Deaths at a California skydiving center, but the jumps go on

Re:Deaths at a California skydiving center, but the jumps go on by jpsouth on Thursday April 04, 2024 @06:56PM (#39936840)

I know a person who got a hairline fracture on his foot from dropping a knife on his steel toe cap boot - the metal knife handle hit the boot, not the blade.

6 weeks later, he was getting amputated above the knee due to sepsis - had he left it another week or two, he’d be dead.

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Re:Deaths at a California skydiving center, but the jumps go on by brailsafe on Thursday April 04, 2024 @07:25PM (#39937076)

Did you mean to say that the metal knife handle hit the boot, but not the steel toe? As in the soft part of the boot?

I've had some ankle fractures I didn't know about in the past, thankfully they didn't lead to more than a few weeks of inactivity, but have had absolutely miserable infections from a mild shin scrape and achillies cut.

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Re:Deaths at a California skydiving center, but the jumps go on by jpsouth on Friday April 05, 2024 @09:18AM (#39941996)

Ah yes, it hit the boot (which was steel toe capped) but I believe where the laces are, the top of the guys foot basically (no anatomy expert, but from a quick search it looks like a ‘tarsal’).

Tragic really, he worked in a sharpening factory and spent his life doing this as a career, had many cuts and wounds over his years and a completely invisible injury took almost his entire leg.

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