What are your occupational hazards?

[Bertha Venation]

Mine: paper cuts and anxiety attacks.

Yours?

[datasuspect]

1. DUIs and eating too much

[Dr Fate]

2. Getting caught surfing on DU. n/t

n/t

[KamaAina]

3. Terminal boredom

:boring:

[Chan790]

4. Concussion, severe cuts and potentially death.

I work in the tools department at a department store as a commissioned sales rep.

It sounds nice but I frequently come home with gashes and cuts from the sharp edges of tools and occasionally a split knuckle from falling paint cans. Some idiot nearly dropped a hammer on my head and I fell off a ladder, smacked my head on an end-cap of table vices and rendered myself unconscious one afternoon.

My coworkers can't for the life of them figure out why I'd rather be upstairs selling suits or loafers.

[Rosie1223]

5. Carpal Tunnel from

my Freecell addiction.

[TZ]

6. Catching an infectious disease

Like Hepatitus.

[tandot]

7. getting spit, vomited, and peed on

...taking care of our 2-month old son :)

[SeattleGirl]

8. Potential for being in a car wreck.

I have to drive to appointments frequently, and have come close to having some asshole hit me more times than I want to think about.

[backtoblue]

9. communicable disease, biohazardous material, emotional distress, heavy lifting....

[NJmaverick]

11. What is your job?

I'm thinking nurse or EMT

[backtoblue]

12. ...

Embalmer/Funeral Director.

[NJmaverick]

14. hmmm..... interesting how you face the same hazards

as EMTs and nurses. I guess human bodies pose the same hazards dead or alive.

[backtoblue]

15. Generally, yes.

Viruses and bacteria can live in and outside of the body for various amounts of time after death. I wear alot of protective gear and sometimes have the luxury of knowing the cause of death before the procedure if it were from a contagious disease.

You on the other hand put your life on the line to SAVE someone and that is very brave. At least I don't have to deal with crazy or violent people while I'm "operating" on someone.

I originally wanted to be a doctor, but I messed around as a teenager and my family didn't have the money for medical school.

[NJmaverick]

10. My regular job not much, my volunteer EMS and Rescue work

catching an infectious disease, street violence, attacks from mentally ill or drunk/high patients, back and other joint injuries while carrying, auto accidents, being struck by a car while working in streets, post traumatic stress, lack of sleep, . That's the medical side on the rescue side- falls, crushing injuries, electrocution, cuts, objects falling on me, burns, explosives from car safety systems, confined space dangers and so on.

[Ptah]

13. Large machines that might dismember an inattentive person.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if7W2YGpEuk

[alarimer]

16. Sunstroke, skin cancer, drowning, heat exhaustion

Falling out of boats and incurring injuries that way.

Stingrays, sharks, hardhead catfish (those spines are a menace) and assorted fish spine injuries, jellyfish

Drunken irate fishermen (more like to be sexually or otherwise harassed by them, rather than assaulted)

[madinmaryland]

17. Construction site dust and general building site issues.

Nasty.

Trust me. Wear a hardhat and safety glasses on a construction site. Don't know how many times I've gotten whacked in the head by handing greenfield.

[femmocrat]

18. Great question! Teacher here:

Every communicable disease that's out there (Well, I do have vaccinations for some of them!)

Very common: migraines, all kinds of foot problems; bladder infections; and other aches and pains from lifting, bending, climbing, crawling, and other contortions that the adult body no longer willingly does.

Me personally: carpal tunnel from doing art work, and ruined eyesight from all the paperwork!

:hi:

[Ikonoklast]

19. Death.

Commercial driving has been much safer in recent years, mostly due to less miles being driven by private vehicles.

The chances of me being killed in an accident caused by a driver in an automobile making a mistake is around 66-75% depending on whose statistics you use. Insurance companies use the lower one, government agencies use the higher one.

Drivers in big trucks are more afraid of automobile drivers than anything else.

[av8rdave]

20. Windshear, terrorism, solar radiation, electromagnetic field, greedy management,

mismanagement, thunderstorms, fatigue, unruly/violent passengers, disrupted sleep cycle/circadian rhythm, skin cancer, mechanical failure.

That's about all I can come up with at the moment.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

34. You forgot malnutrition, back trouble, sciatica and bedbugs.

[av8rdave]

36. Oh, thanks. I forgot about all of those!

:hi:

[av8rdave]

38. and icing, runway incursion and midair collision

The list just gets better and better!

Come to think of it, I've had more close calls in hotel vans than I have in airliners. There's another one!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

39. And slipping in deicing fluid.

Just wait til you start flying OUR routes...

[av8rdave]

41. Oh, I get plenty of that every winter....

I seem to get my share of BOS, ORD, PIT, DTW, etc., etc. in the wintertime.

