Ok Fess up who has done bodily damage while working on their truck

[smartineau]

unless I have to go to the hospital, it does not count as being hurt, so never been hurt on the truck.



steve

 

[BDMiller]

I fell down the stairs yesterday because I washed some greasy parts off on the stairway. As I was sitting on my butt at the bottom of the stairway, I remembered- I did the same thing last year & made a mental note not to was greasy stuff on the stairs. I'll probably do it again next year too.

 

[Moose Truck]

Coffee Night, CT... No OSHA Reportable Injurys for 15Jul05. :-laf Oo. Moose00

 

[C. Harlan]

Milk crates and 5 gallon buckets... both on my "do not use because you're going to bust your butt" list.

What about the good ol' Ice Chest?? Am I the only one who stands on an ice chest?? I have had my fair share of mishaps with ice chests too. . I noticed if you stand on a 5 gal bucket, try to at least fill them with water... Cheap, safe insurance... Just something to think about...



-Chris-

 

[EBung]

ROTFL - I almost peed my pants reading this.

Glad you liked it Ketchum... . that story is not even exagerated a little either so laugh some more :-laf

 

[Nate]

I'm still dealing with a shattered big toe from a front axle landing on my foot. Talk about painfull. Took close to a week before I could sleep at night even.

 

[AggieJustin]

What about the good ol' Ice Chest?? Am I the only one who stands on an ice chest?? I have had my fair share of mishaps with ice chests too. . I noticed if you stand on a 5 gal bucket, try to at least fill them with water... Cheap, safe insurance... Just something to think about...



-Chris-

I don't stand on the ice chest, otherwise I risk turning it over and spilling all the beer. Then I'd be upset and injured. :-laf

 

[C. Harlan]

I forgot... I am the only one who keeps the coffin in the back of the truck. . That is the Queen ice chest. . All the worker ice chests and drone ice chests are selected for lesser duties, such as doubling for steps when working on the truck, or going down the river... That's ok, I don't mind having the coffin with me all the time!



-Chris-

 

[Casey Ray]

I noticed if you stand on a 5 gal bucket, try to at least fill them with water... Cheap, safe insurance... Just something to think about...



-Chris-

Chris,



I tried this, but kept getting my socks and shoes wet, then when I turned it over to get a larger surface area to hold my wet feet, but all the water poured out. What do I have to do, fill the bucket with water, then freeze the water to be able to stand on it?



Just bustin your chops, safety first.



:-laf :-laf



Soakingly,



Casey

 

[MacHaggis]

M'self, I haven't skinned my knuckles and wrists in a lot of years like I did gettin' the factory oil filter off. Round bottom and twarn't nothin' for it but the strap wrench, and I refused to take out a wheel well liner to change my oil.



I'da rather spent my time fightin' with a surly tom. He'd not have torn me up so bad.

 

[bmoeller]

unless I have to go to the hospital, it does not count as being hurt, so never been hurt on the truck.



steve

If that is the case, then I've only been hurt twice. Only one required 8 stitches.



Once working on the combine. Sliced open the pinky finger on my right hand. Barely missed the blood vessel. I heard it, before I felt it. Was back running the combine 1 1/2 later. Have some feeling back, but very little sense of of hot and cold. Been burned a few times and didn't know it.



Second time, I got nailed by a steer in the loading shoot at the sale barn. Slid backwardds in the concrete shoot on my butt and elbows. Tore my shirt and scraped up the elbows really well, plus having manure all over my back side. Had a 1 1/2" piece of wood rammed in to my finger. Got a 1/2" of it that day. Wasn't healing, so I went into the doctors office. He found the rest of it with a scalpel. He gave a local, but it didn't do sqaut. Felt the whole thing.



I have lots of scars from working on stuff. Even have a scar or two on top of another scar.





My mom did one better. She ran her thumb through a tablesaw. Wasn't using a push stick like she was supposeed to. The piece she was working on had a knot on it, blade caught it, and bounced it.



Didn't loose, but did have to have surgery on it.

 

[bmoeller]

I'm still dealing with a shattered big toe from a front axle landing on my foot. Talk about painfull. Took close to a week before I could sleep at night even.

Someone I used to work for while in college got my foot with the backhoe bucket. The soft dirt from the last pass from the tile machine and steel toed boots are the only things that saved me from possibly loosing my left foot. The bucket tooth was right on the edge of the steel toe on the boot.



Broke my big toe. Never went to the doctor. Looked it over right after it happend, put my sock and boot back on, and went back to work. Hurt like a SOB, but hobbled around OK. Still acts up once in a while, even after 8+ yrs. ago.

