Injuries sustained while brewing

aeonderdonk · Sep 2, 2009

Duckfoot said:
Aside from various minor burns, a few cuts from sharp fittings, a bruised toe from a corney rolling over it and a sore liver, here is my worst brew-related injury...

Trying to scan the surgery x-rays as they are pretty good at showing the plate in my arm...

Damn dude, that looks painful

Cpt_Kirks · Sep 2, 2009

The entire bottom of a glass carboy full of hot wort came off as I was carrying it, hitting my foot. I don't use glass carboys anymore.

I was carrying a full, uncovered pot of 170*F sparge water out back to the MLT when it splashed on my stomach. My t-shirt did a good job of holding the hot water onto my skin. I have a hand sized red spot there to this day.

conpewter · Sep 2, 2009

One time after transferring wort out of the keggle that was on a burner I dumped in some water to clean, then picked it up by the still hot skirt to dump it... luckily it had cooled somewhat so didn't burn too bad.

I've also had boiling wort hit me when i pulled off a QD without shutting off the ball valve on my new system.

Bobby_M · Sep 2, 2009

I had that exact thing happen and the stream caught my on the inner thigh just 4" below the jewels. It didn't burn me though because I was wearing loose jeans. Thank you 1999 fashion.

smizak · Sep 2, 2009

Bobby_M said:
Thank you 1999 fashion.

Hmmm. Maybe I should wear my old Cross Colours and I.O.U. jacket while brewing. That's 1989 though.

mkorpal · Sep 2, 2009

I haven't hurt myself yet, other than getting undiluted sanstar in a cut (yes, it hurts). but I have melted the wiring under my electric stove. Lesson learned, do not boil 6 gallons on your electric range without a canning element.

Brewin_CRAZY · Sep 2, 2009

Ohhhh, I just thought of two more, quite strange injuries. I was sanitizing a fermenter with a wide top on it using starsan. While swishing it around in the fermenter the starsan swished right out of the opening in the top and went right into both of my eyes (i was also wearing contacts). Pending further doom I ran inside, partially blind and tried to rinse out my eyes with contact solution. OUCH, putting contact solution in already messed up eyes really hurts. My vision was blurry for the rest of the night, but all was fine in the AM.

Second injury, dont laugh to hard guys.
-I was kegging something, cant remember what though. But I had spilled a ton of sanitizer on my slick concrete floor while walking away from the keg I slipped on the sanitizer. Ok, picture this, me falling to the floor and reaching for my table/pool table and a shelf on the other side of the room. I missed the shelf and table both, however I managed to grab the 2x4 hanging off the table. While falling I looked at the table and 2x4 just in time for it to smack me right square in the effing nose then i continued to fall and smash into the concrete floor. I now had a throbbing nose and a sore butt, walked inside to what I thought woul dbe for sure a bloody nose but to my relief it was just a little swollen and only chunks of blood came out.... If that was on video it was have won $100,000 on Americas Funniest Homevideos.... wow. You cant make that sh!t up.

Duckfoot · Sep 2, 2009

aeonderdonk said:
Damn dude, that looks painful

Only until the Dilaudid drip in the ER, the nerve block for surgery and the Percocet afterward... Then there was physical therapy...

:ban:

ibbones · Sep 3, 2009

trailblazer said:
brewing in sandles, lifted the lid on my brewpot right as it foamed over and it splashed my foot with some boiling wort. that hurt. then theirs the time when i noticed the valve on the kettle was dripping a little (hardly noticable) so i grabbed it and by the time my hand had a good enough grip to turn it i noticed it was hot. blisters on the fingers. thats about it and that was all in the same brew day. i brewed at night after drinking to much beer.

I plan on brewing this afternoon and I will probably be in gym shorts and sandals. Maybe I should put on shoes...and socks.

ChillyP · Sep 3, 2009

Lost all the hair on my forearm from frostbite while trying to reach into the recirculate well to fix the fitting on my submersible pump while chilling my wort with dry ice cooled water. Very cold and my arm felt like it was being poked by a million needles at the same time.

Hegh · Sep 3, 2009

ChillyP said:
Lost all the hair on my forearm from frostbite while trying to reach into the recirculate well to fix the fitting on my submersible pump while chilling my wort with dry ice cooled water. Very cold and my arm felt like it was being poked by a million needles at the same time.

