Whats the Worst accident uve had

[julie67]

I cut my finger on a sharp tile yesterday it bloody hurt, it was like a blood bath .

Whats the worst tiling injury or accident you have had so far lol x

 

[Raja]

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oh dear julez hope ur alrite cud kiss it better for u

My worst injury in tiling was when i cut my finger also on a sharp tile

don't get big injuries as jobs r never that big :lol:

 

[tysfoot]

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putting some ply down and went though hot water cold water and gas pipe. water everywhere leaking though new ceiling in kitchen, house nearly blew up. thankfully it didnt and to my amazement got paid for the job with no hard feelings

 

[DHTiling]

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I was tiling a kitchen ( fully tiled)...and i was standing on the work top ( using dust sheets) and tiling above the window , i must have forgot momentarily i was on the work top coz i stepped back to see if the tile was lined up ok and stepped straight off the work top and ended up sprawled out on the kitchen floor....FAF..pleased i was only one in the house.....:lol:

Apart from that just the usuall cuts and nicks from tiles....

 

[brummie tiler]

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tried to snap a ceramic tile on the side of my cutter box as my breaking handle had snuffed it. Didnt quite work out as planned as the tile snapped to a point going straight through the palm of my hand.... nearly out the other side!!Not nice, had a red water fountain coming from my palm!! luckily it missed all the muscles and nerves. Had an op to remove bits of tile, stitched me up and was back to work a week later.

 

[Cliff Anger]

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As a young resident engineer on a site we hit a 22inch gas main with a JCB bucket and it caught fire - now that was an interesting afternoon !

 

[DHTiling]

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As a young resident engineer on a site we hit a 22inch gas main with a JCB bucket and it caught fire - now that was an interesting afternoon !

I bet!!!:lol: .......

 

[CJ]

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I ripped my hand open yesterday cleaning my trowel.

Claret was everywhere............bit of bog roll...........masking tape.........back to work.

Oh...........I spilt my coffee this morning........:whatchutalkingabout

 

[Gazzer]

Well i was alone in this bathroom once and i felt the urge to fart but when i let rip it wasnt a fart........... Oh not that sort of accident eh?

 

[devonmark]

only a couple of nicks whilst tiling, but have fell off my staging a few times when skimming ceilings....can be painful.. many years ago I cut my thumb in two..right down the middle on a bandsaw, the nail now grows in 3 pieces...Mark.

 

[JOHNNYCLARKE]

Most life threatening was from a client who accused me of turning his white stone bathroom that i had just finished into a gaudy yellow colour and his wife was promising her husband would literally kill me when he got back into country.

Seeing as I had already seen him knock a local builder off his roof with a flying breeze block and given the locals permission to put all his peacocks in the evening stew coz one of them shat on the stone tiles overnight, I thought I should get the real culprit away to safety before i flew out in case he really found out what happened.
The security guard had lit a bonfire on the stone floor with the door closed to keep warm and had a party and a few big duuffers to celebrate his cosy new dwelling.
This was quite normal in his environs but I guess he didnt have cream limestone at home on his walls to stain like nicotine.
I called the Cape Town stone doctor and did a runner.

Johnny

 

[GazTech]

According to statistics released, 700 people died on site 2007/08, 90% were on home conversions/ renovation work......

 

[Dave Carr]

Nothing tile related. But I used to be a submariner and whilst on the way to the persian gulf after 911 I was on board the sub when a fire broke loose. Alarms start ringing and I crawls out my bunk bed when the 16 stone sailor above me dropped onto my neck and cracked 4 of my vertebrae; paralyzed from the ears down for around 4 long days. Then the swelling went down and the pain kicked in.

Best bit was, all the time I was injured I was left to sleep in a torpedo sling Eventually I was air lifted to a hospital and later made a full recovery, still wake every morning with massive pain though.

 

[Grace'sDad]

I reached in the grill of my old car (205gti) on hot day to pop the bonnet.

Two factors came into play;
1) I missed the catch and stuck my fingers right into the grill

2) The engine was hot and the fans came on automatically

the result was two missing finger nails and two shortened fingers!

Tiling-wise: I was stood on a kitchen worktop, drilling into a wall above a socket. The shock threw me backwards off the worktop and flat on my back on the floor. My arms ached all day afterwards! I knew not to drill within 90degrees of a socket but some cowboy sparkie *** builder had put the cable in at 45degrees! I bought a good cable detector the same day.

 

[plumbersmate]

I cut my finger on a sharp tile yesterday it bloody hurt, it was like a blood bath .

Whats the worst tiling injury or accident you have had so far lol x

can't remember how many times i've fallen backwards off my steps........... probably because i've fallen backwards off my steps. :whatchutalkingabout