• Fondots@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Cardboard cuts are absolutely a thing, like a paper cut on steroids.

    I used to work in a warehouse and spent most of my day opening, resealing, making, and breaking down boxes. Spend enough time around them and the boxes will get you.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah but does anyone call them that? I’d still call that kind of fine cut a paper cut.

      Never heard anyone say “ow I’ve got a cardboard cut”

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        2 months ago

        We definitely called them cardboard cuts, can’t say how universal it is but every job I’ve where I’ve handled a lot of boxes it seems to be in pretty common use

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        2 months ago

        My friend and I call it a box cut because they’re often worse than a normal paper cut due to fibers that can cause additional irritation unless cleaned out.

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        2 months ago

        Definitely, normally my skin is pretty resilient, never really been someone who needs to spend money on moisturizers and such, I could probably just about wash my hands with acetone and steel wool and be none the worse for it.

        But there were a few times when I worked there that my hands were getting noticeably dryer than usual, pretty sure if my skin were any more delicate I would have been in pretty rough shape.