 

[Gene Arnold]

You have no idea how much comfort I’ve derived from reading all your stories. For quite a while now I’ve been blaming my various bruises and loss of blood to my advancing years (I turned 70 last month). As I read the posts I was reminded that I’ve ALWAYS managed to bust my knuckles, scrape the back of my hands, raise knots on my head, etc. The worst boo-boo came many years ago when I decided to get in style with my ’38 Ford 2 door by installing long spring shackles to lower the rear end. I raised the body with a bumper jack (that itself was a no-no) then took the nuts off the standard shackles. Placing a screw jack from some unknown source, I proceeded to jack the end of the traverse rear spring in order to remove the shackle. A lot of dynamic spring tension was just waiting for me and it got me when the end of the jack suddenly slipped, hitting me right between the eyes. Didn’t do me in, but was an important learning experience for a teen.



I think the most pain I’ve had from the Ram was when I replaced the accelerator cable. My hand looked like I’d been in a cat fight!



Gene

 

[Joe G.]

Gene,



I remember taking a shackle bolt out of the rear of a Model A pickup truck. That thing knocked a deep dent in the garage door. It didn't hit anybody, but we paid close attention to the comments of a much older guy after that.

 

[JoeBioDiesel]

I wrenched professionally for many years with nothing more than the normal skin and blood donations necessary to work on modern vehicles. After leaving the profession to teach full time the injuries increased in severity whenever I returned to it (gotta do something over the breaks... )

I was helping a buddy out by doing an emergency rebuild on his wrecker transmission. At about midnight we nearly had it back together. In my haste I dropped the pump on my right index finger and lobbed it off to the first knuckle. I had it reattached but it's been a real pain ever since (sometimes literally).

about 2 years after that I had a bearing race shatter in my hand. Some peices went clean through my hand, in the front and out the back, but I still have one piece imbedded in the base of my right index finger... that's right... the same finger. My orthopedic guy is getting tired of seeing me for that finger.

Thankfully that's all that has ever happened to me. Plenty of folks get killed every year. Last year 6 people in my county alone died working on their own vehicles, mostly from the vehicles falling on them.



Joe

 

[Scrappy]

playing with a grinder

my father has an industrial strength 10" angle grinder, he was building a dump trailer. the grinder grabbed somehow and kicked back right into his face, it cut completely thru his nose and 1/2 way across his cheek. luckily he was wearing glesses(safety prescription) or he would have lost at least one eye because there were grind marks on the frames of those glasses. it took multiple layers of stitches to put his nose back together, and has a wicked scar to show for it.

 

[C. Harlan]

I did one today... .



We have a satellite garage facility which I work out of, so new machines, if any are basically out of the question. . if we have to break down tires, you have to do it by hand. Our contraption is bolted to the concrete, and you have to put the rim on it, and use the bar to walk around and break the bead manually.



So there I was, putting a 225/70 R19. 5 tire on the rim, and went to get a new grab on it. . on the top of the long rod that sticks up from the contraption, it is not jagged, however with some impact, it becomes sharp as I learned. I got a good bit of energy, and jerked back on the bar, only to find my left ring finger in the way. . Needless to say I gashed it open, and said a few choice words, before walking away, and having to return to complete the job. Then when the soap got in there, holy jeez, that was a strong feeling, alright!



Just thought I would share the most recent injury with y'all.



-Chris-

 

[WHazelwood]

I've done my share of blood donations but the closest I came to a bad injury was changing the canvas on my camper awning. I had very carefully released the wind-up spring tension on one side and was leaning against the other end, loosening the end cap, when the other spring unloaded. I had to look twice to see if I still had all my little boy parts. The front of my jeans were shredded and I was sure I was now gonna sing the high notes. No real damage but it sure brought tears to my eyes.

Keep grinnin,

 

[C. Harlan]

I just did one a little while ago..

I was under Mom's Z-71, removing the skid plate to clean all the crap up above it... Well, one hand holding the skid plate, one working the ratchet, EXTENDED HANDLE RATCHET, and I was holding it close to the socket... well, socket comes off the bolt, and WHOP! Hits me on the head quite hard! I had to walk away and have a beer to cool down. . That's my story for the day!



-Chris-

 

[bmoeller]

Did this- .....

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... . Installing the DVs. Was loosening up the last one, and when it broke loose, my hand got sliced open on the fitting for my Frantz. Cut is about 1 1/2" long and went to the meat. Didn't even hurt at all. Never went for stitches.