While your post is fpbp and also /thread, unfortunately the entire site is overrun with plebbitors who unironically think posting on 4chins is their dirty little secret their fellow plebbitors will never find out about.
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While your post is very fpbp, /thread, based, and kek, we regret to inform you that such belittling of our Plebbit community is frowned upon, as we hoards of Plebbitors indulge in the PrepHole as a guilty pleasure and you risk triggering and offending a majority of viewers of your post. If we could downvote, we would.
In the Navy, my division was bringing in a new flow meter down the hatch, a huge ~150lb chunk of pipe. It was being passed down in some cloth sack, to one guy on a ladder, and he was supposed to pass it off to me from there. As they were lowering it down, the sack ripped, the guy on the ladder smartly bailed out of the way, and I idiotically tried to catch it. My outstretched arm took most of the impact, but then it hit me on the head and knocked me down. Was definitely concussed on impact as my vision went full blur for a few seconds, one front tooth snapped clean in half, the other cracked, and my arm was numb and I couldn't move it for a few minutes. Doc took me to the head, washed me off, made sure I was okay, then gave me ten staples on my head. I got a few ibuprofen then sent home, but I had to stand duty the next day. Pretty sure I that same event led to my AC joint separation when benching a few months later. Now I just do OHP mainly to avoid stressing it.
>be me, factotum minus the alcoholism >get concussion from pregnant dolphin hitting the back of my head with her chin at top speed, nearly drown >run out of air in tank next week, swim over to get a new tank, dolphins pull me under and I hold my breath for 3 minutes as they stare me down and eventually leave >dismantling a wooden sauna, lifting a floorboard up which snaps and slices a large vein on my forearm, borrow pothead friends lighter to close it up and get back to work >milk factory, handling powdered hydrogen peroxide without anyone telling me what it was, breathe in a ton of it, cough up small amounts of blood for a month >milk factory also did fish sauce, 800lb pallet of fish guts and ice fell off the forklift, steel toe saves my digits but presses HARD into the top of my foot, ice and innards burst out of the crate and hit me hard enough to smash my balls >hit in the head by a forklift fork at multiple jobs >skin boiled off of my stomach by a broken espresso machine in an attempt to work a "cushy" job
I've never made a dime off of lawsuits and the damage is accumulating, I need some gay office shit to help minimize any more chance of bodily injury
I've done stuff like this too, but not for work, helping family renovate their home
>I've never made a dime off of lawsuits
How come, lost them all? Some of these seem open and shut, like the one where they didn't tell you what you were handling and breathing in, unless you're living in a shithole without any solid regulations.
>skin boiled off of my stomach by a broken espresso machine in an attempt to work a "cushy" job
I've injured myself lots at work. One of the most serious was recently though.
Had a lady come in and it should've been a simple order. Anyway, was multi-tasking and trying to do several things at once (work the machine and also answer questions from another customer). Then once the machine had finished running for this order, I nudged the cup upwards, hitting the steamer and burnt my hand. Hurt like a motherfricker.
But as we all know, these are the kind of risks you have to accept when you're a blue-collar worker.
>I nudged the cup upwards, hitting the steamer and burnt my hand
Always wear full-body safety gear when working with dangerous equipment.
You would think nailguns would have a forward safety, like the grip safeties on 1911s, so you can't shoot it unless some force is applied to a surface first. Not sure f this already exists or why you would need to shoot a nail gun like a real gun, if someone wants to share.
They have, not sure what you're on about. The foot is connected to an Interlock that has to retract to allow the trigger to move. Most nail guns can be operated in contact (bump) mode where you hold the trigger down and you bump the foot on whatever you need to nail.
>I'm a barista and have never held a nailgun.
The absolute state of this board...
NGMI.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Barista is a blue collar job, we just use different tools. I wouldn't fault you for not knowing the inner workings of burr grinders, or proper goose neck kettle pour techniques. We are also exposed to workplace hazards lile the image in the OP. You sound like a real jerk.
5 months ago
Anonymous
>Barista is a blue collar job
what the frick am I reading?
5 months ago
Anonymous
You heard me, Black person.
5 months ago
Anonymous
>my job is just as dangerous as y-yours! >I-I can get b-b-b-burned if I spill a drink!
5 months ago
Anonymous
he's obviously trolling you dumbfrick
5 months ago
Anonymous
Whats your concrete definition of a blue collar job?
5 months ago
Anonymous
having to pound your moms fat ass every night while your homosexual dad plays OSHA inspector
5 months ago
Anonymous
Deflections arent going to work
Whats your concrete definition of a blue collar job?
>what the frick am I reading
Obvious bait
Whats your concrete definition of a blue collar job?
5 months ago
Anonymous
>posting this much on christmas eve
got nothing else to do huh?
5 months ago
Anonymous
You are here with me, deflections arent going to work
Whats your concrete definition of a blue collar job?
4 months ago
Anonymous
Someone that has to take physical risks in the workplace.
Like a barista who has to work with dangerous hot water or milk.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Tbf most dangerous jobs are dangerous because traffic. Like people think being a cop is dangerous because criminals. It's not, they get hurt in car accidents more often than not
4 months ago
Anonymous
this, I never got seriously injured at work, before I worked comfy office jobs I worked in service and only ever got small cuts or the rare burn, my most serious injury was getting hit by a hummer that didn't yield on a crossing.
5 months ago
Bepis
>They have, not sure what you're on about
I'm a barista and have never held a nailgun. Thanks.
>Barista is a blue collar job
what the frick am I reading?
Barista is def not a blue collar job.
t. resident expert
5 months ago
Anonymous
>Barista is def not a blue collar job.
A truck driving job is far closer to a barista than an actual trade job where men do real work.
5 months ago
Anonymous
who the frick said anything about truckers? and a trucker still does more demanding things than making coffee. I can't honestly believe anyone is attempting to argue that being a barista is a physically demanding job lmfao
it would be like saying lawyers are blue collar because they have to lift their briefcase and might get a paper cut.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Why are you responding to a post that was specifically directed at another person, not you?
5 months ago
Anonymous
these aren't dms.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Your mental capacity seems fit for being a truck driver or a barista.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Whats your concrete definition of a blue collar job?
Also im curious what high level of skill you think truck drivers posses
5 months ago
Anonymous
who the frick said anything about truckers? and a trucker still does more demanding things than making coffee. I can't honestly believe anyone is attempting to argue that being a barista is a physically demanding job lmfao
it would be like saying lawyers are blue collar because they have to lift their briefcase and might get a paper cut.
I gotta agree with this, a barista does more physically demanding work than a trucker. I'd place baristas alongside electricians, about equal in terms of technical and subject matter expertise to do the work properly, and both have options to be customer facing.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Lol, lmao even. You can "learn" to be a barista in a few hours, and become half decent after a week or two of applied training. In my province, a typical electrician course is 1800 hours. That's one year full-time! And you'll learn a lot of stuff on the job, even after 20 years of experience. I hope this was not bait.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Black person please, course length means shit, I could teach someone to be a new build residential electrician in a day, maybe a week for the legally moronic. Grab a broom homosexual
you couldn't have tested it with something besides your finger?
4 months ago
Anonymous
Bro i make coffee every morning, its not that hard. I cant actually stand straight when i wake up, also usually suffer from fairly serious alcohol withdrawals pretty much ever fricking morning, its not picnic. Cramps, cold sweat, you name it. But i make coffee alright, its not that hard
4 months ago
Anonymous
>I'd place baristas alongside electricians, about equal in terms of technical and subject matter expertise to do the work properly,
Pulls string super hard and it snaps while tugging wire x3, injure back after crashing to the floor.
Forget I'm on a 12 ft ladder and step off backwards, injure back and minor concussion.
Chip concrete for missed conduit for nearly five months total, only given a face-forming cloth respirator, will die of silicosis later on in life.
Get told to not be a pussy and work live, accidentally graze a grounded box while holding a phase and then my diaphragm hurts for a month.
Foot infection from a wafer screw going through my ANSI/CSA rated boots.
Slips while pushing a loaded pallet truck up a slight slope, hitting my two front teeth, goes to dentist and they tell me to watch for my teeth turning grey from dying (luckily doesn't happen). >get compared to a barista whomst only has to carry 30 kg boxes, possibly slip on the floor, get verbally abused. >mfw
4 months ago
Anonymous
>Foot infection
Heh, my boots were thick enough to only make a nail damage the dead skin and bleed a drop or two. Better buy chinese boots, I guess?
4 months ago
Anonymous
You sound both frail and stupid.
4 months ago
Anonymous
>t. resident homosexual
ftfy. Baristas are gayer than AIDS though.
5 months ago
Anonymous
>what the frick am I reading
Obvious bait
5 months ago
Anonymous
True, Baristas are the definition of a white collar job.
5 months ago
Anonymous
No, a white collar job implies it takes brains to do. Blue collar means any idiot can do it just with some experience.
5 months ago
Anonymous
>a white collar job implies it takes brains to do
not really. it's just a job without physically demanding labor.
5 months ago
Anonymous
That just makes it a fake job,like in the TV show "the office". A contrived form of welfare.
White collar is engineers, doctors, lawyers, academics.
4 months ago
Anonymous
>engineers
Depends on the type. some will use computers to make stuff with autocad and the likes. I'm an engineer, but I repair and maintain trains. I guess its more of a train mechanic than a train engineer but it's a lot more demanding than working on cars and requires more qualifications
4 months ago
Anonymous
>Baristas are the definition of a white collar job.
lmao what? white collar is, by definition, a job where you wear a dress shirt or some other light business attire. Ie. office job, even shitty ones
Barista is most definitely not white collar. I would argue Service jobs should be separate from Blue Collar or White Collar though
4 months ago
Anonymous
Barista is absolutely a blue collar. I don't think all plumbers work for roto-reuter, please don't assume all baristas work at Starbucks.
Between roasting beans in an industrial facility, and finely crafting the perfect brews and cups, baristas are just as rough-n-tough and technically reliant on a wealth if hands on experience as any tradesman. Its asinine that this is even an argument.
4 months ago
Anonymous
>baristas are just as rough-n-tough
4 months ago
Bepis
Kek. No fricking way.
The guy who repairs the machines is blue collar. Barista with an arts degree trying to defend his HS level job. Just because it’s a shitty job doesn’t mean it’s blue collar. These terms mean something like “Man” and “Woman” and gays like you with blue hair want to change that.
Blue collar dudes don’t have name tags, they have their name sewn into a button down shirt. White collar have a badge to get into their office and maybe business cards.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Normal people just wewr regular clothes. Its basicly only americans who have to differentiate using collar tags. Most normal people dont really have to do that.
4 months ago
Bepis
Normal people wear normal clothes here as well. But when you’re working, there’s often a uniform or a dress code. That’s how life works. I don’t know what kind of moronic Yuro argument you’re making, we’re not talking about people selling jackfruit from the back of a pickup truck, they don’t really need a uniform.
4 months ago
Anonymous
>there’s often a uniform or a dress code
Not really though. Maybe in america
4 months ago
Anonymous
Truck drivers just sit on their ass all day, a barista does twice as much physical work
4 months ago
Anonymous
Actual barista here. We repair our own marzocco. Only the fast food coffee chains like Starbucks hire teenagers and Gender Studies majors who have never held a tool before. I wouldn’t call it a real blue collar trade though.
4 months ago
Anonymous
5 months ago
Anonymous
If you have never had to fix something on the job with baling wire, it is not a blue collar job.
5 months ago
Anonymous
I've never even had to touch baling wire, but my job is undeniably blue collar. what the frick in a woodshop would I have to fix with baling wire?
if your job isn't physically demanding, it's not blue collar. it's that simple.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Maybe hold up the dust extractor that's falling off? I'm sure you could find one thing that could be fixed with baling wire.
5 months ago
Anonymous
5 months ago
Anonymous
Merry Christmas homosexual.
5 months ago
Anonymous
>Merry Christmas homosexual.
This. Don't spill any more hot coffee on yourself or whip that cream too hard, you might damage your fragile wrists...
5 months ago
Anonymous
>...
only homosexuals and women type like this
4 months ago
Anonymous
Whatever you gotta tell yourself Mr.BadassBarista.
I'm the anon who shot his leg, most nail guns do have pressure safety like that other guy said some crews take it off but most don't, mine had one too but I was holding my finger on the trigger and I tripped because I was leaning on a 2 by 4 to push a brace out to straighten a wall and the 2 by 4 gave way and the gun landed on my leg, the nail went all the way in and I couldn't see the head it's not like I pulled the trigger a foot away from it it was flush to my leg, if it wasn't flush I'm sure it wouldn't have gone so deep
Dropped half a smith machine on my head as I was disassembling it. I rolled right back to my feet trying to save face but I was bleeding and the whole thing ended up fairly embarrassing, with one dude sending pics of my scalp to his gf (a nurse) asking if I needed stitches. I had to keep a rag pressed to my head but otherwise nothing, must have glanced off mostly.
Feel ya there...got hit by a car doing about 40 while working a mva...went 20+ feet in the air. 7 broken vertebrae, 2 blown disc's, both knees replaced..
In the case of arterial hemorrhaging always apply a tourniquet (rope, belt, electrical cord) as close to the trunk as possible as tightly as possible. Arteries are deep under the skin and need high compression in order to stop bleeding.
Black person if he hits that he can do whatever the frick he wants, he is still going to die 100% of the time. Lmao he could even walk into an already set up surgery room prepared to deal with exactly this, shoot himself and he is almost certainly going to die regardless. Im not saying you are wrong, its really good advice, but he would be gone
Not the same anon but yea. As high as you can, not on a joint. If the foot/lower shin is all that’s affected, you could place it below the knee. Same for the arm, if you know it’s halfway down the forearm or more, you can try to save the elbow.
If you put a real tourniquet on a limb, your limb or someone else’s, assume that shit is getting amputated
tourniquets don't even begin to increase amputation risk unless they've been applied for several hours, usually at least 4 or more. any developed area in the western world will have medical response fast enough that the tourniquet has nothing to do with how much limb gets amputated, the only factor is what kind of damage happened beforehand that required it be applied in the first place.
