Worst Kitchen Injury

[DisneySarah80]

Adding on to the worst kitchen disaster - What is the worst injury you have ever sustained in the kitchen?

I was cutting up limes one day, and pretty much sliced my finger in half. I remember feeling the bone as the knife went in.... I actually never lost a drop of blood though because I had a rag right there, and held it together so tight - I was so scared my finger was going to break in half if I let go, so I was holding it pretty darn hard!!!



So whats your worst kitchen injury?

 

[laughinplace199]

This took place in the kitchen, but it had nothing to do with preparing food.

I was 9 mos pregnant and nesting like crazy. It was 97 degrees out and I decided I HAD to iron my curtains. We had one of those built into the wall ironing boards in the kitchen, so that's where I ironed.

I was walking across the kitchen (barefoot) to hang a newly ironed curtain and I walked right into the leg of a chair, breaking my pinkie toe.

I called my dr. She asked me if my toe was swollen. I told her I had no idea - I was 9 mos pregnant and hadn't seen my toes in quite some time.

 

[101DalmFan]

I was washing wine glasses (lead crystal) to take them over to my SiL's for a big dinner they were having, and one slipped out of my hand and dropped on my foot (I was wearing socks, no slippers or shoes).

It HURT a lot and the wineglass broke. Then I watched, rather in horror, as my sock turned red with all the blood. I'm glad my DH was home.....off to the ER we went. Turns out I didn't need stitches but I could barely walk (couldn't put pressure on that foot) for a few days.

I also remember being in the kitchen, doing some craft project with the glue gun, but not paying close enough attention to what I was doing and I ended up squeezing the glue onto one of my fingers! I just about passed out with the pain. That was one BAD burn.

 

[indimom]

Pure Stupidity....
I sliced off a good size chunk of the end of my thumb with my pampered chef veggie slicer. It had been recalled and I knew it, but I still used it. My hubby insisted I use the guide to slice cucumbers into pickles, but it was so akward and I was in a hurry...
It just bled and bled, took hours to make it stop, and I finally had to fess up to DH so he could help me get it wrapped up tight. It's still a tender spot two years later.

Not me, but my sis...
Back when I was young (maybe 10-12?), I was goofing around and put a piece of tape on the kitchen countertop. My mom told me to pick it off, but I couldn't get under the edge. So, she handed me a paring knife and told me to use that. She walked out and a minute later my older sis walked in. She saw me "digging" on the countertop with the knife, yelled at me, and grabbed for the knife. On instinct, I pulled back....and cut her thumb from one side of the nail to the other. She had to get 12 stitches and sat in the waiting room so long it had started to adhere and the docs had to pull it back apart to sew it straight. Mom and I both felt pretty bad about that one.

 

[Toy Story Fan]

When I was a teenager, I was mixing batter in a bowl. I was turning the bowl and my hand slipped. My whole hand got caught in the beaters. I tried to eject the beaters from the mixer, but they were so jammed, nothing was budging. Finally after 30 min, 3 of us were able to free my hand. I remember my hand was sore for weeks! To this day, I am still careful with the mixer.

 

[RadioNate]

Stabbed myself through the hand with taking the pit out of an avocado. My (now ex) husband wouldn't take me to the ER. Yeah, that was fun.

That however, it not the worst. The worst was when I was 8 and my grandfather was working on his dishwasher. My dad was messing with me in the kitchen and I stepped back and fell directly onto the dishwasher rack that was sitting on the floor. Yes, I did. Yes there are scars.

 

[pumba]

my daughter was cooking chicken chimmichungas ...and she had the oil in her t fal pot....when she moved the pot the grease went up the side and was burning...her husband just came thru the door and immediately grabbed it and brought it to the sink which was across the room...the fire went up the side again and everything over there caught on fire the curtains the walls ...our grandkids came running down saying the house was on fire...Our son in law was burned over his head and arms and back.. He did put the cover on the pot to stop the fire ...but it was to late..damage to the house and son in law burns..
we spent six hours the next day with multiple people helping ...cleaning and washing ceilings to floor to get the kids back in their own beds..
So never use oil in TFal pots....the non stick makes it squish fast...

