Thread: Who's been injured on the Halloween job???

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Since I managed to give myself a solid 2nd degree burn on 2 fingertips with hot glue tonight (grr), I thought I'd see who else has hurt themselves/gotten hurt in the name of Halloween

This glue burn sucks, but the worse I ever had was a red wasp sting on my right thumb (and I'm right handed) a couple of years ago. Little bugger was in the garage waiting for me to pick up a project! My hand puffed up so much I couldn't close it!

What casualties have you guys suffered for the sake of our art ???????????

At my first haunted house, someone was wearing a hooded faceless robe and a lantern with a LIT candle in it and melted the bottom of thE hood a smidge. OMG I tell you I am so glad for fire-retardant costumes!

I think that's it for me. Being exposed to fumes from Spray paint, DryLoc and melting plastic or foam from my hot knife are just an every day occurence in my garage :O

5 pokes from chicken wire tonight.
3 Scraps from chicken wire tonight.
1 knee to table greeting tonight.

2 burns with hotglue last week.

1 steel sword to the noggin week before that.

I'm on a roll! Keep this thread up, It might get interesting the closer to Halloween we get! lol.

I fell and fractured my foot... thinking I sprain my ankle at the school rasing money for scholarship and up-coming Halloween Party. This was last night. It was really a good thing I was told to go to Hospital to get it check out for the school's safety.

Originally Posted by NOWHINING

I fell and fractured my foot... thinking I sprain my ankle at the school rasing money for scholarship and up-coming Halloween Party. This was last night. It was really a good thing I was told to go to Hospital to get it check out for the school's safety.

Geez! My petty cuts/bruises/scrapes/punctures/burns/stings are nothing compared to that! Take REALLY good care of that foot and stay off of it as much as possible. My MIL broke hers a couple months ago and it still hasn't healed right...

I volenteer at my local firehouse's haunted walk every year. They go all out and they even have a spinning vortex tunnel. Anyway, my scene last year was the "Hillbilly Village." It was a really cool scene and was complete with a Jail front, a hillbilly's house front, a gas station front and more. Well, every night i would be tied by the waist by a rope and crammed inside a small dog cage. As the guests would pass by, i would unexpectedly burst the cage open and crawl out screaming "help me" and all that fun stuff. One night, this guy brought a shotgun and we decided to incoorperate it into the scene. So as i would crawl out, he'd come over and pretend to hit me on the back with it to "shut me up". However, this one particular time he completely missed my back and wacked me full force right in the temple! I dropped to the ground in pain and laid there and acted as if i was dead to make it more realistic for the guests (always thinking of the guests! haha) After that group went by, i got up and realized i couldnt open my mouth all the way. I tried eating a soft pretzel that i was waiting to eat after that group left and realized i couldnt bite or chew either because it hurt my temple so badly. I ended up with a concussion and couldn't move my jaw or fully open my mouth for weeks. It was so painful because anything i did with my mouth, it hurt my temple really badly. However, i did not give up on the haunted walk and it serves as a good story to tell

Pretty much glue gun burns... they tell you to keep water with ice next to you but do I listen? NO... some peoples kids never learn...

My skin is very sensitive to cheap chinese stuff,last night I pulled out some of my decorations and today woke up with swollen eyes and burning lips. Tonight I was using a wooden skewer to try to open a hardened tube of liquid nails and poked the darn thing into my finger...hey cool prop idea!!!!!

I'm feeling like a complete idiot tonight myself. I was working on wiring up some custom extension cables that have purple and orange LED lights attached. The cable is 65 ft long. In the process of laying it all out to plug in and test I managed to stretch/reach my hand right into the spinning ceiling fan! It sent me, my roommate, and my dog all ducking for cover having not a clue what just happened. Luckily nothing too damaging came of it, just two fairly well cut and bleeding fingers, nothing I've not had before.

Far too many chicken wire cuts and scrapes to count, same for glue gun burns. My worst, I guess, was the time I was cutting out something with an x-acto knife while sitting cross legged on the floor. The knife slips and ends up in my leg, just above my ankle where it hit the bone and stuck! Oddly enough, I felt no pain at first. Just this weird feeling that it REALLY should have hurt and I think I might throw up! Lesson learned, I do not cut with a knife sitting on the floor anymore.