Arteries are stretchy and they can retract several inches if they're completely severed; you are technically correct with the halfway down the forearm/calf part but if a layperson misunderstands or overestimates how much good tissue they're working with then you could get a tourniquet that's too low and does nothing, except maybe make the hemorrhage internal. For the vast majority of people who have zero training on applying a tourniquet, "high and tight" is the best advice.
The main risk from an improvised tourniquet is nerve damage, but amputation isn't a guarantee even after as much as 10 hours of application without medical attention, and under 2 hours there's no amputation risk at all. A tourniquet that's too low or loose isn't going to save someone's limb but it could cost their life; always go high and tight unless you've got formal trauma medicine experience.
Shit’s wack. I have a minor lower back injury that just feels a little sore at worst but I swear it’s affected my ejaculation where now it just dribbles out. My kegel muscles are fine, from what I can understand it could be the muscle that stops urine from coming out when you have an erection is not working properly and the cum is partially shooting into my bladder instead. I saw someone else post on 4chins about something similar and also mentioned lower back injury. I’ve been going to a chiro for a couple years now for it but no big improvement either in my back issue or my cum issue.
Wtf. Also chiropractors are a literal cult from the late 1800's mystic movements. They have a powerful political lobby so that's why they are accepted by insurance and such but are unscientific. Might as well be doing Chinese medicine.
You don't like getting your back popped? I've actually never been to a chiropractor, but I like it when my wife pops my back and other joints...
>You don't like getting your back popped?
Chiro don't just do massages and stretches and shit. They also claim to cure colds and arthritis.
I’ve seen chiros that claim they can cure allergies, autism, and cancer. There are also numerous articles and case reports where chiropractors have permanently injured and even paralyzed people, they’re fricking quacks. Go to physical therapy
chiropractors routinely paralyze and even kill people with their spinal adjustment bullshit
Not him and not medically smart but I did find using electrical tape to tourniquet a finger after like a razor blade cut or whatever that won't stop bleeding long enough for me to dress it let alone clean it can help stop blood flow long enough to clean and dress it in leisure. It even somewhat aids in anesthesia for the cleaning part. Be warned though, if you take a long time it can hurt a bit removing the tourniquet.
Also, for the same reasons electrical tape is good for tieing off blood flow (stretchy tightness) it's a superior tape for the dressing of the wound as well. You actually have to be careful not to make it too tight.
Not a work accident, but I was cutting up a tree in a pair of nylon gym shorts and the saw chain got caught up in the leg of the shorts. Opened up about a six inch gash
slicing off my fingernail and chunk of my finger in the kitchen, working a 12 hour shift, then getting it cauterized at the ER because it didn't stop bleeding
they had three nurses holding me down while they did it, all the while not telling me what was about to happen
shit fricking hurt
More often that not people frick around with these things and ignore the safety regarding it. I remember one particular guy who fricked around with a table saw and cut 4 fingers off clean. He proceeded to reestablish that fricking trangle thing that splits the wood after the blade. Then he took his serveres fingers and went and called his fricking boss telling him that he was going home early. Then he called an ambulance, while waiting for the fricking ambulance he took time to clean up most of the blood, poorly. As soon as they entered the room he went out cold for a couple of minutes and woke up screaming in pain and confusion because he had no fricking fingers left basicly.
They put all of them back on, and all of them work, it was a clean cut. The jointer wouldnt do you any such favors, it just takes, it doesnt ask
Very few people do. Im surprised there arent more people in here who disagree with those. A respectable injury, but the good news is that you are never going to frick over that finger again
More often that not people frick around with these things and ignore the safety regarding it. I remember one particular guy who fricked around with a table saw and cut 4 fingers off clean. He proceeded to reestablish that fricking trangle thing that splits the wood after the blade. Then he took his serveres fingers and went and called his fricking boss telling him that he was going home early. Then he called an ambulance, while waiting for the fricking ambulance he took time to clean up most of the blood, poorly. As soon as they entered the room he went out cold for a couple of minutes and woke up screaming in pain and confusion because he had no fricking fingers left basicly.
They put all of them back on, and all of them work, it was a clean cut. The jointer wouldnt do you any such favors, it just takes, it doesnt ask
I fricked around with these a little bit on a 6 month ground course with boat building, i have absolute and complete respect for these machines, they dont frick around. Out of the 20 of us we had 3 minor injuries because people either misunderstood something or did something wrong. No fingers lost, but one broken hand, or whatever, the part of the finger that is inside the hand broke on two fingers on one of them while using a table saw. He fricked up, the distancing thing on the side was too tight and the board snapped and hit him behind the knuckles with the force of a board snapping because the distancing thing was fricked. He learned his lesson and also dropped out. He came back eventually but now mostly he does polyester shit, he does not like the machines at all.
2nd degree chemical burns, both hands all the way up to my elbows. >grinding company, resharpens drills endmills blades hobs and other tools >ancient machine for 1" and larger HSS drill bits >sprays coolant everywhere as you work the motion, they leave a leather apron nearby because if you dont wear it youll be soaked >new coolant comes ultra concentrated, has to be cut with water to make it safe for skin contact >guy who normally worked with those ancient nasty machines was a moron.
Routine was >machine sits, water evaporates, coolant becomes thick and too strong of a mix. >add water, check with refrotactometer, if need be add new coolant concentrate and you are ready
We got an order of like 200 lathe drills, I wanted some overtime so I went back and started working on them.
The moron had filled the coolant earlier in the day so I didnt think anything of it
He poured pure concentrate with no water, into the already too strong of a mix in the machine.
After maybe 5 minutes with both arms just being soaked, I started to feel really itchy. I had long sleeves on that were completely wet.
The itch turned to burning and I knew something was wrong.
Weapy lesions all up and down my arms and hands, I had to have some prescription cream to help it heal. My fingers felt like they were covered in sand for 6 months.
It didnt leave too much scarring or long term damage thankfully.
just do regular checkups for skin- and blood cancer anon. My grand dad died very early from blood cancer. But he was exposed to whatever they were using in the 70's
A barista's job can be considered a blue-collar profession for several reasons:
1. **Physical Work:** Baristas perform manual labor, like operating coffee machines, grinding coffee beans, and cleaning equipment.
2. **Skill-based:** It requires specific skills and training, similar to many blue-collar jobs, but does not typically require a college degree.
3. **Service-Oriented:** Like many blue-collar roles, it involves direct service, often in a retail or hospitality setting.
4. **Hourly Wages:** Baristas often earn hourly wages, which is common in blue-collar jobs.
5. **Hands-On Crafting:** The creation of coffee drinks involves hands-on, artisanal crafting, akin to traditional blue-collar trades.
6. **Physical Environment:** Work is done in a café or shop, similar to blue-collar workers who work in specific, non-office environments.
7. **Uniform and Appearance:** Baristas often wear uniforms and adhere to appearance guidelines, paralleling blue-collar professions.
8. **Shift Work:** The job often requires working in shifts, including early mornings, evenings, and weekends, typical of many blue-collar roles.
9. **Customer Interaction:** Direct customer interaction is a significant part of the job, similar to many service-oriented, blue-collar positions.
10. **Practical Skills:** The role emphasizes practical, hands-on skills and experience over academic or theoretical knowledge.
These aspects align with many traditional characteristics of blue-collar jobs, although the distinction between blue-collar and other types of work can be fluid and subjective.
I was squeezing between a shrub and an exterior wall to get to a hidden outside plug when my leg hit a metal pipe jutting out that was sharpened like a fricking punni stick
Sliced open a big horizontal gash right above my knee from end to end
I got lots of arm burns as a baker. Now I look like a self harmer. Which is true. No body would work in baking or hospitality if they didn't want to be hurt.
he did push the boundaries of the human experience by a tiny bit
I say god speed to this moron and sticking his fingers into the business end of power tools
>PUTTING FINGERS IN POWER TOOLS IS BAD BECAUSE... BECAUSE IT JUST IS!
he did push the boundaries of the human experience by a tiny bit
I say god speed to this moron and sticking his fingers into the business end of power tools
>'murica
no, that's on you bro
There's labor laws in place in all 50 states that basically say you're a fricking moron for not suing your employer into poverty
cleaning upstairs, lit the fire place, cleaned the bathroom came back to clean hearth 5 minutes later stumbled down the stairs, took a nap on the front lawn. I forgotten to open the flue
Electric pallet stacker hit my toe and my big toe while my heel was backed up on pallet. Luckily the stacker was unloaded and already braking, so I just received a shock that resulted in minor pain for two weeks.
Another time, I sliced open my finger on the backing liner of the web on the label die cutting machine I'm operating. Luckily it was a shallow cut so it healed in two days.
Doing seasonal work on an annual festival nearby.
This summer one of the food stands wanted a new deep fryer for their fries since the old one broke down the year prior. I was tasked with picking it up from the seller, cleaning it (yuck) and testing it.
Being stupid and never having operated a fryer before, I put ~15L of fat into the left tub, waited till it boiled and then drained it into a waste tub to put it into the other tub. The tub slipped and spilled roughly half of it all over my legs.
Luckily it healed without any scarring but I had huge blisters for weeks to come.
Nothing really serious, but I have had some entertaining ones in the Army.
Iraq in '05, I was working on a truck and hit my head on the corner of the door. Didn't hurt too bad but I was bleeding really bad, face covered in blood. My platoon sergeant and another mechanic were digging through a first aid kit telling me "hang on, man. We've got you taken care of." as blood was running down my face. I got tired of waiting and told them I'll just get a clean rag to stop the bleeding. There was one idiot in my platoon who was always getting in my way, like he wanted to get close to cop a feel or something. I ran into him once on the way to the maintenance tent (he was just standing there), then on my way to a storage container to get a rag, I turned around and ran right into him, as if he came out of nowhere. I was so annoyed I started cussing him out and he threatened to kick my ass. I just told him, "Yea, you're a real badass, picking a fight with a guy who's already bleeding."
Afghanistan in '11, I was tightening some axle bolts on an MRAP because the manufacturer couldn't do the job right, using a 4 foot long torque wrench. I came up and hit my front teeth on the axle chipping them. I was at a remote base and it would have been a huge hassle to get to a dentist, and it wasn't really bad so I figured I would just deal with it later. There were some sharp edges cutting into my tongue, so I filed them smooth with the diamond file on my Leatherman. They never gave me any problems so I didn't get them looked at until I got home and got to a VA hospital. It was priceless watching the VA dentist cringe when I told her about filing my teeth with my Leatherman.
Stationed in Savannah. Decide to go to the beach one Saturday. Spent all day on the waterboarding what I thought was sunscreen. They runs out it was sun tan amplifier.
I turned purple. Monday morning at motorpool, while company is there bringing vehicles for inspection so we had to wear our coveralls that don't fit. First Sargt sees me struggling to pull them over my shoulders. Walks up to me and pulls my collar back and sees blistering. He proceeds to call me a fricking idiot and makes me go to the hospital. Had 2nd degree burns. Got three days quarters and a bottle of codeine. I was shedding skin by the handfuls. Almost got an article 15.
He was almost deemed a total moron, but got away with it just being a medical problem.
What he did at the beginning was akin to you frying an ant with a magnifying glass, because tan sprays absorb UV.
He was a vehicle maintainer stationed in Savannah Georgia that got out of the service in 2002, when his boss saw how bad his sunburn was he got sent to medical and given 3 day off in his barracks room, also the base jannies almost smacked his pp for damaging government property (soldiers are considered govt property
He was a vehicle maintainer stationed in Savannah Georgia that got out of the service in 2002, when his boss saw how bad his sunburn was he got sent to medical and given 3 day off in his barracks room, also the base jannies almost smacked his pp for damaging government property (soldiers are considered govt property
>need to drill hole through cabinet bottom, through floor, into basement so i can run electric to kitchen island >boss gave me a big corded angle drill with no clutch to use and a big 2 ft bit >drill through cab and floor >get through floor and hit a joist with a bunch of old nails >drill catches and throws itself and my hand into the rail for the drawer >slices open the top of my hand >can see my tendons moving when i move my hand >get 8 stitches >pinky is still 5% more stiff than the one on my other hand >i don't use big drils with no clutch anymore
I was lifting a massive 12" pipe swivel with a hoist to load it into a vise for assembly, turned around to pick up a wrench, and upon turning around again ran right into it and gave myself a concussion
1. nervously did a little poop in my pants at a work social event. Took off my underpants and flushed them then later thought thank god they didn't block the toilet
2. hemorrhoid cream in my butt crack seeped through my chinos on to fabric office chair. I think I just dabbed it as clean as I could with paper towel
A barista's job can be considered a blue-collar profession for several reasons:
1. **Physical Work:** Baristas perform manual labor, like operating coffee machines, grinding coffee beans, and cleaning equipment.
2. **Skill-based:** It requires specific skills and training, similar to many blue-collar jobs, but does not typically require a college degree.
3. **Service-Oriented:** Like many blue-collar roles, it involves direct service, often in a retail or hospitality setting.
4. **Hourly Wages:** Baristas often earn hourly wages, which is common in blue-collar jobs.
5. **Hands-On Crafting:** The creation of coffee drinks involves hands-on, artisanal crafting, akin to traditional blue-collar trades.
6. **Physical Environment:** Work is done in a café or shop, similar to blue-collar workers who work in specific, non-office environments.
7. **Uniform and Appearance:** Baristas often wear uniforms and adhere to appearance guidelines, paralleling blue-collar professions.
8. **Shift Work:** The job often requires working in shifts, including early mornings, evenings, and weekends, typical of many blue-collar roles.
9. **Customer Interaction:** Direct customer interaction is a significant part of the job, similar to many service-oriented, blue-collar positions.
10. **Practical Skills:** The role emphasizes practical, hands-on skills and experience over academic or theoretical knowledge.
These aspects align with many traditional characteristics of blue-collar jobs, although the distinction between blue-collar and other types of work can be fluid and subjective.
>in high school >eating out at a burger joint >tastes weird >worst that could happen is food poisoning and a couple days off school to vidya >by extremely sick for years in and out of hospitals >drs cant figure it out >get sent to the mayo clinic >they figure it out in a week >a bug went through my system emitting gasses that paralyzing part of my intestines and stomach
Never got to work, got on them neetbux fresh out the gate.
