holes in your skin" so it shouldn't get too bad. If it does progress that way, I've got a nice picture of a nail hole in my bloodied foot.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

The title is "scars" not "grotesque holes in your skin" so it shouldn't get too bad. If it does progress that way, I've got a nice picture of a nail hole in my bloodied foot.

You're forgetting what some of us can be like, and how easily threads 'wander'

 

[Westfield-builder]

If it does progress that way, I've got a nice picture of a nail hole in my bloodied foot.

I have one somewhere of a nail protruding right through my foot and out the top of my bloodied trainer.
That was me as a kid playing on a demolition site. Ever since then ALL nails have been hammered back through at least, usually removed. More than one idiot who didnt was chased.

 

[dobbslc]

Unfortunately leaving nails sticking out of timber is a very common thing on sites these days, the people doing it probably never did an apprenticeship or were told to knock the bloody things out!
Mostly I just get a grunt and a look of incomprehension in their eyes when I complain to them

 

[daleyd]

This is the palm of my right hand (stop sniggering at the back...)

Not exactly work related, or in fact at all, but it’s where I walked out of a pub in New Year’s Eve with a bottle in my hand and slipped on an icy hill. The first time I met my missus mum was when she took me to A&E at 2 in the morning in a snowstorm Ended up with 6 stitches internally and 6 external to hold it all together.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

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This is the palm of my right hand (stop sniggering at the back...)

Not exactly work related, or in fact at all, but it’s where I walked out of a pub in New Year’s Eve with a bottle in my hand and slipped on an icy hill. The first time I met my missus mum was when she took me to A&E at 2 in the morning in a snowstorm Ended up with 6 stitches internally and 6 external to hold it all together.

A common result when a "Tough guy" smashes a bottle in his hand to "Bring it on"

Can be very funny.

 

[minimutly]

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This is the palm of my right hand (stop sniggering at the back...)

Not exactly work related, or in fact at all, but it’s where I walked out of a pub in New Year’s Eve with a bottle in my hand and slipped on an icy hill. The first time I met my missus mum was when she took me to A&E at 2 in the morning in a snowstorm Ended up with 6 stitches internally and 6 external to hold it all together.

Looks like a fat ladies backside....

 

[Mr Roo]

Yesterday’s one - got called out to get some locking wheel nuts off a jaguar.

Gloves might have had some holes in them... D’oh!

 

[Migmac]

Stabbed by a Roe Bucks antlers


Cut with a knife, just missed the tendon



Cut with a chainsaw, whilst helping a friend. He did it! Limited movement in my finger



Cut myself whilst sharpening a sythe wrongly



Two in this one. The bigger one from putting my fist through a plate glass window. The smaller one another knife cut



I’ve a few more too

 

[mpats]

First one, was actually quite lucky. Needed 2 bits of wood to use in the vice for clamping something, brain not entirely engaged, held a bit of pine and split it with my knife. Bit of wood split very easily and knive went into hand. Quick trip to A&E as it was reasonably deep and some loss of feeling. Severed the radial nerve, cut the muscle around where it attached to the bone and nicked the tendon. Hence the lucky, fixed up under local though which was interesting to watch. Was wearing off in areas by the time they were putting stiches in, that wasn't interesting!
6 weeks with it completely immobilised. Surgeon was telling me if I'd done the tendon they would be half way up my arm to find the other end of it

Second stupid was taking my dad and brothers boat out the water onto a new trailer they had bought, so setti g up the trailer, moving rollers etc as we went. Got it quite far on before it stuck, had a bit of tension on the hand winch and needed to raise its post. Let the winch off then the boat decided to move back and managed to pop the handle out my hand, it went round and hit my wrist. Cracking hematoma came up. Quick pressure dressing then finish getting the boat out and back to my brothers. Decided on a quick hospital visit before driving back up the road to confirm no fractures. Luckily not but the bruise went from thumb to near elbow.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Plenty of broken fingers (never noticed at the time)

A common result when a "Tough guy" smashes a bottle in his hand to "Bring it on"

Can be very funny.

The correct procedure after this happens is to take his hand and squeeze.

 

[Maker]

I got a small cut on my arm width-ways a few years ago (It was little more than a scratch iirc, can't actually remember how I did it), then spent probably about a year picking the scab which somehow turned into the darker raised bump (Keloid scar?) perpendicular to the original cut. It's mostly faded now but someone pointed out a while ago it looked like a cock and balls.

 

[doubleboost]

Plasma torch burn
Very lucky i did not cut it off
This was with a welding glove on as well
Removed the cutting tip without isolating the cutter
It fired as i was unscrewing the nozzle