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Yeah. Unfortunately with the equipment we use everyday most everyone will rack up a somewhat serious injury over the span of their career.

I've had my hand broken in the lab by someone being negligent with pressurized gas. A coworker had his finger broken this last year when operating some machinery with gloves on when he shouldn't have.

In school I saw a girl get her shirt ripped off, the same type of machine is famous for yanking out chunks of long hair. The worst injury we've had at our facility happened to a resident who hit the back of her head on a riveting bar when she went to stand after picking something up off the ground. That was the saddest because she got a pretty life altering tbi that ended her career before it ever started.