Arg! It Hurts!
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Arg! It Hurts!
Well I burned my arm wed. working with some chemicals. Well went in today, thursday, to get it looked at after my sister insisted that it was worse than it felt. Well went to ER and let them start cleaning it. Talk about pain. They took a stiff britsle brush and started scraping the skin off. Took about 45 mins for them to finish it all up. I have to change the dressing on it twice a day and scrub it to keep dead skin from building up. My arm is now wrapped up from wrist to shoulder and man is it sore. Always wear a long sleeve shirt when working around chemicals or anything really hot, you dont want to go thru what im going thru.
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ouch...i have burned my thimb with some grease close around 300°F and did the mistake of putting water on it (hey, its human nature 
) it bubbled up and got pretty nasty, but its all good and gone now 
) it bubbled up and got pretty nasty, but its all good and gone now
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Hope you get thru all that.......met a guy who from his car accident had road rash, with gasoline, motor oil, battery acid, and anti-freeze all burned over most of his body. I hope yours isnt near as bad, but a quick and speedy recovery.
Kinda off subject......but still a chemical burn.
Several years ago, responded to a call for a possible drug overdose. Guy was fresh out of rehab. Guess he needed something fast. So he did a hit of acid thru a needle....Muratic acid. So there we show up, guy crying in pain, with his arm all black and eaten up from the muratic acid he shoved thru his vein. He didnt understand what the problem was.....the bottle said acid, so he thought he'd get high.
Kinda off subject......but still a chemical burn.
Several years ago, responded to a call for a possible drug overdose. Guy was fresh out of rehab. Guess he needed something fast. So he did a hit of acid thru a needle....Muratic acid. So there we show up, guy crying in pain, with his arm all black and eaten up from the muratic acid he shoved thru his vein. He didnt understand what the problem was.....the bottle said acid, so he thought he'd get high.
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I was opening up a pump to fix it since it hadnt been running at full power for some unknown reason. Well the supervisor forgot to tell me that they made the other guards shock the pool before closing. So when i opened it up at 7am, pressure had built up in there from the chemical reation between the water, metal and shock. Thankyfully i had my safety googles on since 4 days before the regional manager got sprayed in the face with acid from a leak in a pipe at different pool. Ric H8ter, it was a real stiff plastic brush, metal would tear the muscle and good skin all the hell if that were used.
on the brightside, i got one heck of an exfolication on my left arm. If ever in major pain, humor makes it a little better.
on the brightside, i got one heck of an exfolication on my left arm. If ever in major pain, humor makes it a little better.
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I once spilled some mineral spirits into my boot. I've had this stuff on my hands and arms plenty of times, with no ill effect, so I didn't think anythng of it being in my boot. Two hours later, I had to leave work my foot was burning so bad. I took the sock and boot off while driving home, and stuck my foot out the window for a little relief. Took a shower when I got home (I didn't bother getting undressed first). After that, I couldn't wear boots or long pants for 2 weeks--couldn't have anything touching that ankle because the skin was so sensitive.
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Originally Posted by peppy
Several years ago, responded to a call for a possible drug overdose. Guy was fresh out of rehab. Guess he needed something fast. So he did a hit of acid thru a needle....Muratic acid. So there we show up, guy crying in pain, with his arm all black and eaten up from the muratic acid he shoved thru his vein. He didnt understand what the problem was.....the bottle said acid, so he thought he'd get high.
i find it hard to believe that a drug addict could possibly think that 'acid' in a bottle could be acid that you trip on. Sorry but maybe the story you heard was untrue...either that or the guy wanted to kill himself and didnt realize how bad and slow that would be.....you dont 'inject' acid though just for the record...you absorb it through the epidermis or toungue
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Originally Posted by peppy
Several years ago, responded to a call for a possible drug overdose. Guy was fresh out of rehab. Guess he needed something fast. So he did a hit of acid thru a needle....Muratic acid. So there we show up, guy crying in pain, with his arm all black and eaten up from the muratic acid he shoved thru his vein. He didnt understand what the problem was.....the bottle said acid, so he thought he'd get high.
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Originally Posted by ckrichard
what should you have done instead of putting it in water?
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Battery acid - neat stuff. A friend of mine was jump starting a car and the battery exploded. The top smacked him in the face, blacked his eyes and bloodied his nose, but also shielded him from the acid, which ate his hat and shirt and burned his skin from the waste up.
At a battery plant where I once worked, an acid pump (used to mix and pump hot acid to charge hundreds of batteries an hour) locked up for some reason, and the redundant pump was already down for service. It was critical to get it fixed, but the guy in charge took too many shortcuts, and jerry-rigged it back together. He was standing beside the electrician, who threw the switch to power it back up. The 3 inch pipe with about 1500 psi let go and sprayed him good. He ran about 6 feet to the emergency shower, and when he turned it on, his clothes just melted off and literally ran down the drain. The electrician was shielded by the open panel door, which was poetic justice, since he was against the shoddy repair from the get-go, and was only following the orders of the naked moron.
At a battery plant where I once worked, an acid pump (used to mix and pump hot acid to charge hundreds of batteries an hour) locked up for some reason, and the redundant pump was already down for service. It was critical to get it fixed, but the guy in charge took too many shortcuts, and jerry-rigged it back together. He was standing beside the electrician, who threw the switch to power it back up. The 3 inch pipe with about 1500 psi let go and sprayed him good. He ran about 6 feet to the emergency shower, and when he turned it on, his clothes just melted off and literally ran down the drain. The electrician was shielded by the open panel door, which was poetic justice, since he was against the shoddy repair from the get-go, and was only following the orders of the naked moron.
