My son is the manager of a metal workshop in a design firm. He cut his finger and his company sent him off to the hospital where he had 15 stitches put in and then he returned to work.

When I worked in a factory as a teenager I caught my finger in a large industrial stapling machine. I remember I had staples in my finger! I went to the nurse's office where she pulled out the staples, bandaged my hand and sent me back to work. My finger was crushed flat by the stapling machine and has always remained kind of flat.

Jobs where you work with your hands are inherently dangerous. I recently got a preventative tetanus shut from my health care provider. Good thing.

I would like to hear from others who were injured on the job. What happened, and how did your employer and managers handle it?