Ky Nichols
Food-service worker
I climbed up to the top of a chain-link fence and fell off. A friend and I were climbing the fence just for the fun of it, and we went higher and higher. He didn’t get hurt when he fell, but I sprained my ankle pretty bad and couldn’t play football for a while. I won’t be climbing any fences in the future.
Chad Ceredon
Forestry tech
I like collecting bugs and pinning them. I have countless specimens. I was working one day; I had a big net, and I was running down a hill chasing a really cool bug. I was excited, and I fell down a hill filled with shrubbery and hurt myself.
Erika Philby
Emergency medical technician
I shattered my heel while walking in high heels. I was walking through downtown Reno—I wasn’t drunk!—and I was on Sierra Street when I fell, and some kids looked at me in the street and said, “How can you break something by just walking?” REMSA came to my rescue, and I spent a day in the hospital. I have really big scars on both sides of my ankle. I guess that I should’ve gotten used to the heels before I wore them.
Lindsey Sherbondy
Assistant manager
I was jumping on a trampoline, and I thought that I could jump like when I was 10 years old. I came down and I heard a pop! I went to the hospital and found out that I broke a plate in my ankle. I’m eight months sober now, and I actually hurt myself more now than when I wasn’t (sober). I’m always running into coffee tables and falling down steps. I guess I’m not as strong as I used to be.
James Martin
YouTube influencer
I decided to go down the rapids at Barbara Bennett Park. I wanted to see what the current was like. It wasn’t what I expected. It was extremely fast. I hurt my left leg pretty badly. I scraped it up and had some skin removed from the bottom of my feet! I learned how dangerous the rapids can be.