Urbex Injuries....

[communist daughter]

my friend was trying to climb into bramhope tunnel tower when id gone round the corner to take pictures of the portal, (i had told her not to, cos there was no floor under the window but she'd tried anyway!) she managed to get up to the window and fell about 15-20 foot onto her wrist and head. her wrist was the worst, very, very badly broken. Like, at an angle...

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/alk192/DSCF0334.jpg

and we had to get her to a hospital from the middle of nowhere whilst lying about where we'd been. It was mental.

she spent three days in hospital anyway, she was fine though. Nice scar on her forehead to remember it by.

 

[King Al]

She was luckey you were there, it could have been a lot worse glad she was ok in the end though

 

[Reaperman]

my friend was trying to climb into bramhope tunnel tower when id gone round the corner to take pictures of the portal, (i had told her not to, cos there was no floor under the window but she'd tried anyway!) she managed to get up to the window and fell about 15-20 foot onto her wrist and head. her wrist was the worst, very, very badly broken. Like, at an angle...

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/alk192/DSCF0334.jpg

and we had to get her to a hospital from the middle of nowhere whilst lying about where we'd been. It was mental.

she spent three days in hospital anyway, she was fine though. Nice scar on her forehead to remember it by.

Thats the first story I've heard that resulted in a Hospital stay! Sounds very painful, I trust she wasn't put off from exploring?

 

[UrbanX]

Yowuch! That must win! So far so lucky for me, only cuts & scratches. Far too many testicle / barbed wire near misses though!

Havent had a splinter for 3 weeks now, touch wood...

 

[communist daughter]

Thats the first story I've heard that resulted in a Hospital stay! Sounds very painful, I trust she wasn't put off from exploring?

no not at all, i think we went out again the week after she was out of l'hopital! And yes, they had to give her considerable amounts of morphine just to examine her properly. Possibly the worst 7 hours of my life, waiting in that hospital!

 

[saul_son]

I've had quite a few over the years.

A recent one was standing on my own hand whilst two fingers were inside the upright of a section on Heras fence at Parkside Asylum. I expected to take my glove off and see that I needed stitches but it was just a deep bloody grove.

Others include; I nearly poking my eye out on a tree branch at Boddingtons Brewery and decking my knee jumping over a wall at the Royal in Wolverhampton whilst escaping the seccers.

 

[Wishmaster]

I once ended up with two broken ribs whilst exploring at Fall Birch Hospital

It was a result of climbing through a window with my tripod stuffed in the front of my jacket, leaning through, hearing my ribs crack and falling with a thudd into the room, dying in agony

Took a couple of months for the pain to go away, although no hospital visit

 

[cogito]

Aside from the obvious little cuts, bruises and bumps... I recently had a little "mishap" on a recon outing at night. It was pretty dark, and behind a wall I was climbing over was even darker but I could just about make out what I thought was the floor amongst some not-too-bad brambles. So I jumped down from the wall, only to find out that the brambles are about chest height! AND I was wearing shorts... AND when I landed I fell straight backwards onto my back as I hadn't anticipated the height.

Cue a LOT of deep scratches all over my legs and lower back. Took a while to get up as I couldn't put my hands down either.

I can safely say I've learnt from that mistake.

 

[**Mudlark**]

i HATE brambles!!!
Went on a recce with some newbies a little while back, was going to take them to to one site but it turned out to be full of chavers so we didnt go.
Decided to take a trip down to the oceana business park instead.
It was dark, and we couldn't see but once we had squeezed through the fence, the path along the side ran out and we ended up picking through many, many prickles.
Not having expected prickles (Brambles AND hawthorne trees, nasty!) i didnt have the heaviest of trousers on and when i got back my legs were ripped to shreads, with blood running down my legs into my socks!
thats why i hate prickles!!!!

Got stabbed with something at cherry knowles too that went through my shoe and into the top of my foot... a few days later when the pain wouldnt go away, the doctor squeezed some lovely smelling gunk out of it and put me on antibiotics......
Thats about it for me!

 

[NobodyGirl]

If someones gonna get hurt or fall over on an explore, its me!

Received two injury's at Friargate warehouse, One jumping down into the underground area, from a large beam that I didn't dodge well enough, left a large cut and massive bruise around it, I carried on with the explore but it started to get worse as I was at my car when MikeyMike thought it funny to boot me where it was, not realizing how much pain I was in already. That was over a month or so ago and the area is still bruised and is numb to touch which is quite strange. I must have killed some nerves.

Got another from Friargate. Was climbing onto the car blocking an entrance to get a different shot, on my way back down, part of the crushed car stabbed me in the back of my leg, left me with a large nasty cut. thats gone, I have a nice scar tho lol.

Cut my hand up climbing through a window at the Mill in Derby. Was to excited and didn't look where I was putting my hands. I diddn't realize I had done it until I saw my camera was covered in blood. It was a rather nasty cut, I'm surprised I didn't feel it.


Other that I'm just covered in small cuts and bruises on my arms from various scrapes and falls.

 

[BigLoada]

This is a photo of my arm the night I was savaged by a German Shepherd. That was February and my arm still pains from time to time and I have no feeling in the upper arm where a fang penetrated deeply.

 

[digitalxspace]

I think the worst i have had is when walking on a factory roof a few years ago. The roof was asbestos and i knew the risks so i was walking were the beams were. That was until i could see down my "female" mates top below and i lost concentration and wondered off the beam. Luckily i only fell through to my waist, my belt saving me from a fifty foot drop! i did though have a huge cut/graze on the side of me. Was worth the peek i got though

 

[thompski]

Seem to be quite lucky compared to most, I had a bad case of bramble wounds last Thursday, trying to get a look at an old bridge on a railway line (more a linear jungle). That was quite unpleasant, plus the fact I was walking in Nettles.

Fell from the hoardings of Derby Bus Station in 2006, ripped my hoodie and collected a pretty cool scab from that.

 

[Pegasus2]

Got stabbed with something at cherry knowles too that went through my shoe and into the top of my foot... a few days later when the pain wouldnt go away, the doctor squeezed some lovely smelling gunk out of it and put me on antibiotics......
Thats about it for me!

Armored boots. get some

 

[**Mudlark**]

too right
Thought my walking boots would be enough but obvoiusly not, as whatever it was came in through the top.....
time for that new pair of doc martins i've been promising myself for bloody ages.....

 

[Pegasus2]

too right
Thought my walking boots would be enough but obvoiusly not, as whatever it was came in through the top.....
time for that new pair of doc martins i've been promising myself for bloody ages.....

I work in the Motor vehicle trade. The boots I go exploring in are my work boots.

They cost £80 but have stong steel toe caps, puncture resistant armored steel midsole, anti static, oil and petrochemical resistant, acid resistant, heat resistant, oil slip resistant and electricaly insulate you from earth up to some stupid resistance.

Really well worth it. You don't have to watch where your walking all the time unless your on dodgy floors. You know your feet are safe where ever you go.

 

[The_Revolution]

Currently my legs are covered in scars from the past month or so; but it's the injuries, aches and pains you can't see that get me (getting old). If you haven't got a few cuts and bruises then you haven't tried hard enough to get in a place.

Nearly lost my anal virginity to tree last night.......

 

[Urban Mole]

Same as most of the others, cuts and bruises, and bramble scars etc, but I did also banged my head a goodun whilst getting into London Road shelter, on the rusty girder beam just before you go through the wall.
Stupid this is, I did it again, 3 days later on my return, 2" away from the first time :icon_evil

I was nearly impaled by a bull whilst in his field looking for an HAA site

 

[Bishop]

Being a lanky streak of piss it's not hard for me to find something to nut myself on, I see a door frame and I automatically duck, force of habit. Whilst in a small tunnel that had been converted into a pillbox I made the big mistake of shining my torch at the floor and forgot all about the ******* door frame and jeez did it knock me for six when I walked into it.

Here's a snap of what I nutted (pics by Krela).

And here's a pic of the damage. Admittedly it doesn't look too bad but it took flaming ages to stop the bleeding. I got mild concussion. It rewired my brain a bit. After this accident I saw things a lot differently, got direction, found ambition, it definitely altered my perception. To be honest I was rather out there for a good time afterwards but eventually I settled down and (at the risk of sounding a bit new age) found myself and then turned my life around.

Best accident I've ever had.

B

 

[kernowexpeditionary]

badly sprained my ankle jumping over a fence having done my first tower crane last dec.....still hurts now