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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: mud-club-matty on September 30, 2006, 20:43:20
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well i got hit in the face with a socket that flew of and air gun
what about you people
thanks matty
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i broke a nail
soz man had to giggle cos actually i broke a sweat but that doesnt count
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Dropped a Steel 110 Bumper on me foot... that bloody hurt.
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while doing some panel beating in my under sized/overstocked garage a pair of 4 pot calipers which were freshly painted and hanging of the rafters to dry, decided to come adrift and land on me bonce,, #-o ended up going rather nifty to A&E and havin copius amounts of super gloo applied to stem the flow , I knew there was a reason i didnt ahave any hair :lol:
Also i stupidly worked under a car with no stands( VERY VERY VERY STUPID IDEA) I recomend never to try it, Any how the jack failed and ended up trying to bench press a astra gte off me, did nt suceed (no suprise there) but got some help summonsed and got out with a sore chest for about two weeks, Also took me about a year to get under a car again, even on one of those big 4 poster ramp things, Just glad i didnt own a landy back in those days, :?
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:shock: When i used to work at a vehicle body builders i was walking on the back of a half built flatbed when i fell with one leg eitherside of a crossmember it somewhat hurt especialy as my feet never reached the floor had some very colouful bruises!! :? :?
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Didnt happen to me, but when i was in the HGV trade. An apprentice went under a 7.5 tonner between the brake rollers. He spent two weeks in hospital bruised to hell. Very lucky. :o :o
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Take one 9 inch angle grinder, jam the blade so it shoots upwards and stick a body in the way and i'm left with a scar for life. I'm darn lucky it was just the plastic handle that got me rather than the disc.
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tuck a screw driver though my hand
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opened my face up with a 18 inch ratchet changing radius arm buches on a 90,cool scar on my face now
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drilled through both wrists.
set fire to my nuts
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set fire to my nuts
We said work shop, not drunken night out.
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:? went under a coach once on a crawlwer board and felt somthing pressing on my pocket then realised it was the coach coming down on it's air suspension i have never moved so quick in my life!!!! :D
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nearly took off the toes on my right foot with an angle grinder . next time I'll wear steel toe capped boots
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:? went under a coach once on a crawlwer board and felt somthing pressing on my pocket then realised it was the coach coming down on it's air suspension i have never moved so quick in my life!!!! :D
Bet that was scary... A guy my dad works with had a similar incident where he was laid on a 6 legger chassis playing with the prop and body started to lower, I've never seen someone dive quite so far before.
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:shock: I tell you what it's blo*dy amazing what you can do when your life depends on it!! :shock:
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drilled through both wrists.
set fire to my nuts
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A squirrel's nightmare!!
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Changing a flail on a mower an the spanner slipped, hit myself on the head. got sent home with concusion, I knew what i was talking about but nobody else did :lol:
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Managed to drill my forehead(yes I said forehead) and I'm sure many of you who weld now and again can relate to the burning trousers syndrome.
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Trying to save time cutting some plastic on my knee suprise suprise knife went through plastic and into my knee...... was a awful lot of blood and quite a scar left
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would be easier to list what part of the body hasn't been hit,burnt,cut of trapped!part of playing with trucks,can especially relate to the air suspension going down.it's weird the images that flash before your eyes!
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When draining the fuel tank on a motorbike I learned three things
1: That you should always check the floor in case muppet has dropped a box of matches there.
2: Don't kneel on the box of matches by accident
3: Don't sit bewildered for serveral seconds wondering what happened and what that warm flickering glow is (eyebrows optional)
Oh and the final additional lesson make sure it's someone elses garage :lol:
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not did it myself but on exercise in the black forest in germany. my tank broke down. And the reme guys came out to fix it one lifted the back armour plate up as the other looked in to the engine bay. and yes the guy holding the armoured deck up slipped and it came crashing down onto the other reme lads hand. at least it was a clean cut stright through his wist. it took us ages to find his hand in the engine bay after :shock:
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Nelly's rear drums scraped my shoulder blades as she kicked a farm jack out from beneath her I rolled out just in time and she went 4"inche's into the tarmac :shock: .Put a 8 mil bit right through my palm and out the other side shouting at the kids :roll: .But the nastyest ive seen was a 9" cutting disc with the lock on run up the inside of someones leg whilst he was laying down using it.It caught he dropped it and of it went missing his credentials by millimeters :shock: :shock: :shock: But he was happy to be cut to the bone the length of his leg!! Rather than what could have happened.Bone cut away, skin grafts, muscle removed and a permanent limp but like i said he thinks he got away lightly!!!!!!!!!! :shock: :shock: So the morale of this story is never "lock on" a grinder when your beneath it,I suppose
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set fire to my nuts
Sorry but I just thought of this one,
Goodness Gracious, Great balls of fire!
