In my 16 years in the troop... We've had some injuries.. around 6 were ones that needed to go to the hospital......
One year at summer camp... a few of us just learned the rescue knot for Emergency Prep... You know, the one you can raise and lower some one?
Well, some of the scouts were playing with teh knot, taking turns lifting scouts up and down from a tree branch... they were moving them up and down slow.... one scout yelled at the scout pulling the rope.. "YOU'RE DOING IT TO SLOW!" He then ran over, jumped up and pulle dthe rope with all his weight.... the scout that pulled the rope probably weighed around 120-130.... the scout on the other end... probably around 70 - 80... he was a small scout... So, he went flying up the rope, and... well, the tree branch stopped him... using his head.... I was on the other side of the site and heard the crack..... They got him down... Was a little woozy.... sat him down (on the picnic table, back to the table).... and then, his head fell back on the tabe... he ended up with a concusion...
Another time.... we were on the way to summer camp, one of the vehicles was having car problems.... a scout was standing, apparently too close to the engine.... They tried to start the vehicle, and teh scouts arm caught on fire... another scouts mom tackled him to get the fire out.... Was only 2nd degree burn over most the arm... few days later, he was stung by some hornets...
Another year, a scout, who just earned his totin chip, was sawing wood, and somehow managed to cut a tendon in his thumb....
There was the time when the idiot scout was playing with a pop can and a lighter... he had the top of the lighter in teh hole of the pop can, held the button down for a few minutes, let all the butane go into the can.... then got the brilliant idea to LIGHT THE LIGHTER IN TEH CAN!!!! And well, I'm sure you can guess what happend next...
The troop went snow tuning one time, Ididn't go, the then Scoutmaster was standing at the bottom of the hill, with his son, and was told numerous times to please move, over the PA system... one of the scouts in my troop... a rather BIG scout was coming down the hill... hit both the SM and his son.... gave the SM a concussion...
On a camp out I didn't make, the record breaker for injuries I think.... The then SM (all the SM's I mention in this are all different) and other scouts were for whatever reason throwing rocks (big rocks) off a rail road bridge... It wasn't to high... 8 feet off teh ground, 15 feet wide.... a scout or the SM dropped the rock tehy had, a big one... broke one of their thumbs, and the other one their arm......
That was all when I was still a scout....
At a Council Camp out, there was a big storm that came through... most of the area was out of power for a week, lots of damage...
That night, 3 of our scouts got hypothermia, and we left the event at 3:00 AM. The Scoutmaster was carrying one of teh scouts that had hypothermia inside to his apartment.. he tripped over a crack in the sidewalk... fell on teh ground, with teh scout.... went to see him teh next day... his ankle, was the size of a softball...
That was about 8 years ago, and was the last big injury we have had. Since then, we've had teh usual scarpes and bruise that kids get, with an occasion paper cut or cut finger from whittleing.
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