Injuries sustained while brewing

[Plowboymiz]

I slipped while trying to dump sparge water into the MLT and of course, instead of the water going forward, it fell back on to me with my face taking most of the 180 degree wrath. Adding insult to injury, when I fell to the ground ravaging like a loon from the pain, I hit my fryer stand (still hot I mind you) with my arm and peeled back a nice sliver of skin.

PS. The ER doctor liked homebrew though!!

PPS. After the trip to the ER, I came back home and finished the batch and Burnt Face IPA was born! :rockin:

 

[Scut_Monkey]

I slipped while trying to dump sparge water into the MLT and of course, instead of the water going forward, it fell back on to me with my face taking most of the 180 degree wrath. Adding insult to injury, when I fell to the ground ravaging like a loon from the pain, I hit my fryer stand (still hot I mind you) with my arm and peeled back a nice sliver of skin.

PS. The ER doctor liked homebrew though!!

PPS. After the trip to the ER, I came back home and finished the batch and Burnt Face IPA was born! :rockin:

Good lord I think we have a winner. Hopefully you had some cold beer at home to numb some of the pain and relieve some of the post traumatic stress disorder.

 

[donshizzles]

I always seem to cut my fingers on the threads of the pipe nipples while assembling my fittings. You think I would learn not to do that.

YUP! I dropped the end of a threaded 1/2" pipe literally no more than 3" onto the top of my thumb. It filet it open like a hot knife through butter. About 10 mins later my pipe wrench slipped and took 2 fingernails with it. Good times. Can't wait to brew! :cross:

 

[Plowboymiz]

Good lord I think we have a winner. Hopefully you had some cold beer at home to numb some of the pain and relieve some of the post traumatic stress disorder.

Uh yes, and a fresh vial of Vicodan's!!

 

[aeonderdonk]

I slipped while trying to dump sparge water into the MLT and of course, instead of the water going forward, it fell back on to me with my face taking most of the 180 degree wrath. Adding insult to injury, when I fell to the ground ravaging like a loon from the pain, I hit my fryer stand (still hot I mind you) with my arm and peeled back a nice sliver of skin.

PS. The ER doctor liked homebrew though!!

PPS. After the trip to the ER, I came back home and finished the batch and Burnt Face IPA was born! :rockin:

Wow....... just wow

 

[cercueil]

I switched to all-grain brewing in the morning so I don't drink while I brew which is a good thing. While doing extract at night I had a Lagunitas Cappuccino Stout (8.3%) amongst other beers and actually fell up my stairs. Not sure how I did that.

 

[Scut_Monkey]

I switched to all-grain brewing in the morning so I don't drink while I brew which is a good thing. While doing extract at night I had a Lagunitas Cappuccino Stout (8.3%) amongst other beers and actually fell up my stairs. Not sure how I did that.

That's better than falling down the stairs I guess. I too brew in the morning and I typically don't start cracking into the beer until my mash is done and I'm boiling. Gives me something to work toward and keeps me from getting to the point where I forget to sanitize my fermenter.

 

[d37fan]

I work with metals all day and know the conductive properties of said metals, but dumba** can happen to anybody. After the IC had been in the boil for about 10 min, and watching the steam make the hose soft and squishy, I decided to move it around and seared my thumb and first finger. I guess my mind thought it's above the hot wort 6" or so, so it won't be that hot.

 

[Ragutis]

Other than the usual burnt fingers and hot wort splashes the only injury I have suffered is a red wasp sting.
I had just turned off the chiller hose and was walking back to the brew area when the little bastard jumped out of nowhere and got me on the left little finger.
By the time I'd aerated the wort and pitched the yeast my hand was swollen and stiff. It was unusable for two days.
Red Wasp IPA tastes great though.

 

[aeonderdonk]

Raugatis your avatar looks like Jack of the Wood's Green Man ale logo from an awesome brewpub in Asheville, looks great!

 

[Ragutis]

Raugatis your avatar looks like Jack of the Wood's Green Man ale logo from an awesome brewpub in Asheville, looks great!

The Green Man is an ancient pagan figure represented by the face or other incarnations including Robin Hood, a Green Knight and John Barleycorn.

Green Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'd like to try out the brewery in Asheville. I hear it's a cool place. I was going to call mine Green Man until I found out about that place. That's why I went with The Wildwood Brewery but with the same motif. I'm having an original Green Man face painted for my logo.
Here are some label ideas I've been tossing around.

Sorry about the hijack.

 

[beerthirty]

Burns between the toes when hot spent grains were dropped- lesson learned, don't wear sandles.
Slack lesion of left rotator cuff lowering carboy into chest freezer- lesson learned, use buckets.

 

[bhatchable]

The class 6 is the where you go to get most of your alcohol on base. The px/bx doesn't really carry that stuff and the commissary doesn't have much either.

Our NEX (Navy exchange) at North Island had a formidable alcohol selection, and if you are willing to go across the bay to 32nd street there is a huge NEX bottle shop.