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nail through my finger...near skim down my finger with a grinder...
etc
im dangerous!
now when working under the car i seem to wear more PPE than when i'm at work!
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hacksawed the end of my finger -while listening to someone explain why you should pay attention when sawing!!
stripping 3 core wire with my teeth - suppose i should have unpluged the other end first -result 1 missing front tooth!
and using a super duper sharp kitchen knife to cut a washing machine hose - managed to cut down to my knuckle.
also had a cortina bonnet on my head - ex wife was SUPPOSED to be holding it up - and let go to wave at someone!! :evil:
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Wasnt in a workshop, more a kitchen...
Sharpening large kitchen knife for suinday roast using some nasty daft little hand held V shaped thing, decided that one more "stroke" should do it, slipped and went striaght through my hand, into the bone/cartilidge of the knuckle joint on my index finger. Was a bit messy as the skin instantly peeled back leaving me looking at the inside of my hand while it peed blood out. 12 Stitches later and i was put back to rights, but it split again when they were removed, nasty! Just got a big lump, slightly immobile finger and scar to show for it now.
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I've not done anything serious to myself in the workshop (touch wood). The worst I've done is nearly cut my thumb off with a Stanley knife. You all know the scenario, you're cutting something and want to get it done quickly, you're holding down what you're cutting with your left hand and guess what. The knife slips! A nice clean cut down to the tendon (luckily it didn't catch it). A trip down to A & E and 5 stiches later, I now have something to show the little ones why you don't play with knives.
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Take one 9 inch angle grinder, jam the blade so it shoots upwards and stick a body in the way and i'm left with a scar for life. I'm darn lucky it was just the plastic handle that got me rather than the disc.
Seen the results of that quite a few times at work
Some other gruesomes & nasties seen are; (in no particuar order)
Pick-axe through foot
Hand in butchers mincer
Wire-brush (on angle grinder) on a chin
Circular sawed fingers
Chain-sawed leg
'mens dangly bits' caught on nail on fence
Innumerable Dog-bites, RTAs & house fires
Lady who stalled after pulling out in front of a 40MPH Scania (certainly not nice)
12year old(?) playing 'Chicken' on the M1
'One Under' (slow speed on railway) & photos of a 80MPH contact
I'll stop now, as it's coming up to dinnertime :wink:
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Bit like BTM
seen several nasties following RTC's, trains, fire's trappings in variuos places, man in rafters putting beams up with in his nail gun, straight through wood and hand holding the wood on other side :shock:
Myself took a trainee's knuckles ot the bone with a 9" grinder, same boy didn't listen split open ona sheet of steel.
I dropped a 6x4 sheet of steel on my toes, straight through the steel toes caps and into A&E for lots of stiches :shock:
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Using a 3/4" Air gun to do up some teeth on a large recycler i trapped the base of my index finger between the tooth and the machine as i did the nut up to 400lb ft, then... i had to one handed reverse the gun and back the nut off :shock: to release my hand, i still have the scar where it tore the skin out :roll:
colleague of mine was using a large 3/4" break back torque wrench to tighten up a wheel on a tractor, if you dont know when you set the torque on one of these they 'break' in the middle when the right tightness is reached as you do up the bolt or wheel nut, when the torque wrench resets it springs back fairly hard to the straight position any way on this day the guy was doing the wheel he had slippery hands and as the wrench 'broke' it slipped off his hand and snapped back... connecting quite hard with the soft dangly objects he keeps in his trousers :shock: needless to say he spent about 4 hours curled up in a ball refusing all treatment :lol:
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Using a 3/4" Air gun to do up some teeth on a large recycler i trapped the base of my index finger between the tooth and the machine as i did the nut up to 400lb ft, then... i had to one handed reverse the gun and back the nut off :shock: to release my hand, i still have the scar where it tore the skin out :roll:
colleague of mine was using a large 3/4" break back torque wrench to tighten up a wheel on a tractor, if you dont know when you set the torque on one of these they 'break' in the middle when the right tightness is reached as you do up the bolt or wheel nut, when the torque wrench resets it springs back fairly hard to the straight position any way on this day the guy was doing the wheel he had slippery hands and as the wrench 'broke' it slipped off his hand and snapped back... connecting quite hard with the soft dangly objects he keeps in his trousers :shock: needless to say he spent about 4 hours curled up in a ball refusing all treatment :lol:
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wonder how many of the male MC members all crossed there legs reading that
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drilled through both wrists.
