Stupidest injury

Daftest injury ever

This time I was not the victim,but my then Fiancee,who I was about to marry in 2 days.
She was moving stuff from her house ,and wanted to shift a small mdf type bookcase,so she put her hands under the top and lifted. The top came off its dowels and smacked her straight in the face. Broken nose & 2 shiners!!!
Our wedding photos are interesting!!
 
I made a new spinnaker pole chock at home, fitted on board. Pole not quite nesting properly, so held chock in hand and used a chisel on it. Big chuck out of the ball of my thumb.

Making a snowman for the kids, walked round the back of the shed to get some sticks for the arms, slipped in the snow, fell on some old building timber. Noticed the blood on the snow when walking back to the house. I'd put a screw through the side of my palm. 2 Hours at A&E.
 
Not strictly my fault. I was on a lean-to roof, cutting a groove into the masonry to house the flashing. 9" grinder. There is a convention that the incoming supply, the big black unfused cable from the pole, should not be behind a barge board, but this one was as I found shortly. Tee hee. Shortly! Geddit? I suppose wearing leather gloves and rubber soled boots may have helped, or was I safe on a roof anyway?
 
BrendanS said:
go for the spray on stuff. you need the normal elastoplast for the first 5 minutes to absorb and stem the blood flow. After that, chuck it away, and spray the plastic skin stuff on.
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On fingers I wrap the elastopast up with Electrical / self amalgamating tape - trick is not to cut off the circulation, or at least not for too many days :rolleyes:

As tested when I was using a stanley knife - I actually remember thinking that the way I was using ithe Stanley wasn't very sensible as it could easily slip and slice deeply into my finger - but decided to risk it. I was proved right :eek: Still got that scar :rolleyes:
 
First sailing holiday on charter yacht. Difficult last day including reversing into space in a cross wind. Lots ofswearing. SWMBO told children to open hatches. Then we had to "adjust" the anchor. SWMBO steps back straight through the forward hatch. Stopped from going all the way through by her rib cage. Undoubtedly broke at least one rib (did not get an xray as no change to treatment). Surprising we now own a yacht.

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Tried to start a small ransome catterpillar tractor by pulling on the fan belt. Didn't manage to get my hand away, so round the pulley it went. Ouch!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Not me but somebody else.

When i was working in the WIndies, we had a member of the Rugby Club who drank like a fish and smoked like a chimney, but was nothing more than skin and bone. Quite tall and lanky his arms used to flail around all over the place, and it was commonly known that he would burn other people's clothes with his cigarette - this was called being 'Spragged'.

Once we went on tour to the Bahamas, and ended up in a casino where said friend was concentrating heavily on the roulette table. He stubbed his ciggie out without looking ...... just as the waiter was changing the ashtray. Ciggie was stubbed out heavily on back of waiter's hand!!

Laugh? I am still doing just writing about it 25years later. :)
 
I tried to leapfrog an empty metal dustbin. The lid wasn't on securely and skidded out underneath my hands. I fell in head first cutting my chin badly on the edge as I went. I still have the scar 47 years later.
 
Nearly 40 years ago climbed out of a wrecked car: half of engine and gearbox back in passenger compartment, no glass left anywhere, whole car much shorter than a few seconds earlier.

Saw road tax disc lying on road, went to pick it up and cut finger on bits of glass. I did later have a seat-belt-shaped bruise though....
 
Our scout master really did saw off the branch on which he was sitting - twenty feet up the tree! Good practice trying to splint his broken leg as well.
 
Pepper spray may be a good thing for self-defence. The downside exposes itself when it goes off un-noticed in your suitcase and then you put on what you think is a clean pair of underpants.
 
When a young lad I was unloading fishing gear from the landrover on quay & managed to ram a large shark hook right through the palm of my hand & out the back :eek: Wasn't actually all that painful, considering!
Asked a passing elderly lady to help me & She promptly fainted:eek:
Got help for her before having the barb snipped off by the blacksmith!
It hurt more pulling it back out! Still got a little white scar;)
 
Replacing switch on electric cooker and thought, "Yes, neon's on so I'm ok to grab it". Broke the wretched replacement switch with the convulsive movement.

