Worst Kitchen Injury

[GaSleepingBeautyFan]

I've had several kitchen mishaps but the worst in the past couple of years is probably when I was making kabobs and put a metal skewer through my hand.

Luckily I missed nerves so my hand healed fine.

 

[cassie]

Many years ago, just after getting married, we rented one side of a duplex. The stove was an old gas one with a heater on the side.

As I was cooking dinner, I picked up the fork that I left laying on the heater side. I actually heard the sss and the fork stuck to my fingers. The pain was unbelievable.

It was 9 hrs later that I could take my hand out of the bowl of water I used. As long as my hand was in the water, the pain lessened.

 

[Acklander]

It wasn't my injury, but when I started a new job in a commercial kitchen, the guy who was showing me around was demonstrating how, to save time, you could bypass the safety features on the slicer. While showing me, he sliced the tip of his pinky off. It made a pretty big impression.

 

[HelenePA]

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.

you need to bubble wrap yourself

 

[Donnainnj]

First as a teenager we had a wall oven that the door wouldn't stay closed on, so we used a fork as a "lock", the bottom of the fork was through the handle (opened up top to bottom) and the fork would be turned to lock the tines to the top. Well, while baking cookies I didn't lock the door well enough and the door fell and the hot fork branded me. It faded after about 10 years.
The second injury was when I was cutting frozen butter with a butter knife. I cut off the top edge of my pointer finger. Few stitches and they were able to reattatch it at the ER. Last time I froze butter.

 

[BeachGirlFLA]

Two: the first one was when I was making waffles on a pan in the oven...well, obviously, I was half asleep because the "pan" was plastic. It melted around the oven tray and while I was trying to take it off (after it cooled), the pieces that I was chipping off kept having sharp edges and kept cutting me (but I didn't want my roommate to be mad so I kept doing it....the hammer I was using to chip the pieces off also slipped a few times.)
The other one was when I was 11. My mom had an electrical stove and I decided about ten minutes after dinner that I wanted to know if the top was still hot so I touched the burner...it was still hot. I didn't want my parents to yell at me so I didn't tell mom until the next morning. I still remember sitting with my parents that night watching Highway to Heaven and trying to ignore the pain.

 

[SleepyMom]

I was cooking supper one night and went to take the lid from a pot on the stove over to the sink (about 4 or 5 steps). I knew it was going to drip so I grabbed it, turned and basically ran to the sink. What I didn't notice was the open dishwasher door next to the sink. I ran straight into into, hitting my shin. SO much pain!

It instantly turned color and grew a lump, I could barely walk on it. After a few days I couldn't stand it anymore and went to see the Doctor. I had a hairline fracture, to this day I can still feel the spot. I am very aware now of the dishwasher door and make sure it is always closed when I am walking to the sink... if it is open I make a wide circle around it.

 

[stargazer2892]

Not mine but DH. He works in a kitchen and as part of closing they have to pull the fridges out from the wall and sweep behind them also they change the fryer oil nightly. Well the only way of getting behind the middle cooler is to climb on top and sweep behind (fridges are only about 3 1/2 feet high so not as hard as it sounds). So DH is on on top of his cooler and the fry guy for some unknown freaking reason moves the huge stock full of fryer grease fresh out of the fryer into the middle of the line instead of where it SHOULD go (off the line in the corner). So DH goes to step down from the fridge,right into the hot oil. Thank god he was wearing proper kitchen clothing, not the crocs and shorts that have become so popular. His leather shoes protected his foot and his kitchen pants protected most of his leg, he only ended up with severe third degree burns where his sock soaked up the oil. Considering his entire foot up to his knee was submerged he got off lucky. The fry guy wasn't there much longer and had no explanation on why he didn't move the oil to its proper place that night.

 

[miralys]

A large glass casserole slipped off the counter. I jumped back (cause I didn't want it to hit my feet!). Well, it hit the floor before my feet did, and I landed on one of the larger shards.

Several stitches required. Super fun part? ER people didn't get the glass out, so it got nasty infected and they had to open it back up to find the slivers left in.

 

[mackeysmom]

I was re-heating leftover mashed potatoes in the microwave oven and must have kept them in a little too long. When the microwave beeped, I took the bowl out and went to stir them and they "exploded" - hitting my hand and arm which immediately started to blister - and to this day I still have a cluster of little scars up and down my arm.

- Laura

 

[Scornelius]

When I was in my early 20's I was doing the dishes, and as I was wiping the inside of a juice glass it broke apart and my twisting motion sliced a flap of skin on my thumb. 7 stitches, I believe? It healed into a quarter-sized crescent scar that looks like I carved the letter C into my hand.

 

[leebee]

When I was in my early 20's I was doing the dishes, and as I was wiping the inside of a juice glass it broke apart and my twisting motion sliced a flap of skin on my thumb. 7 stitches, I believe? It healed into a quarter-sized crescent scar that looks like I carved the letter C into my hand.

Same thing happened to me!

My uncle had the worst kitchen injury I ever witnessed. It was Thanksgiving and he was sharpening the carving knife. He stopped paying attention and instead of running the knife on the sharpening steel, he ran it down the length of his left index finger. Off to the ER, surgery to stitch everything back together, and he had to keep it splinted for about six weeks. Then, there was the PT to rehab his range of motion.

They don't serve turkey for T-giving anymore!

 

[PaulaSue]

Cutting through my finger and nail cutting a bagel when I was a Nanny in NJ. OUCH!

 

[ZephyrHawk]

Was making coq au vin for the first time. It required me to place chicken parts in hot oil. As I was holding a part over the oil I got spattered a bit on my hand. It made me jump, and drop the chicken. That caused the hot oil to splash everywhere, mostly over my hand. Very painful 2nd degree burns.

 

[hereyago]

Well for home I"d have to say a tie between these 2:
My most recent injury was almost breaking my big toe by dropping a heavy plate on it, as I was putting it into dishwasher. luckily it was just badly bruised, but i'm known to hurt,break the same things twice.

This lovely gem: some years ago, I had opened the freezer and forgot and left the door open while I was ducking into the fridge, totally forgot the door was open, exdh with his swift ness-ha said watch out for the BAM, I knocked myself silly. between the pain and dizziness not sure which one was worse.

At work: I worked in housekeeping for a timeshare, so you know with that many units, the possibilities are endless lol.

My 2 favorite ones: i was helping the housekeeper take things out of the dishwasher. there was a steak knife that broke off and I didnt' see it with all the other culterly in there and it was sharp end up and I cut myself-can you say tetanus shot? did i mention i hate needles? scared of them? but luckily no stitches. Kooky part, I am actually very good with knives, cutting,etc. but i cut myself from a hidden broken steak knife, isn't that a kick n the head?

The housekeepers were supposed to leave everything open, drawers, cabinet doors,etc. a few times, the doors would swing back open after I closed it and hit me. i learned to bob and weave really quickly.