Injury cased by stupidity

[Delbert]

I've done some stupid things over the years the last one was cutting a bracket with a cutting disc on a 4 and a half inch grinder, being too lazy to take all the gear over to the vice I held the bracket in my left hand , I'm sure you can guess the rest, fortunately they managed to sew my finger back together and make it work ..

Funny how as you get older you stop and think alot more 🤔🤔

[headcoats]

Think my ultimate was My Auntie buying me a new bike and less than 24 hours after , I had put it under a car on a tight bend !

With no insurance too

STUPID !

[cgull]

We have a saying in work (rope rescue) never put your finger anywhere you would`nt put your willy

[paulls]

These stories are making me cringe ,back in the day a chap I knew through racing used to work as a drivers mate at a builders merchants ,so he spent most of his time telling tales of derring do whilst sitting in a flat bed Ford truck his only duties apart from fetching the sandwiches for the driver consisted of sweeping the flat bed out after aggregate deliveries.one day after completing this task he threw the broom off the back of the truck and jumped down backwards,not knowing that the broom having hit the ground had momentarily stood back up, and aimed itself at his rear , having spent quite a bit of time in Louth hospital following the freak accident that followed he went on to better things at Cadwell but never spoke of his rebore

[brigitte]

I was cutting the worn cardanic link of a lorry driveshaft, as my welding goggles suddenly startet to burn on the inside. Uhm, what happened? The blast from the torch went through the grease hole and one droplet made it to the backside of my welding goggles. Very, very silly, could have ended very bad!

[itsnick350]

Feb 13, 2021 23:15:45 GMT 1 paulls said:

These stories are making me cringe ,back in the day a chap I knew through racing used to work as a drivers mate at a builders merchants ,so he spent most of his time telling tales of derring do whilst sitting in a flat bed Ford truck his only duties apart from fetching the sandwiches for the driver consisted of sweeping the flat bed out after aggregate deliveries.one day after completing this task he threw the broom off the back of the truck and jumped down backwards,not knowing that the broom having hit the ground had momentarily stood back up, and aimed itself at his rear , having spent quite a bit of time in Louth hospital following the freak accident that followed he went on to better things at Cadwell but never spoke of his rebore

[dougw]

Not as life threatening as many on here, but pulling the nozzle of an aerosol,poking something into the blocked outlet tube while staring at intently. World went dark as a painted my eyeballs black. Panicky run into the house to wash it out.

[tony2stroke]

Feb 14, 2021 11:32:34 GMT 1 dougw said:

Not as life threatening as many on here, but pulling the nozzle of an aerosol,poking something into the blocked outlet tube while staring at intently. World went dark as a painted my eyeballs black. Panicky run into the house to wash it out.

Your not alone, I have done that too 

[tony2stroke]

Feb 14, 2021 11:01:49 GMT 1 brigitte said:

I was cutting the worn cardanic link of a lorry driveshaft, as my welding goggles suddenly startet to burn on the inside. Uhm, what happened? The blast from the torch went through the grease hole and one droplet made it to the backside of my welding goggles. Very, very silly, could have ended very bad!

I set myself alight while mig welding under a car, I had 1 of those padded check shirts on like a lumberjack shirt, trying to fill a hole with a puddle of weld, it fell out and exploded on the floor, now I am upside down under the car, didn't give it no never mind, happens all the time right, next thing I know was feeling hot around my stomach, my shirt was on fire, managed to roll out from under car and take off the highly flammable shirt which promptly turned into a blob of melted hollow fibre, don't weld underneath a car on your own, I set a car alight once too welding on my own, luckily I smelt the electrics burning and saved the car.

[stusco]

My mate set his mk1 golf gti he was restoring on fire ,he turned it over with the fuel injection disconnect but it fired and sprayed petrol everywhere it caught a spark and went up,he picked up the bowl of petrol he had drained and tried to throw it out the door but it caught mid air 😬he has seven twin shock motocross bikes in there and everything is on fire ,so hes got his garden hose and he’s lying on the floor because of the smoke spraying the engine bay of the golf ,his neighbour thinks hes dead so starts pulling him out the garage by the feet he starts kicking his neighbour to get free then runs back in luckily the fire brigade arrived saved the lot and left him some fire extinguisher 🧯 for the next time.