Got clipped by one of these starting my shift in the mines once. I've had plenty of deep-ish cuts and bruises elsewhere, nothing super glue cant fix.
>Full crew with the section boss driving >Most stuff is battery powered, metal, and runs on a rail track >Have two airlock doors to go through directly on the track >Have to stop, open door, get in airlock, then open second door >We get to said doors >Me and two other guys get out >First two open the first door >I hop out and walk ahead to the second door while they pull in and hop back on >All of a sudden hear one of the onrey old farts yelling MOVE MOTHERFRICKER >Can never tell if the guy is serious or not so just brush him off >All of a sudden BOOM >Dipshit boss driving nails my right leg >Foot was 2 inches from getting cut off by the wheel on the track >Start absolutely fricking cursing the dude >Can hardly walk and hurts like absolute fricking hell >My dumb ass decides to hobble around all night instead of getting a ride out >After dealing with all the safety bullshit go to get checked out >Turns out ankle is fractured >Okay to walk on, just gotta be easy on it for a little while >Later that day find out the boss had a "bad eye" >Quit underground mining 2 months later
I've always been really interested in underground mining. How was it? I know the conditions are generally horrible and it's tough work, but was it worth it?
You're lucky you got out of barista work alive. To most it is a death sentence, toiling away for the man, putting your body at risk, it's a thankless hard life.
I've always been fascinated by underground mining. My dad has some old pictures somewhere of his grandpa at the coal mine he worked at (pic not related). I ought to see if he can dig them out next time I visit.
Look at that White privledge. Those men get to go down hundreds of feet below the surface, with stuffy limited air that exceeds 100F, working in near pitch black, inhaling more rock dust than oxygen, for 12 hours at a time. I hope they knew how lucky and privledged they were. I bet only 4 of those men died in mining accidents.
Worked two jobs summer before undergrad. Graveyard shift, operated bookbinding press with tons of pressure. Exhausted, left thumbs atop a book to guide it under the press. Depressed the pedal. Flattened both thumbs between first and second knuckles. Hurts every day thirty years later, thinking of amputating thumbs but they are still useful.
Crushed my finger while putting up a steel beam shelf.
The shelf was finished, and all that was left was to put the levels on each shelf, a big metal grate that can hold a few thousand pounds.
Each one is shaped like a bracket ( [ ) and each end hooks onto a beam.
The back end didn't hook on properly, so when I went to adjust the front hook, the back side fell through 20 feet to the ground
Before it hit the ground, my finger was caught under one of the hooks, and the tip of my pointer finger was crushed under it.
At first it didn't hurt, it's just that numb tingly feeling for a little while. I didn't think my finger was broken, but the nail was bleeding from underneath.
I was up suspended in an order picker, so I had to one handedly bring it down and park it, then I went into the building.
The frickers inside had the nerve to look at my finger, bent and dripping blood on the floor, and said "you'll have to get drug tested for that" and nothing else. Not even a "are you okay?" Or "what happened?".
Anyways, the nail is growing back, but so far the old one is still attached and waiting to fall off.
As a cashier at a hardware store a customer's dog bit my hand and I got an infection up to my shoulder from it, spent a couple days in the hospital getting pumped full of antibiotics. According to the doctors I could've died or at least lost my arm if I hadn't gotten it seen to right away. Wasn't even some psychotic shitbull or anything, it was a really lovely chocolate lab that I had seen, petted, given treats to a ton of times previously.
Damn that's shitty, try to resist the temptation to rip it off towards the very end when it's just kind of dangling, not worth it. I had a similar thing happen to all of my nails when I was a kid after catching hand-foot-mouth at a summer camp.
i know this post is 23 days old, but could you (or anyone) tell me the software used to stabilise the timelapse over the fingernail?
i've done something similar over the course of a couple of months with a large tree that drops all its leaves and covers itself in bright red flowers,
but the timelapse is a bit jittery for my liking and it's a huge hassle to manually align ~60 photos paint.net
I juste had the same thing happen working on my car. tried to pull the motor towards me with a pry bar. it slipped, smashed my finger. its almost fully grown back. the new fingernail is there now fully but some odd part is there from growing under the nail still.
Working on cube farm panels, the company president pulled back the power patch cable and it slipped from his hand. Popped me in the eye and gave me a neat eye scratch.
Too bad it happened on a Friday and only ruined my weekend, was fine by Monday.
Curiously, this was a supremely white-collar injury to happen in a job that also involved OSHA-nightmare factories.
only one that actually happened at work was a little knife stab.
stabbed myself with a knife similar to a boxcutter. went in a good centimeter or two, nothing too special.
as a kid, when i was in boy scouts however, i was very close to chopping my own finger off with a hatchet. cleaved the skin and reached the bone, but gladly didnt cut it off completely.
another time, in woodworking class in school, i was sawing a piece in a vice. i didnt check my progress to slow down near the end and just kept on going full tilt with the saw. reach the end, work piece gets cut and i slam my hand with full force against the vice. caused bleeding underneath my fingernail which led to it eventually falling off completely and regrowing.
Had a 1000ish pound steel cage on a creep-feeder for calves hit me in the face as it dropped two weeks ago.
Got a black eye, had about 3 seconds of tasting iron and almost thinking I had a concussion, no pain and went back to work.
I know I'm a lucky summ'bitch.
was using a knife they say is the sharpest ever, used to skin animals and shit. trying to make a hole in drip line and my hand slid up the blade and sliced my thumb pretty deep open. had to get stitches.
Stepped on a nail that went 3/4" into my foot. Dumbass carpenters. Just needed to update my Tetanus shot. It's pretty easy to keep pressure on a wound on the bottom of your foot.
i cut my fingertip to the bone with a box cutter. It was the first time blood FLEW out of my body, it got on the wall and shit. was fine after some stitches.
When volunteering at a community storehouse I sliced open the top of my middle finger when moving a metal filing cabinet onto the back of a truck. It ended up falling over once it was in and I couldn’t move my hand quick enough. I slipped a glove on as I started seeing red and felt blood gushing into it. Didn’t freak out, didn’t even hurt. Never told anyone either, though once it stopped I took the glove off and a zoomer with me who was also volunteering saw the cut and nodded at me. Glove wasn’t mine so I’m pretty sure someone else ended up wearing it with my dried blood still in it
My buddy and I have a moving company we do on the side. We were moving a washing machine out of a townhouse. Despite the machines being upstairs, we got it out of the house no problem, but there were some concrete steps outside that lead to the truck. My hands slipped as we moved the machine down a step, and I dropped the washing machine on my foot, sandwiching it between the washing machine and the edge of one of the concrete step. Picrel because I'm bad at explaining things. I broke the toe and lost the nail, it still hasn't fully healed.
They should invent shoes or boots that have some kind of toe protectors built into them, then these kinds of unavoidable accidents would be a thing of the past
My buddy and I have a moving company we do on the side. We were moving a washing machine out of a townhouse. Despite the machines being upstairs, we got it out of the house no problem, but there were some concrete steps outside that lead to the truck. My hands slipped as we moved the machine down a step, and I dropped the washing machine on my foot, sandwiching it between the washing machine and the edge of one of the concrete step. Picrel because I'm bad at explaining things. I broke the toe and lost the nail, it still hasn't fully healed.
Good safety equipment can be used to work faster or take shortcuts while improving quality
Bad safety equipment just slows down the entire process without improving quality.
Iron toed boots are unironically based for how much janky shit they let you do.
Movers hate steel toes for some reason, I wear mine and people clown on me for it. My boss dropped something on his foot, exploded his toe and worked through the pain for the next 3 months, he still doesn't wear steel toes.
I'm a press brake setter/operator. I got distracted while bending and left my thumb between the punch and the part. The damage was done by my flesh squeezing through a hole in it.
I managed to put a long, skinny screwdriver completely through my hand while removing a retaining clip. I originally refused to go to the doctor, since I had antibiotics, but the infection quickly got out of hand (pun intended). The surgeon caused more damage to my hand than the screwdriver because he refused to acknowledge it was not completely cleaned and was still infected after surgery.
Working in a mason yard, me and work colleague where stacking paving stones for a pick up, colleague dropped one on my foot, missed toecap and crushed bones. Got £8k payout though
Needed to go to a chiropractor to align something in my back, after a slightly too heavy lift at work. First real wakeup call i've experienced that my line of work and lack of education/CV to fall back on wasn't viable long term.
Beyond that its just cuts from exposing cold metal to skin.
I worked at fed ex unloading trucks after I got fired from another job. only worked there for a month. dropped a 60 pound brass plate on my foot the one night I forgot to wear my steel toes. another time the while passenger side pile of boxes fell on me. woke up on the floor with a guy yelling at me that I was working too slow.
Sliced my lower index with a saw.
Saw white, didn't know if it was bone or fat at 4:30AM.
The nurses in the ER laughed at me and they gave me a trainee doctor, then let me go without a bandage over the dissolvable stitches.
Luckily no tendon damage, but the doctor at 9AM was pissed they didn't bandage.
Roided cavalry training horse bit me for no reason. Their teeth can't cut, but holy shit it does crush you pretty bad.
And a guy next to me almost blew his fingers because he couldn't tell his barrel was stuffed with 3 squibs
Tried some easy shit like 600mg of ibuprofen 4 hours before showtime?
I wake up with carpal tunnel sometimes and my circumcised junk is almost completely numb. There's no pleasure there, it's all in my hands from years of beating it and my brain.
you can create numbness from constantly hammering at certain nerves in the groin/thigh area.
if so, you need to alter your technique. maybe get a pocket pussy, or whatever.
it may take months for numbness to go away completely.
Shit’s wack. I have a minor lower back injury that just feels a little sore at worst but I swear it’s affected my ejaculation where now it just dribbles out. My kegel muscles are fine, from what I can understand it could be the muscle that stops urine from coming out when you have an erection is not working properly and the cum is partially shooting into my bladder instead. I saw someone else post on 4chins about something similar and also mentioned lower back injury. I’ve been going to a chiro for a couple years now for it but no big improvement either in my back issue or my cum issue.
Wtf. Also chiropractors are a literal cult from the late 1800's mystic movements. They have a powerful political lobby so that's why they are accepted by insurance and such but are unscientific. Might as well be doing Chinese medicine.
I’ve seen chiros that claim they can cure allergies, autism, and cancer. There are also numerous articles and case reports where chiropractors have permanently injured and even paralyzed people, they’re fricking quacks. Go to physical therapy
Try taking zinc (ocuvite is good and your wife will think its just for your dry eyes) and vitamin c for a few days. take 600mg of advil 4 hours before you want to perform.
If you want whiskey dick without drinking take some dextrometorphan and youll be ready to go longer than you want.
Guaifenesen thins your load out a little too. It's just another grand secreting some goo, of course all sinus medicine works.
Fml I always get so horny when I'm sick now that I had figured all this out.
The advil reduces the chronic inflammation you suffer as a man in the modern world, so you dontnhave hank hills narrow urethra problems.
I do stained glass for a hobby
I've gotten cuts and burns from a welding iron all over
worst time was probably two summers ago when it was really hot so I had stripped down while soldering. I then managed to burn my left nipple with the soldering iron cranked up to max while making sure that a piece of glass was seated right
The nerves stopped working from my knee and down for half a year, its really fricking strange to have a dead limb, like you can see your foot but it just doesnt fricking work. I tried that kill bill shit a bunch of times and that doesnt work at all lmao.
I once worked in a restaurant kitchen when somebody moved a gas grill to clean it. The two inch gas line had become worn and broke in half. The kitchen was filling up with propane. My first concern was all the pilot lights on the other cooking equipment. I stuffed a rag into the hose and had all the other equipment turned off until I could get to the cutoff valve. I was really scared for a few minutes. No injury, but I thought I was going to get burned alive any second.
I had a can of compressed air blow it's bottom off at the exact moment I was picking it up by the top. It blew the entire bottom seam and shot the rest of the can right into the center of my hand that was about 6 inches away. I seriously thought every single bone in my hand was broken. My hand swelled up at least 2 times normal size and turned purple. I was rushed to the ER by coworkers, and the ER was absolutely shocked none of my bones actually broke. They called it a compression injury.
It took a while to get all my finger strength back, but all good now.
I cut my right middle finger off once and gave it a compound fracture, via my hand getting caught in a belt on a pulley, but I was a kid and was at dad's work, not my own. They were able to reattach it.
> right middle finger off once and gave it a compound fracture, via my hand getting caught in a belt on a pulley, but I was a kid and was at dad's work, not my own. They were able to reattach it.
Wow you buried the cool part. Tell more about finger getting severed
crashed my thumb two days ago with a big stone while doing some masonry, i almost fainted from the pain because it was freezing which makes it hurt more, it was so bad i had to go poop to revive myself.
hole saw caught rebar and twisted my hand till it fractured while also smashing my face with the T-handle and cutting my face. I was working hungover. avoid working hungover.
Once buffed a bunch of skin off my right kneecap while cleaning rust out of a 120ft LNG processing tower. First time I've ever seen my own skeleton, provided it was still covered in chunks of blood and shit. That day I learned why even the pros use shields when they can.
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Superb bait, your average barista would kill xirself before xi got within thirty feet of a power tool.
I think 8/10 of my knuckles have scars on them from using angle grinders without safeties and catching them on it. Grinding disks don't cut deep, but they grind away skin exactly as you would expect it to. I've yelled at a lot of coworkers for removing the safeties from grinders. >but it gets in the way
That's literally its job you moron.
Mine don't but welding gloves exist for good reason. I did get bit on the wrist by a knotted wire wheel. The flat ones are vicious and famous for eating flesh.
Never had a notably bad accident at work. Funny ones like one time torching an exhaust bolt out in shorts, a molten glob dropped right in my boot. I don't wear boots at work anymore.
But here's one I wonder if others go through. Sometimes I'll be using a pick rather forcefully and think to myself "if I keep doing this I'm gonna stab myself in the finger/hand". 15 seconds later, I'll be laughing and swearing because exactly what I thought would happen just happened. Is this common? Why do I do it?
I've injured myself lots at work. One of the most serious was recently though.
