What is your worst injury at work.?

[doit4u]

Many moons ago I started out as an apprentice with what was then Post Office Telephones. I was attached to an cable jointing gang as my first work.

One day we had to get into a carriageway manhole. The road had been a lane on the edge of town but it had been realligned when a new housing estate was built so the hole didn't leave a lot of room for traffic to pass. To minimise the obstruction the jointer parked the back of the van as close as he could to the hole. We took the cover off and I climbed down to put some sheets over the existing cables before starting work. What I didn't know was that the back door of the van had been opened above the hole. When I climbed out I hit my head on the corner of the van door and gashed it open.

I was bleeding like a stuck pig, the jointer put me in the van and drove me to the local hospital, but in his panic got confused and took me to the maternity ward.

The best bit was that that morning for the first time ever we had been issued with safety helmets - mine was still in the box in the van.

 

[doug boardley]

to fill in time before I ws due to join RAF I worked on a forestry gang for a few months, we were clearing out some rhododendrons with bill hooks, (double edged axes). There was one that was particularly difficult to cut, so I took an almighty swing at it, clipped a branch overhead and got the billhook embedded in my bonce. Needed 10 stitches, again I was quite lucky!

 

[Rich]

I had my brother breaking 10mm thick glass mosaics with nippers and he was getting really frustrated with it so he put all his welly behind it and crushed his 'you know what' in between the handles... I laughed sooooo hard. He phoned me that night to tell me that he had taken his trousers off to get into the bath and it looked like road kill.

 

[paulyoung666]

I had my brother breaking 10mm thick glass mosaics with nippers and he was getting really frustrated with it so he put all his welly behind it and crushed his 'you know what' in between the handles... I laughed sooooo hard. He phoned me that night to tell me that he had taken his trousers off to get into the bath and it looked like road kill.

:yikes: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Spud]

worst thing that happened to me at work was an egg burger in a cafe in Enfield gave me Salmonella poisoning and I was off work for over a week ,also had a slab of granite fall on my leg and got a ligment damage and a haematoma took 18months for the swelling to go down

 

[heatybob]

broke my flask once:lol:

 

[mikethetile]

broke my flask once:lol:

only once, itt was regular occurance with me

hated it if I broke it in the morning before my first cuppa and had to go all day without a brew

 

[hillhead]

I was grouting under a worktop one day where the dishwasher goes when for some reason i thumped my head on the underside! Full whack.i felt dizzy.then i realized i was bleeding badly.there was a screw stuck in the underside of the worktop! Ouch.i had to get 6 staples in my head.i always check for this now.

 

[faithhealer]

to fill in time before I ws due to join RAF I worked on a forestry gang for a few months, we were clearing out some rhododendrons with bill hooks, (double edged axes). There was one that was particularly difficult to cut, so I took an almighty swing at it, clipped a branch overhead and got the billhook embedded in my bonce. Needed 10 stitches, again I was quite lucky!

beats me how you are still alive Doug, you might be safer a home lol

 

[IvegotsTILE]

I'm not that bad but I've been at work as a roofer when someone was cutting metal sheets with a grinder and it snagged then went straight across his legs cutting into his thighs,we had to carry him down a 40ft ladder then take him to hospital.
Another time one of my friends fell 60ft through an asbestos sheet he put his arm out to break his fall and it split,went through the skin and his artery had to get out the air ambulance luckily there was a first aider 10 yards from where he fell,the place was empty except for him who wasn't supposed to be there and we were working on a different part of the roof so we wouldn't have realised for another hour.
He just survived but can never do manual work for the rest of his life,he was only 19,lucky to be alive though.