A long long time ago on an ocean far far away we were doing some maintenance work that was out of the ordinary.

First a coworker of mine hurt his foot. Nothing too serious.
Then shortly after, I hurt my arm. Nothing to9 serious.

Our boss, being the sensible kind, called a meeting and said something along the lines of “These incidents are minor, but they’re on the rise, and statistically that means major incidents are on the rise too, even if we haven’t had any yet.”
Basically, we did a timeout to reassess what we were doing, and how, to make sure we were doing it safely. The attitude was pretty much that our boss didn’t care how long things took, as long as it was done safely. Among the best bosses I’ve ever had.

My hand and my coworkers foot was fine after a few days.

Back in ‘98 I worked for a company installing trailer hitches. Sometimes you have to lay at odd angles to get into the space to install the hitch. One day I was at an angle that a small shard of metal went under my safety glasses and into my eye. I did not think much of it until later that night when my eyelid started to catch on the metal. I went to the ER and they extracted it. But it was so much rust it dissolved in my eye. I had to have eye surgery the next day to remove the rust. I am now going blind in the eye. The doctors cannot say with certainty it is because of the injury, but it is the likely culprit. My other eye still has really good vision.

During and immediately after the accident the company took really good care of me. All my medical bills were paid, I was given extra leave. It was not until 7 years after I left the company I found out how bad my vision was (because it was a slow degrade I did not notice).

Not much of a story, this was years ago when I worked for a Honda supplier on a welding line. I got my hand clamped in a machine that used robot welders. I’m not even sure how I did it to be honest, since typically it required two hands to push buttons to clamp everything up on those lines. It was clamped for a few seconds before somebody got it free, hurt like shit, I get sent to the ER for an hour or two. Got prescribed pain meds, but otherwise no broken bones, it’s whatever, nothing serious, go back to work to finish my shift even. It’s numb for a few weeks but eventually have a full recovery.

The most infuriating thing about the experience relates to how work handles the accident. You see, they gave out bonuses every year if you had perfect attendance. That year I had absolutely perfect attendance, up until I had to go to the ER. Fuckingbitchmotherfuckingasholes made me lose my attendance bonus over that shit. I don’t even remember the amount at this point, it was over 10 years ago, so it was peanuts, but just the amount of dedication it took at the time to not be late for one whole year, only to have it stripped away for that was maddening. Fuck those people.

Tore a calf muscle, had workmans comp. It was fine.

I’ve dislocated my shoulder fourteen times. One of those times was on the job at a retail location. I went to the ER, no help (financial or otherwise) from the employer; the next shift, I was chastised for alarming customers by bringing an ambulance onto the lot.

I was very young at the time and didn’t realize that that was not reasonable.

My wife is a worker’s comp adjuster so DM me if you have any questions or concerns about the process and I’ll relay it to her

I tripped and fell over an improperly placed TV stand in the meeting room. I still have a lump on my shin like 8-10 weeks later. I did see my GP but it’s not going away.

I’ve almost gotten run over several times, maybe because the same drivers who flip if so much as a scratch is on their vehicle don’t understand the rules about pedestrian safety. They yield for me when I’m walking my friend’s pet skunk though.