Had a lady come in and it should've been a simple order. Anyway, was multi-tasking and trying to do several things at once (work the machine and also answer questions from another customer). Then once the machine had finished running for this order, I nudged the cup upwards, hitting the steamer and burnt my hand. Hurt like a motherfricker.
But as we all know, these are the kind of risks you have to accept when you're a blue-collar worker.
Ive never gotten seriously injured at work but one time they moved the portapotty to where a road had been dug out like 5 feet and there was a string line for curb right outside of it and i busted out of the toilet because i hate being in there, tripped over the stringline and down into the the dug road
Very slapstick
Aluminum panel on an overhead dock door broke loose from its framing when I opened the door. It came down edge first on my head and shoulder, cut clean to bone on both.
I sued the frick out of them for not maintaining any of the building equipment, because I had been reporting and logging damaged doors, dock plates and dock locks for months prior, keeping track of all repairs from the company that services the doors, and nothing was done about any of the paneling despite the inherent risks of razor sharp aluminum sheets falling on people.
Lo and behold
Helped some of the maintenance guys at work move an office fridge. The other guy holding the fridge lost grip and a corner sliced through my hand. It wasn't very deep.
Nearly cut the tip of my finger on a metal drum. Someone cut the top out to use as a trash can but didn't grind down all the sharp edges. When I went to empty it, it sliced through my leather gloves like butter.
OP here again. Just yesterday I over stressed my jaw by inserting too many dicks into it at once. I guess my limit is 3 at a time. Can I sue my employer for an unsafe work environment? Those wieners were just too tempting for me to resist!
i did it at a grocery store when I was 17. I'm pretty sure I sprained my knee. >be me >bottle return system needs collection tub replaced >only empty tub is quarter filled with water and stacked on another full tub (about 150-200l is my guess) >get edge of top tub off the bottom tub > get on top and push >all the water rushes to the front >moron me tries to hold it back >tub takes me and flings me over it >fall on to knee >do the tub replacement and sit out the rest of my shift >knee went back to useful after a week, pain stopped after a good month
>cable company tech >find trouble out in the middle of nowhere >rocks everywhere. Like a river bed or side of mountain I don't even remember anymore just huge boulders everywhere I don't even know how they set the poles
Gotta carry my ladder and all my shit through all this skipping and lurching from rock to rock. Only slip once and land right on my knee. Toss my 28' ladder to the side
could you pull your hand out still? Or did it stop? I thought you get wrapped around the machine like that Chinese metal worker if you get caught
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i did it at a grocery store when I was 17. I'm pretty sure I sprained my knee. >be me >bottle return system needs collection tub replaced >only empty tub is quarter filled with water and stacked on another full tub (about 150-200l is my guess) >get edge of top tub off the bottom tub > get on top and push >all the water rushes to the front >moron me tries to hold it back >tub takes me and flings me over it >fall on to knee >do the tub replacement and sit out the rest of my shift >knee went back to useful after a week, pain stopped after a good month
great drawing lol
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> Be lightweight. > Work a lot, lift loads at bad angles because work demands it. > Back pain. > Ignore it. > More back pain > Ignore it again. > Sudenly something snaps inside, sharp pain in lower back. > ER surgeon says : You herniated so bad we need to emergency operate your spine. > MFW
>lift loads at bad angles because work demands it
That sucks. Boss has to provide a crane though no? (at least in my country)
The loads were not heavy enough to need a crane but the work was on a rope, so sometimes you are up in the air and twisting your body, even if the weight is not too much it can frick you up in the long run, especially if you are working with a partner that takes time to adjust his part of work.
> Be lightweight. > Work a lot, lift loads at bad angles because work demands it. > Back pain. > Ignore it. > More back pain > Ignore it again. > Sudenly something snaps inside, sharp pain in lower back. > ER surgeon says : You herniated so bad we need to emergency operate your spine. > MFW
got blowed up installing fuses in a 600 amp 480v disconnect because someone turned the circuit on while i went to retrieve the fuses. yes it was my fault for not LOTO. yes i did lose some fingers. yes i am still an electrician chad who makes more than 99% of people posting on this board
yeah sonny i admit i was dumb 20 years ago when i was still green and trusted my foreman. there wasnt really a "safety culture" back then. ive been really good at not getting blown up ever since, though
>sawing up wooden garage door sections to throw in a dumpster >using battery powered circular saw >girlfriend had informed me earlier that our cat hadn't come back since last night >really wanted to get home to look for her (cat) >rushing to get job done so I can go >not rationalizing where my leg was on the other side of the section I was sawing >hmmm this cut looks like it might be too big to get in the dumpster >move saw closer >cuts directly into my leg above my knee
Although kinda gory, wasn't a very serious cut, never bled very much. Resident who stitched me up asked if I was a sushi chef because the cut had precisely missed everything that could've cause real complications (bone, tendons and arteries). 13 external 5 internal stitches, two weeks off and $1000 from my boss for being a dumbass.
no at work but was undoing a broken spindle from a mowing deck. I stupidly forgot it was sheared and grabbed the back side so the spindle wouldn't fall to the ground when it cam loose. Piece of chinese pot metal shaped like a spear hit my hand when i hit the bolt with a 1100 ft/lb impact @ 100 psi. My whole hand went numb for about a day. I''m sure if i wasn't wearing leather gloves it would've broken my hand. I'm kind of a safety nut too. You will always do something stupid, I think, you just have to eliminate the stupid. Shouldn't have had my hand behind a power tool. Gotta tell yourself that everytime
In trade school they made in unsolder our projects so the fittings could be reused; after a couple hours I got tired and accidentally torched my arm. It wasn't very serious but looked fricking moronic.
Loaded a trailer of scrap metal for an appliance shop I work at. Trailer had a rotted board and it was raining. Was dollying up a 4 door Samsung, and foot went through. Lost balance, landed on back, dolly and refrigerator both came down with on top. No broken bones, but my back's been fricked up since. Too broke to get MRIs and X-rays, insurance cheaps out, and Im too loyal a wagey to file worker's comp.
Beyond that, several sheet metal lacerations on my wrists and palms, both vertical and horizontal, deep enough to see the cottage cheese. Again, too stubborn to see doctor, just taped then tight and let them scar over.
Crushed my forearm last week doing a brake job, forgot to move the jackstand when I lowered the jack. Didnt flex, so it didnt break the bone, just hurt like a motherfricker.
Forgot to bleed the pressure off the fuel pump while changing a fuel filter. Got my eyes doused in gasoline.
Blew my left eardrum out like a moron by trying to light a trash pile after dumping a jug of gas on it.
Shocked the shit out of myself several times on 30amp circuits. Wouldnt doubt my heartbeat is fricked up.
Im a danger prone walking liability. Would likely decapitate myself if I didn't pay attention sometimes.
>and Im too loyal a wagey to file worker's comp.
how do people like this even exist
"sir yes sir I will give my own health and life for this company sir! I will gladly endure physical problems for the rest of my life as long as it saves you some money sir!"
meanwhile pretty much any place will let you go at the minimum notice period they can, if they happen to calculate that it'll be cheaper and better for them to do so
>I'm too loyal to file a complaint
Cool, stopped reading there because I don't care about the ramblings of an idiot. All you did was encourage your shitty boss to keep cutting corners and playing games with his employees health and safety.
Bought a land plane recently in an online auction. Went to pick it up today and the blade has 6 bolts on it that you can undo and then pivot it around a center bolt to make it narrower for transport. Got the 6 bolts busted loose but the blade would not budge. Put a chain on the end of the blade and around the frame and get a chain binder on it and start pulling it around one link at a time. Going pretty good. Get it swiveled around quite a ways and the guy helping load it gives it a push to see if it will swivel now that we broke it loose. So I get on the opposite side and push as well and it is moving. Im pushing with all my might and that center bolt shears off and the blade slams down to the ground. I fall and land with my full body weight on my chin on the metal top part of the blade. My chin starts gushing blood everywhere all over my hoodie. Say a few curse words and find a rag to wipe the blood from my chin. My beard is too thick to see what actually happened. Say frick it and continue to load the land plane on my trailer while blood runs down my beard and onto my hoodie. Chain down, pop some ibuprofen i keep in the pickup and head to the shop. Unload it, sell some hay and I'm finally home and ready for some beer and food. Chin is still leaking some...
Cut my finger off with a worm drive ( kick back )
Called my wife and told her I cut my finger off
She said, THE WHOLE FINGER
I said no, the one next to it….bada tiss
Cutting upwards, knife came up, into eye, rattled around, fricked up the cornea, retna, and whole vitreous humour. 2 months in hospital. Blind as frick in that eye now, but the other one is good so it's fine.
In a welding shop, cutting a piece of ⅜" flat bar for a handrail, and one of the sparks flew into my eye. It didn't hurt immediately, just seemed like I saw a bright flash for a split second. It had actually melted partially into my cornea, and that evening I was getting this tiny piece of metal drilled out of my eye by an eye doc with mini burr tool. They numbed it up but I'll never forget the sound, like someone was squishing spaghetti noodles in my head. Anyways, wear your ppe
5 Black folk broke into my 711 and raped my asn boi pussy. I screamed and screamed but boone came to help. They left me as a sweaty mess on with thier spook cum leaking out of my ass.
I was filling a sprayer with water + powder chemical stripper and the jug burst and splashed all down my groin. At first I was okay then it got worse so I left the job. I had to take a bus home still thinking it wasn't that serious, but it started to burn more and more. Got home to look and a bunch of hair burned off and my balls were all burned. When I got home and showered, the reaction made it burn more and my gf at the time literally had to wash my balls and groin, it was agonizing. We're married now, balls work fine btw.
Work related? I'm pretty sure I've inhaled some amount of abrasive media from sand blasters and metal slivers from our workbenchs being air blasted at cleanup.
I'll probably suffer the consequences in 5-10 years here.
Nearly sliced multiple fingers in half while cooking and meat processing.
Oh...I also inhaled acid vapour. Wasn't so bad until three years later and it never got better. Recurring theme of workplace injury, at first yours like whatever, but then years later you're still injured and realise it wasn't even worth working
Fell off a second floor flat on my back, I couldn't breathe for a good minute or so and it took me around 10~15 seconds to be able to move again. I didn't suffer any injury though, the helmet probably spared me a brain concussion
>Some men will got to extraordinary lengths to prove how macho they are. Frenchman Pierre Pumpille recently shunted a stationary car two feet by headbutting it. "Women thought I was a god," he explained from his hospital bed. >Deity or not, however, Pumpille is a veritable girl's blouse compared to Polish farmer Krystof Azninski, who staked a strong claim to being Europe's most macho man by cutting off his own head in 1995. Azninski, 30, had been drinking with friends when it was suggested they strip naked and play some "men's games". Initially they hit each other over the head with frozen turnips, but then one man upped the ante by seizing a chainsaw and cutting off the end of his foot. Not to be outdone, Azninski grabbed the saw and, shouting "Watch this then," he swung at his own head and chopped it off.
>"It's funny," said one companion, "when he was young he put on his sister's underwear. But he died like a man."
I was loading a box truck for a somalian guy a few years ago. He was helping us load stuff. While I was crouched down fastening a ratchet strap to the side, he knocked a vertical side slat piece of a bed frame(like pic related) over and the metal hook nailed me in the head. My head was spurting blood, running down my face like Carrie. He let me wash up and I covered it with paper towel under a hat and finished the job. Still not enough to get a Black person to leave a tip evidently.
one time at work i farted and a poopie came out. it was so embarrassing, some of the men in the office started laughing, most of the women looked at me with disgust, my manager looked at me with a mix of disappointment and disgust. while working a desk job has low risk of physical injury, i suffered a great mental and emotional injury that day.
I've been to the de facto medic for my crew for quite a few years, I've seen some decently nasty injuries somebody put a framing nail through the wrist somebody else busted their eyebrow open with the claw of a hammer somebody cut a good quarter inch into their knuckle with a chop saw and quite a few knife and screwdriver stabs and and cuts amazingly everybody still has 10 digits; best one by far is the coke fueled human wienerroach managed to put framing nail into his eye
got my index and ring finger on my dominant hand crushed by a Cat 345 while pushing some sewer pipe together. I still have the fingers, finger nails, but the fingers are a bit misshapen.
not work but diy. Was making a sword scabbard and hit my left index finger with a screwdriver, apparently I was really precise because I almost popped the bones apart.
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While your post is fpbp and also /thread, unfortunately the entire site is overrun with plebbitors who unironically think posting on 4chins is their dirty little secret their fellow plebbitors will never find out about.
Dear PrepHoles' Anonymous,
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Ripped a thumbnail clean off while mechanicking.
That's the only time I've ever actually puked from pain
Man I thought you were kidding like the thumbnail of the pic posted or something. Forgot that thumbnails were on the thumbs.
In the Navy, my division was bringing in a new flow meter down the hatch, a huge ~150lb chunk of pipe. It was being passed down in some cloth sack, to one guy on a ladder, and he was supposed to pass it off to me from there. As they were lowering it down, the sack ripped, the guy on the ladder smartly bailed out of the way, and I idiotically tried to catch it. My outstretched arm took most of the impact, but then it hit me on the head and knocked me down. Was definitely concussed on impact as my vision went full blur for a few seconds, one front tooth snapped clean in half, the other cracked, and my arm was numb and I couldn't move it for a few minutes. Doc took me to the head, washed me off, made sure I was okay, then gave me ten staples on my head. I got a few ibuprofen then sent home, but I had to stand duty the next day. Pretty sure I that same event led to my AC joint separation when benching a few months later. Now I just do OHP mainly to avoid stressing it.
check out the petti bon system of chiropractic care. Absolutely saved my life.
I'm pretty much fine besides AC joint ache. I got a high disability rating and free dental for life from it.
Butt sex was good. Sensual.
Yeah they installed the next day. Deck plate never recovered though.
good goy, israel thanks you for your injury. Here's 1000 shekels to make up for your destroyed body.
By the way, how was the butt sex?
Have you at least saved the part?
You deserve it for being a zogbot
>tried to catch it.
had a guy do this to a plastic mold plate about seven feet tall.
