Well it adds to the situation is what I should say.
he was probably burned by an exploding computer, give him burns.
Shattered bone can be pretty nasty you know. Move the wrong way and a sharpened bone fragment can slice an artery.
But that did happened or they wouldn’t be in HL2 and the rest of the story…
For those newbies that use the search function to find out about Kleiner’s injury and they come to this thread, if they’re halfway intelligent, they’d realize that some things about the mod will remain secret until the mod comes out. If the only dev to answer uses cryptic statements instead of straightforward answers, then perhaps it’s something they don’t want to reveal and, therefore, will not answer.
Plus, it’s Raminator. 
As for Kleiner, Eli maybe doesn’t know the extent of Kleiner’s internal injuries without diagnostic equipment so is “afraid to move” him for fear of further injury. Sometime later, though, medical teams come, evacuate them two, and take Kleiner to a hospital (perhaps he could’ve been in the hospital for quite some time). By the time you see him again in City 17, however, he could be nearly fully recovered.
Speaking of Eli and Kleiner: When you go past those tube of balls of electricity (whatever those are), a headcrab spawns inside. What is the possibility that one of those two headcrabs is Lamarr?
Zero. An injured scientist will not return back from where his injuries are treated to try to capture an aggresive looking creature.
Lammar is most probably a headcrab caught during Combine oppresion.
Plus any headcrabs spawned during the reasonance cascade would have most likely died of old age by then. I can’t imagine their life span being very long.
Don’t forget the nuclear bomb. It is accepted on the Half-Life story.
Funny thing about Kleiner’s injury… the first time I played, I thought Eli said, “I’m afraid to move him, and all his bones are out.” To which I replied, of course, “Holy shit! N wonder you’re afraid to move him!”
You do realize that Half-Life 2 takes place some time between 10-20 years after Half-Life 1?
Sure shattered bone, yeah. You said it might a twisted ankle. Bit of a difference.
Hm? I was just pointing out that the injuries must’ve been severe enough that moving Kleiner could’ve been an issue.
I always thought he was afraid to move him because he’d have a spaz-attack and flail around screeching
When I was a kid I thought they said “Were afraid to move when all our bones are out”
I was like damn these people are hurt.
When ram adds “or something” at the end means there is 0% certainty in his statement.
Uhm, yes? You do realize that some injuries never fully heal?
Regarding Lamarr, no one knows how long a lifespan headcrabs have because people keep taking crowbars to them (how rude!). As for coming back, it’s possible that Kleiner got Eli to capture it (in his labcoat perhaps) to “study” it.
As for the destruction of the Black Mesa facility, I doubt the veracity of it regardless of whether OpFor is canon or not. The only evidence, in any game, that the facility was destroyed was a fade-to-white-fade-back-in with the G-man suggesting that the problem ‘took care of itself’. Until such time that the facility is proven to be fully destroyed (even a nuclear bomb might not take it all out-- Gonarchs in the box-smashing room?!), I’m going to leave it at a “I don’t know.”
It would have been shorter and more accurate for you to just say this tbh. ^^
What an interesting anterior.
Eli: You’re not hurt too badly. Let’s get out of here before we get shot or eaten!
Kleiner: Just a moment. Shouldn’t we ought to capture one of these specimens for study?
Eli: But how? Their razor sharp mandibles would rip us apart!
Kleiner: Couldn’t you use your lab coat to bundle it up?
Eli: Brilliant! Even in the face of near certain doom you can come up with clever ideas to capture dangerous animals Izzy!
No, I’d say that hypothesis is pretty fucking stupid.
I doubt something like a headcrab has a lifespan of 20+ years.
I bet it escaped and he caught a new one called it lamarr and I bet we’ll see that happen again in episode 3.
I always imagined the injury to be a twisted ankle or something small like that.