Workplace Injuries
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Ok. It’s slow and hunting seasons can’t get here fast enough.
Tagging along with Butcherboy’s work related injury thread, who else has been injured on the job?
Back in 2012, I got cut by a piece of metal. Severed 8 tendons in my right hand. ( I’m right handed)
Took quite awhile to recover and lost some finger mobility. The biggest thing I found out was how thin toilet paper really is using your other hand. :)
I have had a few injuries over the years. It is better not to do them. Tendons take a while. I put my wrist through a car headlight when trying to get the company car back on the road. That cost me a wrecker call, an ER visit and two months with my hand in a splint. It took a couple minutes to find that scar but it healed well. I am still working on my most recent injury.
I was a pharma rep for about 12 years. I grew quite the belly catering lunches most days along with some dinner here and there. Not sure if that counts as a workplace injury though.
I have a hip replacement due to a fall off of a building at work. I broke the ball off from the neckbone of the hip, and not a pretty break. They tried to do some repair surgery, but but that was a no go. Total hip replacement was my only option, happened 16 years ago.
Dang! I’m really glad mine wasn’t even close to that! Glad it’s better for the most part. I have a buddy that is accident prone with his hands and fingers. He broke his pinky on a OIL elk hunt and continued to hunt. Had to have surgery, pins, etc on it. A few years later he cuts the other pinky off with a chainsaw! They reattached it and all is well. Lol
My brother has a good finger injury but I’ll let him tell that one if he wants.
Not job related but this is my right hand and I severed it in log splitter in 1985 . I was loading a log on the splitter and my brother in law hit the lever to the ram just as I laid the log on. Thank God I got to a hand center 2 hours later and 8 days n the hospital. Here’s the first picture of the actual x ray before surgery .It was wrapped in lots of gulls . Lost a lot of blood as well. Today I still shoot with my longbow and recurves with a glove.
Cnelk , I had many a splint like yours when I severed my hand . Here’s my fingers pinned back on at mid palm in 1985
I been lucky. In construction for a long time. Don’t wear the bags much anymore but a few falls off roofs and nails through appendages. Lots of “ that could have been really bad” type of deals the ended well.
Same hand but surgeons left the bask open so infection could drain out, Inside was stitched all over the inside and up the fingers as well.
Going through the process right now. Back in March I was breaking up a fight between 8 different HS boys and when I grabbed a boy and tried to get him off another one, he jerked so hard that he pulled my shoulder back & out. I instantly had a sharp pain. Went for x-rays and they were negative but had an arthrogram & MRI last week. I meet with my ortho this Monday to get results. Shoulder aches real bad when I sleep at night and keeps me up. I also have real bad grinding & popping in my shoulder. Not terribly painful until I try to do wiping motion. I have lost about 30-40% of my strength and 70-80% when trying to lift something above my shoulders.
1997 left hand
1997 left hand
Left thumb
Left thumb
First was 1997. Second was a couple years ago, same hand.
Jstephens for the win! Not that it’s something you want to win. Lol
Can’t find the picture where I nail the index and middle fingers together with a framing nailer. Same hand.
I gotta give you a hand, jstephens! Looks like you might need a spare!
Not entirely sure I want to know....but how did you sever your hand?
Hands down the craziest thing I've seen on Bowsite
Holy cow jstephens61. My knees buckled when I cut my hand, I can only imagine the shock you went into
Cant top jstephen61.
Late 2000 stationed in Okinawa, took a platoon out for moto run. Finished daily 7 and started out on the run. Got about 100 yards out and caught my right foot in my left foot shoe lace. Instant face plant! About 60 Marines behind me bout ran up my azz. Had time to get my hands up. Broke the end of my bone off in my right wrist. They had to use a plate and five screws to fix it. Still got back up, ran to the front and finished the run.
Learned a great lesson about double tying my laces.
Holy sh!t. I have to ask. How did your hand get severed. Wow, just wow.
Goodness. That had photo reminds me of that science in The Departed with Jack Nicholson holding that hand while he’s eating.
Apparently they were able to reattach it? What was the recovery like. What kind of mobility did you have?
Only thing topping Jstephens experience is a lopped off weenie. Ffffck!
Compound miter box. After 11 hours and 5 surgeons, all better.
https://vimeo.com/360311066/04304a8769
A video that SIU Medical Center did if you’re interested. And the camera does add 10#!
J Stephens, how did it happen?
The video was excellently done
Jstephens. Game set match. Holy cr@p.
I had a couple of flesh wounds. I was using an angle drill and did not unplug it. I was using chuck key to remove a bit and my hand slip down on to drill trigger. The drill motor activated spinning the drill head with chuck key still in it. The end of the chuck key slamming into my thumb, running up into my thumb. The drill was buzzing as it wanted to tear my thumb off. I couldn't relax or it would do just that. A coworker witnessed it and he removed power to drill, which allowed me to relax my grip and remove chuck key.
