I suffered a broken heart many many years ago when I accidentally knocked my brand new Lionel Western Pacific GP 7 off of the layout onto the concrete basement floor and smashed it into smithereens while fumbling around with a section of shorted out tubular track. Because of my abject stupidity that one still hurts to this day. 
Other than that just your typical cuts, blisters and bruises.
Funny you should ask....three weeks ago tomorrow i was headed to the model railroad club and fell on the stairs. Broke my left wrist. Still in a cast and it still hurts.
Lou N
Many years ago, when I bought my TMCC set, I set up a small oval of track on the family room floor to test it out. I was powering it with an old 1033 transformer. For some reason I reached across the oval, placing my hand on the track. The full voltage of the old transformer shorted on my wedding ring. Needless to say, it got real hot real quick. I couldn't wear the ring for a couple of weeks.
Tom
One thing to know when you build a model railroad layout:
You're going to sweat, you're going to bleed, and you're going to pay the price!
Working on expanding the layout in our basement last weekend, climbed on top of the new train table, lost my balance and fell back to earth. Now that I have had time to censor myself, let's pretend that all I said was "ouch".
While build the train room, I framed the room with steel studs. I was drilling a hole to attach a plastic box and ran the drill bit along my finger nail and into the top of my finger. Nice little 1/8" hole. After about three weeks of it not healing, I discovered a small piece of metal that looked like a washed embedded under the skin. Once I was able to remove it it healed in a couple days.
Some years ago I was working on a "craftsman" (wood and metal) car kit and my Xacto knife with #11 blade rolled off of the work table and imbedded itself in my thigh and I swear it vibrated (twangggg!) just like in a cartoon. I still have the scar.
my worst was when I left the walk through open once and noticed my F3's heading towards the opening. Made a leap to stop them by knocking them off the track. In the process I lost my balance and knocked myself out on the edge of the layout, I needed the nap anyway. I too have done several of the above as well. The stitches count has been holding at 10 for some time now. It's not always a hobby, sometimes it's an adventure. (To the hospital).��
YEP!!!!!!!!
was setting up for a train show. had the board all set and some trains running. I had gotten a little sweaty from working so hard.
my tee shirt was wet. I leaned across the tracks to get something from the inside loop and my chest hit the outside loop.
and ZING. the old ZWs pack a wallop. I got a little zing from the 20+ AC going thru the tracks. Moral of the story, don't lean across
the rails with a wet tee shirt (no wet tee shirt jokes please)!!!
I was working on some scenery when I smelled smoke. No engines were running. Soon realized that the smoke was coming from me. My watch's metal wristband was across the track. I got a 20 volt reminder of how stupid I can be.
Ed Kazarian
A few years ago I was home alone working on the layout using a Drimel tool. It slipped and put a good size gash in my thumb��. I had to drive myself to the ER.
On another occasion my wife was helping me add a 2X4 to the layout in order to reinforce a new access hole I had cut into the bench work. I took a swing at the 2x4 and the board flew out and hit my wife smack in the middle of her forehead! She let out a blood curdling scream! I though I had killed her! It turned out that she was more scared than hurt. Despite this she still loves me��, lets me play trains��. She also used this event to take a day off from work.
Richard
Painful legs from riding the bus to and from York.
Scrapped scalp and arms from screws protruding the layout top surface.
Chest pains and mental anguish when trains fall 40 inches to the concrete floor.
Upset emotions from some who denigrate my posts, but this is rare on the OGR Forum.
Disgust and torment when electronics do not work correctly.
Perhaps the biggest injury (disgust, mental anguish, heart burn, teeth grinding & fowl language) is when a locomotive new out of the box has design flaws and quality issues.
No, but I've had my feelings hurt (by my own screw-ups). 
George
Glad you didn't fall. Like others, I've had dings, cuts and scrapes, due to simple carelessness, working too fast or just something like pulling apart O27 track and catching my finger on a tie. Ouch!
Got a terrible pain in the wallet.
Got backaches from leaning over the table, or crawling under it.
Southwest Hiawatha posted:It takes genuine talent to injure yourself beyond trivial scrapes and burns working on toy trains. I've only had two injuries worth mentioning with hobbies - a broken ankle jumping out of an airplane (which I thought was only sprained and didn't find out until years later that I'd actually broken it) and a concussion in a high-speed crash skiing. Anybody who gets hurt with toy trains did it to himself.
"Anybody who gets hurt with toy trains did it to himself."
Sooo... I take it someone forced you to jump put of that airplane? Or forced you to go skiing? Held at gunpoint, perhaps?
Sorry bub... sounds like you did it yourself, also.
Welcome to the Klutz Klub.
Just sayin'.
laming posted:Southwest Hiawatha posted:It takes genuine talent to injure yourself beyond trivial scrapes and burns working on toy trains. I've only had two injuries worth mentioning with hobbies - a broken ankle jumping out of an airplane (which I thought was only sprained and didn't find out until years later that I'd actually broken it) and a concussion in a high-speed crash skiing. Anybody who gets hurt with toy trains did it to himself.
"Anybody who gets hurt with toy trains did it to himself."
Sooo... I take it someone forced you to jump put of that airplane? Or forced you to go skiing? Held at gunpoint, perhaps?
Sorry bub... sounds like you did it yourself, also.
Welcome to the Klutz Klub.
Just sayin'.
You missed the point. Parachute jumping and ski racing are inherently dangerous activities. One goes into them with eyes open, knowing that the slightest misjudgment (yours or someone else's) or just plain bad luck can get you injured. In the case of my parachuting injury, the jump master misjudged the wind (or maybe it shifted), I landed on asphalt, and with a T10 I didn't have enough maneuverability to get to a soft landing spot. That was way before parawings. In any case, it was pretty minor by the standards of jump accidents, and I got over it in a couple of weeks.
Fiddling with model trains is not an inherently dangerous activity. The vast majority of "injuries," including the ones mentioned in this thread, are too trivial to be worth thinking about, let alone mentioning. The occasional genuine injury, like falling off a ladder or getting something in your eye because you didn't bother with eye protection, is almost invariably the result of gross negligence.
A lot of these are very funny. Thanks for the responses. Glad I'm not alone lol
