Iknowcleaning up the kitchen is the worst, butpleaseput your leftovers away!!!
I’ve gotta be honest I learned a thing or two reading this thread.
“A dental infection.
My wife’s cousin was on one a couple of years ago.
They were all dancing on the bus while it was driving on the 101 freeway in LA.
She slipped and fell against the door, which gave way.
She fell out of the bus and was immediately run over by a car.
There wasn’t much left of her, closed casket for sure.
u/bowlskioctavekitten
3.
There wasa news articleback in 2013 of an entire family in Russia that was killed by it.”
“Playing in a deep hole at the beach.
Everyone forgets how heavy dirt actually is.”
Someone placed a bucket of soil on his chest, and then he tried to stand up.
He couldnt move it.
They even supported the bucket to see to it he wouldnt get hurt from it being too much weight.
That was educational."
u/St_Kevin_
5.
“A lot of medication interactions.
Mucinex DM withantidepressants, Tylenol for ahangover.
It happens more than you’d think.”
“Mixing bleach and ammonia when you clean produces a toxic gas that will make you REALLY sick. "
“Leaving food out on the counter.”
“Rags covered in linseed oil can spontaneously combust when left in a pile.
A carpenter I know confirmed that this is a real thing.
I’ve been getting into refinishing old furniture, so I’m glad I learned this now.
You’d think it’d be more common knowledge!”
u/doctor_x
According toNASA, this is a reaction known as auto-oxidation.
9.“Cheerleading.
u/akumamatata8080
“When I was a kid, one of my friends died this way.
u/Mike9601andu/commiecomrade
11.
“Pressure washers are quite lethal.”
“Hitting your head.r/TBIis full of stories about simple slips and falls that resulted in death and lasting effects.
I simply fell on ice at work once.Bam!Unconscious.
I woke up saying I was OK but got talked into getting in an ambulance.
I started dying in the ambulance from a severe brain bleed.
I was in a coma and was expected to die, but I survived.
Still…in all, Im not dead!”
u/cbelt3
13.
“Garage door springs.”
My wife had a friend/coworker whose young daughter choked to death in front of her and her mother.
They tried to dislodge the grape, but nothing worked.
By the time an ambulance got there, the girl was brain dead.
It’s about the worst thing I can imagine as a parent.
We were cutting our kids' grapes in half until they were 10 after that happened.”
u/jpiro
15.
“Giving little babies water to drink.
It doesn’t have to be much;water intoxicationcan kill them very easily.”
“Slipping down the stairs.
u/Parking_War_4100
“Did that.
Got a concussion and five staples in my head.”
u/thebeamingbean
17.
“Blowingan air compressor in someones butt hole.
I know its a weird one, but itkeeps happeningin India.”
u/CopperTop_TX
18.“Tylenol.
The dangerous dosage is only about four times the therapeutic dosage.”
“Going to sleep while drunk and choking on your own vomit.
Always lay your drunk friends on their side and lift their chin to open their airways.
DO NOT lay them on their backs.
My friend died from this at age 32.”
u/K8syk8
20.“Ladders.
People think you have to fall far to get hurt or die.
Eight feet is plenty.”
21.And finally, “Confined spaces.
Other processes can remove oxygen or produce actively toxic gases.
u/SuspiciouslyMoist
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