Accidents while gardening ??

[Drago]

Think it was Pinbike or somewhere, but I remember seeing someone who'd been doing the lawn and got distracted, so mowed one of his feet.

Wasn't a pretty site...

Although their neighbour, Dr H. Lecter, was reaching for the condiments!

 

[Alex321]

My brother in law managed once to hit himself in the head with the sledgehammer he was using to knock a post in with.

He hadn't registered the washing line running above said post until the hammer used it as a spring to bounce back against him. He was concussed, but no lasting damage.

 

[gbb]

Using a garden fork to airate the lawn, driving the prongs onto the ground with one hand, my wife spoke to me just as I was on the down stroke, looked up, fork prong drove straight through my trainers, impaling my foot to the floor .
A look of horror on her face (and.mine)..but no pain ?
I pulled the fork out and a prong had passed through the gap between my big and next toe...incredibly it didnt even scratch the skin.
Lucky or what ?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Being hit by my Dad swinging a garden fork over his shoulder and down his back when I was about 4.

We were both walking and I was directly behind him at the time, in the way that only small children do and he clearly didn't see me.

It hit the top right side (my right) of my nose, (the bridge I guess), narrowly missing my right eye. Had it been less than and inch further right, then I might have been blinded, or worse.

It hit with a distinct (for me anyway) dull metallic garden fork 'BONG' noise as it struck and resonated with the nose cartilage (and the rest of my head), knocking me off my feet.

I don't remember being upset or anything (although my Dad was), I was just a bit

"Oh, right, I wont do that again".

Oddly enough, I strongly suspect my Dad thought exactly the same thing! 😆

 

[VinSumRox]

I do know of someone who amputated a couple of tootsies lawn mowing in sandals

Apparantly not uncommon in Australia

 

[VinSumRox]

Nothing major, chewed up a bit of skin on arms with hedgetrimmer, bruised shins when splitting logs and they fly off in wrong direction, lots of various cuts and bruises.

 

[presta]

My father once picked up a ball of dry grass and chucked it on the pile with the rest of the of weeds. It was a bees nest...

 

[Dogtrousers]

This being a cycling forum I suppose we should mention this from 2024

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/articles/cj556zqy6n1o

 

[gbb]

It's not really in the flavour of the thread but similar..
1975 perhaps, myself and a friend at that time , Stefan Novak had found a rather old and blunt big axe in some woodland and were taking it in turns to try to chop up some wood on the floor..
My turn came and as I drew the axe above my head in a swing...the head flew off it...straight into Stefans face, took a lump out of his lip, blood everywhere.
We (he) was so so lucky...caught him a glancing blow and all it's remember was saying...'dont tell your mum how it happened '
As if...

Edited to add...
And yeah, as everyone always says..life was so much safer in the 70s

 

[VinSumRox]

When I was a teenager I came home to see my Dad staggering down the garden with a bleeding head. He had been cutting the hedge on ladders and his wellies slipped between the rings, he fell backwards then the ladder landed on him. No permanent damage done , that we could tell.

 

[VinSumRox]

It's not really in the flavour of the thread but similar..
1975 perhaps, myself and a friend at that time , Stefan Novak had found a rather old and blunt big axe in some woodland and were taking it in turns to try to chop up some wood on the floor..
My turn came and as I drew the axe above my head in a swing...the head flew off it...straight into Stefans face, took a lump out of his lip, blood everywhere.
We (he) was so so lucky...caught him a glancing blow and all it's remember was saying...'dont tell your mum how it happened '
As if...

Edited to add...
And yeah, as everyone always says..life was so much safer in the 70s

Our favourite playgrounds were building sites, no hazards there at all.

 

[Badger_Boom]

We were moving a shed on the allotment a couple of weeks back. Once we'd repaired and levelled the base in it's new position, we arranged the ends and sides around it ready to begin re-erection. We leant one side against the adjoining hedge but while I knelt to check something on the base, the wind blew the side over smacking me on the head. I can only assume that Buster Keaton had better aim.

 

[palinurus]

I got tennis elbow* from strimming the alleyway.
Ms P stood on a rake at the community allotment and got a black eye.

*Which turned out to take ages to heal, I had physiotherapy but mostly it was just waiting.

 

[Electric_Andy]

I've been thinking long and hard, and I don't think I've ever injured myself gardening. A spider bit me on the back in the garden shed last year (a bit red, and very itchy for 2 days, and a bit sire at the time). I also stood on a roofing nail last week, it went right up through my crocs but luckily the head stopped it short from going into my foot. Had a few slips and trips but nothing major. And got tennis elbow from trying to dig out bamboo, but that was it! It's amazing really, because I've done a lot of groundwork/lifting/chopping and cutting but I guess I am reasonably safety conscious.

Edit to add: I've had loads of splinters and little nicks. I didn't know infection was so common. I tend to immediately suck at the splinter to soften the skin so maybe my saliva does something? ANyway, I will be extra vigilant to clean any future wounds that's for sure