What's ya worst work injury

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Was at work Earlier today and cut myself when I dropped
My trowel 3 stitches required didn't think it was that sharp
 

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I've had quite a few over the years. Back when I was in my early 20's I had the scaffold scoot apart on me and the planks let loose. I ended up doing a cart wheel in the air and planting my face into a scaffold horse and landing on the pavement. Another time I was spraying fireproofing onto metal ceiling pans as I was focused on spraying and looking up I ended up getting too close to an open stairway when I noticed it I ended up slipping over the edge and landing on the concrete floor down below. Another time I was getting ready to work on a chimney on a roof top. I had metal lath installed on the faces of the chimney and I was about to install the corner beads. The roof was cedar shingles that were somewhat damp and slippery. I made a move I shouldn't have made and my feet slipped out from underneath me and I started sliding towards the edge of the roof I grabbed for the corners of the chimney and held on for dear life. I shredded my hands on the sharp edges of the metal lath, but I didn't fall 30 feet onto the concrete below. Another delightful moment in my history I was working up in Alaska on a school we had it scaffolded all the way around the perimeter of the outside walls. Somebody sent me to go look for a bundle of foam that was around the back of the school as I was on my way to retrieve it I didn't notice that the assholes that stocked sheetrock in one of the entries had taken the cross braces out of the scaffold to get their material through the scaffold and they never replaced them. The scaffold collapsed around me when I walked through that area, it about broke my knee, I probably should have sued the contractor and collected workman's comp. It would have been $800.00 USD a week back then, but I shook it off and worked with a bum knee for a while. And to think I originally wanted to be a commercial artist, I would have missed out on all that fun. I've been on two different jobs where people have died from accidents.
 
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I've had quite a few over the years. Back when I was in my early 20's I had the scaffold scoot apart on me and the planks let loose. I ended up doing a cart wheel in the air and planting my face into a scaffold horse and landing on the pavement. Another time I was spraying fireproofing onto metal ceiling pans as I was focused on spraying and looking up I ended up getting too close to an open stairway when I noticed it I ended up slipping over the edge and landing on the concrete floor down below. Another time I was getting ready to work on a chimney on a roof top. I had metal lath installed on the faces of the chimney and I was about to install the corner beads. The roof was cedar shingles that were somewhat damp and slippery. I made a move I shouldn't have made and my feet slipped out from underneath me and I started sliding towards the edge of the roof I grabbed for the corners of the chimney and held on for dear life. I shredded my hands on the sharp edges of the metal lath, but I didn't fall 30 feet onto the concrete below. Another delightful moment in my history I was working up in Alaska on a school we had it scaffolded all the way around the perimeter of the outside walls. Somebody sent me to go look for a bundle of foam that was around the back of the school as I was on my way to retrieve it I didn't notice that the assholes that stocked sheetrock in one of the entries had taken the cross braces out of the scaffold to get their material through the scaffold and they never replaced them. The scaffold collapsed around me when I walked through that area, it about broke my knee, I probably should have sued the contractor and collected workman's comp. It would have been $800.00 USD a week back then, but I shook it off and worked with a bum knee for a while. And to think I originally wanted to be a commercial artist, I would have missed out on all that fun. I've been on two different jobs where people have died from accidents.
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i fell through a stairwell bounced on the stringer 3 broken ribs bruised lungs and pancreas 2 months off work and i hurt a bit lol
 
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