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I'm a nanny for two boys, aged 3 and 4. Today, I was carrying the sick little one down the (hardwood) stairs and the big one pushed me! I curled around the little guy to keep him safe and landed on my lower back. So I have a ginormous bruise on my back and can't bend over...
I can't be the only one who has gotten dumb work related injuries. Entertain me!
I have a candle shop, so I burn myself a lot but that's to be expected. I also work with blow torches and heat guns and you'd think that would be my main issue, but no; yesterday I managed to squirt Clove fragrance oil right in my eyeball. I seriously thought I was going to lose my sight in my left eye. It burned like hell, I couldn't stop crying, and it was totally embarrassed in front of customers. Lame.
I'm an interior designer so we make elaborate presentation boards for our clients. I've burned myself with the glue gun many times but the worst was slicing off a big chunk of my finger with an x-acto blade. Ouch!
I work as a cook in a resturant...I reached over to grab a plate and got my ring STUCK on the metal rack. I pulled, and Cut my finger off of my engagement ring! it bled pretty good. now i have a sexy blue bandaid where my ring should be...:(
I worked at Sears for a while. We had those hand computer scanners, like most stores. No sharp edges- not even slightly sharp. I gave myself a huge cut with one of them and it wouldn't stop bleeding. I was laughing when I told my manager. Then, not long after, I was standing on a ladder that was attached to rails on the ceiling so it could slide back and forth... and while I was at the top, the rail broke and I fell down. That one actually hurt. But it was still pretty hilarious.
Then one day we were using box cutters... I saw them and said, "don't I get hurt enough without using these things?" My manager agreed and I was banned from using the box cutter at work, lol.
I bent down to pick something up and bashed my head on the corner of a table. Left a HUGE bruise on my forehead for weeks!!
I worked as a manager at a coffee shop for a few years. We sold bagels in the mornings and one day I was half asleep and decided to stick my hand into the electric bagel slicer to try and fix it because it was jammed. Of course I didn't think to unplug it before sticking my hand in. Needless to say I unjammed it but cut up my hand pretty good on the gigantic blade which equaled 10 stitches and a whole lot of embarassment:/ not one of my smartest moments!
I'm a nanny so most of it has to do with stepping on toys, tripping over toys and burning myself with hot water.
I'm a manager at a larger retail store. We get harassed by shoplifters who don't want to be caught. I've had drinks thrown at me. I've had people threaten to wait for me to leave at night. I've seen other girls get physically attacked. We need a ft police guard in my opinion.
Once I was on a ladder to get something in the stock room and slipped. I fell but one of my rings caught on the shelving and I tore my rotator cuff. That was tons of fun.
I ran over my toes with a patient's stretcher multiple times. Gotten my fingers caught in bucky trays, bruised my thighs by running into the exam room tables, oh and I've been punched in the stomach by a psych patient.
@katiebugbug: I'd like to add what a vicious little brat that child was for pushing you.
I used to be a uc clerk at a grocery store as my first job. The most oddest things happened to me on that job. I got hurt one time when I was bagging groceries for a customer. I grabbed for a bag of noodles and a noodle pierced my finger! Weird I know. It hurt.
The next one. I didnt get hurt, but its odd. Again I was bagging groceries and a 8 pack of soda was coming down the way to me after the cashier scanned it. I just picked it up when I started to getting sprayed by soda! What the!? Turns out there was a sharp edge where the soda bottle hit and pierced the bottle.
That was a interesting first job to say the least!
I work at a shoe store and this summer I broke my nose at work when I fell on my face. In front of a customer.
@scadadle15: I am a production artist/graphic designer and I did the exact same thing! I was cutting some papers and chopped the tip of my finger off. I had to get workmanship comp time and go to their hospital (in the middle of nowhere) and get my fingerbandaged up, then I had to go back once a week until it was healed.
I'm a generally clumbsy person, but I work in an extremely too small office and share a desk with a coworker. We are so jam-packed in there that I constantly am running into something. The worst bruise I've ever had in my entire life happened when I was celebrating a small victory when I smacked my leg into a short filing cabinet. It was BLACK, not blue/purple buise...about an inch inch wide and a few inches long. I wear scrubs at work and you could see the swelling through my thin pants for weeks and it got really hard. I'm pretty sure it almost calcified. So gross. I was happy it was winter so I didn't have to wear shorts or skirts.
