Injuries that shouldn't be possible

[CheftonUTD]

I was talking to a coworker (chefs) the other day about how there's very few injuries caused by all the 'dangerous' things around us, but every now and then something completely 'harmless' finds a way to not be .

A box of baking paper, giving the unrolled paper a karate-chop motion to get a clean cut, got the serrated metal bit instead...

Mozzarella, unpacking frozen shredded cheese, managed to get a shard of it quite deep into my hand.

Eggplant in one hand, razor-sharp 11.5" knife in the other, a decent cut ensued, from the 'spines' on the eggplant...


Anyone else have any stories of harmless objects attacking?

[Franco Cozzo]

Opened a can of this Sika Primer stuff, its used to make anything adhesive stick like **** to a blanket pretty much.

Opened the lid, slowly pulled out the seal, as it opened the seal flicked some into my left eye...

I had safety glasses on my head too, imagine opening a bottle of coke and the cap gets you in the eye, its not something you expect.

[2011G6E]

Back in the days before high backed car seats, my father used to like to tell the story of a workmate at the post office in Nambour back in the sixties who had been in a relatively minor car accident and had been knocked unconscious.

You know the old trend of putting a pair of cushions on the rear parcel shelf, usually heavily embroidered or covered with tassels?
Yep, after the impact one flew forwards and smacked into the back of his head. A half kilo old style heavy cushion travelling at 30kph will probably do that.

It always made me wonder when I'd follow a car with those flimsy speaker boxes (or no box at all) with 6x9 speakers rolling around the rear parcel shelf on a car in front of me...

[Bossxr8]

I heard a story about a guy at Kenworth, walking on a bare chassis, one foot slipped down and down he went on to the chassis rail, straight on to his testicles. One had to be removed. Nasty.

[Geez Louise]

Harmless object that shouldn't hurt but do...2 words for you....Paper Cut!

[Evgeni]

When I was a kid I licked an envelope and got a paper cut on my tongue. This kind of hurt!

[Road_Warrior]

I work in an 18 storey office tower and one day I got clobbered by the lift doors that suddenly decided to slam shut on my head and arm as I was walking in, I was not impressed I can tell you.

[AndyXR6T]

I'm a fan of lego pieces on the floor. Look fairly harmless but feels like a knife in the foot usually ensuing a swift leg kick up in the air hitting the closest object also

[Yellow_Festiva]

Originally Posted by AndyXR6T

I'm a fan of lego pieces on the floor. Look fairly harmless but feels like a knife in the foot usually ensuing a swift leg kick up in the air hitting the closest object also

Ever knelt on one?? When I was younger I had a bunch of lego on the tiled kichen floor. Cleaned it up. Mum said that I left a piece under the couch so kneeled down to get it and felt the most excruciating pain I had ever felt. I had kneeled right on one of those clear glass type triangular pieces...

[Wagon ba]

tow balls, its all ways when your walking fast to or in a hurry. We have a electric auto slicer at work, vibrates like a bastard, one of the chefs had put his knife block on the shelf. after slicing onions, capsicum, mushrooms a knife vibrated out, landed between my legs with a nice little knick in my shirt. Everyone now looks up first.

[mik]

Skate boards and silly old buggers.
i thought of this even though it was a couple of decades ago might be good for a laugh.
i had done a trip to the tip one weekend with my step brother who is 20 years my junior, he was about 12 at the time, anyway he eyed of an old blue skateboard at the said waste station, ....... the tip guy feeling generous saw him eyeing it off gave it to him............
later that day after finishing chores on a spur of the moment big brother decides to give little brother a lesson on how to ride a skate board on down hill section of footpath(old fart never ridden one in his life !)
............. anyway after i got back from hospital late that night with a badly sprained ankle bruises and abrasions and crutches..........damned skate boards.

[Spudz27]

The skirting boards in a door or entrance way. I swear they deliberitely jump out infront of your small toe just for laughs.

[marcyeo]

Lots of people I see in hospital who have low ceilings - decide to stretch their hands and get fingers lopped in the ceiling fans..

[creative]

Originally Posted by marcyeo

Lots of people I see in hospital who have low ceilings - decide to stretch their hands and get fingers lopped in the ceiling fans..

the exact thought I had when i chucked my shirt on this morning and realised the fan was on....

easy done!

