Urbex Injuries....
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ChrisR
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Well I've had quite a few injuries recently, the most spectacular of which was when I gouged some of the flesh of my left knee out: I jumped off a wall in the dark... into a stack of bricks 
A month later and it still bleeds on occasion 
I generally have to bleed to some extent on each explore, usually on my hands... but once on my face. Nice. Didn't even realise I'd hurt myself that time.
A month later and it still bleeds on occasion I generally have to bleed to some extent on each explore, usually on my hands... but once on my face. Nice. Didn't even realise I'd hurt myself that time.
Nefariousink
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Ewwwww brambles and thorns, barbed wire, razor wire you name it, anything like that im bound to get scratched on! other than that most of mine are mental injuries after my mind being stuck in an abandoned asylum for days in end! oh on that note nearly fell through a big hole in the floor when i dropped down of those horrible, HORRIBLE ladders at barnes asylum, ya know the ones that lead up to the clock tower
was funny.ill let you know of any further injuries haha i think theres probly a few on the way in the future!
shj35
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Well the only thing ive ever done was step on a nail... but this thread seriously needs a health warning... Its had me in stitchs.. seriously my sides are sore from laughing so much... great stuff 
waley_bean
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Nothing yet, touch wood. I kind of rolled/skated across a metal pole left on the floor at one of my recent explores, no harm done to me but mad a lot of noise.
lost
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lost
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I've had a broken wrist from cross country skiing at school, and a broken/dislocated toe from bumping into a table leg before this.
I think the moral is... don't do anything at all.
I think the moral is... don't do anything at all.
sooner or later you end up hurt
I've had numerous cuts and slices, was bitten by a drain spider and broke my wrist at a certain massive mine in middleton
Enjoy a dangerous hobby and you can't complain when your pulling bits of glass out of your arse after falling backwards off a fence
I've had numerous cuts and slices, was bitten by a drain spider and broke my wrist at a certain massive mine in middleton
Enjoy a dangerous hobby and you can't complain when your pulling bits of glass out of your arse after falling backwards off a fence
Had a couple of injuries this year...
First was slicing my hand open on some broken glass stuck in a window climbing out of the mortuary at Standish Hospital back in the summer.
The worst one though was running away from the workmen at ECVB in Belgium, anyone whose been there knows the fence at the back is tall, made of iron, and spiky. So we needed to get out fast, my mate chucks his stuff over the fence and hauls himself up and over quickly, I pass my stuff to him through the gaps and do the same, only as I'm at the top, the sleeve of my hoody catches on one of the spikes as I'm swinging over to the other side. The sudden catch twists my torso round violently and my arm hits the side of one of the bars, the hoody frees itself and I drop to the ground. Although looking back, had I not been wearing a long sleeved top it would have been my wrist that hit the fence spike...
First was slicing my hand open on some broken glass stuck in a window climbing out of the mortuary at Standish Hospital back in the summer.
The worst one though was running away from the workmen at ECVB in Belgium, anyone whose been there knows the fence at the back is tall, made of iron, and spiky. So we needed to get out fast, my mate chucks his stuff over the fence and hauls himself up and over quickly, I pass my stuff to him through the gaps and do the same, only as I'm at the top, the sleeve of my hoody catches on one of the spikes as I'm swinging over to the other side. The sudden catch twists my torso round violently and my arm hits the side of one of the bars, the hoody frees itself and I drop to the ground. Although looking back, had I not been wearing a long sleeved top it would have been my wrist that hit the fence spike...
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Hmmmm... injuries are very common though thankfully we've had no serious cuts like yours. I did contract an unknown infection in a Maginot Line fort from a partial dunking in polluted water last year and was taken into hospital about a week to ten days later with suspect meningitis. It took forever to go and I was really poorly for quite a few weeks.
Just goes to show that not all the causes for medical concern are immediately obvious.
Pee essssS... forgot to mention a brush with a herd of wild boar at one site in Germany. Fortunately for us they were more scared of us than we were of them or it could have gotten very ugly. Is it possible to beat off a wild boar intent on damaging you with no more than a Manfroto?
Just goes to show that not all the causes for medical concern are immediately obvious.
Pee essssS... forgot to mention a brush with a herd of wild boar at one site in Germany. Fortunately for us they were more scared of us than we were of them or it could have gotten very ugly. Is it possible to beat off a wild boar intent on damaging you with no more than a Manfroto?
WTF is a drain spider?!?!?!?
Suddenly my desire to head underground has pretty much vanished....
EDIT: google search just showed this...
''Drain spiders are large venomous, mottled brown spiders, about the size of a cat.[1] They make their home in the tunnels below urban areas and are known to be quite aggressive. They feed on trash, bats, and rats, and are considered a great nuisance to city dwellers because of their poison.[2] After a strong downpour, drain spiders can sometimes be forced onto street level in great swarms.''
I hope thats a joke
you got away lucky a friend of my boss lost his brother after he shot a wild boar and didn't kill it and it charged at him and managed to sever an artery and he basically bleed to death on a hunt in france
ive never sustained an urbex injury I have however broken my wrist when my ambition exceeded my talent at donnington park last year and my r6 spat me over the top
and also had my hand crushed under a log when I was 7 witch broke all 5 bones across the back of my hand in two or three places per bone plus 30 odd stiches in my palm where it exploded under the weight this resulted in 18 months of physio 5 days in hospital three operations and I still have a lump (about half the size of a tennis ball on the back of my right hand and only about 50% of movement in my thumb to this day)
I was once underground in Dover, and so preoccupied with the awkward footing that I didn't notice the very low doorway.. My scalp struck a brick corner, and it didn't feel so bad - until there was blood running down my face. It must have been an odd sight to see me emerge from the undergrowth with blood all over me!
I once read about a Belgian explorer who got stuck in a remote, humungous site after the door slammed shut and there was no handle. It was in a bathroom and he had to kick off a handle from one of the cubicle doors to open it with.
Anyway, for a while I started taking a small rubber door-wedge with me on explores, just in case.
what a ruddy good idea.
I ahd a door close behind me in some ***** hole in Leicester, went back tog to go through it and it was stuck ..huh ??? I came through that.
so shoved harder ..nothing, leant on with shoulder and shoved...nothing, bit of run up and shoulder charge...Nope.
**** I'm stuck here !!!! OK big kick and it swung open...made me worry for a lil while there and now think a lil more about letting doors close behind me
wellll I'm clumsy as fook, have no balance and weigh around 6 tons. I'm also old and knackered with no flexibility left in my body.
Needless to say I pick something up, even if only very minor, on most explores - I should prob get into philately rather than mooching round buildings that are as knackered as I am , but I enjoy it. so
The usual bramble attacks and bruises that I just consider inevitable on explores I tend to get ..well on most explores really.
At Fletchers paper mill I managed to bang my noggin with some force on a large pipe on the way out.
At TG greens when trying to look like we'd just come for a walk coz someone was around I tried to scramble up some earth and on realising I was gonna slip back I made a full and firm grab at some vegitation to stop myslef ...shame said vegitation were nettles ...my they sting when you grasp them firmly and hold on for a second or two.
cut my finger on some glass in a window frame at Huncoat - it bled quite nicely.
Lost a fight with some barbed wire at Bank Hall - it dug a piece out of my leg.
Lost another fight with some barbed wire at Low Bradfield - silent Hill will remember this one.
At the prefab labs at a certain quarry left leg went through a floor to about half way up my thigh and as I fell, I fell forwards and sideways too - so more bruises but at least more surface to stop me faling all the way through.
Brymbo Steel works - last building before leaving as I wandered in and saw some holes in the floor I said to Zero81 that we'd have to be careful in this building and within 20-30 seconds I placed my left foot down to find the floor below it disintegrate into nothing. Unlike the quarry I did not fall sideways/forwards so no more area to stop the fall - instead at what seemed like 200 miles an hour straight down to around two thirds the way up my thigh. I really thought I was going through the floor completely. Think this one shat me up the most I really did think I was going through to the level below. Not nice at all.
lastly at a certain care home access was up onto a small low roof then over some railings and through a window.
On one of the railings when I balance deserted me and weight of my backpack pulled me back. felt like slow motion as I fell backwards heading for the concrete behind me. I hit the concrete with my head and back (luckily head hitting concrete was not hard so that was OK) and my left leg flew up with some force smashing my shin against the underside of the railing.
I carried on but eventually decided to take a look. - The wound was not a nice one - about the size of two 50 pence pieces next to each other and a good few layers of skin gone:
It got infected twice over and some 14 months later there is still large scarring.
Needless to say I pick something up, even if only very minor, on most explores - I should prob get into philately rather than mooching round buildings that are as knackered as I am , but I enjoy it. so
The usual bramble attacks and bruises that I just consider inevitable on explores I tend to get ..well on most explores really.
At Fletchers paper mill I managed to bang my noggin with some force on a large pipe on the way out.
At TG greens when trying to look like we'd just come for a walk coz someone was around I tried to scramble up some earth and on realising I was gonna slip back I made a full and firm grab at some vegitation to stop myslef ...shame said vegitation were nettles ...my they sting when you grasp them firmly and hold on for a second or two.
cut my finger on some glass in a window frame at Huncoat - it bled quite nicely.
Lost a fight with some barbed wire at Bank Hall - it dug a piece out of my leg.
Lost another fight with some barbed wire at Low Bradfield - silent Hill will remember this one.
At the prefab labs at a certain quarry left leg went through a floor to about half way up my thigh and as I fell, I fell forwards and sideways too - so more bruises but at least more surface to stop me faling all the way through.
Brymbo Steel works - last building before leaving as I wandered in and saw some holes in the floor I said to Zero81 that we'd have to be careful in this building and within 20-30 seconds I placed my left foot down to find the floor below it disintegrate into nothing. Unlike the quarry I did not fall sideways/forwards so no more area to stop the fall - instead at what seemed like 200 miles an hour straight down to around two thirds the way up my thigh. I really thought I was going through the floor completely. Think this one shat me up the most I really did think I was going through to the level below. Not nice at all.
lastly at a certain care home access was up onto a small low roof then over some railings and through a window.
On one of the railings when I balance deserted me and weight of my backpack pulled me back. felt like slow motion as I fell backwards heading for the concrete behind me. I hit the concrete with my head and back (luckily head hitting concrete was not hard so that was OK) and my left leg flew up with some force smashing my shin against the underside of the railing.
I carried on but eventually decided to take a look. - The wound was not a nice one - about the size of two 50 pence pieces next to each other and a good few layers of skin gone:
It got infected twice over and some 14 months later there is still large scarring.
Derelictspaces
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I've had a few little bumps along the way. My best one was the Thames Water Bunker in Blunsdon, I opened the escape hatch and went to climb down. Only to put my foot on the ladder and it slide off due to the moisture, I fell, virtually upright, down the shaft and smashed my right elbow on the half open blast door that swings outwards towards the ladder. Needless to say, there was some fruity language, a giant gash on my elbow and a hell of a bruise. With my friends just laughing their ***** off.
Whilst getting some photos of the old Ford wagon from Cowley up at transfer yards I got spotted wrong side on the tracks, some big Network Rail bloke comes running towards me so I chip, fast! Run to the fence throw myself over it, only to spike my hand on the palisade fence. Ouch.
Down near my house we had an old cottage that was derelict for a while before the owners boarded it all up, went to walk up the stairs only to fall through te second from top step, waist deep on one leg. The guy I was with got all the way up only to try the loft hatch, which promptly dropped out the sealing, onto to his head. Karma for laughing at me when I fell down the hatch
Whilst getting some photos of the old Ford wagon from Cowley up at transfer yards I got spotted wrong side on the tracks, some big Network Rail bloke comes running towards me so I chip, fast! Run to the fence throw myself over it, only to spike my hand on the palisade fence. Ouch.
Down near my house we had an old cottage that was derelict for a while before the owners boarded it all up, went to walk up the stairs only to fall through te second from top step, waist deep on one leg. The guy I was with got all the way up only to try the loft hatch, which promptly dropped out the sealing, onto to his head. Karma for laughing at me when I fell down the hatch
The only thing i've had was a glass cut on my hand after squeezing through a window the size of a rectangle roof tile. I looked at my hands and went oh! Had no plasters so had to walk around with tissue on my hand til it eventually stopped bleeding. My mate got a similar cut on his finger which we covered with a tissue and an elastic band.
We now always carry plasters.
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We now always carry plasters.
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WTF is a drain spider?!?!?!?
Suddenly my desire to head underground has pretty much vanished....
EDIT: google search just showed this...
''Drain spiders are large venomous, mottled brown spiders, about the size of a cat.[1] They make their home in the tunnels below urban areas and are known to be quite aggressive. They feed on trash, bats, and rats, and are considered a great nuisance to city dwellers because of their poison.[2] After a strong downpour, drain spiders can sometimes be forced onto street level in great swarms.''
I hope thats a joke
Not as big as a cat but I've seen them fist sized, imagine cave spiders but with no predators
