A Good Enough Reason to Wear Safety Boots - (slightly icky photo)

...or at least a closed-toe shoe. I was being lazy yesterday when I did this. Seems to be a common theme when an accident occurs...:rolleyes:

I was moving a 3600x1800x18mm piece of particle-board with a mate. Real heavy bugger. We slid it along the 3600 edge for about 10m, and then needed to stand it on it's end for storage. I moved up to his end of the board as he started to lift it. I bent down to grab it from underneath, when he decided it was too heavy, so he dropped it.

On my toe. :C

From a height of around 200mm (approx 8") :C:C

I was wearing thongs. :oo: :C:C

I had leather sandshoes in the car. :doh:

The incident happened around three o'clock yesterday arvo. This photo was taken around 10.00 this morning. The thing is still bleeding, and my sixth dressing is about to be changed.

bloody hell brendan:o . you did a good job of it:(

Brendan,
I fell your pain all the way over here!

Ouch.

That's why I like my steel caps.

Tex

Ouch! Betcha danced for the boys over that one!

Ouch :C
That is a job for Friar's balsam.
Will stop the bleed if you can stand the pain.
Think that the front part of the nail may have to go.

Ahhhh Brendan thats just a scratch:wink: Here in Vic we will drop a board on our toe like that just for fun or if we are bored and want something to do :)

Brendan
That is the ugliest toe I have ever seen, I would keep a shoe over it if I were you. (preferably steel cap)

Oooooo . . .. . .. my knees and ankles and toes all went kinda wobbly and jelly like when I read that post. Anyway, yhat'll help me to remember to put on my boots in future!

Cheers

Ow! That's gonna hurt for a while. Subject to your medico's advice, I'd tape the front part of the nail to its remnant until some of the remnant grows out.

Joe

Time to get tougher mates. And wear the darn boots in future, you great duffer.:p

After all of that touchy feelie stuff the question everybody wants answered ......

Are the thongs ok?

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Originally Posted by Sir Stinkalot

Are the thongs ok?

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Thongs are fine thanks. Still got a few good years in them. Perhaps I subconsciously thrust my toe under the board to save my thongs.....:hmm:

Oh - and for the Seppos: The thongs I refer to are the open toed shoes AKA flip-flops AKA jandals (NZ). I was not making reference to my underwear, which, for the record, were boxer shorts, and are now slightly soiled.

Hey brendan, you seen a doc yet?? You need a nail bed repair. The nail bed sits under the nail plate. When the nail plate is broken, the nail bed usually is too. If its not repaired you'll get a deformed nail.

You need a quick general anaesthetic, the nail plate is removed, the nail bed repaired and the nail plate is replaced. The nail plate will fall off but a new one will grow through in 6 months or so.

Cheers
Pulse

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Originally Posted by Pulse

Hey brendan, you seen a doc yet?? You need a nail bed repair. The nail bed sits under the nail plate. When the nail plate is broken, the nail bed usually is too. If its not repaired you'll get a deformed nail.

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Oh crud. :C

Is this true? :C

I saw a Doc so I could get painkillers, but he mentioned nothing about my bed of nails.....:C

Does anyone else know if this is true?? Terry B - I'm looking in your direction....:C

aaaahhh tuffen up yer big sook! :~ grab the nail gun turn on the compressor an punch a 3in nail in to the peices {ie up the toe} snip of the end if it sticks out down a carton of Run, Jacks, Tiquila or whatevers handy {turps, metho chateau de cardboard etc} supplied by yer dopey wombat of a mate... and move on :roll:

:U :U :U :U nah mate just jokin :; ... now me I just attack me fingas never have banged up me tootsies and Im always bare foots :2tsup:

mmm I think I have an ol mangled up full of spider webs pair of steel caps around here somewhere I think I may just have to find em now :doh:

Hehe yeh doin that ca be pretty painful but if you think that is heavy try liting 3600x1800 34mm MDF built up with a sheet of 16MM MDF the same size to make 50mm thick MDF thats blood heavy n takes guys to lift. I had to lift a couple sheets myself lucky I had a forklift handy they are good for all sorts of things. I hope ya toe get better soon looks pretty painful.

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Oh crud. :C

Is this true? :C

I saw a Doc so I could get painkillers, but he mentioned nothing about my bed of nails.....:C

Does anyone else know if this is true?? Terry B - I'm looking in your direction....:C

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I've been out. See the PM

Felder
There's just no excuse these days not to wear some form of safety shoe or boot (other than being lazy of course :D ) cause they can be so comfortable you'd think you were just wearing joggers.