>be me, factotum minus the alcoholism
>get concussion from pregnant dolphin hitting the back of my head with her chin at top speed, nearly drown
>run out of air in tank next week, swim over to get a new tank, dolphins pull me under and I hold my breath for 3 minutes as they stare me down and eventually leave
>dismantling a wooden sauna, lifting a floorboard up which snaps and slices a large vein on my forearm, borrow pothead friends lighter to close it up and get back to work
>milk factory, handling powdered hydrogen peroxide without anyone telling me what it was, breathe in a ton of it, cough up small amounts of blood for a month
>milk factory also did fish sauce, 800lb pallet of fish guts and ice fell off the forklift, steel toe saves my digits but presses HARD into the top of my foot, ice and innards burst out of the crate and hit me hard enough to smash my balls
>hit in the head by a forklift fork at multiple jobs
>skin boiled off of my stomach by a broken espresso machine in an attempt to work a "cushy" job
I've never made a dime off of lawsuits and the damage is accumulating, I need some gay office shit to help minimize any more chance of bodily injury
I've done stuff like this too, but not for work, helping family renovate their home
Haven't had this happen yet...
>I've never made a dime off of lawsuits
How come, lost them all? Some of these seem open and shut, like the one where they didn't tell you what you were handling and breathing in, unless you're living in a shithole without any solid regulations.
>skin boiled off of my stomach by a broken espresso machine in an attempt to work a "cushy" job
guess it was more blue collar than you thought huh?
>skin boiled off of my stomach by a broken espresso machine in an attempt to work a "cushy" job
>I nudged the cup upwards, hitting the steamer and burnt my hand
Always wear full-body safety gear when working with dangerous equipment.
Sciatic nerve bullshit. Always fun having to call your mom to come help you get out of bed the next day.
Rolfing or structural integration. The rolf college has gone a bit ghey since ida passed; you know how it is, it's in Boulder.
You can find some old school practitioners though, or someone who graduated from one of their schools.
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Walk more, strengthen your glutes (squats, weighted hip extension etc.)
fell down and broke my c**t
haha hehe
3-¼".
never really trusted nailguns
You would think nailguns would have a forward safety, like the grip safeties on 1911s, so you can't shoot it unless some force is applied to a surface first. Not sure f this already exists or why you would need to shoot a nail gun like a real gun, if someone wants to share.
They have, not sure what you're on about. The foot is connected to an Interlock that has to retract to allow the trigger to move. Most nail guns can be operated in contact (bump) mode where you hold the trigger down and you bump the foot on whatever you need to nail.
>They have, not sure what you're on about
I'm a barista and have never held a nailgun. Thanks.
>I'm a barista and have never held a nailgun.
The absolute state of this board...
NGMI.
Barista is a blue collar job, we just use different tools. I wouldn't fault you for not knowing the inner workings of burr grinders, or proper goose neck kettle pour techniques. We are also exposed to workplace hazards lile the image in the OP. You sound like a real jerk.
>Barista is a blue collar job
what the frick am I reading?
You heard me, Black person.
>my job is just as dangerous as y-yours!
>I-I can get b-b-b-burned if I spill a drink!
he's obviously trolling you dumbfrick
Whats your concrete definition of a blue collar job?
having to pound your moms fat ass every night while your homosexual dad plays OSHA inspector
Deflections arent going to work
Whats your concrete definition of a blue collar job?
Whats your concrete definition of a blue collar job?
>posting this much on christmas eve
got nothing else to do huh?
You are here with me, deflections arent going to work
Whats your concrete definition of a blue collar job?
Someone that has to take physical risks in the workplace.
Like a barista who has to work with dangerous hot water or milk.
Tbf most dangerous jobs are dangerous because traffic. Like people think being a cop is dangerous because criminals. It's not, they get hurt in car accidents more often than not
this, I never got seriously injured at work, before I worked comfy office jobs I worked in service and only ever got small cuts or the rare burn, my most serious injury was getting hit by a hummer that didn't yield on a crossing.
Barista is def not a blue collar job.
t. resident expert
>Barista is def not a blue collar job.
A truck driving job is far closer to a barista than an actual trade job where men do real work.
who the frick said anything about truckers? and a trucker still does more demanding things than making coffee. I can't honestly believe anyone is attempting to argue that being a barista is a physically demanding job lmfao
it would be like saying lawyers are blue collar because they have to lift their briefcase and might get a paper cut.
Why are you responding to a post that was specifically directed at another person, not you?
these aren't dms.
Your mental capacity seems fit for being a truck driver or a barista.
Whats your concrete definition of a blue collar job?
Also im curious what high level of skill you think truck drivers posses
I gotta agree with this, a barista does more physically demanding work than a trucker. I'd place baristas alongside electricians, about equal in terms of technical and subject matter expertise to do the work properly, and both have options to be customer facing.
Lol, lmao even. You can "learn" to be a barista in a few hours, and become half decent after a week or two of applied training. In my province, a typical electrician course is 1800 hours. That's one year full-time! And you'll learn a lot of stuff on the job, even after 20 years of experience. I hope this was not bait.
Black person please, course length means shit, I could teach someone to be a new build residential electrician in a day, maybe a week for the legally moronic. Grab a broom homosexual
Bro i make coffee every morning, its not that hard. I cant actually stand straight when i wake up, also usually suffer from fairly serious alcohol withdrawals pretty much ever fricking morning, its not picnic. Cramps, cold sweat, you name it. But i make coffee alright, its not that hard
>I'd place baristas alongside electricians, about equal in terms of technical and subject matter expertise to do the work properly,
Pulls string super hard and it snaps while tugging wire x3, injure back after crashing to the floor.
Forget I'm on a 12 ft ladder and step off backwards, injure back and minor concussion.
Chip concrete for missed conduit for nearly five months total, only given a face-forming cloth respirator, will die of silicosis later on in life.
Get told to not be a pussy and work live, accidentally graze a grounded box while holding a phase and then my diaphragm hurts for a month.
Foot infection from a wafer screw going through my ANSI/CSA rated boots.
Slips while pushing a loaded pallet truck up a slight slope, hitting my two front teeth, goes to dentist and they tell me to watch for my teeth turning grey from dying (luckily doesn't happen).
>get compared to a barista whomst only has to carry 30 kg boxes, possibly slip on the floor, get verbally abused.
>mfw
>Foot infection
Heh, my boots were thick enough to only make a nail damage the dead skin and bleed a drop or two. Better buy chinese boots, I guess?
You sound both frail and stupid.
>t. resident homosexual
ftfy. Baristas are gayer than AIDS though.
>what the frick am I reading
Obvious bait
True, Baristas are the definition of a white collar job.
No, a white collar job implies it takes brains to do. Blue collar means any idiot can do it just with some experience.
>a white collar job implies it takes brains to do
not really. it's just a job without physically demanding labor.
That just makes it a fake job,like in the TV show "the office". A contrived form of welfare.
White collar is engineers, doctors, lawyers, academics.
>engineers
Depends on the type. some will use computers to make stuff with autocad and the likes. I'm an engineer, but I repair and maintain trains. I guess its more of a train mechanic than a train engineer but it's a lot more demanding than working on cars and requires more qualifications
>Baristas are the definition of a white collar job.
lmao what? white collar is, by definition, a job where you wear a dress shirt or some other light business attire. Ie. office job, even shitty ones
Barista is most definitely not white collar. I would argue Service jobs should be separate from Blue Collar or White Collar though
Barista is absolutely a blue collar. I don't think all plumbers work for roto-reuter, please don't assume all baristas work at Starbucks.
Between roasting beans in an industrial facility, and finely crafting the perfect brews and cups, baristas are just as rough-n-tough and technically reliant on a wealth if hands on experience as any tradesman. Its asinine that this is even an argument.
>baristas are just as rough-n-tough
Kek. No fricking way.
The guy who repairs the machines is blue collar. Barista with an arts degree trying to defend his HS level job. Just because it’s a shitty job doesn’t mean it’s blue collar. These terms mean something like “Man” and “Woman” and gays like you with blue hair want to change that.
Blue collar dudes don’t have name tags, they have their name sewn into a button down shirt. White collar have a badge to get into their office and maybe business cards.
Normal people just wewr regular clothes. Its basicly only americans who have to differentiate using collar tags. Most normal people dont really have to do that.
Normal people wear normal clothes here as well. But when you’re working, there’s often a uniform or a dress code. That’s how life works. I don’t know what kind of moronic Yuro argument you’re making, we’re not talking about people selling jackfruit from the back of a pickup truck, they don’t really need a uniform.
>there’s often a uniform or a dress code
Not really though. Maybe in america
Truck drivers just sit on their ass all day, a barista does twice as much physical work
Actual barista here. We repair our own marzocco. Only the fast food coffee chains like Starbucks hire teenagers and Gender Studies majors who have never held a tool before. I wouldn’t call it a real blue collar trade though.
If you have never had to fix something on the job with baling wire, it is not a blue collar job.
I've never even had to touch baling wire, but my job is undeniably blue collar. what the frick in a woodshop would I have to fix with baling wire?
if your job isn't physically demanding, it's not blue collar. it's that simple.
Maybe hold up the dust extractor that's falling off? I'm sure you could find one thing that could be fixed with baling wire.
Merry Christmas homosexual.
>Merry Christmas homosexual.
This. Don't spill any more hot coffee on yourself or whip that cream too hard, you might damage your fragile wrists...
>...
only homosexuals and women type like this
Whatever you gotta tell yourself Mr.BadassBarista.
nobody in here is a barista you newbie
10/10 post
Now that'sa fresha pasta!
I'm the anon who shot his leg, most nail guns do have pressure safety like that other guy said some crews take it off but most don't, mine had one too but I was holding my finger on the trigger and I tripped because I was leaning on a 2 by 4 to push a brace out to straighten a wall and the 2 by 4 gave way and the gun landed on my leg, the nail went all the way in and I couldn't see the head it's not like I pulled the trigger a foot away from it it was flush to my leg, if it wasn't flush I'm sure it wouldn't have gone so deep
Dropped half a smith machine on my head as I was disassembling it. I rolled right back to my feet trying to save face but I was bleeding and the whole thing ended up fairly embarrassing, with one dude sending pics of my scalp to his gf (a nurse) asking if I needed stitches. I had to keep a rag pressed to my head but otherwise nothing, must have glanced off mostly.
I got hit by a car. The guy claimed he missed the turn for Burger King and came flying in reverse and pinned me between his pickup bed and a trailer.
First thing he did was try to offer me vicodin…
Feel ya there...got hit by a car doing about 40 while working a mva...went 20+ feet in the air. 7 broken vertebrae, 2 blown disc's, both knees replaced..
My fatger was making a hole in a pcb with scissors (we were poor didn't have a drill). They slipped and he fricking drove the blade into his kneecap.
raced professionally, broken back, legs, arms, feet, hands, fingers..close to 20 different broken bones
What discipline? I'm around a ton of old sprint car racers in my job and some of the stories are bananas.
Shot my leg with a nailgun, doc said is was a few mm away from my femeral artery and my femur bone, could have been fatal if I wasn't lucky
In the case of arterial hemorrhaging always apply a tourniquet (rope, belt, electrical cord) as close to the trunk as possible as tightly as possible. Arteries are deep under the skin and need high compression in order to stop bleeding.
Black person if he hits that he can do whatever the frick he wants, he is still going to die 100% of the time. Lmao he could even walk into an already set up surgery room prepared to deal with exactly this, shoot himself and he is almost certainly going to die regardless. Im not saying you are wrong, its really good advice, but he would be gone
trunk being what top of thigh/armpit in this context?
Not the same anon but yea. As high as you can, not on a joint. If the foot/lower shin is all that’s affected, you could place it below the knee. Same for the arm, if you know it’s halfway down the forearm or more, you can try to save the elbow.
If you put a real tourniquet on a limb, your limb or someone else’s, assume that shit is getting amputated
Can you put a tourniquet on a libtard's neck to save them from their damaged brain?
tourniquets don't even begin to increase amputation risk unless they've been applied for several hours, usually at least 4 or more. any developed area in the western world will have medical response fast enough that the tourniquet has nothing to do with how much limb gets amputated, the only factor is what kind of damage happened beforehand that required it be applied in the first place.
Arteries are stretchy and they can retract several inches if they're completely severed; you are technically correct with the halfway down the forearm/calf part but if a layperson misunderstands or overestimates how much good tissue they're working with then you could get a tourniquet that's too low and does nothing, except maybe make the hemorrhage internal. For the vast majority of people who have zero training on applying a tourniquet, "high and tight" is the best advice.
The main risk from an improvised tourniquet is nerve damage, but amputation isn't a guarantee even after as much as 10 hours of application without medical attention, and under 2 hours there's no amputation risk at all. A tourniquet that's too low or loose isn't going to save someone's limb but it could cost their life; always go high and tight unless you've got formal trauma medicine experience.
chiropractors routinely paralyze and even kill people with their spinal adjustment bullshit
Not him and not medically smart but I did find using electrical tape to tourniquet a finger after like a razor blade cut or whatever that won't stop bleeding long enough for me to dress it let alone clean it can help stop blood flow long enough to clean and dress it in leisure. It even somewhat aids in anesthesia for the cleaning part. Be warned though, if you take a long time it can hurt a bit removing the tourniquet.
Also, for the same reasons electrical tape is good for tieing off blood flow (stretchy tightness) it's a superior tape for the dressing of the wound as well. You actually have to be careful not to make it too tight.
cut my finger with a box cutter.
not many ways you can injure yourself in IT (and I'm a Network Engineer now, so even fewer).
Worst thing? A lifetime of having to work.
After 30 years of computer work my wrists are fricked, my back is fricked, m fat as frick from a job where I sit all day.
At work? Medium-tier finger bruises/crushing.
On my own? Probably lung damage from breathing in solder/welding/cutting fumes.
Not a work accident, but I was cutting up a tree in a pair of nylon gym shorts and the saw chain got caught up in the leg of the shorts. Opened up about a six inch gash
calluses when I was pulling out weeds
fell 8 feet directly onto my ankle inna marines
slicing off my fingernail and chunk of my finger in the kitchen, working a 12 hour shift, then getting it cauterized at the ER because it didn't stop bleeding
they had three nurses holding me down while they did it, all the while not telling me what was about to happen
shit fricking hurt
I don't like jointers anymore.
