Computer Related Injuries

Though this is a security related site, I thought I would address this anyways.

Several of my classmates complain regularly that their eyes hurt after a couple of hours of using their computers…and some after only half an hour!
As for me…my computer has become an extension of my body. Though I’ve never had problems with my eyes hurting I have developed a bump on my left wrist joint that hurts when I touch it. [Should probably get it checked out] I’ve heard of people getting carpel tunnel syndrome, tendonitis and numbness from nerve damage. Argh.

I’m wondering if any of you have experienced computer related injuries? Or do you know of anyone who has?

PS. This woman should win a Darwin award in my opinion [True story!]:
There was a woman whose basement had flooded. Guess what the first thing she did was? She went into her basement where her computer was located and decided to start it up. Unfortunately for her, her computer related injury [or stupidity related injury] could not be ‘fixed’ by a visit to the doctor. RIP.

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okay I've got one for you....

A few years back I was working on an old AST desktop system... unfortunately while poking around in there I gashed my left thumb pretty bad on the sheet metal of the case....

6 stitches.... still have the scar.... when I told the doctor it was work related and would be covered by workmans comp.... he asked what I did for a living...

uhm well I'm a network administrator.... to which he replied "what did ya do, fall outta your chair??"

as far as the ergonomics, I have seen a few problems with people encountering carple tunnel and a few back related injuries from seating. I dont use the mouse much at all, however I do get a sore elbow when I do use it for extended periods of time (due to it resting on the edge of the desk)

~THEJRC~

I use a jelly filled wrist guard pad. It's nice and it helps

once i cut my self with a pneumatic drill cutting holes in my case
one time i left the case fall in my foot in the way to a LAN
without counting all the shocks damn, the eye damage that now don't affect but in the future could be a problem,

i recently (a month or so ago) got a copy off of an antec 1040B Case, Full tower... the case was grade B ... :\ as luck would have i i reached inside and there are all the pieces of metal which had been cut but the tips of them still on! i tried to pry one off with my and cut my thumb pretty bad... lol I would entertain myself by looking through the gash at people it was so deep! haha :rolleyes:

*sniff*

you really mean it....
I'm not the only one!!

you guys sure know how to make a person feel like he belongs...

*sniff*

~THEJRC~

About a 3 months ago my beloved WindowsME froze on me while I was multi-tasking. I ended up punching the roll-out keyboard tray. The result was a broken keyboard tray and I cut up my hand pretty bad. It took me about 45min to figure out how to fix it and glue and nail all the pieces back on so my parents wouldn't notice. They did notice it 3 weeks later and that resulted in some severe punishment...'No Computer for a Week.'

i remember that my first Full tower had afew fans paint job done , water cooler system and thermometer in it but i passed thru hell to build it cuts, shocks, stabs... yeah stabs, i steal remenber my mother saying "i spend alot a money in this case and why you are cuting holes in it" but all turn to be alright

anybody here have done a case mod before?

After my moron 18 year old cousin got candy on a floppy and then decided to rinse it of and put into the drive still wet, for some reason she left the disk in. The candy dried into the drive while I was away. I came back found her prying at it with a screw driver.
My poor old Mac Daddy!! I hurt my hand hitting her. I then dropped the 'puter on my foot dragging it away.

I've been known to catch some shrapnel in the eye from the use of my trusty dremel Code....

I've also been known to straighten out Sun E-450's with come-alongs and bar clamps, and use a forklift to perform miracle work on rack's and other various items.... no injuries from those yet... thank god..

oh my.... we seem to have strayed waaaaay off topic... he he

~THEJRC~

true... true...

ok let's back to the topic , i have just cut my hand , nothing serius but i am kind collecting war scars here

i have to buy a new computer this one that i have its a deadly weapon ehhehehe:)

sharp edges every where

I used to get bit all the time by those computer cases.

It's been a while, because I'm lazy and I don't do the menial labor anymore :D



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i am without money now

but my next computer will me THE MACHINE

i want to put fans , water cooling , do a white flame paint job , lights, thermometer for all processor and the case, switches for all ,heatsinks , any thing i have the right to put i will put

ohh and of course overcolck... for sure

Well, I have had many different "war wounds" from open casses. Swaping cards and memory can be kinda dangerous. Then again, I used to work for comp USA, and my manager droped a 19" monitor on me from about 8 feet above me. I didn't get hurt to bad, and we are pretty sure that the monitor wasn't damaged.

I have also started developing carpul tunnel syndrom in both writsts and use a varitey of techniques to postpone the damage..ie wrist wrests, special gloves, etc.

There are now laws inacted by osha reguarding rss (repetative stress syndrome) and eye strain. Companies will probably be required to provide wrist wrests, glare filters, etc. to deter these common problems. It is also a recomendeation to take a 10 minutes break every 2 hours at a computer screen, and required some places.

hmm,

At work I there are about 6 users(out of 150 that we regularly support) which have carpal tunnel, or something similar. All of them have had to switch which hand they use their mouse with, as well as some other measures, like special wrist rests, mice, keyboards and chairs.

Personally, some days I think I have carpal tunnel, with some real pain in my wrists. But then it goes away.

Also, I did manage to cut my self enough that I left little trails of dripping blood around our server room a couple times.

And once, when I had one of the servers at the top of a rack pulled out to work on, I bumped my head on it while working on a lower one. It was pretty bad. I managed to knock myself off my feet that time.

Hey, this is not with a computer in all of the sense of the word, but my Xbox just fell on my cousins foot!!!, damn that green-black box is heavy!!! lmao!!!

I like this thread but I aint got much stories to tell yet...!

I have hurt myself in fits of anger when I had Windows ME, you know little tantraums! ;)

Luckily I no longer use ME and I now find life easier with less injuries.

;)
Good thread!

Had an incident in the server room where an op decided to use those tile-pullers up from the raised floor. One came up ok, and the other offered resistance (I'm at the keyboard) so he pulled harder and I barely had time to yell "Oh ****" as he ripped it up, falling back, and barely got out of the way before the HP K class came crashing down...dumbass didn't see the wheels. Amazing thing is, it kept going (thank God for those 12' scsi cables). He almost got fired though, hehe...

My related injuries are case bites, shock. Using computers I sometimes get a sore neck from being in front of the computer too long with out moving.

- scratched my hands several times while putting cards in a pc or working on cases.

- 'burned' a finger while touching a hot SCSI disk.

- cut my finger with an IBM network wall socket

- red eyes after 15 hours online -> I had to go to a doctor for it.

- I took 'a computer related cold' -> temperature difference between the mainframe computer room (19°C) and outside (35°C) was to high. -> ill next day

since the thread keeps rolling here I might as well report two near misses

I was checking out an HP palmtop a while back, when I pluged it in it somehow decided to shoot a spiffy three inch flame in my face.... thank god this hippy had his hair tied back!!!

I've also dealt with a fritzy APC 3000 UPS..... plugged it in and turned to talk to a coworker when all we heard was a loud pop and a long sizzle... used up two fire extinguishers on that thing....

~THEJRC~

I have gotten shocked a little bit, and dropped the computer case on my toes a couple times, but no more injuries than that.

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Originally posted by casper3699
My related injuries are case bites, shock. Using computers I sometimes get a sore neck from being in front of the computer too long with out moving.

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I can sympathise with the sore neck bit especially - ever woken up after falling asleep for a few hours in front of keyboard while working late at night?