[TK-421]

In my early teens trying to cut a lemon in half with one of those Wiltshire kitchen knives, they are sharpened as they are removed/replaced in the holder. Holding the lemon in my left hand and applying pressure it went through both lemon and into the palm of my hand. I scored a nasty little cut with the juice of the lemon running inside it. mkr lol

[Powdered Toast Man]

Originally Posted by creative

the exact thought I had when i chucked my shirt on this morning and realised the fan was on....

easy done!

Yep did that myself many years ago. Grazed some skin of my wrist and put a dirty black mark on my nice clean white shirt lol

[sneaky]

Originally Posted by marcyeo

Lots of people I see in hospital who have low ceilings - decide to stretch their hands and get fingers lopped in the ceiling fans..

almost got a fan blade to the side of the head the other day. fan on flat out because it was hot and i was cleaning - sugar soaping walls and walking on bed.

remembered the fan when i heard it whistle past my ear - was very close

[Kable72]

Knee height kitchen drawers are a nightmare in the middle of the night on the way to the toilet.

[Stefan]

Originally Posted by Kable72

Knee height kitchen drawers are a nightmare in the middle of the night on the way to the toilet.

My ex-wife had this habit of leaving draws open.

Our first place was a small unit and jeez how many times did I smash my shins on her sock draw on the way to a midnight leak.

My reactions where, lets just say "colourful"

[Kable72]

Originally Posted by Stefan

My ex-wife had this habit of leaving draws open.

Our first place was a small unit and jeez how many times did I smash my shins on her sock draw on the way to a midnight leak.

My reactions where, lets just say "colourful"

Dude, I feel your pain. My ex girlfriend used to leave her sock drawer open at night as well. I remember when I first moved in with her, I didn't know where everything was and it was just near the door. Used to get into so much trouble waking her up at 2-3 in the morning with "YOU ******** C****". Definitely worth it to scream french in the dead of night to soothe my wounded shin bones.

[ford71V8]

Hmmm, my wife can't seem to fully shut the damn drawers either.

Copped a sharp dig into the side in the middle of the night earlier this week as I walked past the tallboy. Bloody hurt!

[Syndrome]

I almost got scalped by a fan many years ago. It was a stinking hot day and the fans were on. I was trying to get past some classmates so I decided to step on the chair to get by them. It was very close!

[marcyeo]

Very "harmless" objects also manage to find their way up people's bottom's. Worst was an onion, not detectable on x-ray, patient didn't wanna own up, till the smell emanating from his bowel's cleared out the entire ward..

[BA GT-HO]

I have seen someone get a paper cut on his eye. Healed OK, just blurred vision for a bit. His eyeball squirted this juice out when it happened, nasty.

[Trevor 57]

Originally Posted by CheftonUTD

I was talking to a coworker (chefs) the other day about how there's very few injuries caused by all the 'dangerous' things around us, but every now and then something completely 'harmless' finds a way to not be .

A box of baking paper, giving the unrolled paper a karate-chop motion to get a clean cut, got the serrated metal bit instead...

Mozzarella, unpacking frozen shredded cheese, managed to get a shard of it quite deep into my hand.

Eggplant in one hand, razor-sharp 11.5" knife in the other, a decent cut ensued, from the 'spines' on the eggplant...


Anyone else have any stories of harmless objects attacking?

I used to be a OHS Manager, in that game we use the Pareto Principle (or the 80/20 rule), basically this means that 80% of workplace accidents happen to 20% of the people, guess which percentile I think you sit in, and it is not the 80% of people who rarely hurt themselves- - just sayin'

[93EB_SXR6]

Always manage to smash my knee on the end of a friend's bed. Keep telling her to buy a new one that doesn't have stupidly long steel posts.

[ZA-289]

Originally Posted by Kable72

Knee height kitchen drawers are a nightmare in the middle of the night on the way to the toilet.

Do you pee in the kitchen sink?

[Kable72]

Originally Posted by ZA-289

Do you pee in the kitchen sink?

Haha, I shoulda with the way that one ended! Nah, you had to walk through the kitchen to get to the bathroom.

[Insidious]

Hmmmm..getting your willy caught in the zipper of your pants...done that a few time..:(

[sgt_doofey]

Originally Posted by Insidious

Hmmmm..getting your willy caught in the zipper of your pants...done that a few time..:(

Or the velcro fly on some bathers...