If You Have One Of These 16 Jobs, Beware: You Could Get These Bizarre Injuries

Occupational hazards are something we all have to deal with – paper cuts are the worst! While some people have more dangerous jobs than others, even if your job is to lay around in bed all day (lucky!), eventually you’ll end up with some muscular or skeletal problem that needs medical attention.

Some of these injuries are just little annoyances, some are more dangerous, and some are downright deadly. Whatever the case, it really is crazy how easy it is to get injured just doing your job.

1. Tailor’s Bunion

2. Clergyman’s Knee

3. Painter’s Colic

4. Mad Hatter’s Disease

5. Fiddler’s Neck or Violin Hickey

6. Chimney Sweep’s Scrotum

7. Cobbler’s Femur

8. Horn Player’s Palsy

9. Trombone Player’s Lung

10. Chauffeur’s Fracture

11. Glassblower’s Cataracts

12. Woolsorter’s Disease

13. Weaver’s Bottom

14. Baker’s Knee

15. Gamekeeper’s Thumb

16. Student’s Elbow

(via Mental Floss)

Basically, I learned that even if I want to take a break – you know, sit down, rest my head on my hand – I could end up with fractures and weird bone disorders. Great!

If You Have One Of These 16 Jobs, Beware: You Could Get These Bizarre Injuries