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Australian woman severs finger trying to quietly close heavy office door days into new London finance job

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Lexi Lane

21d ago· 5 min readenNews

Summary

Lucy Crabb, a young Australian woman who moved to London to start her dream finance job, suffered a traumatic accident just days into her new role. She noticed the office doors were heavy and slammed loudly, and while trying to close one quietly to avoid disturbing colleagues, she accidentally sliced her finger off. The incident occurred on Feb. 23, shortly after she began the job she had been eagerly anticipating.

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I finally got to live my dream here and get into my career and live a great life. It was a job I was really looking forward to starting.
I was anxious that I was the new person slamming doors.
So every time I went to close the door, I would try to close it slowly so it wouldn't slam.
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Lucy Crabb was only a few days into her new finance job when she sliced her finger off after a 'traumatic' experience trying to close one of the 'heavy' office doors.

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