At the same time? :?
I'm counting getting my finger caught in the pop riveter as pretty lucky after reading all the other stories here. Dropping spanner on head is par for the course when working under vehicle, and I *always* cut my hands at some point and bleed everywhere. If police ever need a DNA sample off me they will find plenty all over the Discovery and any DIY project I've ever done.
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I once got the brake pack assembly of an Airbus A318 dropped on my foot, These things weigh a hell of a lot, but the Polymer/Kevlar Toe cap didn't even bend. the thing didn't even scuff the leather. The top of my foot was very deep purple.
I was tinkering with the top radiator hose on a Landy a while ago when the wet screw driver sliped and hit me in the eye, I couldn't see out of it for about 5 minutes. It was blood shot for weeks.
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A few I have seen over the years:
Fella working under an MG Midget race car no axle stands and the jack slipped - crushed his skull, chest and pelvis!, this guy survived by pure luck but took the best part of 2 years to recover properly.
Whilst in Africa saw several Panga injuries, including an attack by Mugabe's henchmen that left several people minus arms and/or legs.
Chap changing a tyre on a set of split rims, over airred the tyre, the split rim blew off taking a large piece of scalp and a 2" sq piece of skull!
Friend driving through Lower Zambezi National Park in a series III stopped to let a herd of elephant pass, once clear set on his way for a baby ele to run in front of him and his colleague, they stopped just in time and sighed loudly. Whereupon the mother charged them, she stomped on the bonnet and put both tusks thru the bulkhead - they escaped by baling out the back - I helped recover this vehicle several days later and was shocked by the damage caused - including a squash engine and thoroughly bent chassis.
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a big blob of weld through my overals onto my leg :shock:
it smelt like bacon and took 6 weeks to heal properly
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:shock: I really hope that no one from the health and safety department is reading this we will be closed down for being to dangerous!!! :lol:
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not a nice one a mate off mine many years ago was working in pit removing a sender unit ,as he drained the fuel he knocked a strip light and boom history
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Guy working on a boat next to me adjusting the timing chain tension on a running engine, cost him the tiops of all four fingers.
Stapled my hand to a wall
14Kv Electric shock (Hitting the tool rack hurt more)
Dropped nice expensive snap on extention bar and discopvered it had landed between the starter feed and the body when I picked it.
Soldering iron bit fallen off while upside down using it, landed on my arm.
Eyebrows taken off by acidentally igniting solvent weld after making a really impressive bit of waste pipe up and looking down it
Electrocuted more times than I can count with varing voltages between 50V AC ring current on a phone line up to TV EHT feeds at 24Kv
Oh, and a 160MHz RF burn on my toungue (Dont Ask)
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I have put a drill through my arm working on a lathe,
I used to pull swarf of a lathe whilst machining until it got me, whilst working on a surface grinder i put my hand between the wheel and job,
Whilst working on a landrover i have had rust in my eye it had to be removed using a scrapping action :shock: , a spanner 52 mm was helpfully thrown at me by my 2 year old straight in the neathers whilst underneath the Disco
The one most recently using a can of expanding foam all over my hands and the stuff woundn't come off a vist to A&E for this one
lots of others,
Darren
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i have so far
1 two stiches in scalp (undoing lorry wheel nuts by standing on a 8ft scaffold pole sliped off and it landed on my head made my eyes water)
2 knocked myself out bending down to pick up a tool and didnt see bumper iron sticking out
3 various metal bits in the eyes
4 weld splatter burns the worst into (sock boot ears arm pit and under pants)
5 split knuckles
6 crushed fingers
7 crushed toes
8 brocken ribs (assaultd at work)
9 compressed spine (been of for 4 years so far)just keep taking the pills
glad i gave up work looks like a dangerous occupation (mechanic)
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drilled both wrists.
was holding the body while drilling a hole, straight through the steel and into my wrist.
Being a stupid twit i then did it to the other wrist 5 mins later.