My office doesn't have standard size steps going up to the "loft." They are really steep. One day I was walking down the steps...missed three...hit the floor knees first. Thankfully I didn't fall flat on my face. I was embarrassed and couldn't move fast enough for someone not to see me.
I am always getting bumps and bruises by running into things, but nothing major! Saturday I was sweeping dust off a leather ottoman and got a magazine cover paper cut...on my WRIST! LOL!
I absentmindedly crossed my legs one day while sitting on my exercise ball at my desk...and promptly fell over. There was some bruising, but I mostly managed to catch myself on the desk, fortunately.
I was working as a cashier and managed to whack one of my fingers super hard against the metal bag holder while I was serving a customer, and a huge bruise and lump immediately started forming on the top of my finger. I have weird anxiety about things happening to my hands, so looking at it freaked me out so much that I started to faint. Within a couple of seconds there was this roaring in my ears and my vision had darkened so much I could only make out vague shapes. I couldn't hear anything the customer was saying to me and I had to leave my till, run over and sit down behind the customer service desk so that I didn't pass out completely.
Yeah, just slightly embarrassing.
I broke my elbow during a job interview lol. I was going for a position that required a physical test where we had to run a 1.5 mile in a certain amount of time, well clumsy me tripped and fell over my own two feet during the run landed straight on my elbow, it hurt like hell and I didnt even get the job :(
Aww, good for you for protecting the little one! :) Like you, my story involves kids. When I was in grad school, I worked part-time at a children's fitness gym. There was an adorable little boy whose father was an NFL player. I'm a huge football fan, so I always tried to impress the NFL player when he accompanied his child to class. Well, one day, we were teaching the kids a new apparatus, the parallel bars. I was helping the NFL player's son up to the bars while trying to look good and impress his father (haha, I was SUCH a dork!). Anyway, his son lost his grip on the bars and fell. Luckily, I was paying attention enough to catch him before he hit the ground so that he didn't get hurt, but I wasn't paying enough attention to catch him without hurting MYSELF (I'm a tiny lady, and this kid was BIG for a 4 year old! haha). So yeah, I threw my back out. How embarrassing! I was able to get through teaching that class with a lot of pain and grimacing, but I had to go straight to the chiropractor after that class ended. Ouch!! Definitely not the impression I wanted to make!! :)
I was searching a guy and got the skin between my thumb and pointer caught in the handcuffs... I had to get stiches... I have done it since then. Special? Yes I am.
I wait tables and I usually hurt myself by moving too quickly and running into a table or chair as I round a corner.
Oh but this one time, a customer asked me for sriracha sauce (Asian chili sauce) and as I was bringing it to him, I noticed the top of the sauce looked a little runny so I gave it a good shake to even out the sauce. Didn't bother to pay attention to whether or not the lid was closed and squirted a good dose of it right into my eyes.
Yeah. That was fun. And I was still the new girl, too. I felt so stupid lol.
Oh! In highschool I worked at a restarant and we were cleaning up for the night. The guys behind the serving area (Spring Creek) didn't see me and poured boiling hot water on the floor to get the grease out. I stepped in it, slipped, landed knees first, and skid about 10 feet on my knees. I had some pretty ugly bruises and painful burns for while. Thinking back, it was kinda funny.
@Ms Hedgehog: Omg! That sounds so painful! It's ok to be special. :)
I used to work as a receptionist and I remember one morning I arrived and was unlocking everything and opening up the office (I was the only one there). I banged my thigh HARD into a desk corner, then stubbed my toe, tripped on the floor mat and got painfully shocked by the door knob, all within a few seconds. I felt ridiculous and so mad.....that I kicked the wall in pain AND PUT A GIANT HOLE IN IT! Omg....I was so embarrassed. I actually taped a hanging folder OVER the hole and no one noticed until later that day I finally decided to tell everyone what had happened.