SWMBO pulled a weed out of the garden with unusual gusto, hit hand on a rose bush and broke finger.

Rested model car on thigh whilst hacking at it with a scalpel. Eight stitches.
 
I learnt what a "comminuted" fracture was earlier this year, and that morphine is fantastic stuff! Ran a petrol lawnmower over my foot. :eek:
I've now got 1 foot and 11.5 inches! :D
 
M33 said:
Rewired all the sockets in the house, wife and kids had gone away for the weekend, finished the ring main, switched on, checked all the sockets, all OK then went to fix the other end of the ring main into the consumer unit but didn't switch off first ............................. I jumped!
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Re-wiring the upstairs ceiling lights. First disconnected the live, then worked along changing all the old dropped lights to flush mounted. Was just doing the last one when it bit me. The only time I've found a lighting circuit wired as a ring main!

All the others must have been live, too, but I just hadn't touched the live and neutral at the same time.
 
I raced for 2 seasons without a scratch then in 1973..I was pushing my motocrosser back to garage after testing it out pre race day.
Got chatting to kids whilst pushing.... thought .."that chain sounds slack".... fingers through front cog.... two much shorter fingers!!


Showing off to future wife, I did a gate vault from a post to then slip and ended up hanging by arm on barbed wire......


Brother-in-law fitting up 240V external coloured lights for big family bar-b-q.
Put plug in socket but ensured switch was off.
Proceeded to hang light string on poles in garden without bulbs fitted.
Luckily down from ladder, picked up end of string of lights but put finger in lamp socket to find it live!!!
He was unable to let go and luckily after a few seconds someone pulled the plug from the socket.
He was in a state yet recovered fine.
Just a couple of weeks earlier the ring was rewired and the 'electrician' had switched the neutral and not the live !!??


I was coaching a rowing 8 and the bow man caught a crab whilst at full tilt.
He went straight out over his rigger and diappeared, came up under 5's rigger and bashed his head, came up again where I grabbed him from the coaching launch and hauled him aboard.......



Although the Thames was in full flood in winter, with very experienced coxes, crews and coaches in launches, we who had grown up on the Thames.....we used to get on with it.
As a rowing coach with over 40 years experience, I advised a squad of women rowers not to go beyond a certain point above Abingdon lock, clearly telling the coaching team of the dangers.
They took the crews exactly where I had warned them not to and they lost a whole 8 over Abingdon weir.
The girls were all alive the other side and were rescued but obviously very fortunate not to have all died.
My moral for this story is never trust a flood stream near a weir and don't trust arrogant Olympic rowers who think they know best when coming to show off whilst coaching womens crews!


My son, a joiner, used to working in oak, recently made a staircase in beech.
Using a chop saw he is used to the grip of oak and so was surprised when his fingers slipped on the sawdust on the piece he was holding and he lost the top knuckle off his left index finger.


Reminds me..... I've burnt my finger on a soldering iron too! :-)
 
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Walking about in a boatyard once, there was a plank lying there...I walked over it and stepped on a six inch nail sticking out of it. It went straight through my shoe and foot and the tip popped out between the shoelaces.
My mother who was with me..fainted. I then had the dilemma of attending to her or my foot. I somehow managed to do both at the same time, hopping around still impaled on the plank. The yard manager came out, saw this, removed his hat and scratched his head.:rolleyes:

The very same week, staying at a friend's flat that had dark mahogany doors throughout, fumblimg about in the dark and not wanting to wake anybody up, I walked straight into one of them. mistaking it for it being open in the dark.

Then once in a supermarket, walking about absentmindedly I did not focus correctly and walked straight through the glass front leaving my outline and a pile of glass behind me. I only broke my nose.:eek:

I went into a workshop in the Isle of Wight to ask a question. There was a broom lying on the floor at the entrance. An old boy came out, stepped on the broom, which reared up and hit him in the face.:D
 
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