Scrap metal injuries!

**Racer997** · 05-06-2013, 08:17 AM

Bump!

Imploding CRT while cutting the steel mounting band off of it. In my experience, half of the TV / computer monitor CRTs I've scrapped crack when I cut the band off, while the other half do nothing. I knew one day one would implode, and this was the one. I know a lot of scrappers won't even bother with cutting the band off because of, well, I dunno. Fear of this?

I need to off-gas these things first. (Or would it be in-gassing, since it's a vacuum? Or maybe it's simply pressure equalization.)

This gash, about two inches long and down to the shin bone, should have been stitched, but I did the butterfly bandage thing instead. I did end up going to the doctor the next day because it'd been a while since my last tetanus shot (too late to stitch by then, of course). This isn't even close to my first scar, or even my first from scrapping, but it's the worst from scrapping thus far.

**ScrapYaHerd** · 05-06-2013, 08:30 PM

Nice gash..Pull the wire suction cup looking thing out to release the vacuum. I don't bother with the band myself not worth it for .15.

**happyscraper** · 05-06-2013, 10:43 PM

Herd, this has to be one of the most discusting threds on the forum.LOL

**Sirscrapalot** · 05-06-2013, 11:12 PM

I've got several scars from some chisels. Lovely scar on my calf from where I scrapped it against the plastic shell of projection screen tv...bled like a stuck pig.

Not a scrapping injury, but saw the post on the metal in the eye, I can relate. Bout 8 years back when I was still doing retail, we went on a smoke break. Decided we were gonna play some hacky sack, well..long story short..I ended up with a freshly lit cigarette in my eye. Didn't hurt at first, started to throb, an hurt after washing it out an such, and decided to drive myself to the local hospital ER ( We worked over night, nothing else open). Which is a lot of fun when your basically blind in one eye driving down a 2 lane road at 1am..lol. Got to the er, an the triage chick hands me a freaking ice bag, an let me sit there for over 2 hours. Finally got in the back to see the doc, and he bout freaked out when he found out how long I'd been sitting out there. He went out, yelled at the nurse, came back, gave me those lovely numbing eye drops. Then..he put some crap in my eye turned off the lights and on a black light and showed me the burns on my eye. Gave me an eye patch told me it'd heal up in 48 hours and to take the pain pills as needed cause he couldn't give me the numbing stuff for at home as it hindered the healing process. I enjoyed walking around like a pirate the entire weekend yelling ARRRGH! at people...

Only injury where i was worried. I'm a reader, love to read, so any damage to the ol'eyes is not something that pleases me..lol. Thankfully I can still see, read etc. Won't ever play a **** game of hacky sack again tho!

Sirscrapalot - He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. - Douglas Adams

**auminer** · 06-19-2013, 07:53 AM

In case any of you out there were wondering what it would look like if the top-heavy server rack you won at auction and were attempting to hand truck out of the warehouse fell off & landed square on your ankle... well, see for yourself. It hit so hard that it bent the frame of the server rack about a half inch out of place. Nothing broken..... somehow.

I still have 8 more racks (empty) in there I have to get out by Friday. Guess I'ma have to call a helper. Sucks, too cuz the margin was already tight on this bid, now with a doc-in-a-box visit, at least a week out-of-commission, and having to hire a helper to finish this job, I'm way in the hole.

Bottom line, SLOWER IS FASTER! If I'd taken the **** UPS's out of the top it wouldn't have tumped over on me.

**BroJer** · 06-19-2013, 07:58 AM

YIKES. ICE ICE ICE. slow IS faster!!!
and
you need some sun on them puppy's ;-)

(now waiting for some smarta** Sirscrapalotism)

**Sirscrapalot** · 06-19-2013, 12:52 PM

LOL..Brojer..

An pray tell how you live in Texas, Auminer an be that pale....? :P

Or should we call you Casper now?

Glad the ankle is ok tho, woulda made it hard to enjoy the next BlackBerrySmoke concert with a cast man!

Sirscrapalot - Brojer is the Co-President of the Sirscrapalot Fan club, contact him for your secret decoder ring.

**auminer** · 06-19-2013, 02:12 PM

Oh, yall messin with the gimp??!!??

I have the world's best farmer's tan. Them legs ain't seen sun since the days of parachute pants & Members Only jackets. It's DARK down in the goldmine!

**Mechanic688** · 06-19-2013, 02:25 PM

Originally Posted by ScrapYaHerd

Nice gash..Pull the wire suction cup looking thing out to release the vacuum. I don't bother with the band myself not worth it for .15.

Yep, pull out the s-cup and put in a long straight screwdriver and push in, that should release the vacuum safely.

**Sirscrapalot** · 06-19-2013, 05:07 PM

Originally Posted by auminer

Oh, yall messin with the gimp??!!??