 

[Kim&Chris]

Not once, but TWICE, I did this....while slicing a roll to make a steak sandwich, I sliced right through and into my fingers.

No serious injury...just some stitches.

 

[daannzzz]

New Years day

A couple of beers

A can of Spam with the key where you wind the metal band 14 of the way down the can and the top part comes off. Key broke when it was almost dumb. Buzzed fool grabs the top of the can bare handed and pulls hard! Ouch. To the Doc in the box for stitches.

 

[OceanAnnie]

Adding on to the worst kitchen disaster - What is the worst injury you have ever sustained in the kitchen?

I was cutting up limes one day, and pretty much sliced my finger in half. I remember feeling the bone as the knife went in.... I actually never lost a drop of blood though because I had a rag right there, and held it together so tight - I was so scared my finger was going to break in half if I let go, so I was holding it pretty darn hard!!!



So whats your worst kitchen injury?

I had a similar incident. I was about 9 years old, cutting an orange with a knife that was too large and sharp for the job. Sliced my pointer finger. I still have a large scar on my finger from that culinary event.

 

[Danauk]

I have a scar on my finger where I sliced it with a bread knife 15 years ago. That hurt. My husband managed managed to slice the end of his finger with a knife he was using to cut chillies!

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

I have a scar on my finger where I sliced it with a bread knife 15 years ago. That hurt. My husband managed managed to slice the end of his finger with a knife he was using to cut chillies!

Not really a KITCHEN incident...

But my husband used to work in the factory of a major meat company. He was fixing a bacon slicer and someone turned it on...Sliced of the tip of one finger and mangled another.

They got him off of the floor and turned the machine back on and started cutting meat.
(I will PM the company name if anyone is interested )

 

[not_minnie]

Senior year in high school, I was cooking with my next door neighbor (same age as me) and I was wearing a yukata (cotton kimono). I had a pot of water boiling on the stove and when I reached over it to do something to another pot at the rear of the stove, my sleeve made contact with the red-hot burner. At first I didn't notice anything, but a couple of minutes later I smelled something burning and wouldn't you know it, it was my sleeve. I had long hair and a big chunk of it got singed. I also had a large first degree burn under my arm with a few small second-degree spots where the flames actually touched me. Still have a scar there, 35 years later.

 

[AmandaNied]

I was working at a sub-sandwich place and was cutting tomatoes with the meat/cheese slicer. The owner didn't like a lot of waste, so he insisted we cut them very close to the ends. the six tomatoes and side of my pointer finger were shaved very close...blood spatter all over the walls, tomatoes, etc. I shut off the slicer and ran my finger under the water to take a look at what was left and a lady came in to buy ice cream. She looked at the walls and my face and said "Oh..i'll come back later" and scooted out the door. I was able to stop the bleeding with pressure and just bandaged it up, gloved up, and cleaned up my mess. The boss was upset that I threw out the entire pile of tomatoes that were sliced.

 

[swandiverpatt]

Fixing Christmas dinner 2 years ago, I was getting sweet potatoes ready to go into the microwave. I was holding the potato with my left hand and stabbing holes in it with a sharp, pointed knife.

Missed the potato eventually and stabbed completely through the web between my thumb and forefinger. It took a couple of stitches on both sides, but at least I got out of fixing the rest of the dinner.

 

[Bonnie151]

What about stupidest action using kitchen equipment? I once went to use our downstairs toilet, smelled burning, and realised one of the kids had dropped a sticker in the electric heater. In my state of panic thinking the heater was about to explode into flames, I went into the kitchen and grabbed the first long thin thing I could find and stuck it into the electric heater to poke it out. Unfortunately I grabbed a METAL skewer and yes it gave me an electric shock!

I still can't believe I am one of those people dumb enough to stick a metal object into an electrical appliance.

