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accident-prone

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accident-prone
adjective
the machine shop is no place for accident-prone employees:
clumsy, bumbling, bungling, fumbling, inept, maladroit, unskilful, inexpert, unhandy, like a bull in a china shop, all thumbs;
British all fingers and thumbs;
informal cack-handed, ham-fisted, ham-handed, butterfingered, with two left feet;
North American, informal klutzy.
accident-prone Oxford Dictionary of English