Oil fin heaters are dangerous!

so, yesterday at home Sam was playing nicely in the lounge. All of a sudden, he pulled an oil fin heater over on top of himself.    (The heater wasn't on)

He was upset and I thought it fell on his hand, so I gave him to his dad for comfort and went back out to pick up the heater.

Little did we know..

The heater didn't get his hand, it got his big toe.    

After pulling off his (red) sock and finding the blood to be pouring out of a great big gash where his toenail used to be, we realised that the heater had crushed his toe between the carpet and the sharp edge of the fin.

We rushed him to the emergency room to be told that the bone was completely shattered and his toenail had been cut right through and the open wound had gone right down to the bone!

He is now bandaged up and recovering but he's doing better than we expected. His toe should heal fine and the doctor said he will probably even get the nail back.

Guess who was jumping on the bed and laughing today!

You can watch them as closely as you can, but kids are always going to give you heart attacks!

The offending heater is now OUT of there and narrowly escaped a one way trip to the dump!

Edited by neeandsam

Oh, poor wee Sam.  I'm pleased he's ok though.

I couldn't agree more about oil fin heaters.  I'd never buy one with exposed fins, especially the larger/heavy ones.

My nephew when he was a wee bit older than Sam did something similar he had his arms around the heater and was leaning on it and it fell over with him on top and one of the fins (with the weight of the heater and his weight combined) cut the top of his finger off (from just above the top joint).  My sister took him and the finger top to A & E and he had surgery to have it reattached and is fine now.  I don't trust them - kids+oil heaters are IMO a bad combo.

 

Edited by MrsMojo

Ouch! Poor wee thing. You guys must have been petrified as well. Glad he is feeling better now and hope the recovery goes smoothly for his toe.

Oooooouuuuuccchhhhyyyyy...Poor Sam!!

I hope the wound heals quickly ...give him big hugs from us!

I have a 3fin Hearter in Z's Room and she never had accident with them, but I can see hw that could happen...funnily enough I cut my tow on her heater yesterday......

EEEK that sounds sore!

Poor lil man, hope he is feeling better!!

Ouch!!
Poor wee Sam! (even if he is jumping on the bed with glee today)
And poor Mum!! I hope your heart rate has slowed down now!

ouchies!!! We have never actually got ourselves a heater guard and we have an LFG heater I think you just upped my determination for next winter.

OMG scary! Glad Sam is OK!

Oh no! Glad to hear he will be fine.

Thanks for the warning - I have a big oil heater in our bedroom which we aren't using, so will move out to the garage - I thought since it wasn't hot it wouldn't be a hazard!

Poor Sam (and Mum and Dad) Glad to hear he is recovering nicely.