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0.0029% for injuries that require an emergency room visit, not injuries at all. Let's go for a conservative, 100:1 ratio of minor cuts vs injuries that make you

by hibikir 11y ago

0.0029% for injuries that require an emergency room visit, not injuries at all. Let's go for a conservative, 100:1 ratio of minor cuts vs injuries that make you want to spend a bunch of money on doctors, and we see that it's pretty darned dangerous. Dangerous enough that at work, we have mandatory training on how to open different kinds of packages safely! That said, the state of blisters has improved, precisely because people complained about how easy it is to get injured with the older, plastic on plastic blisters that require either heavy duty scissors or a box cutter, and leave behind very sharp edges.

coldtea 11y ago
>0.0029% for injuries that require an emergency room visit, not injuries at all. If you get an "emergency room visit" for trying to open a package, there's also some sort of idiocy involved. I wonder if the level of E.R visits would for perfectly designed packages wouldn't be close or similar, because of idiocy.
- oneeyedpigeon 11y ago
  You've probably been downvoted (although, not be me) for using the term 'idiocy' which is a really unfair and derogatory accusation. I've cut myself on packaging before, definitely. I've probably done it in the past year. I am not 'an idiot'. ER visits could be for a number of indirect reasons; blood disorders that could prevent blood from clotting affect at least 6,500 people in the US. Just because the injury you're imagining wouldn't be serious to you, doesn't mean others are 'idiots'.
  - coldtea 11y ago
    >* I've cut myself on packaging before, definitely. I've probably done it in the past year. I am not 'an idiot'.* Well, I've cut myself too. That's not the problem. It's the E.R level injury though that I say implies some incompetence. And if they have "blood disorders that could prevent blood from clotting", they shouldn't mindlessly be using knives and other sharp objects to open packaging.

by hibikir 11y ago

coldtea 11y ago

>0.0029% for injuries that require an emergency room visit, not injuries at all. If you get an "emergency room visit" for trying to open a package, there's also some sort of idiocy involved. I wonder if the level of E.R visits would for perfectly designed packages wouldn't be close or similar, because of idiocy.

oneeyedpigeon 11y ago
You've probably been downvoted (although, not be me) for using the term 'idiocy' which is a really unfair and derogatory accusation. I've cut myself on packaging before, definitely. I've probably done it in the past year. I am not 'an idiot'. ER visits could be for a number of indirect reasons; blood disorders that could prevent blood from clotting affect at least 6,500 people in the US. Just because the injury you're imagining wouldn't be serious to you, doesn't mean others are 'idiots'.
- coldtea 11y ago
  >* I've cut myself on packaging before, definitely. I've probably done it in the past year. I am not 'an idiot'.* Well, I've cut myself too. That's not the problem. It's the E.R level injury though that I say implies some incompetence. And if they have "blood disorders that could prevent blood from clotting", they shouldn't mindlessly be using knives and other sharp objects to open packaging.