Another time I ran a utility knife into the back of my hand, in the meaty section between thumb and index finger. Up to the hilt of knife. Wrapped wound in napkins and electrical tape and finished job. Drove 35 min to town/ER. Took a few stitches, but I still remember seeing the inner workings of my hand as I removed the knife blade. (Before wound filled with blood)
Holy moly! Some of those are just crazy!
Well crap...Here comes Jaq's pic again...
Hope they put your hand on correctly. Jeepers. My spine fusion can’t top that. Give that boy a hand, oh wait?
Does sweating so bad on a metal roof that you pass out qualify?
Seriously, I don’t have any pics but, back when I was forestering, I run a stick through my right eye while cruising timber. And, tore both acl, mcls, and cartridge in both knees while cruising timber.
I hoped you changed professions?
"I have yet to find anything that I do, that I would have done better with a hook on my left hand" Well said sir, well said!
Nice house by the way - that's more then a hobby. Blessings - Alex
Wow Jim! You’re my hero! Lopped off your whole dam hand and back to building log cabins. Glad it all worked out well for you. Sheesh!
Wholly cow you guys! I'm glad your all here and able to describe this stuff... WOW!
The thing all the accidents above have in common is, they all happened in a split second. My was a stupid brain fart. Please, please, be careful!
Don’t know about anyone else, but I went through a bout of depression/feeling sorry for myself. Was sitting on the steps of the hospital 3 days after the surgery thinking about how the heck was my life going to go on. At that time, still had a house to finish, a archery ship to run, 5 kids to keep track of and a new bride that thought I could do anything. Also deer season was just around the corner! How was I going to shoot my bow now?
Sitting there, I saw a gentleman coming across the parking lot. He could barely walk due to birth defects, his hands were curled up and he couldn’t stand straight. I saw all that, but the thing that’s stuck with me for years is, he was smiling! From ear to ear! I thought right then, if fate had given this guy all this to bare and he could smile, what did I have to bitch about?
I did finish that home and a second one. Raised those 5 kids and 6 grands. Loved my wife and became closer because of it. I did miss that deer season and never reopened the shop. Small price to pay.
I thank God every day for my wife, she kept her cool and drove to the hospital. A great group of surgeons, 5 of them for 11 hours, and a great PT department.
Sorry about the rambling post.
Many years ago, before MRIs were a thing, I fell off in a cellar on an oilfield drill site trying to straighten the cellar ring. It was almost dark, (the oilfield is in a perpetual hurry and the rig was coming the next morning), and I tried to catch myself by grabbing a backhoe bucket. Long story short, I pulled my right shoulder almost out of the socket. It hurt like hell, but the pain afterward was worse. Forty-five minutes on a table captured with some kind of imaging machine on my chest while a guy tried to find my shoulder joint with a loooooong needle full of gasoline. It must have been, because when he finally shot it into my shoulder it felt like fire all over my shoulder and right chest area. Following that, the sawbones said I had a rotator cuff tear and surgery was required with an airplane splint for six weeks. No way I could do that as I had just started my own contracting business and was driving a truck with a four speed. So I lived with not being able to lift my arm above shoulder level for a year. Went to my chiropractor one morning and he asked about the shoulder, (which he had never been able to help), and he wanted to try once more. He got both hands on my elbow, my hand behind my head, and snatched really hard. We both heard and felt the snap ! All we could conclude was that the ball had been hung between in place and out of place for all that time. It’s a lot better now, but still not 100%. I can live with it.
Jim, great perspective! We could all use a little of that sometimes.
Kind of a long story so I'll try to abbreviate as much as possible.
Back in 1983, we were building an apartment complex. Standing on the second story deck, my foreman was standing on a stool, using an air nailer.
I was cutting small pieces of 2 x 4's and handing them to him and as he nailed them in I would be cutting the next piece.
I cut one and as I stood up to hand it to him his arm got tired and he lowered the nail gun with his finger on the trigger and discharged an 8 penny nail (2 1/2 inches long) into the top of my head.
My knees buckled, I went down to my hands and knees. I grabbed the nail with my hand and tried to pull it out - it was in all the way with about a quarter of an inch sticking out. I couldn't pull it with my hand so I grabbed my claw hammer and was going to hook it and pull it out with that. I changed my mind - it hurt like hell!
There were 3 of us working so we all piled into his old junker truck and off to the hospital we went (30 miles from the job site). We passed a state trooper and the driver shouted out the window we were going to the hospital - he just waved us on. He showed up at the hospital a few minutes after we got there.
I never lost consciousness and was talking to the nurses when the emergency room Dr. came in. He was trying to get the hat off (the nail pinned it to my head - brand new canvas hat I just purchased a couple days ago) **not flat brimmed LOL**
He made a comment about needing something sharper to cut through the hat. It sounded like someone rummaging through a silverware drawer - clinking noise as he tried a few different ways to cut the hat off. He finally braced against the table and gave the hat a hard jerk.
That's the last thing I remember until I heard my wife's voice several minutes later when I came too - there were a few Dr.'s and several nurses working on me! During the time I was out, they put in a IV, hooked me up to oxygen, hooked up a 7 lead, and put a pressure cup on my arm. The nurse said I almost died.
