When I was working for the Blyth Festival, for one show I had to remove the booth window infront of the sound
console so I could hear the show (since this show required actual mixing). On the opening night of one of the other shows I was moving the window so I could put it back in before the
house opened.
Part of the window broke in my hands (no, it hit nothing). The window dropped since the part my left
hand was hanging onto was no-longer attached and landed on my left wrist.
Luckily it landed ontop of my metal watchband. My watchband split in two and I got a 6-inch gash down my left wrist. Looked like I tried to kill myself.
The sound designer and his son were right now, and went to go get the SM to get me medical attention. Thank the gods for that watchband, I am positive without it I would of died, the nearest hospital a half-hour away, along with it's ambulances.
The SM came running, and found me, shirt off wrapping my shirt around my arm carefully. She was about to
call an ambulance when I stopped her.
I told her with a little attention I'd be fine. ... I prolly should of gone for stitches or something, I still have the scar.
So we went to the green room and we looked at the cut. It really wasen't that bad... It was still bleeding, but it missed (by narrow margin) my artery and JUST failed to slice though the large veins above it. I could see them pumping blood just fine, being partially exposed but not cut.
TALK ABOUT LUCKY.
So I got her to
throw on some
gauze, tape it down and I ran the show.
When I went to the booth through the audience from the green room after being patched up, several people who recognized me gave me odd looks at the large patch of
gauze on my wrist.
At
intermission the PM came to see me, having only then heard about the accident. I did not feel like getting up for
intermission. She offered to run the show, but I stuck it out.
Not long after I got yelled at for missing
cue by narrow margin as I reattached my bandaging.
I was running LX with my left and sound with my right.
Also got yelled at for an actor who missed standing on her
spike mark. Apparently I missed the
fixture having tilted itself UP. lol.