Damn, anon, that's a rough one. My uncle lost his middle and index to a jointer at 14.
Shit, my uncle died of a heart attack. He was a fat frick who drove a semi truck. 400+lbs.
Anon not sure if intended but your post war comical
You're supposed to use push blocks.
Very useful post thanks
More often that not people frick around with these things and ignore the safety regarding it. I remember one particular guy who fricked around with a table saw and cut 4 fingers off clean. He proceeded to reestablish that fricking trangle thing that splits the wood after the blade. Then he took his serveres fingers and went and called his fricking boss telling him that he was going home early. Then he called an ambulance, while waiting for the fricking ambulance he took time to clean up most of the blood, poorly. As soon as they entered the room he went out cold for a couple of minutes and woke up screaming in pain and confusion because he had no fricking fingers left basicly.
They put all of them back on, and all of them work, it was a clean cut. The jointer wouldnt do you any such favors, it just takes, it doesnt ask
nah, push blocks are for gays. I'd rather just cut my finger off
Very few people do. Im surprised there arent more people in here who disagree with those. A respectable injury, but the good news is that you are never going to frick over that finger again
I fricked around with these a little bit on a 6 month ground course with boat building, i have absolute and complete respect for these machines, they dont frick around. Out of the 20 of us we had 3 minor injuries because people either misunderstood something or did something wrong. No fingers lost, but one broken hand, or whatever, the part of the finger that is inside the hand broke on two fingers on one of them while using a table saw. He fricked up, the distancing thing on the side was too tight and the board snapped and hit him behind the knuckles with the force of a board snapping because the distancing thing was fricked. He learned his lesson and also dropped out. He came back eventually but now mostly he does polyester shit, he does not like the machines at all.
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Aren't you supposed to start with your pinky if you wrong your yakuza boss?
2nd degree chemical burns, both hands all the way up to my elbows.
>grinding company, resharpens drills endmills blades hobs and other tools
>ancient machine for 1" and larger HSS drill bits
>sprays coolant everywhere as you work the motion, they leave a leather apron nearby because if you dont wear it youll be soaked
>new coolant comes ultra concentrated, has to be cut with water to make it safe for skin contact
>guy who normally worked with those ancient nasty machines was a moron.
Routine was
>machine sits, water evaporates, coolant becomes thick and too strong of a mix.
>add water, check with refrotactometer, if need be add new coolant concentrate and you are ready
We got an order of like 200 lathe drills, I wanted some overtime so I went back and started working on them.
The moron had filled the coolant earlier in the day so I didnt think anything of it
He poured pure concentrate with no water, into the already too strong of a mix in the machine.
After maybe 5 minutes with both arms just being soaked, I started to feel really itchy. I had long sleeves on that were completely wet.
The itch turned to burning and I knew something was wrong.
Weapy lesions all up and down my arms and hands, I had to have some prescription cream to help it heal. My fingers felt like they were covered in sand for 6 months.
It didnt leave too much scarring or long term damage thankfully.
just do regular checkups for skin- and blood cancer anon. My grand dad died very early from blood cancer. But he was exposed to whatever they were using in the 70's
bro pls stop
>MY JOB IS HARD
>NOOOO MY JOB IS HARDER
god shut the frick up you gays
Some people need to have unnecessary pride in their work. Its a coping mechanism
I was squeezing between a shrub and an exterior wall to get to a hidden outside plug when my leg hit a metal pipe jutting out that was sharpened like a fricking punni stick
Sliced open a big horizontal gash right above my knee from end to end
Sounds absolutely wack, anon
I got lots of arm burns as a baker. Now I look like a self harmer. Which is true. No body would work in baking or hospitality if they didn't want to be hurt.
I got a cut trying to open a box of milk with a knife
A rowdy patient sucker punched me. Wound up needing stitches. Also got stuck by a dirty needle.
Switched this on holding my finger inside (wanted to see how strong it was)
Took my nail off
jesus christ you are fricking stupid
A man either suffers and learns or lives in uncertainty and fear
It's called indomitable faustian spirit, you wouldn't get it though
you sure shown him with your higher intellect
>PUTTING FINGERS IN POWER TOOLS IS BAD BECAUSE... BECAUSE IT JUST IS!
It generally is.
he did push the boundaries of the human experience by a tiny bit
I say god speed to this moron and sticking his fingers into the business end of power tools
you couldn't have tested it with something besides your finger?
Made me lol
Dude it even has a marking of a finger being crushed. You are not very smart.
I hope you got fired
metal gate fell on me and bust my head open
Cracked skull
I finished my shift or would have been fired. I was just a few days from purchasing my first home.
Owner threatened to fire anyone who called an ambulance as well.
'Merica
pretty sure you could have taken him to court and bought that house outright
>merica
>easiest place to get compensation for work related injuries
>didn't take a full couple years of paycheck right then and there
>'murica
no, that's on you bro
There's labor laws in place in all 50 states that basically say you're a fricking moron for not suing your employer into poverty
cleaning upstairs, lit the fire place, cleaned the bathroom came back to clean hearth 5 minutes later stumbled down the stairs, took a nap on the front lawn. I forgotten to open the flue
Opening up a pilot hole on a SS bracket. I applied to much pressure on the drill press and the bit grabbed and spun the bracket and the vice.
My reaction was to grab the vice so it didn't break the bit and hit me in the chest.
Unfortunately my aim was bad and the 1/4 bit went thru my thumb cross ways.
I freaked out and jerked my thumb away and it tore my thumb open.
Electric pallet stacker hit my toe and my big toe while my heel was backed up on pallet. Luckily the stacker was unloaded and already braking, so I just received a shock that resulted in minor pain for two weeks.
Another time, I sliced open my finger on the backing liner of the web on the label die cutting machine I'm operating. Luckily it was a shallow cut so it healed in two days.
Doing seasonal work on an annual festival nearby.
This summer one of the food stands wanted a new deep fryer for their fries since the old one broke down the year prior. I was tasked with picking it up from the seller, cleaning it (yuck) and testing it.
Being stupid and never having operated a fryer before, I put ~15L of fat into the left tub, waited till it boiled and then drained it into a waste tub to put it into the other tub. The tub slipped and spilled roughly half of it all over my legs.
Luckily it healed without any scarring but I had huge blisters for weeks to come.
Tell me you tasted at least a little bit of fried skin
It looks like 2 cyclopian snakes
Caught a crack on the top of the head from the press break arm (solid steel) at the metal shop one day.
Nothing really serious, but I have had some entertaining ones in the Army.
Iraq in '05, I was working on a truck and hit my head on the corner of the door. Didn't hurt too bad but I was bleeding really bad, face covered in blood. My platoon sergeant and another mechanic were digging through a first aid kit telling me "hang on, man. We've got you taken care of." as blood was running down my face. I got tired of waiting and told them I'll just get a clean rag to stop the bleeding. There was one idiot in my platoon who was always getting in my way, like he wanted to get close to cop a feel or something. I ran into him once on the way to the maintenance tent (he was just standing there), then on my way to a storage container to get a rag, I turned around and ran right into him, as if he came out of nowhere. I was so annoyed I started cussing him out and he threatened to kick my ass. I just told him, "Yea, you're a real badass, picking a fight with a guy who's already bleeding."
Afghanistan in '11, I was tightening some axle bolts on an MRAP because the manufacturer couldn't do the job right, using a 4 foot long torque wrench. I came up and hit my front teeth on the axle chipping them. I was at a remote base and it would have been a huge hassle to get to a dentist, and it wasn't really bad so I figured I would just deal with it later. There were some sharp edges cutting into my tongue, so I filed them smooth with the diamond file on my Leatherman. They never gave me any problems so I didn't get them looked at until I got home and got to a VA hospital. It was priceless watching the VA dentist cringe when I told her about filing my teeth with my Leatherman.
What would they have done besides file?
63S?
I etsed in 02.
Stationed in Savannah. Decide to go to the beach one Saturday. Spent all day on the waterboarding what I thought was sunscreen. They runs out it was sun tan amplifier.
I turned purple. Monday morning at motorpool, while company is there bringing vehicles for inspection so we had to wear our coveralls that don't fit. First Sargt sees me struggling to pull them over my shoulders. Walks up to me and pulls my collar back and sees blistering. He proceeds to call me a fricking idiot and makes me go to the hospital. Had 2nd degree burns. Got three days quarters and a bottle of codeine. I was shedding skin by the handfuls. Almost got an article 15.
Can someone translate this into English?
He was almost deemed a total moron, but got away with it just being a medical problem.
What he did at the beginning was akin to you frying an ant with a magnifying glass, because tan sprays absorb UV.
t.exmilitary
Ah, thanks anons
He was a vehicle maintainer stationed in Savannah Georgia that got out of the service in 2002, when his boss saw how bad his sunburn was he got sent to medical and given 3 day off in his barracks room, also the base jannies almost smacked his pp for damaging government property (soldiers are considered govt property
he was in the army
not that bad but hurt like hell. power carving is no joke
>need to drill hole through cabinet bottom, through floor, into basement so i can run electric to kitchen island
>boss gave me a big corded angle drill with no clutch to use and a big 2 ft bit
>drill through cab and floor
>get through floor and hit a joist with a bunch of old nails
>drill catches and throws itself and my hand into the rail for the drawer
>slices open the top of my hand
>can see my tendons moving when i move my hand
>get 8 stitches
>pinky is still 5% more stiff than the one on my other hand
>i don't use big drils with no clutch anymore
I was lifting a massive 12" pipe swivel with a hoist to load it into a vise for assembly, turned around to pick up a wrench, and upon turning around again ran right into it and gave myself a concussion
Contagious appendicitis,
As a result of covid infection.
>Verification not required.
yeah I got contagious Lou Gehrig's disease from covid
Dog almost took my foot off one time.
I once got my whole pants legs caught into the sawander. Took a crane to get them out.
Not at work but as a teenager seated at McDonald's with mates I Spilled a full hot coffee in my lap. Wearing boardshorts
1. nervously did a little poop in my pants at a work social event. Took off my underpants and flushed them then later thought thank god they didn't block the toilet
2. hemorrhoid cream in my butt crack seeped through my chinos on to fabric office chair. I think I just dabbed it as clean as I could with paper towel
Plantar fasciitis and carpal tunnel
A barista's job can be considered a blue-collar profession for several reasons:
1. **Physical Work:** Baristas perform manual labor, like operating coffee machines, grinding coffee beans, and cleaning equipment.
2. **Skill-based:** It requires specific skills and training, similar to many blue-collar jobs, but does not typically require a college degree.
3. **Service-Oriented:** Like many blue-collar roles, it involves direct service, often in a retail or hospitality setting.
4. **Hourly Wages:** Baristas often earn hourly wages, which is common in blue-collar jobs.
5. **Hands-On Crafting:** The creation of coffee drinks involves hands-on, artisanal crafting, akin to traditional blue-collar trades.
6. **Physical Environment:** Work is done in a café or shop, similar to blue-collar workers who work in specific, non-office environments.
7. **Uniform and Appearance:** Baristas often wear uniforms and adhere to appearance guidelines, paralleling blue-collar professions.
8. **Shift Work:** The job often requires working in shifts, including early mornings, evenings, and weekends, typical of many blue-collar roles.
9. **Customer Interaction:** Direct customer interaction is a significant part of the job, similar to many service-oriented, blue-collar positions.
10. **Practical Skills:** The role emphasizes practical, hands-on skills and experience over academic or theoretical knowledge.
These aspects align with many traditional characteristics of blue-collar jobs, although the distinction between blue-collar and other types of work can be fluid and subjective.
Agreed
>in high school
>eating out at a burger joint
>tastes weird
>worst that could happen is food poisoning and a couple days off school to vidya
>by extremely sick for years in and out of hospitals
>drs cant figure it out
>get sent to the mayo clinic
>they figure it out in a week
>a bug went through my system emitting gasses that paralyzing part of my intestines and stomach
Never got to work, got on them neetbux fresh out the gate.
Jesus Christ
Anon took the wormpill
Got clipped by one of these starting my shift in the mines once. I've had plenty of deep-ish cuts and bruises elsewhere, nothing super glue cant fix.
>Full crew with the section boss driving
>Most stuff is battery powered, metal, and runs on a rail track
>Have two airlock doors to go through directly on the track
>Have to stop, open door, get in airlock, then open second door
>We get to said doors
>Me and two other guys get out
>First two open the first door
>I hop out and walk ahead to the second door while they pull in and hop back on
>All of a sudden hear one of the onrey old farts yelling MOVE MOTHERFRICKER
>Can never tell if the guy is serious or not so just brush him off
>All of a sudden BOOM
>Dipshit boss driving nails my right leg
>Foot was 2 inches from getting cut off by the wheel on the track
>Start absolutely fricking cursing the dude
>Can hardly walk and hurts like absolute fricking hell
>My dumb ass decides to hobble around all night instead of getting a ride out
>After dealing with all the safety bullshit go to get checked out
>Turns out ankle is fractured
>Okay to walk on, just gotta be easy on it for a little while
>Later that day find out the boss had a "bad eye"
>Quit underground mining 2 months later
I've always been really interested in underground mining. How was it? I know the conditions are generally horrible and it's tough work, but was it worth it?
Rough, but comparatively its a relief over my prior work as a barista.
You're lucky you got out of barista work alive. To most it is a death sentence, toiling away for the man, putting your body at risk, it's a thankless hard life.
I've always been fascinated by underground mining. My dad has some old pictures somewhere of his grandpa at the coal mine he worked at (pic not related). I ought to see if he can dig them out next time I visit.
Look at that White privledge. Those men get to go down hundreds of feet below the surface, with stuffy limited air that exceeds 100F, working in near pitch black, inhaling more rock dust than oxygen, for 12 hours at a time. I hope they knew how lucky and privledged they were. I bet only 4 of those men died in mining accidents.
The proletariat does not know the pain
Gamers, rise up!
Oh shit, i do have that!!!