I couldn't even make something up because there was a clear foot print on the indented drywall, haha. Thank goodness no one really cared and we left that folder stuck to the wall for as long as I can remember.
@Ms Hedgehog: Ahh, I had been referring to your handcuff mishap....but that second injury sounds awful, too! You need full body nerf armour. :)
I work at a nuclear plant in order to go in certain rms I have to wear a respirator and a pappery kind of suit. I occaaionally bash my head off of a pipe in these rms because I have a hard time looking up. Also in the change rm I bang my knee on the benches frequently.
@4everdecember: OMG! I've had nightmares about that, I didn't think it was actually possible :(
Worked at an animal shelter and vet's office-- one time we were restraining a cat for a blood drawn and I reached my arm around front to grab something. The cat had been wailing and gnashing and I just stuck my arm right by it's mouth. Needless to say, I got bitten and felt really stupid.
I loved wearing sky high heels under wide-leg pants at my old office. They were big on taking the stairs there, and I try to be good about that, but one day a heel got stuck in the cuff of my pants and I went knees and then face into the stairs. In front of my sales director and two high-level managers.
awesome.
I work in an office, so the biggest way I hurt myself is catching other peoples colds. I got a staph infection last week! Also, all day at the computer has given me carpal tunnel. Very uncomfortable..
I broke my ankle at work like 10 years ago. I was working at a summer camp and we were putting on a play for the younger kids that they had written about the counselors. I was supposed to do a silly ballet spin and fall, and I don't know what happened, but I ended up completely falling on my ankle and landed SUPER hard. I kept going! Totally finished the show despite the fact that my leg was practically black and ballooning up. People told me they couldn't tell it wasn't on purpose, but maybe they were just being nice? The air cast I had on the next day probably gave it away ;-)
At my old job, we had bulletin boards all over our walls showing the pending jobs etc. (Nowadays that's all on the computer lol) One of the bulletin boards just fell and popped me on the head.
Boss took me to the ER since I was dizzy and light headed lol I'll never forget how surprised I was
I used to work at an art store, and I once cut myself on the tape cutter while wrapping up a piece someone had bought. I bled ALL over this super expensive art work that was already purhcased! I had to calm the customer down that we would give them a different version of the peice while keeping my hand from getting blood all over everything else. That was fun.
I also worked as a janiter at Calgary's version of a state fair called the Stampede. And I once fell into the giant dumpster, and had to call my supervisor from my walkie talkie to come save me. I spent about ten minutes in there, with my partner telling people to go dump their garbage elsewhere. Also a blast.
Hands down, this has GOT TO BE MINE!! I GOT LOCKED IN THE STAIRWELL AFTER HOURS AT WORK! I will apologize cause my story telling skill sucks!
I'll try to make a long story short..! I work in an office building on the 7th floor. Once you are on a floor, you have to use a magnetic pass to gain entry to the inner offices. No biggie right.! I decided one day I would take the stairs down to the main exit floor, I was leaving about 30 minutes later than the rest of the building. Imagine my dismay when I got to the bottom floor and the door was LOCKED! From the inside, no door pass entry/exit... Apparently for some reason those doors which usually only lock on the outside so no one can get up, were infact locked from the inside..! I was locked in the stairwell of my building running up and down the stairs banging on other floor doors, hoping someone where still in the building and hear me..!Cell phone would not work in the stairwell.. After 30 minutes and a few panic attacks, I was trying to convince myself that I could wait there until 7:30am when people started coming in...! When finally someone heard me and I was saved..! I definitely dropped a few Eff bombs to the two women who found me, I was so freaking out..! Scariest thing ever, and I marched right into HR the next day, needless to say our property managers of the building were in trouble! Still doesnt fix my mental anguish on the day I tell you.!
back in my old catering days, I once cut my thumb really deeply on the foil that is wrapped around the top of a wine bottle. so stupid. I mean... it's only foil, how could it cut me so badly?!
a few years ago, I scalded my hand on microwaved soup during my lunch break. it was a really bad burn-- I literally could not take it out of a bucket of ice water for the rest of the day and all night (I slept with my hand in the bucket). but I felt so stupid because it didn't look very injured, just kind of red. I was like "no really, this is way worse than it looks!"
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