If weight is a problem, a class 2 shoe with a plastic cap instead of the steel one is much lighter and would have stopped the majority of pain your suffering.

Me, I like a big heavy boot as I would normally wear a pair of Colorado dress boots to work, the safety boots I now get weigh less than the Colarado's and are softer and more comfortable. The only problem is going through Sydney Airport and having to remove your boots at the security check :(( .

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...1TanOilKip.jpg

All you need to do is spend some time and go to a few of the various safety shops and find a boot to suit you comfort requirements.

your going to have to look up skews article on making a walking stick im thinking (bugga) safety first no pain later.

I wear steel capped CAT boots about 90% of the time.

While wearing them, I have never dropped anything on my toes, but its the old Murphy's law in that you will only drop something on your toes when you're not wearing them.:C :rolleyes:

Hope it heals OK........ouch!:no: .

Brendan,
I've said it before, but if you want a comfortable workboot try Steel Blue, they have a 30 day comfort guarantee. Try a well fitted pair and if you're not satisfied that they're comfortable, take them back, no questions asked.

Mick (usual disclaimer, no pecuniary interests, although I wish I did own shares :roll: )

Brendan
As Mike has said below - try a pair of Steel Blue workboots. I bought a pair about 12mths ago and they are the best Iv'e had in the last 30yrs of steelcaps. Just so comfortable. Fit like gloves and you don't end up with sore feet and legs at end of the day. No I don't own shares either.
Cheers
David H

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But don't you wish you did? :roll:

Mick

Brendan, How'd it go?

I should mention that I'm an Orthopaedic registrar (advanced surgical trainee) and spend my time assessing these injuries in ED, It's not unusual for injuries to be neglected or underestimated by your local doctor. The advice I gave you is what I'd say if i saw you in hospital...

Cheers
Pulse

Funny how nail injuries hurt out of all proportion.

I was hand planing some rough sawn oregon and stopped concentrating for a moment. Dragged the index finger and drove a splinter under the nail full length.

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Brendan, How'd it go?

I should mention that I'm an Orthopaedic registrar

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Sounds like you know what you are on about.....

I'll post an updated pic tomorrow, but it is healing pretty well. It's going a bit black, not bleeding anymore, nowhere near as painful and I've been able to get a boot over it.

Your damaged nail bed theory still has me a bit worried though......if you would be kind enough to look at the pic tomorrow and tell me if I need to go see a specialist?

A thousand thank you's! :bowdown:

Never got around to posting that second pic, but went back to the doc instead.

Got an X-ray done.

She's broken. :no:

Remedy - wear tight fitting shoes for a while. If that doesn't work, then plaster.

Ahh sod it. :(

:kickcan::aro-r::gaah:

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:kickcan::aro-r::gaah:

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lol:U .

unlucky mate...hope it heals up well. :)

Next time make sure the thongs are double pluggers :2tsup:

Now I wear genuine Crocs. Anti-bacterial and light as a feather and verrrryyy comfortable. so far they've done a brilliant job of protecting my feet....mind you I haven't dropped anything on them yet.. :D.

Take the orthopaedic advice mate. I did the same to the small pinkie on my right hand many years ago. Too far from medical treatment so dosed up on morphine killed the pain nicely but now i have 2 brittle little fingernails instead of one on the same finger. every time i break one of them it tears the skin and bloody hurts. :(

your second and third toenails need trimming - you should a got them at the same time u did the big one...


wheres me tshirt ???? eh ???? :D

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Originally Posted by Zed

your second and third toenails need trimming - you should a got them at the same time u did the big one...


wheres me tshirt ???? eh ???? :D

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where'd you pop up from? :?:D:D

whaddaya mean where did I pop up from ? from my mothers womb of course... slightly over a year ago.

Brendan I would take the advise of Pulse and get your GP to refer you on to an orthopaedic person. I had a similar injury to a finger in my formative years and the nail has not grown past the nail bed injury. On a big toe (which provides most of the balancing ability of a foot) I think I'd want it to be in as good a shape as possible. A stitch in time....:doh: As a medical photographer in a past life I used to see a lot of these injuries which were used to desensitise (and help educate) people like Pulse. Still makes my sphincters tighten to see what I imagine was a ball-tearingly painful injury:lcry: :lcry: . Thanks for the reminder to pull on the boots - even for a 5 minute job!!:2tsup: