How hazardous is your job

[Fencer]

I know we have some po-po's here who have high speed chases, and dodge the occasional bullet or knife (and concrete curbs ), firemen and soldiers, nuf said.

We have somepilots who could come crashing down in a ball of flame, etc.

If you subtract a vehicular accident on the way to/from work, what is a normal hazard for you?

Got the "postal" worker in the cubical next to you?

OOH that papercut hurts

I have had 2 guys in the last 7 years shoot themselves with a nailgun.

for me it seems to be poison ivy/oak. I get it several times a year. It finds you before you see it. I've got a case of oak right now. I say oak cause I can typically ignore ivy pretty good and I want to dig my ankle off now.

So.. what you got?

 

[escapefjrtist]

Currently it's Ammonia Refrigeration systems and CO2...In prior lives it's been cancer causing chemicals, high pressure superheat steam and large rotating equipment. It's been quite a ride so far. :blink:

--G

 

[twowheelnut]

I once ran the tip of my drafting triangle into the palm of my left hand... It hurt, I bled, it ruined my days drafting. I cried.

 

[mdisher]

Yeah, my job is dangerous...

- I might pull a muscle unloading some new equipment

- I might trip over a wrinkle in the carpet

- I could burn myself on the coffee if I'm not careful

- I'm at serious risk for carpeltunnel

- I might even get a brain cramp dealing with some of the m0m0's at work.

But damn, if you have fellas shooting themselves with a nail gun you need to seriously review your hiring criterea

 

[phil]

HOW'S THIS FOR A ******* STUNT? LAST DECEMBER I GRABBED A SPRING-LOADED GOPHER TRAP OFF THE WALL OF MY SHOP, WHICH I THOUGHT WAS RELEASED. IT WASN'T. 2 SPIKES PROCEEDED RAPIDLY THROUGH THE BACK OF MY HAND. I BLED LIKE THE BLACK KNIGHT IN "HOLY GRAIL."

 

[Fencer]

HOW'S THIS FOR A ******* STUNT? LAST DECEMBER I GRABBED A SPRING-LOADED GOPHER TRAP OFF THE WALL OF MY SHOP, WHICH I THOUGHT WAS RELEASED. IT WASN'T. 2 SPIKES PROCEEDED RAPIDLY THROUGH THE BACK OF MY HAND. I BLED LIKE THE BLACK KNIGHT IN "HOLY GRAIL."

Well, at least it was only a "flesh wound" :lol:

 

[Fencer]

But damn, if you have fellas shooting themselves with a nail gun you need to seriously review your hiring criterea

No criteria is good, otherwise they may shoot someone else

Note I didn't list that as a hazard for myself B)

now where is some wood to knock on?

 

[Ignacio]

2 SPIKES PROCEEDED RAPIDLY THROUGH THE BACK OF MY HAND. I BLED LIKE THE BLACK KNIGHT IN "HOLY GRAIL."

And it clearly has affected whatever digit you would normally use the shift key for. We all can't wait until it heals so we don't think you're shouting at us.

 

[kaitsdad]

2 SPIKES PROCEEDED RAPIDLY THROUGH THE BACK OF MY HAND. I BLED LIKE THE BLACK KNIGHT IN "HOLY GRAIL."

And it clearly has affected whatever digit you would normally use the shift key for. We all can't wait until it heals so we don't think you're shouting at us.

My ears hurt.

 

[kaitsdad]

And to answer the question -

There is a possibility that I might spill coffee in my lap -

Or perhaps get a cramp in my mouse hand ...

Or have a massive coronary from a complete lack of exercise -

The most dangerous part of the job is the commute on days I go into the office.

 

[SecuLaw]

I once ran the tip of my drafting triangle into the palm of my left hand... It hurt, I bled, it ruined my days drafting. I cried.

*****...a real man would have shoved his number 2 pencil in the hole and stopped the bleeding. :angry:

 

[SecuLaw]

My biggest risk is someone will interrupt my nap time. I hate when that happens.