Ouch.

Did that work well? Sounds like an interesting method...

aeonderdonk · Sep 4, 2009

yeah, that would not be a lot of fun

shortyjacobs · Sep 4, 2009

ChillyP said:
Lost all the hair on my forearm from frostbite while trying to reach into the recirculate well to fix the fitting on my submersible pump while chilling my wort with dry ice cooled water. Very cold and my arm felt like it was being poked by a million needles at the same time.

Dry ice cooled water? Come now, even with salt you aren't going to get that below a few degrees Celsius.

Dry ice cooled ACETONE, on the other hand, will hit -78°C. Now that's some serious cold. :rockin:

Hegh · Sep 4, 2009

shortyjacobs said:
Dry ice cooled water? Come now, even with salt you aren't going to get that below a few degrees Celsius.

Dry ice cooled ACETONE, on the other hand, will hit -78°C. Now that's some serious cold. :rockin:

But would dry ice cooled acetone give you that cool rolling fog effect? I can just imagine brewing on Halloween and using this chilling method, out on the front sidewalk...

shortyjacobs · Sep 4, 2009

Hegh said:
But would dry ice cooled acetone give you that cool rolling fog effect? I can just imagine brewing on Halloween and using this chilling method, out on the front sidewalk...

Yup, but only until the acetone gets down to -78°C....then it will just sit there and bubble a bit every once in a while as the acetone absorbs heat from the surroundings.....dry ice in water will bubble for a good long time, on the other hand, because the water can never cool down to -78°C.....

DavidSteel · Jan 12, 2010

Burning the sides of my arm and fingers with hot wort and boiling water. That's about it I think. Oh, and punching my fire alarm for going off once every 10 minutes for 6 seconds. It went off after I was done stove-top boiling and brought the pot to an iced bath, as I was walking to the kitchen to get the ice. I punched that alarm good. Still have a memento on my knuckle lol.

Hegh · Jan 12, 2010

DavidSteel said:
Burning the sides of my arm and fingers with hot wort and boiling water. That's about it I think. Oh, and punching my fire alarm for going off once every 10 minutes for 6 seconds. It went off after I was done stove-top boiling and brought the pot to an iced bath, as I was walking to the kitchen to get the ice. I punched that alarm good. Still have a memento on my knuckle lol.

I punched mine too, once. It took more damage than I did (had to buy a new one). I may have punched it with a roll of duct tape, which would explain the lack of injury on my part.

Tilldeath · Jan 12, 2010

Second degree steam burn, doing a brew on premesis with a 15gallon keg and first time doing a 10 gallon batch and using lme, had a crazy hotbreak and almost boil over. Didn't have a spray bottle so I was stirring and blowing my Ass off and burnt the crap out of my hand lol

shroomzofdoom · Jan 12, 2010

Quite a few stories here about bare feet/sandals....not to self: wear safe footwear when brewing.

My only casualty so far was leaning my ever growing beer belly into a pot boiling on my gas stove while reaching into the overhead cabinet. The gas flame chewed up the lower half of my way cool Marvel Superhero collage t-shirt. My only indication that something was wrong was the smell combination of burning hair and cotton. I pulled back, only to see the lower fewe inches of the shirt erupt in flames. No injuries at all to me, just one of my favorite t shirts. Luckily, wifey went to the mall and bought me a new one the very next day.

Too bad they took down the thread of the guy that heats his carboy in the oven, then adds 212 deg boiling wort, then carries it outside to cool in the cold air. That sort of idea would have kept this thread lively well into the year 2012.

mdgtarheel · Jan 12, 2010

shroomzofdoom said:
Too bad they took down the thread of the guy that heats his carboy in the oven, then adds 212 deg boiling wort, then carries it outside to cool in the cold air. That sort of idea would have kept this thread lively well into the year 2012.

Wait... Are you serious? Is there actually a guy who does that.

I mean, sounds a little crazy. Talk about dedication to your craft.

shroomzofdoom · Jan 12, 2010

mdgtarheel said:
Wait... Are you serious? Is there actually a guy who does that.

DO NOT try this at home:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/boiling-hot-wort-glass-carboy-155457/

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