AIBU to want an apology after a colleague injured my ankle?

What a ridiculous answer: it wouldn’t make your ankle hurt any less. What’s the point of any apology then? I’m know I wrote your car off and caused whiplash but apologising wont fix your car? I know I hurt your feelings when I called you a twat but it’s too late to apologise now. It was an accident. I mean…

OP if I had hurt you like that, even if by accident, I would be absolutely horrified and apologising A lot!

I presume it was reported as a H&S incident. All your trips to hospital etc should be logged. Have you had a diagnosis?
I'll be honest, I am finding it hard to imagine someone barging a person out of the way as you describe. Does she often move around like that?

It's quite clear, if you look. Here it is
She flung the door open and ran in.

You're not being unreasonable to be frustrated they are finding it funny. Sounds like a nasty accident, I'd have said "gosh sorry, are you OK, I couldn't see you" at the time. I'm not sure I'd be doing a formal apology weeks later though! It's an accident, they happen, it isn't actually her fault. I'm surprised there's not been more sympathy, but (I'm guessing here) are you potentially a bit of a drama queen? There's a lot of "x rays and appointments" but sounds like actually, a mild sprain is what's going on, and did you genuinely need an x ray to tell you that because ime you really really know if a bone is broken. I'd only take time off work for an x ray if I genuinely thought it was broken. I'd also not go to the hospital or walk in with a sprain, I'd be icing it and elevating it. There's not a lot they can do, so I'm surprised you've needed many appointments. My dd sprained her wrist and the walk in at 5pm the next day x rayed and strapped it up in about 25 mins, no further appointments required and no time off needed.
Either way, try and let it go. She can't fix it now, it's annoying but demanding a formal apology will make you look mad I think.

Did you log this in the accident book?

OP was drunk at work ? HR should be involved

Your response is equally as ignorant. I said the woman should have apologised at the time. The comment I was replying to was a discussion about OP claiming for injury from work for this accident, not about wether or not the woman should have apologised, which I have already said she should have.

She didn’t get hit in the face by the door..? Or hit by the door at all

@Scrrt would they all found it as hilarious if you were carrying a fresh cup of tea or another equally hot item and it scalded you? Your colleague should have apologised at the time, but I think weeks down the line it's probably a bit late and will just be empty words.

it’s not ok and sorry it happened. but good luck getting an apology I’ve been shouted at 5 times in work in past few years and zero apologies

Interesting how so many people equate an apology with blame. If you bump into someone and injure them it's common human decency to apologise and check in on the person if they are having treatment. It is irrelevant whether there was fault or whether it is a freak accident - if you hurt someone then it's human and decent to offer some acknowledgment. It's not about the person doing the knocking over it's about the person knocked over. People are so self absorbed to the extent they are more concerned about who is to blame than who has been hurt. Op I suggest that you also should get out of the blame mindset because it will make it easier for others to acknowledge your injury.

As PP have said it needs to go into the accident log. I’d suspect someone at work would be speaking to this person about their conduct, so maybe tell them she’s never acknowledged it by apologising

They should have apologised at the time, or at least checked you were okay.

YABU to still be stewing on it weeks later. It was an accident, move on.

Read that back and try to find where I said it was the OP"s fault.

Broken jaw from being hit in the face by the door..?

Having said that I wholeheartedly agree with your username 😃

hehe and another one - FFS!!

Crikey - that's premium victim blaming!

Goodness

I hope you are recovering, OP. Most important step is to put in a HR record so that work covers the medical expenses.

If this person has not apologised, you’re unlikely to get it. Just go through the formal channels.

We have a bathroom door at work that is heavy and anyone coming in pushes it and anyone coming out pulls it. I use a different bathroom because there are too many near misses.

Not sure where you work but most places have a footwear policy for H&S reasons - it doesnt sound as if your foot wear that you manage to fall out of so easily is actually suit for the work place.

If that’s a friend what are your enemies like?

The well mannered response is of course to apologise if you bump into someone. Accidental or not. Ofc it is. How outrageous to want an apology when someone has hurt you. 🙄

The British are known for saying sorry even when it’s not their fault.

The woman sounds ignorant. “Well, I was hungry.” That justifies someone else being hurt because you bumped into them.

Amusing to read the op is to blame because she was standing or walking near / through the door.

What an ignorant response. If you stumble into someone like a thundering clumsy bovine, you apologise profusely, you don't say "Well, if you had trainers on, you'd have been fine!"

This.
Absolutely report it as an injury in the work place.
Have health and safety been informed?
What a strange place you work in, with strange people.
Nothing normal about any of these reactions.
I would be very pissed off.

She shouldn't have been running in the workplace, full stop, and her stated reason for doing so is ridiculous. While it may not be appropriate for her manager/HR to discipline her, depending on how clear the safety rules/policies/guidelines are and what form they take, they absolutely should have made sure she understands the impact of her mistake and commits to altering her behaviour to prevent any kind of recurrence. Her comment on being hungry shows that she was either astonishingly ignorant of office safety or simply did not take it seriously at all and was callous and cavalier about having injured a colleague. Even if she did not immediately understand that you were seriously hurt, she should have been concerned about whether you were or at the very least understood that you could have been. (I'm actually wondering if this person may be a bit "off" in general, but that is for her manager to address with her and make accommodations if necessary.)

Does your direct manager, and HR if applicable, know how badly you were hurt and the ongoing impact to you? Do they know what this colleague has said and how others are treating the incident? Make sure that they do. I wouldn't specifically ask for an apology, because that is inadequate, but I would point out that she did not apologise or ask if you were OK, at the time or since. Ask that the situation be addressed so that you can feel safe in the office knowing that the issue that put you in harm's way - your colleague's failure to follow basic precautions or use common sense - has been resolved so that you and others do not have to worry about a recurrence.