Worst injury from urbex???

Modular · 26 Apr 2015, 7:16 pm

mine has to be splinting my finger open jumping a fence, it was my ring finger,and wouldn't stop bleeding... ended up with 4 stitches

whats your worst injury?

Rantallion · 26 Apr 2015, 7:47 pm

I walk into spiky plants lots and lots.

Modular · 26 Apr 2015, 7:50 pm

Rantallion wrote:I walk into spiky plants lots and lots.

damn dude, that sucks

Echo · 26 Apr 2015, 7:54 pm

I'm lucky, worst injury is fairly minor. It would have to be either slipping over in dungeon (a drain) while walking down a slide and landing on my side fairly heavily. My elbow felt like it was broken for the next month and had a very large bruise on it.
Or stabbing my hand on some glass while climbing through a broken window at a factory.
Fairly minor injuries luckily.

phytrix · 26 Apr 2015, 8:01 pm

I cracked my shoulder not too long ago when slipping in a drain. I've broken too many wrists so I now have a habit of tucking my arms away when I fall and hitting the surface with my side >.< Painful recovery but oh well

blakjak · 27 Apr 2015, 4:49 pm

Broke 3 ribs when I had a slight tumble at Eye Of the Needle entry embankment in March last year...

It sure made coughing, farting, and punching cones quite painful, but hey you wont see me complaining.

Modular · 27 Apr 2015, 4:51 pm

blakjak wrote:Broke 3 ribs when I had a slight tumble at Eye Of the Needle entry embankment in March last year...

It sure made coughing, farting, and punching cones quite painful, but it was worth it.

Far out dude, thats brutal.

blakjak · 27 Apr 2015, 4:52 pm

Modular wrote:Far out dude, that's brutal.

If I was 2 inches to the right I would have collected my head and probably died but unfortunately for you guys I made it.

Echo · 27 Apr 2015, 4:54 pm

blakjak wrote:Broke 3 ribs when I had a slight tumble at Eye Of the Needle entry embankment in March last year...

It sure made coughing, farting, and punching cones quite painful, but hey you wont see me complaining.

Wow good thing you weren't alone I'm assuming. That looks nasty.

Modular · 27 Apr 2015, 4:58 pm

blakjak wrote:
Modular wrote:Far out dude, that's brutal.
If I was 2 inches to the right I would have collected my head and probably died but unfortunately for you guys I made it.

that makes the cut on my finger look like a scratch compared to that...
and as they say, the lord works in many mysterious ways.
thankfully you were not killed

blakjak · 27 Apr 2015, 8:09 pm

Echo wrote:Wow good thing you weren't alone I'm assuming. That looks nasty.

Nah there were about 10 ppl present but as I was the first one to descend the guy following me had to come down in a hurry to assist me. And even though I was ok for the 1st few mins and wanted to keep going with the explore (it was my expo), when the adrenalin wore off a few mins later I could barely breath so one of the guys there kindly offered to take me to hospital and I grudgingly accepted. I passed over expo guide duties to somebody else and insisted that rest continued on with the expo (which they did). I think I won an award for it.

Modular wrote:that makes the cut on my finger look like a scratch compared to that...
and as they say, the lord works in many mysterious ways.
thankfully you were not killed

I've had the odd cut, 2 broken bones (knee and foot - cripple for 2 months), and a few stitches on the melon, all due to urbex, but those ribs were certainly the most painful. And even though I still do dodgy stuff, I always use safety equipment (harness, ropes, etc).
No more Captain Risky for me as I have 3 kids that I have to get home to.

Modular · 27 Apr 2015, 8:19 pm

Wow dude, major respect to you brother.

peterh13 · 28 Apr 2015, 2:14 am

I got bitten by a dog at a factory at Chullora. No big deal really but its the only injury Ive had. Maybe Im not "full on " enough or maybe Im just too careful.

aussiemacka · 28 Apr 2015, 11:29 am

I was trying to pry open a metal part of a door so I could coathanger it cause im hopeless at it.

screwdriver snapped in half and ripped half my finger open, still have the scar.

Midget · 01 May 2015, 2:36 pm

I've only had one involving a steel hatch, and now I'm super careful (pussy). Every time I remember that, my head hurts. Lol.

blakjak · 01 May 2015, 2:46 pm

Midget wrote:I've only had one involving a steel hatch, and now I'm super careful (pussy). Every time I remember that, my head hurts. Lol.

lol CLANG!!! I've copped a similar thing and have seen it happen to someone else as well. I think watching hurt more than copping it.

Be careful people.

InvisibleElvis · 29 Jun 2015, 12:41 pm

Rantallion wrote:I walk into spiky plants lots and lots.

I've still got spikes in my jeans from the Dunlop factory.

peterh13 · 29 Jun 2015, 7:18 pm

I got this near fatal injury abseiling onto railway tracks to gain access to a tunnel. I didnt need to abseil but its much more fun that way.

Aydun · 29 Jun 2015, 7:25 pm

peterh13 wrote:I got this near fatal injury abseiling onto railway tracks to gain access to a tunnel. I didnt need to abseil but its much more fun that way.

Pretty lucky you didn't need it amputated.

Echo · 29 Jun 2015, 7:41 pm

I had a terrible headache after I went to climb a manhole shaft and smashed my head onto the lip of the shaft as I pulled myself up the first few rungs of the ladder. At the time I was more worried about trying to contain my pained expression from my exploring partner than the fact I'd probably just killed a good number of braincells.

blakjak · 29 Jun 2015, 8:15 pm

peterh13 wrote:I got this near fatal injury abseiling onto railway tracks to gain access to a tunnel. I didnt need to abseil but its much more fun that way.

Did they need to operate?

peterh13 · 30 Jun 2015, 2:36 pm

Thanks for your concern. It was pretty touch and go there for a while but I managed to pull through ok. I didn't mention nearly getting throttled by the train from Glenbrook. I hadn't checked my timetable properly.

blakjak · 01 Jul 2015, 1:32 am

Good to see you pulled through ok there Pete.

DFEX · 01 Jul 2015, 12:54 pm

blakjak wrote:Broke 3 ribs when I had a slight tumble at Eye Of the Needle entry embankment in March last year...

It sure made coughing, farting, and punching cones quite painful, but hey you wont see me complaining.

Thats nasty! Good to see you're recovered from that. Must of been all the lung exercises *bubble bubble* hahaha

blakjak · 01 Jul 2015, 1:30 pm

DFEX wrote:Thats nasty! Good to see you're recovered from that. Must of been all the lung exercises *bubble bubble* hahaha

Yeah while doing the "bubble bubble" it really hurt, and then I coughed...

I went through 8 boxes of Endone and countless boxes of Panadol, I still have the scar but it's just a jagged line now.

BTW, if you tilt your head 90 degrees to the left the fresh scar looks like Marilyn Monroe's mouth...