Yesterday evening after I went home & took my shower, and as I was drying off I got a call - had to go back into work. A crucial machine had broke down & I'm the guy who can fix it. So, I got back in the truck and went back to work.
Some members here are familiar with industrial machine electrical panels. They typically have a disconnect handle on the door of the panel, and on the other side of the door is a dull spear that sticks out, going into a breaker. The spear is shaped like a spear so that it will guide itself into the back of the handle when you close the door. On this particular machine's panel, the spear is about 2' long and sticks out at eye level.
So, I opened up the panel, and then went to get my DMM, and was returning, when I tripped and fell into the spear, head first. Luckily I was in mid fall, angled down, so it caught me in the top of the head and not in the eyesocket. Anyways, I bounced off the spear and bobbled around off kilter a little bit and immediately blood started spewing out of the top of my head. I paced back and forth a few times, making a big mess everywhere, and then knelt down and waited for my coworker to get me some rags. Where I knelt down, and where I paced, it looked like a murder scene. Everybody rushed over and from the looks of things they were very worried. I washed my head in the sink with cold water and it stopped bleeding pretty fast. So now I have a 2" open gash on my noggin, but it doesn't hurt. I should have probably gone in and got stitches but I didn't want to. It's not that bad, and I'm sure I'll be immediately trumped, but it's my worst injury on the job so far.
So, let's hear your "injured on the job story" (there's a different thread for electrocution stories)
EDIT: picture attached
Some members here are familiar with industrial machine electrical panels. They typically have a disconnect handle on the door of the panel, and on the other side of the door is a dull spear that sticks out, going into a breaker. The spear is shaped like a spear so that it will guide itself into the back of the handle when you close the door. On this particular machine's panel, the spear is about 2' long and sticks out at eye level.
So, I opened up the panel, and then went to get my DMM, and was returning, when I tripped and fell into the spear, head first. Luckily I was in mid fall, angled down, so it caught me in the top of the head and not in the eyesocket. Anyways, I bounced off the spear and bobbled around off kilter a little bit and immediately blood started spewing out of the top of my head. I paced back and forth a few times, making a big mess everywhere, and then knelt down and waited for my coworker to get me some rags. Where I knelt down, and where I paced, it looked like a murder scene. Everybody rushed over and from the looks of things they were very worried. I washed my head in the sink with cold water and it stopped bleeding pretty fast. So now I have a 2" open gash on my noggin, but it doesn't hurt. I should have probably gone in and got stitches but I didn't want to. It's not that bad, and I'm sure I'll be immediately trumped, but it's my worst injury on the job so far.
So, let's hear your "injured on the job story" (there's a different thread for electrocution stories)
EDIT: picture attached
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