Hi Guys,

I've just started converting a less than used garage to a dedicated HT room and after completing the first stage, new roof I damaged a nerve in my hand. I'm currently on the side line with this injury for a couple of weeks and the weather is getting colder by the week (Australian winter). I’ve spent months on planning and now can’t do a thing other than admire the new roof.

I was wondering if anyone else has had any injuries with building a HT room as although fun to plan the actual building is a serious job and safety has to be paramount concern.

Cheers

I am in the same boat......I have been working with my hands over my head for a few months and a pickup bball game broke the camels back....rotator cuff surgery yesterday.

not sure what I could have done though....

Nothing serious here. I did fall when I was on stilts (mudding the ceiling), but that was in the gameroom. I also shot half a staple in my finger when attaching some GOM. Besides the occasional cut, blister or hangover , I was pretty fortunate.

Bud

I'm accident prone. So when i start my construction thread in about a yr. you can expect daily injury updates. lol.

My husband feel through the floor joists during floor insulation/speaker wire routing and partially emerged in the mud room downstairs.
Badly bruised far a few weeks - ego damaged badly (I took pictures).

I was wondering if anyone else has had any injuries with building a HT room as although fun to plan the actual building is a serious job and safety has to be paramount concern.


A 20-second search of the last 60 days of posts revealed this (http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=838250&highlight=injury). Searching the forums is always recommended before posting.

Good luck with the recuperation from your injury!


-drin

A 20-second search of the last 60 days of posts revealed. Searching the forums is always recommended before posting.

Good luck with the recuperation from your injury!


-drin
Good point, thanks for the sentiment.

I'll continue this thread rather than reviving the previous. I think the point of this one is sympathy and community, rather than information.

My worst problem was from the initial few days of framing before I got my framing nailer. After a weekend of hammering in 3.5" framing nails in awkward places up over my head, my wrist was shot. I don't know if it was carpal tunnel or what, but something inside my right wrist hurt when I moved. Messed me up for a few weeks.

Fortunately, I've managed to avoid any framing nailer injuries. I treat that thing with a lot of respect...

Well, lets see. Which incident?

The excavator dropped a bucket of 3/4 minus gravel on Barb while backfilling the theater (he could not see over the walls). No injury but he felt silly.

I pulled a tendon in my leg pushing a wheel barrow full of soil up hill.

The concrete guys assistant ran a jumping jack packer over his toe.

The main concrete guy was blow 8 feet across the theater by a plugged line on the concrete
pumper boom truck.

Fortnately, no injuries were serious or permanent!

My bank account sufferd a fatal blow. ;-)

Thumb, meet Hammer..... Hammer, meet thumb...... Brain, feel pain..... Mouth, scream like hell!

Other than that, I took a nice chunk out of and still have a sweet 1" scar on my left pointer finger, thanks to my mitre saw.

My husband feel through the floor joists during floor insulation/speaker wire routing and partially emerged in the mud room downstairs.
Badly bruised far a few weeks - ego damaged badly (I took pictures).So post the pictures!