Have You Ever Been Injured By Product Packaging?

The tools used to open the packaging have never hurt me, but the thick hard plastic with its razor edges once cut are another matter. During your convalescence from finger wounds, you then learn the meaning of, “the gift that keeps on giving!” 🙀
 
While working in a Hart's Family Center (like K=Mart) I was opening a box with a box cutter when a customer asked me a question, I looked up, and sliced a long cut up my thumb pad needing ten stitches and making a mess.

Like Murrmurr, I'm most irritated by the little staples and bits of plastic that hold the price tags in every towel or pair of socks in the world. They sink into the fabric and make tears and they snap when you cut them and fly across the room. I'm always scrambling to find them before the dog does.
 
Della said:
Like Murrmurr, I'm most irritated by the little staples and bits of plastic that hold the price tags in every towel or pair of socks in the world. They sink into the fabric and make tears and they snap when you cut them and fly across the room. I'm always scrambling to find them before the dog does.
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Oh man, I forgot about those. Also I forgot about the toys that are fastened to the cardboard pieces with teeny tiny screws and, inexplicably, these evil little washers serrated with needle sharp teeth. What is up with those? Doesn't make those toys theft-proof. So they have no purpose whatsoever, except consumer injury and utter frustration.
 
Della said:
While working in a Hart's Family Center (like K=Mart) I was opening a box with a box cutter when a customer asked me a question, I looked up, and sliced a long cut up my thumb pad needing ten stitches and making a mess.

Like Murrmurr, I'm most irritated by the little staples and bits of plastic that hold the price tags in every towel or pair of socks in the world. They sink into the fabric and make tears and they snap when you cut them and fly across the room. I'm always scrambling to find them before the dog does.
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those little tags are verrrry irritating!! :confused:
 
Murrmurr said:
Oh man, I forgot about those. Also I forgot about the toys that are fastened to the cardboard pieces with teeny tiny screws and, inexplicably, these evil little washers serrated with needle sharp teeth. What is up with those? Doesn't make those toys theft-proof. So they have no purpose whatsoever, except consumer injury and utter frustration.
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I had a packaging held together with those little screws and washers on cardboard a couple of months ago.. couldn't believe my eyes that I had to go to such nonsense to get my goods..what was it ?... a set of drawer handles
 
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Had a similar experience with a couple of eye makeup pencils I recently bought. Took forever to peel the plastic from around them, and then I left one with a several-inch scrape. <sigh>
 
I dread those things. There has to be an easier way. I really dislike the items attached to a background with zip ties. There are times I can jab my finger multiple times trying to open one package.
 
I think I've cut myself with that plastic packaging but I don't remember the incident(s), just I am extremely cautious nowadays with them. But, paper and cardboard can still take me by surprise, I sliced my thumb just last week opening a cardboard box (paper type cut from a sharp edge of a thin piece of cardboard).
 
I don't know if this qualifies as product packaging or product "usage" but I've been hurt by this box a few times:
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And by the product itself. Nothing feels quite the same as an aluminum foil cut. :(
 

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