 

[ThickHead]

I'd like to try out the brewery in Asheville. I hear it's a cool place.

Green Man at Jack of the Wood is but 1 of several craft breweries here in Asheville. Shoot me a PM before you pop in town, I'll buy the first round.

 

[aeonderdonk]

Some mild burns this weekend struggling with pumpkin sparge from hell

 

[jldc]

No real injuries here. I'm strongly in the Better Bottle camp, so no glass carboy stories. I did have to reach into my strike water yesterday to retrieve my thermapen. I thought I had saved it, but although it still works, the numbers are only loosely related to the temperature now. Thankfully, I had two thermometers.

Maybe I'll get one of the new Splashproof Thermapens. I wonder it they are dunkproof??

 

[Brewin_CRAZY]

A buddy of mine poured the hot side of a heat exchanger down the back of my leg and on my feet (waring flip flops). Burned me pretty bad, but no real damage, plus we were pretty drunk, that day included a bottle of DFH 120! I think we got more of a laugh out of it that anything!

Oh an I grab the hot side of everything, yes i know, I should learn my lesson but those pesky hot pads are all the way inside and I dont want to use them.

 

[aeonderdonk]

hot stuff is hot, i have yet to learn that one too

 

[Pickngrin]

A few years ago, after having had all of my brewing equipment in storage for several years, I decided to brew a batch. Not having the forethought to check the integrity of the hose clamps on my immersion chiller, I was unpleasantly surprised when the hot side hose slipped off during the cooldown, soaking the shoulder of my t-shirt and scalding the skin underneath. That was painful for weeks. Good times!

 

[sd38]

The typical burns and scrapes and i had a carboy explode in my kitchen.It put a three to four inch hole in the ceiling and i still havent got all the hop particals off.

 

[uechikid]

I have burned my fingers and forearm pretty bad. Not to mention the liver and kidneys taking a hit on brew day. I have also broken two 6.5 gallon carboys and who knows how many hydrometers.

 

[Scut_Monkey]

It boggles my mind that we can survive brew days with all the exploding carboys and Napalm like wort burns........ Going to see if I can get a bomb squad uniform off ebay.

 

[Stuntman]

I switched to all-grain brewing in the morning so I don't drink while I brew which is a good thing. While doing extract at night I had a Lagunitas Cappuccino Stout (8.3%) amongst other beers and actually fell up my stairs. Not sure how I did that.

Must be all that caffeine in the air from the Cappuccino. Funny story.

 

[Stuntman]

A minor burn on a finger from stupidly almost moving my turkey fryer stand by the leg, after a flame had been burning on the metal for an hour.

I was lucky but a brewbuddy of mine got a really nast burn on his whole hand by doing the same thing, only managing to grip the leg of his before the flesh started cooking.

Stuck my hands in a 155 degree mashtun to fix the braid, and my hands looked like lobster claws for a few hours.

LMAO Revvy, about what pint were you on, when you dove into that Mash Tun with both hands? I usually think; one hand, really fast... (I'll be alright).

My only one so far, the ol "Carboy Trick". It was full of sanitizer (lucky it wasn't beer) and I touched the corner on the concrete....made that sound and I let it go. Not before the Great White knawed on my leg a bit. Took a while to get it to stop bleeding.

 

[DtownRiot]

I was bottling in my apartment kitchen. I had the bottling bucket by the sink and my bottles on the floor. I must've been on my haunches crouched over for a really long time because both my legs fell asleep. When I stood up to grab my caps for the bottles my legs buckled and I stumbled into the wall kicking over about ten of my newly bottled beers. No injury, but if the wall wasn't there I would've been flat on my face.

 

[p4ck37p1mp]

I was bottling in my apartment kitchen. I had the bottling bucket by the sink and my bottles on the floor. I must've been on my haunches crouched over for a really long time because both my legs fell asleep. When I stood up to grab my caps for the bottles my legs buckled and I stumbled into the wall kicking over about ten of my newly bottled beers. No injury, but if the wall wasn't there I would've been flat on my face.

LMAO! Thats hillarious!

 

[jasonsbeer]

In addition to the minor burns, just an injury to my kitchen floor -

I was sanitizing a 5 gal carboy, so it was full of water and bleach. I went to pour it out into a pail. The carboy was wet and I lost my grip on the bottom. The bottom only fell a few inches, but it took a large piece out of my tile floor, and the whole floor shook. The carboy was, amazingly, undamaged.

I guess I would rather have a chipped tile than 5 gals of water and broken glass to clean up. To this day I can't believe that carboy didn't break. I'm still using it.

 

[Duckfoot]

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...

 

[trailblazer]

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.

 

[MrGaryFish]

Raugatis your avatar looks like Jack of the Wood's Green Man ale logo from an awesome brewpub in Asheville, looks great!

Asheville is teh ****. I like Green Man IPA. I went by Pisgah Brewing a couple weeks back, and was surprised. Too bad we don't have anything cool like a little brewery in a warehouse or steel building like Pisgah or French Broad.