nasty acidents!!

[Norm]

from what i recall whiskey helps a lot

Second that, does wonders for a bad back, drink enough and you don't care that you can't stand up straight anymore

 

[pedrobedro]

Second that, does wonders for a bad back, drink enough and you don't care that you can't stand up straight anymore

If I drink enough I never get to stand up straight anyway

 

[Welderpaul]

Ouch. Probably the worst type of burn.
Hate hospitals. Hope you are on the mend.

 

[madkayaker]

I hope so to got a trailer full of logs to split tomorrow! Advising the temptation to get the vodka out mainly as have no iron brew and dislike whiskey

 

[mike os]

you are not meant to like it ... it is medication

 

[madkayaker]

Vodka and orange juice it is

 

[Norm]

hmmm! splitting logs with a bad hangover due to too much vodka the night before, you'll be back on here tomorrow take it easy, play the old soldier and get the missus to do it

 

[madkayaker]

Was planing to get her to do the splitting as she likes using the hydraulic splitter on tractor

 

[bill_gj]

Did anyone see the report about the garage mech who decided to cut the end off of an "empty" oil drum with an oxy torch?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-garage-workshop-engulfing-worker-flames.html

Surprise! It went up in his face and he woke up in hospital 5 days later.

"And all they found was a pair of smoking boots"

 

[Pete.]

Back on the idiot-list today. At work I use all manner of dangerous equipment - diamond cutting wire running at 20m/s, 5 foot diameter sawblades, demolition robots etc, and today I nearly lost 3 fingers doing a bit of DIY at home with a poxy little battery-powered circular saw. Got the nerves and tendon in my little finger so I'm off tomorrow for microsurgery so see if they can get some movement/feeling back in it.

 

[Welderpaul]

Ouch, that looks painful.

 

[bill_gj]

Injy Fingy says:


Seriously, That's nasty, I hope you get those fingers fixed in time.

 

[Pete.]

Home now from East Grinstead, operation to fix the ligament went well but I got 12 weeks rehab. 4 weeks no work, 4 light duties then 4 weeks working up to full strength. Nerves will take up to 6 months to join (if they do) and up to 2 years until the feeling improves no more. I had cut the ligament, 2 nerves and 2 arteries in the little finger, and a nerve in the ring finger.

 

[bill_gj]

Where's that sick bag when you need it?

 

[Epicyclic]

Good mnews on the op. Pete. Nasty do, hope you mend well...
Cheers, H.

 

[pidgeon chit welder]

Hows the leg epi ?

 

[brewdexta]

Just discovered this thread, its awoken many memories of my BT apprenticeship.

One that sticks in my mind was when I was working I think it was in Rawmarsh telephone exchange in south Yorkshire. We had completed putting up some unistrut to support the new equipment and my mate was stood on some step sweating some big copper bus bars with a blowtorch and solder when the phone rang, it was his girlfriend so I shouted to him.

He turned the blow torch off and walked down the steps and for some reason he looked up just as a blob of solder dropped off the bus bar and fell in his eye.

His eye ball was silver, he looked like an alien, I ran and got cold water from the sink in the bogs. Unbelievably he was talking to his GF while gritting his teeth and talking in a slightly strained voice as I was trying to bundle him towards the van.

Unfortunate we had a knackered commer van, the one with the wheelbase of a shopping trolley and the power of an asthmatic reliant robin. I didn't know the area so followed the signs for hospital heading towards Mexborough, I pulled into the yard of the hospital and a nurse sauntered over and eventually when I explained I had a patient she said that it was a mental hospital, and is the patient mad? I replied that he wasn't very happy and sodded off to find the real hospital.

Turned out that the blob of solder spread out on impact so spreading the heat so only temporary damage, a couple of weeks with an eye patch and he was right as rain. Looked far worse at the time.

 

[Epicyclic]

Hows the leg epi ?

Going on ok thanks. I fact it's healing too well, hypergranulating is the term the medics use - means the flesh is higher than the skin thats trying to grow over it, that slows the skin growth down so they are using foam padding over the flesh. The ulcer/wound is quite a lot smaller now though.
Still off work and I can't drive, as I'm still in 4 layer compression bandaging from toe to knee. Can't be on it for much more than an hour at a time.
Cheers, H.

 

[Lawnmowerboy]

Can't really photograph it but I've torn my Anterior Cruciate ligament in my right knee when I got off my bike after work yesterday, Put right foot on the ground and lifted left leg over and twisted round to put my left leg down and I felt something give way as I fell backwards with bike on top of me =( Can barely move even with the doc's mechanical brace thing keeps sort of giving way but they can't do a lot about it! wonder if I can make a better ligament from a bit of tig wire?!

 

[malcolm]

Jumped off a ladder this afternoon onto a bit of wood with the pointy ends of nails sticking out. The nail didn't go all the way through my foot but it went in a fair way and the foot is now quite inconvenient.

Not as nasty as others but daft not to have moved the wood further from the work space or perhaps turned it the other way up. Especially as I had prodded the nails earlier.