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  1. 16th December 2012, 06:48 PM #1
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    For those of you who don't know, I'm a nurse who works in Anaesthetics and Recovery. I worked night shift on Friday and the Plastics team did an all nighter:


    • 2 patients, angle grinder vs hand (1 of which cut through the wrist leaving 1cm of skin to attach the hand to the arm).
    • 1 x gash to the hand after attempting to cut electrical cord with a paring knife.
    • 1 x thumb amputation from table saw.
    • 1 x stab wound to arm by misses with broken stubby.
    • 1 x Removal of foreign object from cavity


    I can forgive the stubby guy but not the rest.

    Be careful everyone, honestly, be careful. Please. Safety, safety, safety. The guy who nearly severed his hand probably won't be able to go back to work for 6 months (as a fitter and turner), if he's lucky.
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    Thanks for the heads up Scott - To be more safety conscious I'll get the Mrs a nice xmas present and um, watch where I sit
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scott View Post
    1 x Removal of foreign object from cavity
    I can forgive the stubby guy but not the rest.

    Be careful everyone, honestly, be careful. Please. Safety, safety, safety. The guy who nearly severed his hand probably won't be able to go back to work for 6 months (as a fitter and turner), if he's lucky.
    Honest Doc, I don't know how it got there. I slipped and fell.Listen, you don't need to tell anybody about this, do ya

    Seriously, yes we should all be a little more safety conscious.

    I use angle grinders a lot, and I hate em. When we make hydrolic hose cut off saws, there is a small tag that has to be cut off the cover with the grinder and a 1mm blade. A week or so after one session, I picked up my welding gloves to do something and a small bit was missing from the top of the thumb. My thumb was in the glove when it happened. Very sobering. Been through one lay up with damaged digits, don't want or need to go there again.

    The bloke with the stubby. Wow, nice girl.
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    I just finished child-proofing our house - but they still get inside.
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    I have a friend who was/is a 3 certificate nurse (now has a couple of masters degrees as well). Some of her stories are an interesting mix of humor & OMG!. The light bulb one was interesting, they got the rescue squad to use a diamond core drill to make a hole in the bulb, then filled it with plaster before it could be 'retrieved' without shattering. Ouch

    Then there are the surprising number of people who vacuum in the nude, including those who end up with body parts caught (or worse) in the moving parts of the cleaner... The mind boggles.

    Makes a glassing seem almost normal.
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    I can solve one of those problems by letting
    the missus use the angle grinder in future.



    Will work on the others as they arise.

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    Natural selection at work, love it!
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    here's a whole website dedicated to it.
    The excuses they give on how it happened.
    and what the treatment was.
    Rectal Foreign Bodies
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