re: What is the most gruesome injury you have ever witnessed?

I have a couple. Lady in her 20’s was drunk and fell asleep on the train tracks in the quarter along the river. It was like 35 degrees out. A train rain over her right leg just under her hip. When she got to the ED she was alive and in shock. Just a few tendons were holding the leg to her body. Was asking am I ok? Rushed her to surgery. Don’t know if she made it. The cold temps kept her alive.

Second one a guy was cutting his grass with a push lawnmower and he was cutting along the side of a ditch and he slipped and his right foot went under the mower and turned it into ground meat. He was like is it bad? Ummm it isn’t good!

I can’t even remember his name. We had just come out of Fallujah and he was a replacement they flew in to fill our ranks back up. He probably felt like he had something to prove because the rest of us had been through a lot of combat and he was the new kid.

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By the smell I knew what was going on.

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Smells like pork searing.

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Did he live?

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He only looked to be about two inches thick from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet.

Honorable mention is a rugby teammate getting kicked clean in the face when the opposing player completely whiffed trying to kick the ball.

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Death by donkey is always brutal.

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worse..she lived. Completely ripped out voice box

About 15 years ago we ( my family) we’re going to my parents house on i-12. We were east bound in between Holden and Albany almost dark when an 18 wheeler hit a pinto on the west bound side. He flipped all the way across i-12 east side ,I pulled over and told my wife to stay in the car with the kids. I could smell the alcohol before I got to him. He was a black man in his 60’s ? He was folded , his feet were by his head... bleeding and gasping for air. I held his hand and started praying . He passed away holding my hand within a few minutes... I’ll never forget him

I wish I hadn’t opened this thread and read this.

On the way to the job site one Saturday morning a truck in front of us hit a patch of black ice going around 65 mph. Hit an oncoming car head on. We were the first people there and all 5 people in the car were dead/dying. The young girl in the back seat had her legs on the seat in front of her and was smashed like an accordion. The driver's head impacted the windshield and everyone else in the car was in horrible shape. The driver of the truck ended up with his work boots busted through the glass of the rear passenger side.

That was the one of the hardest days I've had in my life. It was already hard being 12 hours from home, but seeing that tragedy made it almost unbearable. No one in a vehicle I'm in puts their legs or feet on anything but the ground.


ETA: I cut my hand open with a grinder and could see my bone. Not as bad as my story above, but I promise that I wear gloves anytime I should from now on!

While working in an ER, we had a young female come in who had be beaten up, rope tied around her neck and thrown off the side of a bridge. They let her hang there a while but she survived. So they cut the rope and let her fall into the river. She actually fell into the shallow water and laid there until early morning when she was found. When she arrived her neck had been mangled by the rope so badly we could see her right jugular vein and carotid artery...but they were not severed. Her face was completely bloody, bruised, swollen and wounds covered in algae and river water. She was surprisingly awake enough to tell us the story and who had done it to her.