What is the WORST injury you have ever sustained?

[Luke'sScreenName]

One lucky SOB! Where did the chlorine come from?

 

[CurlyDave]

One lucky SOB! Where did the chlorine come from?

We had cylinders of it that were used in the early stages of very large scale water purification. Evidently a leak had developed somewhere.

The other guys at the facility saw what happened and knew exactly what was wrong. Someone put on a protective suit with supplied air and went in to fix the problem. Meanwhile they dragged me off the stairs and away from the leak.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

Can you sing like a canary now?

 

[Dftodd]

My most painful injury was while cleaning out my great aunts garage. My great uncle was a pack rat. Grabbed some trash to toss to my dad and then felt the most pain in my life on my foot. There was a metal sewer cover sitting on the ledge for a knee wall, and dropped three feet crushing four out of five tows. Just pinched the skin on my big tow. Hopping and cussing to on a whole new meaning.

The second which actually didn't hurt all that much. I was hooking a safety chain to a loader bucket to have a piece of equipment lifted on the trailer. Loader operator got a phone call just as I was hooking up the chain. Operator dropped his phone, swung to the right to grab it and nailed the controls. Thumb got caught in the chain. Doc figures if he was just a hair longer on the control, I would be missing my thumb. Ended up dislocation it, and slicing the tenden. It crushed the nerves when it happened, so other then a quick pinch, I didn't feel much. Scared the crap out of me though.

 

[Dftodd]

My most painful injury was while cleaning out my great aunts garage. My great uncle was a pack rat. Grabbed some trash to toss to my dad and then felt the most pain in my life on my foot. There was a metal sewer cover sitting on the ledge for a knee wall, and dropped three feet crushing four out of five tows. Just pinched the skin on my big tow. Hopping and cussing took on a whole new meaning.

The second which actually didn't hurt all that much. I was hooking a safety chain to a loader bucket to have a piece of equipment lifted on the trailer. Loader operator got a phone call just as I was hooking up the chain. Operator dropped his phone, swung to the right to grab it and nailed the controls. Thumb got caught in the chain. Doc figures if he was just a hair longer on the control, I would be missing my thumb. Ended up dislocation it, and slicing the tenden. It crushed the nerves when it happened, so other then a quick pinch, I didn't feel much. Scared the crap out of me though.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

溺ary Ellen Moffit. She broke my heart.?Hooper in "Jaws")
My worst was when I slammed on the brakes to avoid a deer, and rolled my friend's van. Nothing broken except the van, but I had bruises where my legs hit the steering wheel (which kept me from going out the door when it opened) cuts and bruises on my hand where I held myself off the roof as it went over. It was November so I had my deer rifle with me, which hit me in the head as it went out the open door. I compressed my back, and was in pain for a year until I wrecked it again canoeing against the wind and let it heal correctly.
The van had no seat belts, you'd be driving down rhe road and the door would fly open...one front drum brake worked better than the other, which contributed to the accident. The garage had told him that the previous safety sticker would be the last.
His employees thanked me for wrecking it.

Second worst was when a deer fell on me while I was skinning it... and drove a 4" boning knife to the hilt in my leg.

You are lucky in a way. My FIL used to tell the story of the farmer who was slaughtering a hog; bent over to cut its throat; the hog kicked, ramming the knife into his leg, cutting his femoral artery.

 

[Looking4new]

I was 11 years old, and entered in a bicycle race. The race started at the top of a big hill on a gravel road. Come to the bottom of the hill I was doing 30mph (according to the speedometer on the bike), hit a pothole and the front forks collapsed. End result; busted my knee, and took a hit to my fore head. 26 stitches in the knee (I don't know how long the operation was to clean out the dirt), and 6 to the head. 6 weeks in a cast in hospital (they were worried about infection), and another 6 weeks in a heavier cast at home. I got the cast off on my birthday. It never did hurt much (ahh the wonders of morphine).

 

[tcartwri]

Not anywhere near as bad as some of these, but when I was younger I was using plaster of paris to mount sensors to rock outcrops. I spent the day mixing the plaster with my bare hands being absolutely clueless as to the fact that there is a good amount of lye in the mix. Hands swollen up like melons and second degree chemical burns were pretty intense.

 

[oldpilgrim]

long story short:

carrying a heavy load down a couple steps;

somehow twisted my body and fell;

Cranked my back real bad;

couldn't move laying on the ground;

Ruptured 3 disks in my back;

Had to have spine fused;

In bed for over 3 months;

right leg partially paralyzed even after 40+ years.

 

[outinthetalgrass]

A long time ago, when I was 17 I was on a catwalk at 30some feet when it decided it wanted to fall down.
Landed on my left side, broke almost every bone on my left side, ambulance scraped me up and took me to the local ER, young rookie Dr. Look at me and said " you should be dead" 10 plus surgeries and 9 months in casts I was able to resume life as we know it. Fast forward 6 years, I was pulling out of a commercial drive on my motorcycle, and a delivery truck was coming, he was going to pull on the drive I was sitting in, so I pulled out, what I didn't see, was the car behind the truck that decided to pass up the slowing truck. Hit me square on t-bone, knocked me down, and drove over me and the bike. I remember seeing the driveshaft and muffler go over me. Ambulance came scraped me up and took me to the local ER, same Dr from previous incident comes in and tells me " your still supposed to be dead"
1 broken leg, and a broken arm on the right side, plus a lot of road rash from that one, just a simple 7 weekend in a cast, and life goes on.
At that time I figured I wouldn't make it past 30, but next year(God willing) I will have made it to 60.
In my late 40's I tore a rotator cuff felling a tree, had to have surgery to grind down some burrs on the shoulder, and repair the rotator cuff, and all things being equal, that was the most painful of all the others, don't know if it was that surgery, my older age, or a combination of the two, but I don't want to go thru that again.