injured moving rounds

sizzler

sizzler

I consider myself pretty safety conscious so I never thought I would be posting something in this section, but here I am. Long story short, I was loading some rounds onto a hand truck and just as I was dropping a round onto the platform, the person holding the hand truck decided to tip it back and move it closer to me. So, the hand truck is back in the moving position just as I drop the round and of course it snaps back and hits me on my eyebrow. I said I was okay but I could tell by the blood dripping off my head and the look on the other guy’s face that I wasn’t. I wasn’t thinking clearly and wanted to keep working, but the other guy said he could see my bone and fat and that I definitely needed stitches. On the way to the hospital I looked at it in the rearview mirror and nearly threw up, it was heinous. I had to get several internal stitches and 6 on the outside.

Lessons learned? I shouldn’t have been directly in front of the hand truck while loading it and I should have waited for the guy using the hand truck to step away or something. I consider it to be my fault.
 
Just a question.........

Were you wearing a hard hat, and it just caught you under the rim?
or,
is this a leason in not having one on?
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Any signs of a concussion?

I hope you heal in a timely manner, try to take it easy over the weekend.
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Thank you for sharing this, take care.
 
Yea, I have been lucky with those things a number of times. Both loading and unloading they can kick up in a hurry. Been lucky so far, hopefully I have learned without the injury.
 
no concussion (they checked for that at the hospital), and i know this will sound terrible, but i wasn't wearing a hard hat because everything was on the ground. i'll have a boxer scar, however, getting hit in the head by a hand truck isn't anything to brag about.
 
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i'll have a boxer scar, however, getting hit in the head by a hand truck isn't anything to brag about.

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You will have the scar though, that is the hard part. You can always make up a better story later.

By the way, Glad you are OK.
 
Do you think the hard hat would have taken the hit or did it come in under the brim.

Try using coco butter or vit E for the scaring. Sun screen or keeping it out of the sun for darkening until a few weeks after being healed.

Have fun.
 
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Do you think the hard hat would have taken the hit or did it come in under the brim.


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because hard hats stick out a bit i think the hand truck would have hit it first and absorbed some of the force. i would still have been hit hard but the cut wouldn't have been so deep.
 
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