 

[PaulaSB12]

1 When I younger I was cutting the crust of a loaf of bread and not paying attention. When I looked down it was red as I missed and put the bread knife into my little finger.
2 I burned my fingers putting sliced beef into a wok with hot oil in it. The only problem was I put both my hand in water to cool it down but the water was on my lap and the dog drank it!!!!!! saved her goin to the kitchen I suppose.
3 I dropped a glass, thought I had picked up all of it but found a bit in my foot. Couple of days later my foot was hurting if it moved in one particular way. Cut the skin off that part of my foot and found the little piece that was still in my foot.

 

[Kitty 34]

Besides filling up my lungs with toxic burning fumes I would have to say my worse injuries were a couple of good cuts from kitchen knives!

 

[Jedana]

Apparently, I'm the klutzy one here.

1. Teenager--washing dishes, broke a piece off of a ceramic coffee mug. Kept washing it--sliced my right hand between my thumb and pointer finger--I went down to the tendons/bone on that one. Ouchies. In cold weather, my thumb aches and doesn't want to work right. Big scar from my palm all the way around to my wrist.

2. First day using a box grater (teenager). Shredded my right knuckles--all of them. Lots of little pitting scars.

3. First day cleaning a grill at McDonald's--got some of the grill cleaner on my right wrist, wiped it off and kept going. A beautiful, crescent moon shaped scar.

4. First day using a box cutter at McD's--no one told me to cut away from me. Cut towards my other hand, caught my left wrist. The scar looks like I tried to commit suicide.

5. First day at Chipotle (sense a theme here? ) cutting cilantro. Did you know you aren't supposed to put your hand in the way of the knife--cut my left palm area right under the thumb. Long thin scar there.

6. First day using a mandolin (at home). Sliced my right palm (the guard actually snapped in two). Nice little scar running the length of my palm.

7. Was assembling steak (or something) skewers on metal skewers. The darn piece of meat didn't want to slide on, so I put the skewer--point down--on my palm to steady it while I pushed the meat on. Small round scar on the left palm.



Non food issues:
1. Ran over my big toe with the safe door at McD's. (yes, I had on safety shoes--but that door was huge and heavy). No longer have a toe nail on the big toe on my left foot.


2. Got a spider bite on my right middle finger at the beginning of a shift at McD's. (man, was that place bad for me or what?) By the end of my shift 10 hours later, my finger had swollen to 3 times the size, and was turning black. Went to the ER. They had to puncture it, because of the amount of blood/pus in it. The nurse couldn't believe I had been bitten only 10 (well, by that time they finally saw me, 12) hours earlier. I have a scar from both the spider bite and the puncture.

3. Too many slice and dice stories about shaving. I will say that you should never shave your Achilles tendon. Just don't. If you slip, you bleed very badly. Also, don't step on the razor blades. Those leave nice scars on the bottoms of your feet.

4. Had a shaving cut on my right knee. Turned into a boil, and now I have a "pit" scar.

5. Fell on a broken mirror when I was a kid. Have a moon shaped scar on my right knee. Right above the above named pit scar.

6. I have a scar on my right thigh where a pencil jammed into my leg when I was running home one day, and fell on my book bag. Ouch.

7. Worst scar--under my chin. From my ex-husband, who held a knife there and cut me. Worst just because of the memories.


I run into walls, or the bed frame--which seems to love my toes--regularly. The other day, I turned around to head down the hall to our bedroom, miscalculated where the wall was, and ran face first into it.

And DH has given me a concussion--twice--while we were "making whoopie". If anyone has a wood waterbed frame, please do two things: 1. don't sling your partner around and 2. get some sort of pillow cover for the frame.

 

[StarLight StarBright]

I was making a pitcher of Iced tea and went to pour the boiling water into the pitcher, and I was facing the counter right infront of the pitcher and the water went partly into the pitcher, and the rest went straight on to me( my breast actually). I went directly to the Dr, because it was not a pretty sight, and it hurt like a mother.
Dr asked me if a few students could have a look. I reluctantly agreed, and in walks 2 medical students my age( I was around 20,21 at the time) So now I have the Dr, 2 boys and a nurse staring at my naked burnt self....it was great, let me tell you They bandaged me up and gave me some silvadene cream, and eventually I was good as new.
But, to this day, I am extremely careful when I make tea!