Mr. Sparkle

I know a plumber who is partially blind in one eye after a service call where he plunged or was snaking a sink and a bunch of liquid plumber (he asked the HO if they used any chemicals before he arrived and they said no..) shot back and hit him in the face and eyes.

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Black4Truck

Dam.. that sucks... did he sue those morons?

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Mr. Sparkle

I asked and he said at the time he was an employee of one of the largest service companies in NJ, he didn't really answer me just kinda smirked....I didn't pry....he owns his own shop now so, I think so....

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Peter D

I took a trap apart that I had put Liquid Plumber in - no gloves. That was a bad idea.

mattsilkwood

Cut the tendon in my index finger right at the first joint, on sheet metal. I could open it up and see the bone. It was such a clean cut it never bled more than a few drops and didnt really hurt, untill after the doc got done.
That was about 7 years ago.

Then earlier this year I smashed the same finger so bad that it split and meat came out of the scar where I had cut it. That time it hurt! Bad!
It was a month before I could ues it at all.

Jlarson

Mine was cutting the back of my head open on a tree skiing. I bled so much the hat I had on got stuck when the blood dried, without the hat I probably would have lost a lot more blood.

Worst electrical one was I slit one whole side of a finger open on a piece of sealtight, took more than a month to heal.

BCSparkyGirl

Had the lid of a garbage dumpster come down on my hand (broken fingertip, lucky it didnt take it off)
Peeled the front of my shin off falling off stairs that someone didn't mark as being removed
Severed the nerve on my left thumb (still numb 3 years later)
Ferric Chloride (used to etch copper on circuit boards) slashed up under my safety glasses, burned cornea, got to walk around like a pirate for 2 days.
Various scars......my favorite was the cresent moon shaped one on my arm from bumping into my heatgun.

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EDM

That's what Chong Li did to his opponent in Bloodsport.

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macmikeman

This wasn't my worst injury but its the one I remember most. When I was three I got a tumor in the bottom of my foot. My mom took me to a doctor. It was in Canada, land of the goverment run health care. I was too young so he didn't give me any anethesia. My mom held me down while he cut that thing out with a scalpel.....

BCSparkyGirl

I do recall that scene.......but I didnt have broken bones protruding from mine.

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TOOL_5150

Yeah Im not partial to that beer either. How fast did you finish it? I bet a burp half way through could make for quite a sight.

~Matt

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brian john

Age 3 dancing with my sister as my brother played the piano, I fell and hit my head against a steam radiator

Reached into an ATS (before I knew better) there was a loose control wire hit my hand and where my arm was resting a large hole appeared and an immense amount of pain.

Using a Gravely zero turn mower whipped around a tree and pinned my wrist under a broken tree limb.

Got a ski rope wrapped around my foot learning to salomon ski. Bounced off the river bottom a few times as the driver of the pot had been drinking a few and had twisted one up.
A battery blew up

Dust collection bag was full and the chips were not adequately being removed from a 6" Delta joiner I reached down and brushed them aside WALA to tips mangled
I lived in a old house and was trying to match the trim had a difficult router set up and was making test cuts after each cut had to adjust the jigs.


In each case except the dancing and possible the water skiing Carelessness, not paying attention to the task at hand and not following proper safety measures resulted in an injury
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cobra50

Worst one that i witnessed was a pipecover on a man-lift not shutting down some metal ceiling fans.He turned right into one and cut his forehead wide open,I think he had over 100 stitches.

wwilson174

I was fortunate in 40 years of construction the worst injury I sustained was a broken toe. I did it myself by slamming a piece of conduit to the floor in anger. Afterwards I wore steel toed shoes! BillW

EDM

You must have felt so dumb Did you try to walk it off nonchalantly so no one knew what you did?

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wwilson174

Danced it off would be more accurate!

te12co2w

At work, tore tendons in my right hand from using D-handle drills and having them bind up and twist. Still weak 4 years later. Self employed, no disability.
At work, fell from the second floor to the first when a temporary stair tread snapped. No hand rail. I went over the edge and to keep from landing on my head, I tried to flip myself. Didn't make it all the way and landed flat on my back. Crushed 4 discs. I still feel that one 1-1/2 years later. Still self employed.
I've had the normal growing up mishaps. I laid a motorcycle down and the exhaust burned through my jeans and burned my calf pretty bad. Burns hurt a long time. I don't feel it now though.
Broke a front tooth off falling on a slick concrete porch.
Cut my little finger all up and had to get it put back together. Sharp piece of metal, when I was about 14-15.
About the same age a piece of metal somehow rusted onto my eyeball and had to have that removed. It was cool though, got to wear a patch for a few days. Aaarghh.
An apprentice I have working now, fell off a ladder (not working for me) and broke both wrists. He has some nasty looking scars from that one.

MechanicalDVR

Crushed a few discs in my lumbar spine, herniated two discs in my cervical spine, messed up the nerves for both arms and hands, broke both elbows, tore up both knees, tore my left rotator cuff, broke my right thumb, and sprained both wrists. Took a couple years to get healed as well as possible and got a job.

LJSMITH1

My worst...not including minor cuts or other stupid injuries..

Compound Fracture of my left forearm jumping my BMX bike over a car. I was a hero for doing it, but in a plaster cast for 10 weeks..

2nd and 3rd degree burns of my left calf and thigh from playing with gasoline. Fire was fun for awhile..until that incident...Fire BAD!

Cut my left thigh and quadricep with a running chainsaw that was pushed into me for 1 second by a snapping tree limb. 185 stitches in three layers..

Had a 1/4" wide by 2" long metal sliver from a ceiling grid go right through the meaty portion of my left middle finger. I was brushing the top of my mitre saw table off with my hand and the metal piece was lodged in one of the grooves.. I had to make the quick decision either to go to the ER or to just pull it out myself. I pulled it out myself - in the direction of the barbed burrs. No stitches or blood transfusions needed..

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John Valdes

Two ruptured discs, two unsuccessful surgeries and on disability since 2005. I have two 6 inch rods, a plate and 12 titanium screws in my lower back. Hurts more now than before the surgeries.