Accidents while gardening ??
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ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
Lots of accidents reported on official stats
so I avoid it wherever possible!
Much better to leave it to itself and go for a nice safe bike ride instead!
so I avoid it wherever possible!
Much better to leave it to itself and go for a nice safe bike ride instead!
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Did you lean on a spade by mistake?
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Severed a limb with a lawn mower. I tried to sue Briggs and Stratton for compo but the solicitor reckoned I didn't have a leg to stand on.
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Profpointy
Legendary Member
Story from a former colleague. He was an IT consultant working away from home and noticed a nasty red swelling on his leg. It was more than a mere spot, and he was sufficiently concerned that he had it checked out at the local casualty department. They looked at it and asked if he'd been gardening in the previous 10 days or so. He had indeed been pruning his roses and it was a potentially serious infection from a rose thorn. He needed to stay in hospital for intravenous antibiotics. He told them he was working away so would it be OK to be booked into hospital back home in Manchester; him being in Kent or somewhere at the time. "How long will it take you to get back to Manchester?" . "About six hours". "You'll be dead in six hours". "Ah, OK. Perhaps I'd better stay here then". The drew lines on his leg to show where the redness had got to and checked hourly to see if they were winning or losing vs the originally drawn marks. He lived to tell the tale !
Another work colleague had similar and only just survived at the cost of his arm being amputated. He was likely immuno surpressed after cancer treatment. He had already lost a leg from cancer as a teenager a guy who'd had more than his share of bad luck.
A university friend's boss died of septicaemia from a splinter from building a greenhouse and another friend's mother from a gardening splinter similar to the above incidents. Both these had been in perfectly OK health as far as I know.
Anyhow I'm quite paranoid about splinters and infected minor cuts. Anecdote is not data, but two deaths and two near deaths of people I know or nearly know is pretty convincing
Beware thorns and splinters !
Another work colleague had similar and only just survived at the cost of his arm being amputated. He was likely immuno surpressed after cancer treatment. He had already lost a leg from cancer as a teenager a guy who'd had more than his share of bad luck.
A university friend's boss died of septicaemia from a splinter from building a greenhouse and another friend's mother from a gardening splinter similar to the above incidents. Both these had been in perfectly OK health as far as I know.
Anyhow I'm quite paranoid about splinters and infected minor cuts. Anecdote is not data, but two deaths and two near deaths of people I know or nearly know is pretty convincing
Beware thorns and splinters !
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Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I'm a couple of months in to a concerted effort to get on top of things. One day per week. My benchmark is; when I fill the green bin, that's enough for one day. The end is in sight.
No mishaps so far, but I did cut though my hedge trimer cable ... again ... last week.
No mishaps so far, but I did cut though my hedge trimer cable ... again ... last week.
presta
Guru
The first ever person to be given penicillin had pricked his finger on a rose bush. A policeman in Oxfordshire, he made a miraculous recovery until they ran out of penicillin, then he relapsed and died.
injured in an air raid when on duty according to his family.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-66068886
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Plenty of minor incident's gardening, worse was dropping a 3x2 flagstone on the tip of my wedding finger, maybe 20 years ago. Still have some nerve damage ! I've picked thorns out of my legs some days after gardening (as above).
lazybloke
Considering a new username
- Location
- Leafy Surrey
At least three repairs of my hedge trimmer like that. Feels quite careless.
24 hrs in a&e.. there was a mower accident, pretty sure it resulted in an amputation. The guy had tripped whilst pulling the mower backwards, and pulled it over his foot. Cue close-ups.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
No chance of that with my lawnmower. I use a push mower. It's Brill.
Profpointy
Legendary Member
Whilst not accidents to the person, I have had a "cut the brambles not the telephone wire!" incident at my Dad's and the Mrs cut our own garden fairy lights instead of the ivy in our own garden