[ozzysbikes]

Working on a MK1 Escort rally car (no shrouds on the brake discs), I was working on the brakes while the owner of the car was getting ready to lift out the engine with chain blocks, he ripped up the engine with the blocks, the car tipped off the axle stands and the disc took the end of my left index finger off, it was hanging on by a piece of skin but got it sewn back on it just about works now,
Took the end of my right little finger off when "bumping" a compressor crankshaft out of the crankcase, it didn't appear worn so should have been difficult to bump out, it wasn't and I had my little finger in the way, again hanging on with skin but now ok, Best bit of that one was that my nail was hanging off so I pulled the nail out while it was numb, the lad working with me fainted and fell over, we both ended up in the hospital 🙂,

I was in my late teens for both of those, painful lesson learned, trust nothing is safe whether mechanical or human !

[st66]

Well re installing the engine in my cosworth with a 1.5 engine hoist wich had been condemned as had a oil leak in the wled at bottom of the lift ram and would piss out hydraulic oil and the hoist would fall ever so slowly with weight on it, so I lift the engine up thinking I could lower it enough into the bay and it will be sound, so I'm by myself on a Sunday morning in the garage hoist the engine up on hoist position it in the engine bay lower it just enough for me to get under it and it will slowly creep down to the mountings and ile bang the bolt in, mint I think so I'm under it waiting to all line up, and yep the b*****d dropped like a brick after two seconds of slow motion, no oil left in the ram,,, I lay there for about 5 mins the engine wedged in the freshly painted bay against the crossmember and front pannel, about a cm from my head, I so shat myself that day,,, never ever again,, the hoist was in the skip next day a new one ordered,, total cost,, my 8th life (cat),, a newly painted engine bay a new hoist and about 200 fags and a pair of shorts lol and I know better than chance such things now lol

[stusco]

I once made a co-worker faint ,he’d had a mole removed from his chin but was so vain he wouldn’t look at the scar in the mirror, i got my steel rule out measured the scar told him he had two stitches he went white collapsed came round went home, stayed off for three days on the sick ,f###ing millennials

[steve h]

Feb 14, 2021 20:51:35 GMT 1 stusco said:

I once made a co-worker faint ,he’d had a mole removed from his chin but was so vain he wouldn’t look at the scar in the mirror, i got my steel rule out measured the scar told him he had two stitches he went white collapsed came round went home, stayed off for three days on the sick ,f###ing millennials

WTF....

Bit like a machinist in an engineering outfit I worked at. He was a video gamer... the lads had a radio controled "rat" and ran it past him...he fainted on the spot. Unable to withstand the real world. And for good measure they did it again on the shop floor at a later date..same result.

[st66]

Wtf.,, some people eh soft,, saying that I hate detest snakes was walking along Blackpool one day with the Mrs and this wrench shoved a huge white python over my shoulder take your pic pal,,, I froze on the spot with gritted teeth I'm like get the f**ker off me now!! She's standing it's OK hun it won't harm you, the wife went white said I'd take it away now if I where you, its wrapping itself around me I've had fear but I'm sweating buckets I nearly took her head off when she grabbed it,, was in berlize constant two months of crapin myself I hate fukin snakes, and yes they taste like chicken ha,,,

[dougw]

Feb 14, 2021 21:16:00 GMT 1 st66 said:

Wtf.,, some people eh soft,, saying that I hate detest snakes was walking along Blackpool one day with the Mrs and this wrench shoved a huge white python over my shoulder take your pic pal,,, I froze on the spot with gritted teeth I'm like get the f**ker off me now!! She's standing it's OK hun it won't harm you, the wife went white said I'd take it away now if I where you, its wrapping itself around me I've had fear but I'm sweating buckets I nearly took her head off when she grabbed it,, was in berlize constant two months of crapin myself I hate fukin snakes, and yes they taste like chicken ha,,,

We had the snake talk when visiting a mate in Aus. Slowly walk away quietly. Walking on a 4 foot wide path between a nature area and some long grass chattering happily to Mrs, two kids about 10 foot behind. Suddenly realise the branch we are about to step over is a f,ck off great big brown snake. Wife shreaks, I yell SNAKE ! Both mrs and me jump over it and leg it , stop about 20 feet away remembering kids, snake had disappeared by then !