What is your worst injury at work.?

[White Room]

Mike your a liability:yikes::lol:

 

[Ken Bruty]

Glad to say, only a stanley kife cut off the tip of my left index finger when I was cutting mesh between mosaics, got distracted and slipped over the top of the edge of said mosaic and severing a chunk of finger, I then got load of blood all over freshly laid black galaxy granite. All ended well though, and I concentrate a lot harder these days. :smilewinkgrin:

Ken

 

[kilty55]

mainly just bad cuts one which i wrapped elect tape round ended up like a kenny everett hand 2 days later it got infected and was like a balloon:drool5:

 

[CJ]

Made the mistake of wearing trainers to work.

Picked up a box of floor tiles by a nylon strap

Strap broke.......tiles landed end first onto my big toe.

Broke it nicely.

I hobbled to the end of the garden before I let out a few expletives. (kids in house)

Took 2 bloody weeks before I could walk properly.

Always wear my boots now :smilewinkgrin:

Got a playful bite of a customers dog, when I was winding him up. Right in the man veg :yikes::yikes::yikes: No blood.........but I ran to the garden again.

Didn't want to show the customer that injury :lol:

 

[Andy Allen]

when i started tileing one of my first jobs was grouting on a bovis site, the guy who was training me went to the van and gave me a nice pair of pink rubber gloves to wear, not wearing those i told him :incazzatok its up to you he said, by the end of the week the tips of my fingers were so burnt i couldnt even pick a pencil up

 

[doug boardley]

I've had a few close shaves on building sites, one in particular could have been lethal, the firm I was working for were building a two storey extension and the ground floor ceiling/first floor floor was a block and beam construction, as i was the youngest (only 19 at the time) I was given the job of running the blocks out of the raised JCB front bucket along a plank and into stacks for my brother and boss to fill in the bison beams. I'd got a stack of about a hundred blocks (in 4 piles) when a door lintel below snapped, I was stood in the middle of these stacks and came round when I was on the ground floor covered in blocks, looked up and couldn't see my legs but could see a lot of red running down the walls:yikes:, it was actually a tin of red oxide paint that had fallen through with me and a block had hit it and sent it spraying all over the walls, PHEW!!. It transpired that the snapped lintel didn't have any re-inforcing bar in it:yikes::yikes: I was very lucky that day not to suffer anything worse than cuts and bruises

 

[DHTiling]

Very lucky indeed Doug...

 

[Sean fsy]

had a accident while travelling to work. i was a mechanical engineer at the time. whilst driving to work at 05:30am a bus pulled out of a side road right across the path of my car!!! car embedded itself into the centre of the bus and knocked its back axle off then car set on fire. (good job there was fire extinguishers on the bus and a off duty fireman in the next car) anyway it broke my leg and smashed my kneecap, shattered my feet, steering wheel broke my ribs which punctured my lung, the impact ripped the base of my skull open and i got oxygen trapped in my brain which had to be alleviated by bore holes through my forehead. i had to have a emergency eumophorax and pipes inserted into my lungs. the skull fracture ruptured my nerve endings at the bottom of my skull leaving me deaf in my left ear and my eyes out of line. Had my eyes taken out and the muscles cut to realign them. lost alot of feeling in the left hand side of my face aswell. spent the first week on life support and a further month in newcastle hospital in the HDU. Then back to my local hospital for some further operations. I was number 3 on the glasgow coma scale with approx 15% of survival. I lost my job as a planned maintenance engineer as a result and thats how i started tiling. Oh and they admitted full liability oer the accident.

 

[mikethetile]

b;imy sean. thats some injuries mate

 

[DHTiling]

wow sean... was in a fastish road to have such an impact..

 

[Sean fsy]

Its about 1/2 a mile away from my new house the junction where it happend, I cant remeber a thing about it and can drive past the junction without any recollection about it. Think i have a pic of the accident somewhere. The local Fire station now use the photos from the accident to show people when they are about talking about road safety.

 

[Sean fsy]

Not very good pics but you get the jist of it was nearly 12 years ago now

 

[doug boardley]

don't think we'll get one to beat that Sean:yikes::yikes:

 

[Alan.P]

don't think we'll get one to beat that Sean:yikes::yikes:

I don't want to

 

[TT Tiling]

lucky your still with us mate ,