Psycho Warren

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I been lucky, mostly usual cuts and grazes but i have hit myself in the head with a rubber mallet after i got angry with a stuck part and it bounced and "whack" and thud as i hit the floor in a daze

Shut my hand in the boot before and that hurt!!

Fudgey

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knocked myself out once undoing a wheel nut lol. was tight as fuck and when pushing down with all my weight it suddenly gave, cracked my chin on the wing....

soon learnt to pull up when undoing wheel nuts lol.

fuck loads of cuts/scrapes etc. they are the worst lol.

oh also had an angle grinder disc shatter and now have an inch long scar on my forearm

saph cos rob

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weld on the bo**ox or metal grind dust in the eye gotta be worst for me!

mrjenrst

Proper pissing here mate

Fudgey

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me too lol, was out for about 20 mins

tooly80

ive bin lucky and had nothing major happen to me, but when i was a kid i watched the old man get his finger trapped in i bottom ball joint and the leg,when he pulled his hand back his finger come out of his knuckle then move back onto the top of it i was nearly sick.

Cossy Mike

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I got a flat tyre on my old XR2 on the motorway about 10 years ago. I tried to change it, with the same problem as above (solid wheel nuts). The wheel brace slipped off and I punched the ground taking a lot of skinn off my knuckles.

I was that Pi$$ed off I threw the wheel brace through the offside rear window.

rog

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Nothing too drastic, but i think the most annoying ones were when i was trying to loosten a bolt, it suddenly came free and my hand jerked quickly, catching the end of a jubille clip and slashing a big gash in may hand, right through every layer of skin, it was really sore! (done worse than that to compare it too)
Also done the obligatory, stab your hands and underneath your fingernails with bits of aeroquip hose...

CHUNKYS RS

was doing some welding once and a blob of weld dripped off and landed on my ring on my finger witch heated the ring and was burning the fcuk out of my finger so tryed to slide it off and it rolled the skin off with it like a jonnie

Moonstone Mart

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the usual cuts and scrapes at work lol
a friend was balancing a tyre when he was younger and the tyre burst! ended up pushing a 12inch piece of metal wire into his wrist and up inside his forearm!!


Mart.

neil andeRSon

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had the usual gash's an cut's. i ripped open my right hand taking the front panel of my mk2 fester with a hammer. last bloody spot weld hat the metal an heard a twoing kinda sound looked at the bit i just hit an there's a bloody big bit of flesh hanging off it. went through a vein. never seen blood pump like that before!! i even ripped the knuckle on my thumb!

funniest one was when i was taking the front pipe off an audi and one of my work mate's walked past an nudged me arm. the ratchet slipped off an smacked me on the forehead! knocked me clean out!! still got the 13mm socket scar!! LOL

neil andeRSon

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that musta fookin hurt!!

PeterD

Ive got a couple of stories from my apprenticeship!

We had a car come in with a water leak, our spray painter thinking the system would be empty and undone the hot radiator cap but just by one twist, he looked down on to it wondering what the gurgling noise was and the cap blew of and broke his nose.

Another apprentice was doing an exhaust and borrowed my tools to do it, wee bit too much wd40 and the ratchet slipped of and hit his lip but cut it in half down the middle, looked agony

Lastly, we used to have all the dead tyre casings built up in a wall, against a wall and one of the mechanics was reversing the works van towards the tyres when an apprentice (thinking he would warn him from hitting the tyres) jumped behing the van with both arms outstreched, got caught between the van and the tyrewall and broke both arms.

That garage was a fooking disaster

Glenn_

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I was doing a timing chain cover reseal on a toyota(shock) yaris and i was racheting away and sliced a part of my thumb off on the side of the cylinder head.

xrsi

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mainly just the normal cuts, bruises and welding splatter to the old fella!

had to go to A&E to get my head glued back together the day before a cousins wedding tho after dropping the cast support bar from a tow bar for the 406 on my head while trying to fit it, wouldnt go on so had to loosen a bolt and as i did it pivoted straight down with the corner hitting my right in the middle of the forehead! wasnt happy, blood was everywhere!



doesnt look as bad as it actually was in that pic!

cossie4i+

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Drilled through my finger once when doing something for the car.

Was pressing down on the drill holding what i was drilling and the drill bit snapped and went straight through my finger and out the other side

Steve

Fudgey

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send a pic to mercedes and tell them you want cash for advertising lol

steve, my old neigbour done that, well, drill slipped and he drilled throught the bit between your thumb and index finger lol. that hurt

Moonstone Mart

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Lol, he said he went a little faint - then his boss grabbed his arm and pulled it out!!!
Dont think they were expecting it to be so long


Mart.

nickywarwick

had a fractured rib when my da was knocking a supersingle of a wheel rim slipped with the mell hammer & straight into my ribs.

cut the end of my right index finger off with an angle grinder cleaning up brake drums

brocken little finger in right hand, got it stuck in a belt while the apprentice turned the engine over by hand. (little twat got a spanner impregnated in the back of his head after)

always the usual grazez, black nails, welding burns etc.

JTECH James

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oh, and i cut my index finger down to the bone with a hacksaw blade,

that hurt! lol, the xray showed a small nik in the bone so i was on antibiotics for weeks to avoid an infection

having the stiches put in was fookin agony! as the nurse seemed determined to get them really deep, and i could still feel it