Scrap metal injuries! - Page 3

I swear this stinkin' auction win is trying to kill me.



First the UPS' make the server rack too top-heavy to hand truck, so it falls on me. Then, today as I'm disassembling those same UPS', I hear a "POP!", see sparks, and lo the steel cover on the fan I was pulling off had welded itself to an aluminum heatsink right beside a row of capacitors that I "thought" I'd discharged.

So I took a piece of 12guage bare wire & stuck one end as deep into wet ground as I could get it to go, and put the other end in a clear plastic tub full of water, and I made an immersion tank for the rest of these darn things!

Sorry for your pain but I don't feel as much like the sole victim of vicious inanimate objects anymore lol.

I finally broke down & went to a real doc earlier this week: Fractured Cuboid bone & more-than-likely fractured calcaneus bone. It would take another set of xrays at a different angle to confirm the calcaneus fracture, and it wouldn't change the treatment. So, I'm in a boot for at least 3 weeks. Really hard to drive my regular route in the darn thing... I only managed 600# of tin yesterday! LOL </sarcasm>

That awkward moment when you finally give in to the denial of the extent of an injury and face the facts.

Hope the recovery goes well.

Originally Posted by happyisthealero

Anybody else enjoy pain sometimes?

I'm going to go on record with a "no" response.

But I do dig the way these codeine pills make my couch LOTS softer.

Reading this thread is like watching BONES at dinner time. Yeesh!
Yep, I have gotten some pretty good injuries doing this stuff, but your stories are bad enough!
Yeesh!

Originally Posted by PistoneScrapProcessing

Hopefully this pic works. Snapped my leg a month and three weeks ago.

Saw that on Instagram! That looked really painful!

Sir, Buffett is my personal hero.

Wow, I've been pretty lucky compared to some of you guys. I've had my share of minor finger slices from getting in a hurry and forgetting my gloves, and the occasional smashed thumb/finger from dropping something on it.

I had my worst scrapping injury so far this past fall. Of course, it didn't even happen in the "line of duty" of my actual recycling business. I helped my grandfather clean out and tear down a decrepit outbuilding on his property. One of the things in the load o' shred was a junk mountain bike. As I was unloading the junk at the yard, another object (can't even remember what) managed to hook the bike, pulling it AND me off the back of my truck. Now, I have a Dodge Ram 2500, so my truck bed is fairly high off the ground. Upon landing, I bashed my left shin off the bike and busted it open, which immediately hurt like hell. I didn't even realize at the time that my right hand and wrist, which had caught most of my 160 pounds during the fall, were horribly sprained.

The next day, the shinbone barely hurt, but my stoved-up hand and wrist were not right for three months. Of course, I'm mostly right-handed, so my "good" arm was the one I reflexively threw out to catch myself. It was either that, or a faceful of concrete from the unloading dock, so I guess I took the lesser evil.

We all get in a hurry and do dumb things. Usually, we get away with it. Sometimes, we don't. Be safe, guys and gals