Urbex Injuries....

[j3bu]

I guess this applies to the people who've been doing this for a while now but has anyone injured themselves....or maybe nearly died(!) while exploring?
I did this about two years ago on a window pane which still had glass in it, it's deeper than it looks (I forget where I was):

Obviously this is very minor but i've never really injured myself other than this.

So what have you done?

 

[Foxylady]

One of mine is such a funny story that it's almost an urban legend!
I was at art college and some of us used to explore abandoned places during breaks, lunchtimes, etc. There was a lovely old house up the road that we'd planned to meet at. Myself and another girl got there before the guys and were having a look around upstairs when she looked out of the window and said 'They're coming up the drive. Let's hide'. Stupidly, I ran into a bedroom and leaped behind the door. The next thing I knew, I'd fallen halfway through the floor up to my hips (thank goodness for child-bearing hips! ) with a yell. My mate helped to pull me out and we went back to college, me covered in plaster dust and scratches.
Later on my mate asked one of the guys 'What happened to you?' To which he replied...we were halfway up the drive when we heard this horrible scream, so we legged it!
Apart from that I've been scratched a couple of times by brambles and got stuck fast in a chalk heap...nothing major.

 

[smileysal]

Mine are usually cuts and bruises on my legs, top of arms, or back, or the whole lot depending where or what im trying to climb through. Not had any major injuries so far, but i guess theres always a chance we could get seriously injured with the nature of what we do.

Good post.

Cheers,

Sal

 

[Reaperman]

Little cuts and bruises more often than I can count.

I've had two trips to A+E Through exploring, Oddly both Happened at Chatterly Whitfield! Dangerous site that.

One time I was going through some trees and got poked in the eye by a branch, went to A+E the following day after having severe pain in my eye, Treated with eye drops and it got better.

On the second occasion I stabbed my hand climbing The Chatterly perimeter fence in the wet. The fence is a nasty 8 Feet palisade job, not a nice climb even in the dry. I slipped as I was lowering myself down and gouged an inch long hole in the palm of my hand, damaging a nerve. Back at the car I washed it in saline solution, bandaged it up and drove to A+E where I had it stitched up. The following day I was back out exploring Royal Doulton. For a short while I had a loss of feeling in my two middle fingers but after a few months it came back.

Both incidents happened at night which really goes to show that its easy to slip up in the dark and in the wet.

Rm

 

[Foxylady]

Ooh, just remembered...when at St George's in Stoke-on-Trent, I tore a hole in my top and scratched my back whilst squeezing through the entry point.

 

[King Al]

I fell down the stairs on the hill once, it was my own falt, it felt like the top step was about to go so my reflex reaction was to jump backwards but I didn't clear my feet and so went down the stairs like a cartoon. I didn't break any thing and it wasnt that bad at first but I ended up with bruises all up my back and a strained elbow and a dented ego

 

[Goldie87]

I managed to cut myself on some glass in Severalls admin once, thats about it, oh apart from getting hit on the head by a wet floor cone (dont ask!)
I tripped on some stairs in High Royds, but managed to save myself after I had fallen down only a few steps. I remember once one of our group stumbled in the long grass at Severalls, did a saumersault through the air, then went rolling through the grass for some distance (finished up with a badly bruised back)

 

[sheep2405]

Cuts and bruises mainly, but have the tendancy to put my knee out now and then, and have to put it back or get help to put it back in.

 

[snappel]

I've had two trips to A+E Through exploring, Oddly both Happened at Chatterly Whitfield! Dangerous site that.

Yes, that fence is a nasty one. I helped someone over that and he so nearly got horrendously impaled. I think it's impossible to have a good look at Chatterley without letting some blood!

 

[mr_bones]

I'd put up the picture of my finger that i cut open at a monastery in Manchester but it's a bit gorey. Other than that i've had various cuts and bruises and walked down an open inspection cover at Cane Hill which bruised up for weeks.

 

[fuzzball]

I think in honesty my worst exploration injury is one that will show in later life
While exploring the Purnell plant in Paulton near Bristol I think I must have breathed in a fairly nice little cocktail of semi-lethal carcinogens!
Ahh oh well, worth it, the place was epic.
x

 

[cookiebizkit]

i have so far twisted my ankle at marylands College.

badly bruised me shoulder in shorts tunnels

Cut me arm at longcross Barracks (2 inch Scar)

cut me leg open at witley

and some of the scratches and bumps you will get so not alot

cookiebizkit

 

[fezzyben]

Does a splinter count?

 

[Alias]

various cuts and bruises, but my most interesting was a trip to the doctors for a rash I got after going into the River Westbourne drain/sewer. The rash turned out to be an allergic reaction to the female contraceptive pill that is present down there lol

 

[smileysal]

sorry for laughing but that one is funny lol

 

[Braveheart1984]

Almost injured a very sensitive part of my lower anatomy on the Chatterley Whitfield fence. I was a bit shaky climbing over, and it's the thought of what might have been

 

[j3bu]

Almost injured a very sensitive part of my lower anatomy on the Chatterley Whitfield fence. I was a bit shaky climbing over, and it's the thought of what might have been

owwwww! I've nearly done this too!

 

[Jondoe_264]

Don't like the sound of your palm injury Joe, urgh!

Never really been badly injured, worst and coincidentally most amusing was due to bright sunlight and a lapse in judgement. Running down a very steep spoil mound, a story starting like that is never going to end well. So, running down the mound, one of those slopes that's so steep you can't do anything other than run down it, heading towards a gap in the fence at the bottom. The bright sun made it nigh on imposible to notice the last remaining stretch of fence wire still in place across the gap, at around face height! I ran nose first in to it, it literally clotheslined me off my feet to a point of being mid air, horizontal to the ground, at which point I swiftly fell, landing laid out flat with a bloody, but happily not broken, nose. I'll dig out a pic! LOL!

JD

 

[mcspringzy]

Half of a ceiling of an office fell on me and a friend once. We can look back at it now and laugh but at the time...


I only got a longish cut doing down the centre of my back from it, think its a bit scared but I can't see it

 

[Mr Sam]

nothing worth mentioning .... yet