• Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Yeah and those implants are no joke in strength

    Trigger Warning: true story of workplace injury involving a coworker and his teeth.

    It's light on injury descriptions at least

    One of my coworkers a few months ago had a 200lbs roll of aluminum fall on his head. His implant collided with 3 teeth above it and blew those up.

    He’s mostly recovered at this point from the whole ordeal (concussion, smashed fingers, etc.) he’s just waiting on the bone grafts to heal up for the replacement teeth that are going in.

    And yes he got lucky that the roll mostly glanced off of him towards the front. Had he gotten hit straight on top of the head (or it glanced towards the back) he likely would have broken his neck or died.

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      1 year ago

      Jesus H. Christ.

      I’m glad your colleague got away with fairly minor injuries.

      I bet the OSHA department is having a hell of a time now.

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        Honestly blew my mind that he walking the next time I saw him

        Oh yeah our safety department threw a fit especially when they found out that he was not wearing a hardhat