 

[painman]

Use to be dodging extra large pieces of steel flying overhead in the hull of a ship from an overhead crane while welding or cutting or falling many stories rigging up a crows nest high above deck in the shipyards, then it was trying to stay away from the hydroflouric acid (10 times more soluble than water and attacks or feeds on calcium as in bones) and when spilled on skin, well you get the picture when I worked as a maintaience mechanic in the chemical plant. Then it was hauling 80 ft. concrete piles that stuck out 14 to 15 ft. on each end of a 55 ft. pole trailer in rush hour traffic trying to dodge gray hairs and VW's. Then there was hauling tank fulls of Oleium or Sulfuric Acid on rain slicked freeways that if I wrecked you would have to evacuate whole neighborhoods and the only thing left of me would be a skeleton with a Harley pin stuck to my rib cage. And now.....its the great danger of slamming the washing machine lid on a finger or possible electrical shock plugging in the vaccum or getting a major paper cut picking up the newspaper. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.....PM. <>< :blink:

 

[ponyfool]

The biggest non-physical hazard to my job? Media and public perception! People with little to no facts on a situation who feel exceptionally comfortable 2nd guessing the actions of an officer. I have no problem with people calling an officer's behavior into question when they have ALL the facts and take into consideration training, circumstances, and split second decision making. But hearing a story on the news and then lambasting the cop is a HUGE hazard.

Physical threats are different. Believe it or not, traffic deaths and being murdered are not the biggest risk to law enforcement. Suicide is. On average, 153 officers a year die in the line of duty, but more than 300 commit suicide.

Traffic accidents are the single largest law enforcement line of duty death toll taker. Being murdered is second. But, the biggest risk is assault. Some 65,000 law enforcement officers are assaulted every year.

Personally, I have been transported by ambulance to the hospital 7 times in 18 years. I've had an additional 7 trips not by ambulance for urgent care due to injuries sustained while on duty. Four surgeries with another scheduled later this fall.

When you add falling face first into a curb, and that's a whole different category (but is included in the above transport statistics).

 

[Midlifefjr]

Bean Counter - Internal Contol emergency - risk of total boredom or becoming that jerk boss like the tv show "Office". :dribble:

 

[brianm767]

I'm an airline meck, and Every once in awhile a mechanic gets sucked through a Jet engine, or leans into a propeller , remember Saturday night live where Dan Ackroyd did the Bass Omatic?

So far I've never seen either one in person, well I did see a guy get hit with a prop, but the engine was shut off and it was spooling down and it was a free turbine, meaning the prop is not mechanically connected to the hot section of the engine thats driving the prop, it's only driven by air flow, , it only broke his arm, it didn't take it off, and one of our mecks got sucked into a DC8's engine, but because of the design, (Inlet struts) he stopped before the rotating fan blades and blocked the air flow into the inlet and it caused the engine to have a compressor stall, (air reverses flow) and it spit him partially out, then when the air was not blocked the engine spooled back up and it sucked him back in, then the crew shut it down,he still didn't hit any of the rotating fan blades, he was one lucky SOB, if he would have got sucked in our B767, it would have been Bass Omatic time. It's amazing how a 200lb man can be lifted off his feet and sucked through a new fan jet engine like he's a piece of paper, and it spits the mush out the back, like a fire hose, but I've only seen it in a video, I never get to see any thing good!

 

[SPORT]

I am an alternative ed middle school educator for the inner city of York PA. (Teaching the Alt Ed high last year was less dangerous)

I am a minority in that I am a fairly small framed (a buck fifty) white boy. I have been threatened too many times to count, rushed at by a full class once (Had to put one of them against the all), and physically attacked by a student who thought dry humping a desk in front of class was acceptable. I ended up restraining the student until help arrived. When I let him go he got up, he threw a metal rack at me (dented the white board) and threw a desk towards me, luckily a another student stepped in to stop it before the desk left the student's hands.

We have a lack of security and supervision. If a hall monitor is out sick, we do not have the coverage and student's know they can get away with things. For example, yesterday (Friday) student would leave class when they felt like it, run around the hallways and come up on adults like they want to hurt you. It is not a pleasant scenerio!

Our public education system is not designed to appropriately handle these types of students and most parents are unreachable or just do not understand what the problem is.

Although I enjoy working in the inner city and specifically with alternative ed students, it is currently safer to work in a high level correction facility.

 

[spklbuk]

I was wondering if anyone who teaches in public schools would chime in. The public (of the public schools) generally have no concept of the hazards we deal with on a daily basis. And you didn't even mention the constantly evolving germ warfare environ, exposure to molds and other hazardous substances or the potential of weapon-toting adolescents hopped up on the rush of the week. Teaching is sooo rewarding.

Rant over and yes I feel better now.

 

[stormrider]

healthcare for me.

Sick people all the time.

Needle sticks are my biggest risk

Been there a couple of times and have always dodged the bullet