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Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 8:43 pm
by Stuarty
Well after learning one of my mates has managed to amputate 2 of his toes with a Stihl saw i was just curious to what the worst injury some of you have received / seen. Im lucky, or fast im not sure what. Only broke a finger after managing to catch my foot in the loop on a bulk bag making me fall off the trailer. It was healing up nicely untill i was sent to put up post and wire fence. My colleague claimed to have forgot his contacts, although, he only claimed this after he missed the post with the mel and hit my hand, breaking the same finger again, so now i have a slightly bent middle finger.
Been hit with the mini digger a few times too, although never had an injury from that, somehow. Hit in the shoulder when the operator swung round, got skelped in the leg. And then i was finally bashed in the face. That hurt.
I work with a fencer who rotovated his leg, im not sure how though, now that must have hurt.
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:44 pm
by dig dug dan
well, at the beginning of this year, i was unfortunate enough to have been struck in the le with a chainsaw.
It was my own fault, i was not wearing any protective clothing.
It cut into my left leg juset below the knee, and took out a section of bone also.
I was in hospital a week, and was lucky. Very lucky. The surgeon said if it was an inch higher, it would have been the tendons, and then I really would have been in trouble!
I moved ouse the day after they let me out of hospital too so it was really hectic!
Strange thing was, it didn't hurt when i did it, but it sure did about an hour later!
A lesson to all of you. I have the chainsaw certificate(a legal requirement), years of experiance, yet I still had an accident.
If I had been wearing the safety trousers(which I normally always do just not on the one time the chainsaw kicks back), I would have been ok.
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:56 pm
by bobhughes
I have been off work since May. Nothing to do with paving though.
I am an HGV driver and got run over by a fork lift truck which broke my leg. This was on the Friday before I was due to take a week off to do the front of the house. Materials ordered, labourers organised even the weather was good, and there was me stuck in hospital.
Hope to be back to work next month.
Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:56 am
by seanandruby
stuarty you sound kike a safety mans nightmare. it took me ten minutes to stop laughing. how do u get smacked in the face with a 360? joking aside there are a lot of serious accidents on site that can be avoided. but sometimes they do happen like the two lads on my job who where on a concrete beam. the bolts snapped and they fell with it and got crushed underneath it one dead and one crippled for life.and theres nowhere safer than t5. i had a mate who was working in a tank rubbing up concrete, he was right under the opening on a zip up. a crane was lifting a r s j. the banksman ( no ticket ) hooked it up wrong. it slipped out exactly over the hole and fell on his head crushing him up against the wall. dead . sorry for the gore but hope it makes you think safely
Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:05 pm
by lutonlagerlout
accidents dont happen, they are caused
middle finger half amputated by some one pushing a guard rail along on scaffold while my hand was resting on the one in situ
now that stung
LLL 
Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 3:11 pm
by Stuarty
I was told by my 'foreman' to "hold that effing bag open or ur off the job". He was filling a bulk bag with bark mulch with the digger, but he was outreaching. So he emptied the bucket and the sudden weight loss made the digger rock and he seemed to come into contact with the controls and swung it into my mug.
If he had taken the time to do the job right, as we do have a forklift in the yard, there would have been no accident. But theres no telling him - he is always right.
Theres been a few jobs ive refused to do due to lack of safety, i was requested to go on a roof and cut out a hole in the asbestos panels. Was also requested to be a banksman for a crane operator so we could lift 40 ton of materials from a car park, over a building and onto the flat roof. No way was i having that responsibility on my head.
Was slabbing on a site around a year ago i think, and seen a 6 story scaffold collapse with a man on the top of it. It was right after dinner and he was the first one on the scaffold. It mangled the sites forklift too, some people said the forklift pulled it down, others say there was too much weight on the structure. All i seen was the thing crashing down.
Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:24 pm
by seanandruby
if you want to see the man responsable for your safety then go into the bathroom and look in the mirror. we all have the option to say no. on our job we are issued with what we call a grassers card. thats a telephone no to report anything unsafe,or, if we are told to do summet unsafe. some people have used it. i prefer to say no until all risk assesments have been met. its really good to be able to tell an over zealous boss to piss off. my policy if it dont look safe then it probably isnt.
Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:37 pm
by Stuarty
I cant afford not to work, the way it was put to me was do it or your sacked.
Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 8:22 pm
by dig dug dan
[quote]theres nowhere safer than t5
You must know edmund poole?
Edited By dig dug dan on 1159039366
Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:20 pm
by seanandruby
same here stuarty but you must stand up for your rights. dont spose you are in a union? ive been there threatened with the sack. how much does he value you as a worker. next time tell him to hold the bag and you fill it, then smack him on the swede. 
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:27 am
by Stuarty
heh nah theres not a union here, he doesnt value anybody really, just aslong as the cheques come through the door. He doesnt have a sense of reality sometimes, for example, he sat in his 4 year old mercedes benz, puffing on hamlet cigars like their fags telling me he couldnt afford their holiday.
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:02 am
by seanandruby
i worked for a firm like that.bumped my last cheque and all the diesal and parking fees i forked out for in london. parking was 18 quid aday. he never paid hols either. got the union on to it and got £ 3.500 back hol pay plus exspenses. its the law m8 they got to pay it. they get me so mad when they sit in the van chewing cigars while your out there in all weathers. ive bin there many times. dont expect you to become militant ovrt night but apply for union membership its only a tenner a month. so far ive had three claims with them and at the moment got one ongoing for h. a. v.s they cover the xs. good luck.
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:49 pm
by Dave_L
The digger and Stihl saw are my worst fears. As safety concious as you can be, they are still dnagerous beasts.
Couple of months back we had a 20 ton load of 28-32 binder course tipped up to swing it into place with the digger to shape up an awkward area to get the water to run right - and the heavens opened just as it come out of the wagon. I've never worked with a digger, rolling tarmac in a 10m * 10m sauna before!!! That's what it was like! In hindsight, it was very dangerous to continue - but with that amount of material tipped up in a heap, we just had to get it down.
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:03 pm
by seanandruby
coupla months ago doing some shuttering. was cutting some ply and then put saw down, only i didnt know the guard was broke and it spun towards my three card??? mad i pulled the plug and threw it in a pile of mud. the guy with me got it back and continued to use it. i chopped the lead off and took it to the stores for exchange. some bods ask for accidents a? 360s. there are about ten going at the same time where i am 12 ton 25 ton and bigger all have banksmen theres 250 muck away lorries every day its all controlled. got to have eyes up your rs
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:11 pm
by dig dug dan
what do you mean by three card?