Worked two jobs summer before undergrad. Graveyard shift, operated bookbinding press with tons of pressure. Exhausted, left thumbs atop a book to guide it under the press. Depressed the pedal. Flattened both thumbs between first and second knuckles. Hurts every day thirty years later, thinking of amputating thumbs but they are still useful.
Crushed my finger while putting up a steel beam shelf.
The shelf was finished, and all that was left was to put the levels on each shelf, a big metal grate that can hold a few thousand pounds.
Each one is shaped like a bracket ( [ ) and each end hooks onto a beam.
The back end didn't hook on properly, so when I went to adjust the front hook, the back side fell through 20 feet to the ground
Before it hit the ground, my finger was caught under one of the hooks, and the tip of my pointer finger was crushed under it.
At first it didn't hurt, it's just that numb tingly feeling for a little while. I didn't think my finger was broken, but the nail was bleeding from underneath.
I was up suspended in an order picker, so I had to one handedly bring it down and park it, then I went into the building.
The frickers inside had the nerve to look at my finger, bent and dripping blood on the floor, and said "you'll have to get drug tested for that" and nothing else. Not even a "are you okay?" Or "what happened?".
Anyways, the nail is growing back, but so far the old one is still attached and waiting to fall off.
For fun I took a picture everyday, and began a timelapse
As a cashier at a hardware store a customer's dog bit my hand and I got an infection up to my shoulder from it, spent a couple days in the hospital getting pumped full of antibiotics. According to the doctors I could've died or at least lost my arm if I hadn't gotten it seen to right away. Wasn't even some psychotic shitbull or anything, it was a really lovely chocolate lab that I had seen, petted, given treats to a ton of times previously.
Damn that's shitty, try to resist the temptation to rip it off towards the very end when it's just kind of dangling, not worth it. I had a similar thing happen to all of my nails when I was a kid after catching hand-foot-mouth at a summer camp.
i know this post is 23 days old, but could you (or anyone) tell me the software used to stabilise the timelapse over the fingernail?
i've done something similar over the course of a couple of months with a large tree that drops all its leaves and covers itself in bright red flowers,
but the timelapse is a bit jittery for my liking and it's a huge hassle to manually align ~60 photos paint.net
thanks in advance
bruh sick cyathea in the foreground too
I juste had the same thing happen working on my car. tried to pull the motor towards me with a pry bar. it slipped, smashed my finger. its almost fully grown back. the new fingernail is there now fully but some odd part is there from growing under the nail still.
Take MSM to grow it faster (hair as well). It's good for joints too. Methysulfonylmethane. Trust me!
You can use kdenlive, free and open source
Working on cube farm panels, the company president pulled back the power patch cable and it slipped from his hand. Popped me in the eye and gave me a neat eye scratch.
Too bad it happened on a Friday and only ruined my weekend, was fine by Monday.
Curiously, this was a supremely white-collar injury to happen in a job that also involved OSHA-nightmare factories.
only one that actually happened at work was a little knife stab.
stabbed myself with a knife similar to a boxcutter. went in a good centimeter or two, nothing too special.
as a kid, when i was in boy scouts however, i was very close to chopping my own finger off with a hatchet. cleaved the skin and reached the bone, but gladly didnt cut it off completely.
another time, in woodworking class in school, i was sawing a piece in a vice. i didnt check my progress to slow down near the end and just kept on going full tilt with the saw. reach the end, work piece gets cut and i slam my hand with full force against the vice. caused bleeding underneath my fingernail which led to it eventually falling off completely and regrowing.
Had a 1000ish pound steel cage on a creep-feeder for calves hit me in the face as it dropped two weeks ago.
Got a black eye, had about 3 seconds of tasting iron and almost thinking I had a concussion, no pain and went back to work.
I know I'm a lucky summ'bitch.
was using a knife they say is the sharpest ever, used to skin animals and shit. trying to make a hole in drip line and my hand slid up the blade and sliced my thumb pretty deep open. had to get stitches.
I've had worse scratches than that on my eyeball. Pussy.
almost cut my finger off with a table saw. only reason I still got it was the shit blade that had been used for 10 years
Stepped on a nail that went 3/4" into my foot. Dumbass carpenters. Just needed to update my Tetanus shot. It's pretty easy to keep pressure on a wound on the bottom of your foot.
i cut my fingertip to the bone with a box cutter. It was the first time blood FLEW out of my body, it got on the wall and shit. was fine after some stitches.
When volunteering at a community storehouse I sliced open the top of my middle finger when moving a metal filing cabinet onto the back of a truck. It ended up falling over once it was in and I couldn’t move my hand quick enough. I slipped a glove on as I started seeing red and felt blood gushing into it. Didn’t freak out, didn’t even hurt. Never told anyone either, though once it stopped I took the glove off and a zoomer with me who was also volunteering saw the cut and nodded at me. Glove wasn’t mine so I’m pretty sure someone else ended up wearing it with my dried blood still in it
My buddy and I have a moving company we do on the side. We were moving a washing machine out of a townhouse. Despite the machines being upstairs, we got it out of the house no problem, but there were some concrete steps outside that lead to the truck. My hands slipped as we moved the machine down a step, and I dropped the washing machine on my foot, sandwiching it between the washing machine and the edge of one of the concrete step. Picrel because I'm bad at explaining things. I broke the toe and lost the nail, it still hasn't fully healed.
They should invent shoes or boots that have some kind of toe protectors built into them, then these kinds of unavoidable accidents would be a thing of the past
Good safety equipment can be used to work faster or take shortcuts while improving quality
Bad safety equipment just slows down the entire process without improving quality.
Iron toed boots are unironically based for how much janky shit they let you do.
Movers hate steel toes for some reason, I wear mine and people clown on me for it. My boss dropped something on his foot, exploded his toe and worked through the pain for the next 3 months, he still doesn't wear steel toes.
I'm a press brake setter/operator. I got distracted while bending and left my thumb between the punch and the part. The damage was done by my flesh squeezing through a hole in it.
I managed to put a long, skinny screwdriver completely through my hand while removing a retaining clip. I originally refused to go to the doctor, since I had antibiotics, but the infection quickly got out of hand (pun intended). The surgeon caused more damage to my hand than the screwdriver because he refused to acknowledge it was not completely cleaned and was still infected after surgery.
>damn doctors, I know better than them!!!
Often is the case.
Covid really made it obvious that regardless of your profession, you can be a fricking moron.
I bet you stand in line for boosters.
Stapled my right pinky, apparently stapling your fingers is a common injury. It's working fine btw.
I fell from height, dislocated and broke many bones, no ama
Working in a mason yard, me and work colleague where stacking paving stones for a pick up, colleague dropped one on my foot, missed toecap and crushed bones. Got £8k payout though
Sliced thumb in half while cutting a tree branch in a tree. Felt nothing, have a seam in that nail now.
Other than that all my injuries are workout related.
Needed to go to a chiropractor to align something in my back, after a slightly too heavy lift at work. First real wakeup call i've experienced that my line of work and lack of education/CV to fall back on wasn't viable long term.
Beyond that its just cuts from exposing cold metal to skin.
I worked at fed ex unloading trucks after I got fired from another job. only worked there for a month. dropped a 60 pound brass plate on my foot the one night I forgot to wear my steel toes. another time the while passenger side pile of boxes fell on me. woke up on the floor with a guy yelling at me that I was working too slow.
If you wore sneakers every day you wouldn't get careless like that
Sliced my lower index with a saw.
Saw white, didn't know if it was bone or fat at 4:30AM.
The nurses in the ER laughed at me and they gave me a trainee doctor, then let me go without a bandage over the dissolvable stitches.
Luckily no tendon damage, but the doctor at 9AM was pissed they didn't bandage.
Roided cavalry training horse bit me for no reason. Their teeth can't cut, but holy shit it does crush you pretty bad.
And a guy next to me almost blew his fingers because he couldn't tell his barrel was stuffed with 3 squibs
Are you a Texas ranger circa 1880?
Military Police Officer (2nd lieutenant) training with riot units purely to waste time and resources.
Herniated disc that makes my junk numb but they deny that it's from the injury because the numbness took months. Now I have ED and want to die.
Tried some easy shit like 600mg of ibuprofen 4 hours before showtime?
I wake up with carpal tunnel sometimes and my circumcised junk is almost completely numb. There's no pleasure there, it's all in my hands from years of beating it and my brain.
>years of beating it and my brain.
you can create numbness from constantly hammering at certain nerves in the groin/thigh area.
if so, you need to alter your technique. maybe get a pocket pussy, or whatever.
it may take months for numbness to go away completely.
Shit’s wack. I have a minor lower back injury that just feels a little sore at worst but I swear it’s affected my ejaculation where now it just dribbles out. My kegel muscles are fine, from what I can understand it could be the muscle that stops urine from coming out when you have an erection is not working properly and the cum is partially shooting into my bladder instead. I saw someone else post on 4chins about something similar and also mentioned lower back injury. I’ve been going to a chiro for a couple years now for it but no big improvement either in my back issue or my cum issue.
Wtf. Also chiropractors are a literal cult from the late 1800's mystic movements. They have a powerful political lobby so that's why they are accepted by insurance and such but are unscientific. Might as well be doing Chinese medicine.
You don't like getting your back popped? I've actually never been to a chiropractor, but I like it when my wife pops my back and other joints...
>You don't like getting your back popped?
Chiro don't just do massages and stretches and shit. They also claim to cure colds and arthritis.
I’ve seen chiros that claim they can cure allergies, autism, and cancer. There are also numerous articles and case reports where chiropractors have permanently injured and even paralyzed people, they’re fricking quacks. Go to physical therapy
Try taking zinc (ocuvite is good and your wife will think its just for your dry eyes) and vitamin c for a few days. take 600mg of advil 4 hours before you want to perform.
If you want whiskey dick without drinking take some dextrometorphan and youll be ready to go longer than you want.
Guaifenesen thins your load out a little too. It's just another grand secreting some goo, of course all sinus medicine works.
Fml I always get so horny when I'm sick now that I had figured all this out.
The advil reduces the chronic inflammation you suffer as a man in the modern world, so you dontnhave hank hills narrow urethra problems.
Not a tradie, ER nurse.
Left Humerus and radius fractures after a guy high on PCP broke his restraints, ripped the IV pole off the stretcher, and started swinging.
>humerus fracture from a punch
jesus christ pcp c**ts don't frick around
>punch
your reading comprehension is pretty poor he said the guy was swinging an IV pole.
>your reading comprehension is pretty poor
not gonna deny it but in my defence that was implied rather than explicitly stated
I do stained glass for a hobby
I've gotten cuts and burns from a welding iron all over
worst time was probably two summers ago when it was really hot so I had stripped down while soldering. I then managed to burn my left nipple with the soldering iron cranked up to max while making sure that a piece of glass was seated right
The nerves stopped working from my knee and down for half a year, its really fricking strange to have a dead limb, like you can see your foot but it just doesnt fricking work. I tried that kill bill shit a bunch of times and that doesnt work at all lmao.
probably exercising my knuckles trying to break bolts or fricking up my knee after smacking some shit while walking
got to see a guy sand half of his thumb off on a disc sander after the piece he was holding got stuck between the guarrgwwd
I punched my knuckle off while prying the fish paper off of a NiCd battery pack I was rebuilding
I once worked in a restaurant kitchen when somebody moved a gas grill to clean it. The two inch gas line had become worn and broke in half. The kitchen was filling up with propane. My first concern was all the pilot lights on the other cooking equipment. I stuffed a rag into the hose and had all the other equipment turned off until I could get to the cutoff valve. I was really scared for a few minutes. No injury, but I thought I was going to get burned alive any second.
Good work I would have fricking cut and run and started streaming for my reaction channel
I had a can of compressed air blow it's bottom off at the exact moment I was picking it up by the top. It blew the entire bottom seam and shot the rest of the can right into the center of my hand that was about 6 inches away. I seriously thought every single bone in my hand was broken. My hand swelled up at least 2 times normal size and turned purple. I was rushed to the ER by coworkers, and the ER was absolutely shocked none of my bones actually broke. They called it a compression injury.
It took a while to get all my finger strength back, but all good now.
I cut my right middle finger off once and gave it a compound fracture, via my hand getting caught in a belt on a pulley, but I was a kid and was at dad's work, not my own. They were able to reattach it.
> right middle finger off once and gave it a compound fracture, via my hand getting caught in a belt on a pulley, but I was a kid and was at dad's work, not my own. They were able to reattach it.
Wow you buried the cool part. Tell more about finger getting severed
crashed my thumb two days ago with a big stone while doing some masonry, i almost fainted from the pain because it was freezing which makes it hurt more, it was so bad i had to go poop to revive myself.
I have not worked a day in my life hahaha
My coworker called me a name and it really hurt me. I never built up the courage to go to HR yet. I'm still in pain
hole saw caught rebar and twisted my hand till it fractured while also smashing my face with the T-handle and cutting my face. I was working hungover. avoid working hungover.
If I didn't have to work I wouldn't be hungover
Once buffed a bunch of skin off my right kneecap while cleaning rust out of a 120ft LNG processing tower. First time I've ever seen my own skeleton, provided it was still covered in chunks of blood and shit. That day I learned why even the pros use shields when they can.
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Superb bait, your average barista would kill xirself before xi got within thirty feet of a power tool.
I think 8/10 of my knuckles have scars on them from using angle grinders without safeties and catching them on it. Grinding disks don't cut deep, but they grind away skin exactly as you would expect it to. I've yelled at a lot of coworkers for removing the safeties from grinders.
>but it gets in the way
That's literally its job you moron.
Mine don't but welding gloves exist for good reason. I did get bit on the wrist by a knotted wire wheel. The flat ones are vicious and famous for eating flesh.
Decapitation
Never had a notably bad accident at work. Funny ones like one time torching an exhaust bolt out in shorts, a molten glob dropped right in my boot. I don't wear boots at work anymore.
But here's one I wonder if others go through. Sometimes I'll be using a pick rather forcefully and think to myself "if I keep doing this I'm gonna stab myself in the finger/hand". 15 seconds later, I'll be laughing and swearing because exactly what I thought would happen just happened. Is this common? Why do I do it?