I'm hoping instead to be flying some of those Asian or European routes. It doesn't hurt nearly as bad when you slip on deicing fluid there!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

21. Tendonitis, carpal tunnel, repetetive stress stuff

It's hard to avoid over-extending myself when there's actually work to be found.

[HopeHoops]

22. The refrigerator

I work at home - need I say more?

[mwooldri]

23. Going deaf and possibly carpal tunnel.

If too many people yell over the phone to the point that it blasts my ear off, then yep, I'll be going deaf. Carpal tunnel would be from too much typing. Freecell? Pah. No time for that, too much DU to do.

[Kali]

24. pretty much anything you can come up with

we are lacking in the large farm machinery, but I am around crappy regular vehicles way too much so all the hazards they pose, I am exposed to

large animals
small poisonous animals
sun, rain, lightening, cold (can't recall that sensation at the moment)
late nights/middle of the nights lack of sleep
heavy lifting
toxic chemicals (we don't use many, but I'm thinking gasoline and motor oil)
sharp medical instruments
sharp plant life
sharp fenceing
driving on and off road
guns and idiots
old lumber, rocks, holes
fire
occasional flooding

[CreekDog]

25. Earthquakes

:scared:

[cwydro]

26. Spinning propellors and jet blast.

Idiots driving heavy equipment.

[rucky]

27. carpal tunnel. fat ass. homicide.

[abq e streeter]

28. dealing with drunks; social anxiety disorder attacks with no place to hide.

at least no more second hand smoke , but will be dealing with the effects of that for the rest of my life....and some hearing loss too, although lucky its not a lot worse.

[Shell Beau]

29. Bitchy boss a/k/a my aunt!

[bluedigger]

30. This might take a while.

I'm currently 95% cube rat, but generally hazards may include the following: Lyme's Disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, rabies (I know folks who have been treated for all of these, and most of the rest I'll mention), molds and unidentified hazardous wastes, cuts, gashes, bruises and smashes, dogs, bulls, falls, trench cave-ins, electrocution, traffic, both in it and working beside it, tornadoes, heat stroke, various body failures, i.e. ankles, knees, backs, shoulders, tendinitus is common, poison ivy and it's evil cousins, oak and sumac, snakes, spiders, frostbite, whew...

Maybe in my next life I'll be a lion tamer.

[billyoc]

31. Gravity.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

32. Fat butt, mostly. But I suspect I'd have that no matter what my job was.

[Brigid]

33. Stress.

That, and extreme misanthropy from dealing with idiots on the phone all day. :grr:

[UndertheOcean]

35. Getting zapped by high voltage devices

[triguy46]

37. Assault from employees.

[MorningGlow]

40. Missing deadlines

Nobody to blame but myself (I'm a freelancer). Nothing like seeing a direct line from work to money (and, likewise, NO work to NO money) to put the fear of god into you.

On edit: Also--losing my mind from having no one to talk to. Hence one browser window always on DU! (Hence the problem with risking missing deadlines....heyyyy...IT'S ALL DU'S FAULT! :D)

[jmowreader]

42. Killing someone comes very high on the list

Let's see...running over a pedestrian or a motorist, destroying an object, large fines, jail time, dying, damaging my own vehicle, incurring the wrath of a shipper, a consignee or my dispatcher, rolling the vehicle over, cargo incidents, assholes jumping up on your tank steps giving you directions that take you straight to their buddies who are waiting to hijack your truck, and the everpresent "trafficking in illegal immigrants."

[csziggy]

43. Concussions, kicks, bites, joint injuries, severe bodily harm

You name it - I have horses. Not just horses, I have a farm so to add to all the injuries the horses inflict on me, I also can deal with heavy equipment, power tools, various forms of wildlife, heat stroke, exposure and so on. Well, these days not so much heavy equipment. I shredded the meniscus in one knee driving the tractor so unless I want knee replacement real soon I am not supposed to drive it anymore.

And then the years we are expecting foals, there is the insomnia of watching the mares added to my normal insomnia. That actually works out very well for me since it gives me an excuse for staying up all night and sleeping in the daytime.

[handmade34]

44. hmmmm

I drive all over the United States and go into strange neighborhoods... potential automobile accidents, assault(when people think I'm up to something in their neighborhood), no home cooked food, loneliness and copious amounts of money spent on packages to my kids.

[Courtesy Flush]

45. Being hated intensely

I work for CPS, and have taken children away from people who live in my small town. Not always a comfortable existence. I also get hated for NOT taking children. You can't win in this job.

[Patiod]

46. Hypochondria, aversion to taking Rx drugs

I inteview health care providers on behalf of pharma companies.

When I do migraine work, I get headaches. Was doing a lot of psoriasis work, and got scaley patches on my eyelids. Don't even want to discuss all the work I did on drugs for constipation...

[Inchworm]

47. The desire to murder and cuteness overload

:D