When Wilford Woodruff was an Apostle, he was poisoned while skinning an animal that had been killed by poison. His system was almost overcome and it was feared he would die. President Brigham Young gave him the following blessing:

“‘Brother Woodruff, I say to you in the name of Jesus Christ, that you shall not die, but you shall live to finish your work which was appointed you to do upon the earth. The adversary has sought many times to destroy your life but the Lord has preserved you, and will preserve you until your work is done’”

He fell into a caldron [large boiler] of scalding water at the age of three

He slipped from a beam in his father’s barn, landing on his face on the bare floor

He broke both his arms by falls

He narrowly missed being gored by a bull

He broke his leg by a fall from a carriage

He was kicked in the stomach by an ox

He was buried beneath a load of hay when his wagon tipped over

He was in a wagon that overturned when a runaway horse bolted down a hill

He fell fifteen feet from a tree, landing flat on his back

He was saved from drowning in thirty feet of water

He narrowly escaped freezing to death when a passerby happened to see him crawl into the hollow of an apple tree

He split open the instep of his left foot while chopping wood

He was bitten by a dog in the last stages of rabies

He was thrown from a runaway horse and broke one of his legs in two places and dislocated both ankles

He fell twice from the top of a mill wheel, narrowly escaping being crushed to death

He was dragged behind a runaway horse

a gun aimed directly at his chest snapped accidentally but fortunately misfired

A falling tree hit him in the chest, breaking his breastbone and three ribs and badly bruising his left thigh, hip, and arm.