How have you injured yourself brewing?

[Bender]

Burned my hand grabbing the bottom skirt of my keggle. I had used my CFC to recirculate wort down to 80degF for 10 minutes. Even 15 minutes after flame out, that skirt was still VERY hot.

I did that too, but I didn't get much of a grip, just enough to hear the callouses sizzle a bit.

 

[fnord]

My lord man, seriously making me reconsider my barefoot brewing habit. I think I'll maintain my [probably ignorant] opinion that socks and any shoes that aren't rubber will trap boiling liquid against my skin until I can get them off. Though barefoot does suck on the subfreezing brew days. Don't know how some of you brewers do it.

 

[amfukuda]

Steel toe leather work boots are your friends


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[SeeAliceBrewery]

Burnt the crap out of my hand yesterday when brewing my Hard Apple...NOTHING like the pic above though....ouch!!

 

[EternalHoppiness]

I had a thunderstorm blow up just before flame-out last summer and tried to move the boiling BK out of the rain. It's pretty difficult to maintain an ergonomic lift position when the item being lifted is that hot. Given that I had already injured my back earlier that week (playing volleyball), I ended up with a herniated disk. Many months of pain later, and I finally had surgery a few weeks ago.

Now I'm counting down the days until I can brew again using my new pump and rolling rig. . . Never again will I lift a full BK or MLT!

 

[Darkness]

A friend and I where in my basement brewing, turn'd on the water for the coil chiller and had water flow to high. I was standing in front of the floor drain and the hose from chiller when the super heated water and stem shot out of the hose, Burning my foot, knowing that I had to get my shoe off I jumps in the air trying to kick it off and ended up on my back on the floor. All this while my friend was laughing and finnaly taking pictures of me on the floor.

Gotta love brew buddy's

 

[fuzzy2133]

Steel toe leather work boots are your friends


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I think I'll be getting some rubber boots next trip to the hardware store. IMO leather steel toed work boots don't keep rain out so boiling wort will be no different.

A friend and I where in my basement brewing, turn'd on the water for the coil chiller and had water flow to high. I was standing in front of the floor drain and the hose from chiller when the super heated water and stem shot out of the hose, Burning my foot, knowing that I had to get my shoe off I jumps in the air trying to kick it off and ended up on my back on the floor. All this while my friend was laughing and finnaly taking pictures of me on the floor.

Gotta love brew buddy's

A perfect reason of "no home brew for him!"

 

[kombat]

I've been fortunate (knock on wood) and haven't suffered any major injuries yet. However, it seems every brew day I somehow manage to cut my hand on something stainless steel. Brewing equipment is SHARP! Whether it's the threads on a compression fitting, some frayed stainless filter mesh, a sharp edge of a worm clamp or my plate chiller, or even just a "paper cut" from aluminum foil, I'm always walking away with a bandaid on a knuckle. It's annoying. Anyone else have similar experience, or is it just me?

 

[DrunkleJon]

I always forget that the handles on my BK are hot while heating the strike/sparge water and grab them barehanded. Only then do I remember why I keep a pair of snowboarding gloves handy. Then I do it again at the end of the boil.

 

[fuzzy2133]

I've been fortunate (knock on wood) and haven't suffered any major injuries yet. However, it seems every brew day I somehow manage to cut my hand on something stainless steel. Brewing equipment is SHARP! Whether it's the threads on a compression fitting, some frayed stainless filter mesh, a sharp edge of a worm clamp or my plate chiller, or even just a "paper cut" from aluminum foil, I'm always walking away with a bandaid on a knuckle. It's annoying. Anyone else have similar experience, or is it just me?

Any time I work with sheet metal with out wearing gloves. Usually not home brewing (knock on wood).

 

[cluckk]

Worst I had was having hot water coming from the out on my chiller coil spray all over my right abdomen, chest and arm. The skin blistered up pretty bad. It was quite painful, but I managed to get the batch finished and everything cleaned up before my wife came home and saw the burns.

 

[Zepth]

I think I'll be getting some rubber boots next trip to the hardware store. IMO leather steel toed work boots don't keep rain out so boiling wort will be no different.

Mink oil. Usually comes in a small cylinder near the shoe polish, sometimes with an applicator pad. It's congealed at room temp, don't be looking for something liquidy as other oils. It works marvelous. In the rain after applying it (even weeks after) water will bead up and roll off. I have some 14" tall leather boots I oiled and I can walk in a foot of water with bone dry feet. I fell in love with the stuff and haven't even thought of using a different treatment since. Also moisturizes hands well.

 

[JonM]

Not a brewing injury, more of a grilling injury. I dropped a simple table fork on my pinky toe last night. Didn't think anything of it because, heck, it's just a FORK. Then I looked down and saw that there was a silver dollar sized blood stain on my sock. Patched it up and, when I woke up, the toe is red and blue and swollen as heck with two little puncture wounds on the top.

I suppose the physics makes sense - focus all the force of a falling fork into two tines, and whatever's under those two tines will get hurt. Anyway, it's just a very odd surprising injury.

 

[moreb33rplz]

When I was 20, I was using a corny keg for the first time. I was also several homebrews in. I made a mistake in how I attached the various hoses (still unclear what I did). There was a huge pop, and a plastic adapter shot off the keg and hit me in the chin. It left a deep cut and a scar, and I was deaf for several minutes from the noise.

Lesson: Drink less when handling things under pressure you don't understand.

 

[Bender]

Brewing today with a bandaged hand. Forgot the rig was hot and put my hand on it. Sizzle sizzle.

 

[andvari7]

I've never injured myself brewing, but I did with my batch of mead. I was loosening the leftover honey in the bottles with some hot - okay, boiling - water. It splashed on my bare foot, and I was burned. The mead is now at the end of month one of post-ferment conditioning. If I'm satisfied with the clarity, I'll bottle. Can't be tonight, because everyone else decided to take over my house, and my basement is completely inaccessible.