reecejackox
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 23, 2017
got to be at christmas time when it was really icy and spilling over on the ice and hurting my backside.
I spend a lot of time on job-sites and have never had a mishap out there where they would be most likely to occur. My only incident was similar to yours where I was reaching for something in a drawer and my chair tipped over, wedging me between it, the open drawer and the wall behind. I guess I should think about my office demeanor because when I yelled for help nobody came - they apparently all just though I was mindlessly ranting to myself "again". I ended up scraping a 5" chunk of hide off my back extricating myself.I fell on ice leaving work in January and knocked myself out for a couple of seconds... but a couple of years ago my office chair malfunctioned and the back that should have been locked upright released and dumped me backwards injuring my back. I loved having to explain to my PT that my office chair tried to kill me...
Did you take any time off? I only ask because I work with tons of very athletic yet apparently extremely clumsy people (beer league may have something to do with it ). Absenteeism due to sports injuries this time of year is off the dial!Not an office injury, but happened on the office softball team. A few of us were out practicing our patting after our volleyball game (another work team). I hit one that was a little high and it came off the bat directly into my face, right between the eyes. I went straight down and leaned forward. I was so proud of myself for not getting blood on my volleyball shirt. Lol
Luckily, I wear glasses so they helped spread the impact, but I had two black eyes for about six months. Instead of going to the hospital, we grabbed an ice pack out of the first aid kit in my car ( nobody made fun of me for the kit after that. Lol) and we went to get frozen yogurt, because... you know... ice cream heals all wounds!
My bosses were afraid to ask me about it because they thought I had gotten beaten. Nope... did it to myself.
Maybe not, but I know a few people at my office that would apply for a paid stress-leave.My stories would be of the wounded pride variety not so much the wounds, like when I came back from the powder room to a fancy NYC lunch with Credit Suisse and had tucked the skirt of my suit into my drawers. You can't get worker's comp for such injuries though.