Quantum tunneling
You'll get better at stopping yourself
>nervous laughter when you stop in a car
I've injured myself lots at work. One of the most serious was recently though.
Had a lady come in and it should've been a simple order. Anyway, was multi-tasking and trying to do several things at once (work the machine and also answer questions from another customer). Then once the machine had finished running for this order, I nudged the cup upwards, hitting the steamer and burnt my hand. Hurt like a motherfricker.
But as we all know, these are the kind of risks you have to accept when you're a blue-collar worker.
>I nudged the cup upwards, hitting the steamer and burnt my hand
tore my rotator cuff torqueing a 2.5'' eyebolt
Ive never gotten seriously injured at work but one time they moved the portapotty to where a road had been dug out like 5 feet and there was a string line for curb right outside of it and i busted out of the toilet because i hate being in there, tripped over the stringline and down into the the dug road
Very slapstick
train conductor, so realistically any workplace injury ends in dismemberment and/or death.
Aluminum panel on an overhead dock door broke loose from its framing when I opened the door. It came down edge first on my head and shoulder, cut clean to bone on both.
I sued the frick out of them for not maintaining any of the building equipment, because I had been reporting and logging damaged doors, dock plates and dock locks for months prior, keeping track of all repairs from the company that services the doors, and nothing was done about any of the paneling despite the inherent risks of razor sharp aluminum sheets falling on people.
Lo and behold
How much did you get?
Any permanent injuries?
A high 6 figure sum, it took about 2 years to fully recover use of my right arm. And now besides some general stiffness it mostly works fine.
Honestly you're lucky you didn't get even more fricked up even ignoring all the money. You could have died.
Helped some of the maintenance guys at work move an office fridge. The other guy holding the fridge lost grip and a corner sliced through my hand. It wasn't very deep.
Nearly cut the tip of my finger on a metal drum. Someone cut the top out to use as a trash can but didn't grind down all the sharp edges. When I went to empty it, it sliced through my leather gloves like butter.
OP here again. Just yesterday I over stressed my jaw by inserting too many dicks into it at once. I guess my limit is 3 at a time. Can I sue my employer for an unsafe work environment? Those wieners were just too tempting for me to resist!
i did it at a grocery store when I was 17. I'm pretty sure I sprained my knee.
>be me
>bottle return system needs collection tub replaced
>only empty tub is quarter filled with water and stacked on another full tub (about 150-200l is my guess)
>get edge of top tub off the bottom tub
> get on top and push
>all the water rushes to the front
>moron me tries to hold it back
>tub takes me and flings me over it
>fall on to knee
>do the tub replacement and sit out the rest of my shift
>knee went back to useful after a week, pain stopped after a good month
>cable company tech
>find trouble out in the middle of nowhere
>rocks everywhere. Like a river bed or side of mountain I don't even remember anymore just huge boulders everywhere I don't even know how they set the poles
Gotta carry my ladder and all my shit through all this skipping and lurching from rock to rock. Only slip once and land right on my knee. Toss my 28' ladder to the side
Miraculously not hurt. Barely a scratch.
I still dunno how that happened.
didn't happen to me, but a trapeze artist got aids blood all over the front row in a circus accident
Right after the injurie / Post surgery
Dont use gloves with lathes i guess
could you pull your hand out still? Or did it stop? I thought you get wrapped around the machine like that Chinese metal worker if you get caught
great drawing lol
>lift loads at bad angles because work demands it
That sucks. Boss has to provide a crane though no? (at least in my country)
The loads were not heavy enough to need a crane but the work was on a rope, so sometimes you are up in the air and twisting your body, even if the weight is not too much it can frick you up in the long run, especially if you are working with a partner that takes time to adjust his part of work.
> Be lightweight.
> Work a lot, lift loads at bad angles because work demands it.
> Back pain.
> Ignore it.
> More back pain
> Ignore it again.
> Sudenly something snaps inside, sharp pain in lower back.
> ER surgeon says : You herniated so bad we need to emergency operate your spine.
> MFW
just slicing a couple fingers with a boxcutter with a brand new blade
trimming my hair and shaving my arms with oxyacetylene in the same day, it was just a small shake
Been working at a truss plant for 3 years (first job) and haven't had (or seen) any major injuries.
got blowed up installing fuses in a 600 amp 480v disconnect because someone turned the circuit on while i went to retrieve the fuses. yes it was my fault for not LOTO. yes i did lose some fingers. yes i am still an electrician chad who makes more than 99% of people posting on this board
And still dumber then the rest of us industrial electricians. Lock out better next time moron.
yeah sonny i admit i was dumb 20 years ago when i was still green and trusted my foreman. there wasnt really a "safety culture" back then. ive been really good at not getting blown up ever since, though
took a whiff of hydrogen chloride gas 5 years ago, still suffer the consequences
>sawing up wooden garage door sections to throw in a dumpster
>using battery powered circular saw
>girlfriend had informed me earlier that our cat hadn't come back since last night
>really wanted to get home to look for her (cat)
>rushing to get job done so I can go
>not rationalizing where my leg was on the other side of the section I was sawing
>hmmm this cut looks like it might be too big to get in the dumpster
>move saw closer
>cuts directly into my leg above my knee
Although kinda gory, wasn't a very serious cut, never bled very much. Resident who stitched me up asked if I was a sushi chef because the cut had precisely missed everything that could've cause real complications (bone, tendons and arteries). 13 external 5 internal stitches, two weeks off and $1000 from my boss for being a dumbass.
Also my cat came back that evening.
no at work but was undoing a broken spindle from a mowing deck. I stupidly forgot it was sheared and grabbed the back side so the spindle wouldn't fall to the ground when it cam loose. Piece of chinese pot metal shaped like a spear hit my hand when i hit the bolt with a 1100 ft/lb impact @ 100 psi. My whole hand went numb for about a day. I''m sure if i wasn't wearing leather gloves it would've broken my hand. I'm kind of a safety nut too. You will always do something stupid, I think, you just have to eliminate the stupid. Shouldn't have had my hand behind a power tool. Gotta tell yourself that everytime
In trade school they made in unsolder our projects so the fittings could be reused; after a couple hours I got tired and accidentally torched my arm. It wasn't very serious but looked fricking moronic.
Thermal sleeves and light welding gloves exist. I wear TIG gloves when soldering and sleeves when welding.
That looks like you got scrotum skin grafted onto your wrist.
How does it look now?
You want a full breakdown?
No, just write one funny one. Make it snappy.
Loaded a trailer of scrap metal for an appliance shop I work at. Trailer had a rotted board and it was raining. Was dollying up a 4 door Samsung, and foot went through. Lost balance, landed on back, dolly and refrigerator both came down with on top. No broken bones, but my back's been fricked up since. Too broke to get MRIs and X-rays, insurance cheaps out, and Im too loyal a wagey to file worker's comp.
Beyond that, several sheet metal lacerations on my wrists and palms, both vertical and horizontal, deep enough to see the cottage cheese. Again, too stubborn to see doctor, just taped then tight and let them scar over.
Crushed my forearm last week doing a brake job, forgot to move the jackstand when I lowered the jack. Didnt flex, so it didnt break the bone, just hurt like a motherfricker.
Forgot to bleed the pressure off the fuel pump while changing a fuel filter. Got my eyes doused in gasoline.
Blew my left eardrum out like a moron by trying to light a trash pile after dumping a jug of gas on it.
Shocked the shit out of myself several times on 30amp circuits. Wouldnt doubt my heartbeat is fricked up.
Im a danger prone walking liability. Would likely decapitate myself if I didn't pay attention sometimes.
>and Im too loyal a wagey to file worker's comp.
how do people like this even exist
"sir yes sir I will give my own health and life for this company sir! I will gladly endure physical problems for the rest of my life as long as it saves you some money sir!"
meanwhile pretty much any place will let you go at the minimum notice period they can, if they happen to calculate that it'll be cheaper and better for them to do so
lmao job opportunities in a small town suck, and I've got too many conditions and issues to be in the oilfield or military
>I'm too loyal to file a complaint
Cool, stopped reading there because I don't care about the ramblings of an idiot. All you did was encourage your shitty boss to keep cutting corners and playing games with his employees health and safety.
Bought a land plane recently in an online auction. Went to pick it up today and the blade has 6 bolts on it that you can undo and then pivot it around a center bolt to make it narrower for transport. Got the 6 bolts busted loose but the blade would not budge. Put a chain on the end of the blade and around the frame and get a chain binder on it and start pulling it around one link at a time. Going pretty good. Get it swiveled around quite a ways and the guy helping load it gives it a push to see if it will swivel now that we broke it loose. So I get on the opposite side and push as well and it is moving. Im pushing with all my might and that center bolt shears off and the blade slams down to the ground. I fall and land with my full body weight on my chin on the metal top part of the blade. My chin starts gushing blood everywhere all over my hoodie. Say a few curse words and find a rag to wipe the blood from my chin. My beard is too thick to see what actually happened. Say frick it and continue to load the land plane on my trailer while blood runs down my beard and onto my hoodie. Chain down, pop some ibuprofen i keep in the pickup and head to the shop. Unload it, sell some hay and I'm finally home and ready for some beer and food. Chin is still leaking some...
Got some pretty nasty poison ivy but that’s not bad considering I did tree trimming for years.
Cut my finger off with a worm drive ( kick back )
Called my wife and told her I cut my finger off
She said, THE WHOLE FINGER
I said no, the one next to it….bada tiss
Had a perforating injury take out my right eye. Retina, cornea, pupil all fricked, there's a cataract in there now too. Irrecoverable.
Shit happens.
What caused perf?
Cutting upwards, knife came up, into eye, rattled around, fricked up the cornea, retna, and whole vitreous humour. 2 months in hospital. Blind as frick in that eye now, but the other one is good so it's fine.
broke my back in a building collapse during a fire
In a welding shop, cutting a piece of ⅜" flat bar for a handrail, and one of the sparks flew into my eye. It didn't hurt immediately, just seemed like I saw a bright flash for a split second. It had actually melted partially into my cornea, and that evening I was getting this tiny piece of metal drilled out of my eye by an eye doc with mini burr tool. They numbed it up but I'll never forget the sound, like someone was squishing spaghetti noodles in my head. Anyways, wear your ppe
I stubbed my toe on a desk once, still had shoes on though
Got a very nasty shock from a ups cap which i thought was completely discharged.
car wreck, delivering. had pain leaning on my left arm in chair on an armwrest then a back mri noticed this
5 Black folk broke into my 711 and raped my asn boi pussy. I screamed and screamed but boone came to help. They left me as a sweaty mess on with thier spook cum leaking out of my ass.
Im trans btw
I was filling a sprayer with water + powder chemical stripper and the jug burst and splashed all down my groin. At first I was okay then it got worse so I left the job. I had to take a bus home still thinking it wasn't that serious, but it started to burn more and more. Got home to look and a bunch of hair burned off and my balls were all burned. When I got home and showered, the reaction made it burn more and my gf at the time literally had to wash my balls and groin, it was agonizing. We're married now, balls work fine btw.
Work related? I'm pretty sure I've inhaled some amount of abrasive media from sand blasters and metal slivers from our workbenchs being air blasted at cleanup.
I'll probably suffer the consequences in 5-10 years here.
Nearly sliced multiple fingers in half while cooking and meat processing.
I have tinnitus
Oh...I also inhaled acid vapour. Wasn't so bad until three years later and it never got better. Recurring theme of workplace injury, at first yours like whatever, but then years later you're still injured and realise it wasn't even worth working
Fell off a second floor flat on my back, I couldn't breathe for a good minute or so and it took me around 10~15 seconds to be able to move again. I didn't suffer any injury though, the helmet probably spared me a brain concussion
>Some men will got to extraordinary lengths to prove how macho they are. Frenchman Pierre Pumpille recently shunted a stationary car two feet by headbutting it. "Women thought I was a god," he explained from his hospital bed.
>Deity or not, however, Pumpille is a veritable girl's blouse compared to Polish farmer Krystof Azninski, who staked a strong claim to being Europe's most macho man by cutting off his own head in 1995. Azninski, 30, had been drinking with friends when it was suggested they strip naked and play some "men's games". Initially they hit each other over the head with frozen turnips, but then one man upped the ante by seizing a chainsaw and cutting off the end of his foot. Not to be outdone, Azninski grabbed the saw and, shouting "Watch this then," he swung at his own head and chopped it off.
>"It's funny," said one companion, "when he was young he put on his sister's underwear. But he died like a man."
>Dudes how about we get naked and beat each other over the head with frozen turnips?
Do Poleshits really?
Its an alcky thing.
I was loading a box truck for a somalian guy a few years ago. He was helping us load stuff. While I was crouched down fastening a ratchet strap to the side, he knocked a vertical side slat piece of a bed frame(like pic related) over and the metal hook nailed me in the head. My head was spurting blood, running down my face like Carrie. He let me wash up and I covered it with paper towel under a hat and finished the job. Still not enough to get a Black person to leave a tip evidently.
one time at work i farted and a poopie came out. it was so embarrassing, some of the men in the office started laughing, most of the women looked at me with disgust, my manager looked at me with a mix of disappointment and disgust. while working a desk job has low risk of physical injury, i suffered a great mental and emotional injury that day.
I've been to the de facto medic for my crew for quite a few years, I've seen some decently nasty injuries somebody put a framing nail through the wrist somebody else busted their eyebrow open with the claw of a hammer somebody cut a good quarter inch into their knuckle with a chop saw and quite a few knife and screwdriver stabs and and cuts amazingly everybody still has 10 digits; best one by far is the coke fueled human wienerroach managed to put framing nail into his eye
>human wienerroach
Is he actually Turkish or is this a metaphor?
Referring to the fact that he's rather sturdy, he could be part Turkish though
got my index and ring finger on my dominant hand crushed by a Cat 345 while pushing some sewer pipe together. I still have the fingers, finger nails, but the fingers are a bit misshapen.
Tore my right bicep off at my forearm.
scrubbing some chunks of flesh reaching over my CNC tool holders with endmills already in them
opened my hand with a boxcutter once too
not work but diy. Was making a sword scabbard and hit my left index finger with a screwdriver, apparently I was really precise because I almost popped the bones apart.