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whilst welding the exhaust on my old mini (still attached to the car!)(up-side-down welding not to be recomended!) a stray bit of slag fell on my forehead.
dropped SJ 413 engine on my hand while trying to swear it into the box...
Al.
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Soldering iron bit fallen off while upside down using it, landed on my arm
Yep :lol: Done that & had it stuck to the palm & left nice little vent hole marking for a few weeks, except mine twisted round on a stiff flex, so I picked it up by the metal
i have so far
8 brocken ribs (assaultd at work)
Broken nose, belted by a junkie at work, still waiting for him to be brought back in for some reason :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
(I'll make sure I'm not left alone with him, so he can't accuse me of anything, but if he does start..............)
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20 stiches in the palm of my left hand, while drilling spot welds out of a door aperture on a tressle in slipped & whats the first thing you do when something drop's ---
Yes try to catch it, not reccomended when the drill is still going round :oops: , ended up three weeks later haveing plastic surgey on the hans due to middle finger turning blue & staying in the upright position :shock: , funny now but had to sign before the op as they might of needed to amputate bits or open up my lege to take some string bits to repair the hand,
Now left with a nice ''zorrow shaped scar
Oh lots of weld burns & other nasty cuts you get when you are a panel beater.
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At a party rather than in a workshop...
Laughed at a funny comment cracked just as I swigged from a fine bottle of becks...
Thought.. oh dear, I'm about to spray beer everywhere so got up and walked to end of patio... then realised... actually... I can't quite breathe in at the moment.... something is in the way...!
Wife was laughing at me... till lI went down like sack of spuds.
Recovered looking a bit blue... following morning there was no white left in either eye, I'd blown every capillery. Momnday morning was fab... had a new intake of call centre staff to train... they thought I waas the anti-christ!
:lol: [/i]
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Soldering iron bit fallen off while upside down using it, landed on my arm
Yep :lol: Done that & had it stuck to the palm & left nice little vent hole marking for a few weeks, except mine twisted round on a stiff flex, so I picked it up by the metal
Done that too. Saw it heading florwards, caught it, then felt the pain and smell of roasting pork.
Funny, these things all seem like a good idea untill its too late :)
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Mate of mine ate a cheese sandwich and choked then while stumbling about fell down the maintenance pit .. upset a passing rat which bit his leg..jumped up and cracked his head on a car that the lord mayor had only just parked ... the spun round knocked a tool box over which landed on his foot he yelped bend down but didn't see the wire sticking out and poked his eye, then climbed out of the pit and was molested by a passing family of badgers and his name was Nordberg
Erm ok I made every single word of that up but it kept me amused for a few seconds ... I'll get my coat!
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i have so far
1 two stiches in scalp (undoing lorry wheel nuts by standing on a 8ft scaffold pole sliped off and it landed on my head made my eyes water)
2 knocked myself out bending down to pick up a tool and didnt see bumper iron sticking out
3 various metal bits in the eyes
4 weld splatter burns the worst into (sock boot ears arm pit and under pants)
5 split knuckles
6 crushed fingers
7 crushed toes
8 brocken ribs (assaultd at work)
9 compressed spine (been of for 4 years so far)just keep taking the pills
glad i gave up work looks like a dangerous occupation (mechanic)
don't tell me your nickname is "Lucky" :lol: :lol: :lol:
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:? Mind you i was under a truck once got my head between propshaft and chassis hit my head on the prop first reaction was to move my head straight into the chassis behind my head could have been there all day!!! it hurt though!! :? :lol: :lol: :lol:
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well best one ive done is stop a disco with my face after it rolled of a set or ramps..
scraed my face with an 18 inch ratchet undoing radius arm bolts on a 90 & the ratchet jumped back & bit me & today gave myself a black eye whilst stripping a V8 by rugging something which pulled my ratchet of the engine which i caught with the bone under my left eye...
Cue a black eye & a cut face again
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dreadnought110 im glad to be out of fixing cars vans lorries and 4x4s
been doin it for 27yrs
best ones ive seen were
electrician cross the 3phase and fly accross the workshop
and a m8 removing an exhaust he was tugging at it and when it came off it hit him in the middle of the forhead and left a ring shape scare
a m8 was setting up a body jig and droped the jig beam on his hand and we had to jack it up off his fingers
also had someones arm trapped when a SD1 rolled off the ramp and he tried to stop it while still under it took 6 off us to lift it off
when i was an apprentice i had long hair till i set light to it soldering a rad