Injuries at work

[The Artist]

So what is your best you heard/saw/happened to you?

Today at work, I look up and about 10 metres from me, this guy ran over his foot with a forklift. The next 10 minutes the air was filled with the sound of him calling everyone a cunt.

[whitedevil]

I saw a guy put his hand through a spindle moulder.
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[stinkwheel]

My Dad worked in the lifting equipment industry so he's seen some prettynasty ones.

He once saw someone put a 250 tonne wire rope sling (about as thick as your arm) in the hydraulic proof testing machine then switch it on only to have it hook up over the end of a beam.

Before he could be stopped, the guy had walked over to it and given it a kick. It was being proof tested to three times its safe working load so had a 750 tonne tensile force going through it by that point, the man and his foot landed at opposite ends of the workshop.
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[Skudd]

Saw a lad de-glove his finger when a ring caught on some racking.
Also saw a pallet split and fall through a cab. Saw a security officer get knocked over by a thief's car.
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[The Artist]

[Fairies attack]

Seen some pretty nasty ones.

When I was about 17/18 and just starting as a Fabricator, a bloke loading a plate onto his bench with someone else driving the fork truck, it slipped off the end of the forks and came crashing down on his fingers. He ripped his hand away, and left his fingers on the bench. When someone asked where they were the old bloke lifted the beam, pulled his glove out, shook it, and gave the bloke his fingers back.

Same place,
There was a 75ton punch, a new labourer was using it, and didn't move both index fingers out from between the plate, and die block. By the time he realised, both fingers were flat, and he couldn't move until someone else used the lever to lift it back up.

One of the nastiest was on site in Luton (IIRC) a guy was rigging up some piles, and was trying to move the chain round whilst the crane was lifting, he had the chain wrapped around his hand, when the pile shifted and took his hand and fingers off from just about the thumb joint.

Compared to them, mine have just been minor, like black nails, trapped nuts, and slipping with the grinder.
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[Babba]

I got my pony tail wrapped in the slow speed screw feed of a metal lathe once.

I've actually sat thru a safety course when the instructor flashed up MY photo's !

[dodgydog]

Many years ago I briefly worked at a wool combing plant.
All the old machines were run from a mill engine, via shafts up near the roof, and big leather belts running down to the machines, it was a bloody scary place to work.
One young lad, he was about 16, was standing near to one of the belts. he stepped back as someone wanted to come past.
Next thing, the hooks that joined the leather belts caught his sleeve, he was lifted up and ended up going round the shaft at the top, which was only inches from the roof.
There wasn't an emergency stop. The mill engine had to be thrown out of gear, which took about five minutes. Although the lad was probably dead within seconds.
It took the fire brigade the rest of the day to disentangle his remains from the belting and the shaft.


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[scorps]

only work injuries ive seen are arsey scaffolders whacking each other with poles in yard fights, im pretty dam good with butterfly strips now, but the accidents in the posts above could pretty much ruin your day
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[daemonoid]

Trapped my hand in a slot machine door, yes that is the bone you can see in the pic.

Got me shouting expletives in the middle of a packed yet quiet dev studio, worst bit was then going to an Indian OR to have it fixed up. My Hindi is particularly poor, but I did pick up "Ferenghi's (foreigners) want new needles" and saw the nurse go elsewhere for a fresh one
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[Rebel]

When I worked at Bae someone decided to end it all by jumping in a 15' deep degreasing tank. Don't know what was in it but it turned him purple.

[The Artist]

[Cunnington]

There was a bloke on one of our sites who was mixing grout in a dustbin with a paddlemixer. The switch jammed on and he panicked, with the end result the paper oversuit caught the shaft of the mixer and he degloved his testicles.
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[Redoko]

Cut my fingers more than enough times.
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[JonB]

I saw someone burn their lip on their morning coffee once. But that's about it.
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[Finglonga]

Stood on my Bic and snapped it in half a couple of years ago ......
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[Dazbo666]

Saw a guy stick a heavy duty staple thru his thigh with an industrial pneumatic stapler - (actually a heavier grade than this pic...)
https://www.usinenouvelle.com/industry/img/pneumatic-top-closing-stapler-for-coiled-staples-000067494-4.jpg

Also saw another guy narrowly miss being crushed by a falling stack of large screen CRT tubes

(Both incidents within a month or two of each other at a well known TV manufacturer site)
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[Werny]

A place I used to work modified some press tooling to fit in all the machines - shifting feet positions. One tool was incorrectly modded and the foot covered one of the holes in the bottom left for metal slugs to fall out after the punching process. Over some time the remaining space filled up with the slugs, and on one stroke the tooling shattered - the hole was about 4mm from the edge of the tool steel.

The operator got a face full of tool steel shards and metal slugs - basically from his nose doen to his upper chest looked like he'd been shotgunned, blood pissed out and soaked everything. Thankfully all the wounds were just surface penetrations and it looked far worse than it actually was.

[Rebel]

A few more I recall.
A workmate managed to short out a heavy duty battery via a spanner to his wedding ring and nearly burnt his finger off.
Another passed his hand through a bench mounted hydrogen/oxygen torch used for welding silica quartz (>5,000 deg. ) I never saw him again so don't know how he got on but he was sizzled to the bone.
I saw a chap after he got blown through a heavy steel door by a boiler explosion, we put him in the back of a van until the ambulance took him away.
I started a lathe one time but forgot to remove the chuck key, luckily it missed me by about an inch so I suppose that doesnt count.
I also managed to pin a colleague against a conveyor belt with a fork truck, breaking both his feet. Embarrasingly I was the duty first aider, so then had to attend to him until the ambulance arrived. He told me to take my ice packs and fuck off.
Not work related but as a child I was at a beach in Cameroon with my folks when some guy out swimming had a heart attack. When we sussed he was drowning, we stopped waving back and my dad and a couple of other blokes swam out to assist. He was a big lad and in his panic was dragging them under, so they were all trying to knock him out to subdue him. By the time they got him ashore he was dead so they left him on the surf line and we all got on with our picnics. I remember strolling over to check him out. I suppose someone put him in a landrover and took him back to town at the end of the day but it wasn't us.

[CaNsA]

My old man used to design and install plastic injection moulding machinery. Thats some big heavy ass kit.

When the Smarties cap, the round ones with the single letter, machine was getting installed he seen some guy get his left foot get completely flattened under the rig.

They had to leave his foot under the machine until the amberlamps arrived in-case he started to bleed out.

They couldn't save the foot.