I have the world's best farmer's tan. Them legs ain't seen sun since the days of parachute pants & Members Only jackets. It's DARK down in the goldmine!

We tease the ones we like the most Casp..err Auminer.

An just cause of the bloody gash at the top of this page..I have the perfect quote for this thread.

Sirscrapalot - A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer. - Mitch Hedberg

**auminer** · 06-19-2013, 06:05 PM

I'm getting some color now... little bit of green, little bit of purple...

It's a game of inches... two inches lower, and I wouldn't be posting in this thread. Two inches higher, and I'd be posting it with a cast on my ankle.

And here's the culprit. Or in this case, the victim... I'll heal but this sonovableep is gettin' scrapped!

The scraped off paint is from moving it after it fell, but all the bent metal you see was caused by my cuboid bone & its neighbors. I didn't know I HAD a cuboid bone until last night.

**KzScrapper** · 06-19-2013, 06:27 PM

Must have some strong bones there dude.

**Sirscrapalot** · 06-19-2013, 07:22 PM

Its all the sun he's not getting KZ..

Sirscrapalot - Rocking some Black Berry smoke for his buddy Auminer.

**BroJer** · 06-19-2013, 08:44 PM

Originally Posted by Sirscrapalot

Sirscrapalot - Brojer is the Co-President of the Sirscrapalot Fan club, contact him for your secret decoder ring.

And if you CALL RIGHT NOW...we will include TWO...YES TWO...Sirscrapolot Decoder Rings. BUTT WAIT! If you are one of the first 99 callers... we will include a shamWOW with every order! They work great, to cleanup all the blood and guts, from accidents and injuries. Separate shipping and handling charges apply. (Available in a variety of colors and sizes. Toe rings-add $10.00. Nip rings-add $20.00) Ohio residents include 6.5% sales tax on all orders

**Gravitar** · 06-19-2013, 09:28 PM

How have I not seen this thread before? Idk, but the story's about the metal in the eye and burn make me cringe. I have had some close calls with sharp and flying objects coming at my eyes. None of them actually doing any damage, but some close calls. I only have one good eye, and I have to make it last my whole life. My left eye has always been extremely bad ever since I was born , so my right eye has to do all of the seeing. If I do anything to damage my right eye, I'm screwed. So that means prescription safety glasses along with a full face mask when I'm around any kind of cutting tool (Torch, Angle Grinder, Saw-zall, etc.). I put those rules on myself because I would rather not be blind in the future.

I haven't had any bad injury's scrapping aside from the ice pick incident (There is actually a thread about that somewhere on here) and the sunburn I seem to get every time I go to the scrapyard. I have some really bad farmers tans from that, especially along the back of my neck. Aloe Vera sooth's the soul.

**Bear** · 06-20-2013, 09:12 PM

Dang Auminer, that's a pretty mean bump! I doubt Friday's gonna see it healed either ; ) You be careful out there man. I've dealt with clearance warehouses that would cut some slack on removal deadlines under some circumstances, maybe yours would too

**auminer** · 06-20-2013, 09:43 PM

Originally Posted by Bear

Dang Auminer, that's a pretty mean bump! I doubt Friday's gonna see it healed either ; ) You be careful out there man. I've dealt with clearance warehouses that would cut some slack on removal deadlines under some circumstances, maybe yours would too

Actually able to hobble around on it today. With a crutch this morning, without this afternoon. The warehouse MGR's giving me til Monday, so I think we'll be good to go by then.

Now for the pretty (gross) pictures.

Even getting some color on the medial view:

**Mechanic688** · 06-21-2013, 02:27 AM

The last time my ankle looked that nasty color was when a 50 tv tower hit me in the leg and tried to drive it into the ground.
I ended up with 3 broken bones, one on each side and tore the spur in the back where the tendon fastens to the bone.

**robsrecycling** · 06-21-2013, 10:26 AM

I don't have any pics but my worst injury was having a 20k btu ac fall on my chest .no major damage but I did go to the hospital to be safe .dang thing weighed at least 150 lbs.ned less to say I was very badly bruised .it was agony to move lol .laid in bed for 3 days lol

**Stangit** · 06-21-2013, 01:06 PM

I cleaned out my shed of old boards with nails left by the previous owner, and hurriedly threw them in front of the storage chest
I use to store my cans. The grass was high,and hid the boards with rusty nails out of sight. I forgot about them as I went to load more cans into the chest, and a 2" rusty nail went through my Converse shoe and into my foot. I let out a yell, as my neighbor and his kids who were playing catch turned around. I had to sit on the chest, and pulled this 3 foot board with nail, out of my foot as they watched
in amazement...No I didn't go to the ER, I just washed it with peroxide, and anti bacterial creme, and hoped for the best. All is good so far..I've sliced up my hands pretty good breaking stuff down...It comes with the territory tho..

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