When the dumb-ass Dr. jerked the hat off, I went into shock.
I got really lucky, when the nail hit, it hit that button right on the top of the hat, which deflected it at a bit of an angle - straight in would have killed me (according to Dr.).
After that whenever I would work really hard the blood vessels would expand causing sever migraines. Took seven years of different kinds of medication and other treatments to curb the migraines. Acupunture helped for a while, but the issues came right back. What finally worked was "Bio-feed back" which is a self-relaxation method that I would do whenever I felt a migraine coming on.
Two ACLs and a severed finger tendon. I’m embarrassed to even post that
Damn Inshart, that’s scary !
Some real men on this site for sure. I feel like a Puss talking about my injured shoulder. Wish I could delete it and just shake the hands of the guys above.
^X100......I'm embarrassed even bring up a broke toe after looking at some of the pics above. I ain't worthy!!!!
Not work for me but was in the field with those who were. 59 years ago when times were simpler and we drank right out of the hose, I was being babysat with twin cousins same age as me (4 yrs). We were riding in the grain tank of a 55 John Deere combine. When it came time to unload we’d hop up on the back of the tank to keep our feet from being amputated by the unloading auger. Hired man was driving and had his fiancé along standing on the platform ladder, so was potentially distracted. When he stopped to unload I hopped up on the tank, and he released the clutch. Unfortunately machine wasn’t completely out of gear and I flipped backward landing on the head of the 4 banger combine engine causing severe burns. My head ended up on the main drive pulley which ground 3 holes down thru my hide. (I once told some friends of my daughters that I was clawed by a Mt. Lion. It was soon after I’d been on a lion hunt and they bought it big time lol.). My dad was in the truck box shoveling wheat when I went over and crawled up the side of the machine to get me. Long stay in the hospital. No long lasting effects except skin grafts and head scars.
Not real good with knives; seems I’m always severing nerves in my pinky fingers, but so far have never missed a season but been close a few times.
Some of you guys are hard core! The paper cut I discovered today when I used the hand sanitizer doesn't even come close.... Jstephens, that's just not right... Glad you recovered!
I don't have one luckily. But my late stepfather cut his thumb off in a Harley chain while he was showing it to someone interested in buying. Not sure how it kicked on. Everyone present said that it was turned off and as soon as he touched the chain it ate his thumb.
Luckily he got it reattached, but they had to use a laser to remove the ring on his hand. We still have the ring somewhere.
^^^^Shiras X2! Great attitude, Jim!
Nothing nearly as crazy as some of you guys but it still stung a bunch. While trying to remove a fish hook from a stingrays mouth. The little sucker snapped a piece off and swallowed it !
Yeah I guess you can say you’re toughern a nail now! ;) I’ve shot myself 3 times with a nailer and at least once with a crown stapler but only 1 hit bone and that was a finger and nothing serious in comparison to some of you guys!
This has got to be the most gruesome thread ever on Bowsite. For the sake of those who haven't read it yet, I hope it gets closed as not archery related.
Wasn’t mint to be gruesome. Hopefully it shows that no matter what happens, with a positive attitude and perseverance, you can make it through. Just my thoughts.
We had this old guy, Jack, who framed for us for a short while, he was an ex-carney and not a real sharp dude, he was diabetic, chain-smoked, and drank 128oz of Coke every day. One day he was cutting 2x4s and apparently ran the Skilsaw across his fingers 1/4" deep because he was holding the wood IN HIS HAND and cutting across it. He ended up seeing a great surgeon my dad was friends with who saved his fingers, and told him due to his diabetes he had to quit smoking and drinking asap if he wanted any chance of them healing up. On the day of Jack's first checkup my dad got a call from the surgeon, who told him he wasn't going to help Jack anymore if he didn't take the rehab seriously. Apparently Jack had walked into the Dr's office with the bandages on his hand all singed and soaked in Coke. The story he gave was he'd been smoking on the drive down, holding the cigarette between the tips of the fingers sticking out of his bandage, which started to smolder, so to put out the fire he poured his giant coke on it...he didn't end up keeping all the fingers.
This thread is actually or could be a life saver for many here “If” they ever experience a tragic accident like Steven with the hand completely severed or myself where I had my hand severed in the mid palm area in a log splitter accident. I only had some skin left on my inside palm area. My hand was held together with just a wrapping of those gulls and lots of them . Anyway If anyone or if you see or are near anyone that may accidentally lose a limb,finger,hand,arm or leg I was told to have someone or yourself if you are able and save it and ice it down if at all possible . The surgeon said to me that there is this window of time (about 2 hours)where it is possible to reattach that limb or whatever it may be . Heck the Bobit dude had his baby maker reattached as proof it could be done lol. Anyway Steven even had that hand reattached and he was back to using it not to mention I still use my hand and shoot Traditional even today . So stay safe but remember if something happens there is a chance you could have a second chance of using that member of your body if it’s iced down or just picked up and taken to the hospital with you.