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Worst injury while working on on your rig

1K views 24 replies 16 participants last post by  Timo_90xj 
#1 ·
Whats that wort injury you've received from working in your Jeep? Bloody knuckles, ****ed up backs, lost fingers, ...lost children.? Broken elbows, busted eyes...


Pics or it didnt happen.
 
#4 ·
Not really tech, but I'll add one... Slipped while using an angle grinder to clean up my welds.
 
#6 ·
Pulled a socket wrench in to my face doing 249/242 swap and split my upper lip. Told the doc to durabond it, she said "no it needs stitches." so I left and handled it myself. You can barely even see the scar now! It was yrs ago so no pics, so I didn't happen ;)
 
#13 ·
This wasn't me but its a true story.

An acquaintance of mine ran himself over with his own XJ, broke his back and hip.

He was performing a battery "jump" on his buddies car. He parked it with tires against the parking block/parking bumper/cement thingy to keep it from rolling however, he failed to put the tranny in "P" or "N". So, as his buddies car would not crank over her decided to give it a little throttle. He stood in front of his car and leaned over, hand on trothlle body...an pulled the accelerator cable. The XJ, locked, lifted and on 33's, jumped the parking block/parking bumper/cement thingy and rolled his arse over. He was sanwiched between a wall and his XJ.

He still has the Jeep. Survived. Walks with an limp.
 
#10 ·
Well we weren't working ON the ZJ, but we were pulling parts off of an Explorer rear end for some spare shafts:
My boyfriend was doing something with one of the wheels and the brake drum fell, snatching his entire thumb nail off. He was bleeding and whining but since we went all that way I said we weren't leaving without getting into that rear pumpkin, so I started to loosen the bolts on the diff cover with a ratchet. Lord only knows how long those bolts had been on there and they were not loosening at all. I ended up putting my entire weight on the ratchet, and when the bolt finally came loose I slammed my face into the rear track bar. Hard. It was hot as Hades that day and we both left battered and bleeding, but by golly we got our axle shafts dammit!
 
#11 ·
Wasnt on the Jeep but my dad was helping me replace the transsion in a 5.0 explorer in our garage (wooden floors) transmission slid off jack stands and landed on him in the head/neck area. Had to rods and pins in his neck. Ill try and find his xrays and load a picture.
 
#14 ·
just smacked my left hand with a 3lb sledge today. bit swollen.
i've done the grinder to flesh thing.
burnt myself welding and cutting a few times.
rolled out from under the jeep and used the slider to pull myself up fast and put my face right into the corner of the open door that was above me. split my forehead right between my eyes, should have got stitches.

other than that the usual bumps and bruises and skinned knuckles.
 
#15 ·
I like to call working on the jeep boxing! Somethings gonna slip and your gonna punch something every time. Even my wife sees me put on my mechanic gloves and is like "breaking out the boxing gloves huh! Gonna Go a cpl rounds today!?
 
#16 ·
Pulling the rear driveshaft and laying directly underneath it, lost my grip and got cold-cocked by the shaft. Loosened 2 teeth, 1 of them abscessed a couple months later and needed a root canal.

That root canal failed back in October of last year, so now I have one less front tooth :D
 
#17 ·
Installing clayton 4.5" springs. Have jeep on jack stands with thick blocks of wood under them to get the extra height. Right side goes fine, Move on to the left; I get the spring out, and start putting the new one in when....

.... Snap! Bang! The wood snapped in half and the jeep falls. Wouldn't have been bad, but my thumb was inside the coil...

After jacking the car up with my left hand to get out, a phone call, fun ambulance ride, and 2 surgery's my thumb got put back on!!!

 
#18 ·
Nothing too bad, was just breaking loose the nut on the tie-rod end that connects the draglink to the pitman arm. When it broke loose I ended up punching the frame with my hand. Somehow my pinky nail got caught and folded up. It doesn't look that bad in this pic. (I took this immediately before it started to bleed and hurt). But once it came time to pull the skin off the nail to cut the nail away it started to look pretty gross, I ended up having to cut off the front half of the nail.

 
#19 ·
Nothing too bad, was just breaking loose the nut on the tie-rod end that connects the draglink to the pitman arm. When it broke loose I ended up punching the frame with my hand. Somehow my pinky nail got caught and folded up. It doesn't look that bad in this pic. (I took this immediately before it started to bleed and hurt). But once it came time to pull the skin off the nail to cut the nail away it started to look pretty gross, I ended up having to cut off the front half of the nail.
I've done that! That looks like it was taken at the, still laughing at yourself for being a dumb ***, phase of the injury!

I know it well :(
 
#23 ·
Cinderblocks are a big no-go, but wood is a completely different story IMO.

Properly placed and proper type wood blocks can support tens of thousands of pounds of weight, spread the loads evenly and add friction. We use hundreds of pounds of wood every day at my workplace for load- spreading and supporting heavy equipment for ocean-going shipments etc.. The problem is, if they are placed wrong or are wrong type, you most likely end up with an injury.
 
#22 ·
Working today on the ZJ and XJ removing a 249 and a 242:

* Several bleeding cuts and scratches on both hands
* Couple nice bruises from slipping the 242 and landing it on my left hand
* Got fairly dizzy from inhaling the brake cleaner fumes and drinking a few beers
* Got some oily crap onto my eyes and in my mouth
* Snap ring came flying off the snap ring plyers, hitting me in the nose (this was before the brake cleaner and beer)

In other words, a fairly normal day working on the Jeep :D

I haven't had any real serious injuries, but a couple close calls and several mild ones like having pretty much every possible liquid in my eyes (I'm suprised I can still see :D ), the normal bruises and cuts on my hands, etc...
The worst close call was when I was in the army, we were doing some routine maintenaince on a large army truck close to the battery tray, when a friend of mine dropped a wrench right between the battery poles on a 24V quad- battery system. We took off pretty fast, the last thing I remember seeing when I looked back was the glowing red wrench :D Didn't take too long for the batteries to launch towards orbit. Good thing was at that point we were about 10 meters away behind a wall. It was a mess, wasn't too nice cleaning the remnants of the battery acid and all other crap :laugh:

The funniest must've been when I was rebuilding the top-end of a V6 DOHC engine a few years ago during summer holiday. We got fairly drunk during the warm summer day with a couple of friends, figured it was time to stop working on the engine when I ended up falling head- first into the engine bay and it took quite a few efforts to work my way out of there. I guess we had a bit too much beer that day.. :rolleyes: The engine came out good though, and fired up on the first start :D
 
#25 ·
I had a similar thing happen at my workplace; tiny metal shaving found it's way to my left eye, almost rupturing it. Had to go to an eye- specialist three times for them to get it all off my eye. It felt horrible when the piece of metal was in my eye, and even worse when they got it off. I didn't see much of anything other than blur with my left eye for the next 4-5 days. I'm still having some troubles with my left eye, and it's been about a year now since the incident.
 
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