Job accidents .

[Fusion]

What is the worst accident you have had at work ?

I would have to say my worst accident at work was when i was a postie . Just put the mail in the letterbox and went to take off on the bike and a car backed out without looking . I tried to avoid the car but got hit square on and bounced off the back windscreen and out onto the road :eek: ... lets just say it didn't tickle :).

[gofish]

I understand how you feel. I am a postie & have been hit by a number of cars reversing out of driveways. I also got hit by a taxi doing about 40-50 kms/hr. I remember looking at him as he spoke to his fare...didn't see me till the last second when it was too late. The scariest part was leaving his bonnet & seeing the underside of the cab coming towards me. Being hit hurts, but being run over would be horrible. Also lost the front end on some oil in a corner. Fractured my clavical & ripped off a whole lot of tendons...shoulder now sits much lower than the other one. Perks of the job hey...:angel:

[LandyAndy]

I got a back injury fencing,not going over the whole sordid story but it cost me 2 years of my life.
Will never be 100% again,but I have now held a job for 5 years and HAVE NOT HAD 1 SICKDAY YET!!!!.Just so glad to have my life back and able to work again.
Andrew

[mcrover]

I had a concrete pipe drag me down a ramp which cost me 3 months off work and a bad lower back which will never be right again.

I had a machine climb up my leg when I started it when it had a faulty hydraustat which tore tendons in my knee which also will never be right again.

In my job Im working with dangerous machines when they are working properly but when something is wrong with them they are down right scarey at times.

Ive had a Hydraustat break a swash plate shaft which sent the machine going flat out (faster than normal traction speed) toward a bunker.

That didnt cause an injury but my bum pretty much took a bite out of the seat before I reached the ignition switch and throttle.

[gumby190]

Riding my motorbike back from a meeting on site with a client at about 1.30pm.
I was on the M5 motorway in Sydney, engine threw a piston while I was overtaking a ute, obviously the motor seized, threw the chain off into the spokes. I came off doing about 110km/hr.
I dropped the bike in the fast lane, I slide across the slow lane and ended up against a jersy kerb in the breakdown lane.
The bike went across the lanes and ended up on the off ramp about 50mtrs away from me.

I was back at work that arvo, I was wearing a kevlar padded jacket which got shredded, a pair of jeans no gloves & a moto cross helmet.
I had a truckie & a few cars pull up to see if I was okay, the truckie was impressed & asked me if I could do it again, lost alot of skin off my back & love handles.
Pretty damn lucky.

[Fusion]

I milked cows for 6 years and have been hurt a lot with that job . I have been kicked in the head chest knee caps and the " family makers" :eek: ...... thought i was going to cough them up ... oh the pain :(

[fatcat]

mine was when i was 18 and working the morning shift at hungry jacks after a big night on the booze, when the knife i was using to cut up the shortening, to threw in the frier. cut wright threw it into my wrist.. bit of blood.

but the best part was when i got to the doctors there was a bird i fully fancied(that also worked at hj). so i got some extra time with her mmmmmm long love so good

[strange_rover1]

Two that come to mind for me, is slicing the back of my leg open on a sawmill blade, only 15 or so stitches, not too bad, second was getting my fingers caught in the tailgate of a superlift trailer, truck dropped its air just as I grabbed hold of the tailgate which slammed shut solid on the fingers, took me 15 minutes of yelling before someone came and started the truck to get the air up again. Fingers were squashed flat like in the cartoons. The doc at hospital couldn't beleive they werent broken, just some really nice bruises!!
Shano

[Lucus]

i blew my knee out at work trying to be a wieght lifter and had to have a recon, got smacked in the ribs by a pry bar that was struck by a fork lift at 3am in the middle of winter in the wa goldfields whist trying to get a 988b final drive planetary back together on the machine.Two broken ribs in minus 2 or 3 deg c hurts!!:eek:

Then there was the time i got a staff infection at yandi minesite....got necrosis and ulcers the size of beer coaster on my legs and stomach. 9 months worth of antibiotics to fix it....two years later and i have and intolerance to wheat and dairy now...never had that before. I put it down to posioning my guts for 9mnts with the antibiotics.

work sucks...:D

[BBC]

Crikey Mick, that makes my eyes water. My Pop's family used to milk, and one arvo his brother was milking and he had to get up off his stool to adjust something. The stool was knocked over. In those day of OH&S they were made on a three legged frame of reo rod. The legs were pointing back up and he sat down not recognising the problem. One of the legs ruptured his bowel...messy.

Clearing landmines in Mozambique I had to do a few recorded investigations into minefield accidents. De-mining is not a dangerous job, safety is the imperative, and if you don't know, you don't take a step. It is a repetitive boring job and complacency becomes the danger.

A certain contractor was clearing an area. The normal protocol for dealing with detected mines was to mark them and them blow them en-situ altogether either, at day's end, or when sufficient had been found and it was impeding progress.

The company management was encouraging the lifting of mines on this site as they were subsequently neutralizing them, removing the explosive content, and then selling them as inert training mines. A Sapper de-miner lifted one, and carried it back to his supervisor and handed it to him. It had some dirt on it and unthinkingly the supervisor smacked it against a tree to clean it....lost his arm.

[Lucus]

A Sapper de-miner lifted one, and carried it back to his supervisor and handed it to him. It had some dirt on it and unthinkingly the supervisor smacked it against a tree to clean it....lost his arm.

exactly how complacent do you have to be to smack a land mine against a tree??!!??:eek:


that unbelievable....i feel sorry for the guy that lost the arm but geez im glad he didnt work in nuclear icbm disposal.........:D

[Vern]

Had a 4" angle grinder with a tungsten carbide blade go straight into my bicep whilst cutting up a battery bank in the basement of an ANZ bank. Cut straight through the muscle, knicked an artery, blood squirting in the air every where. 25 internal stitches and 25 external, a bit of plastic surgery and physio and still works fine;)

Most painful bit was the physio, imagine cutting your bicep in half, having it stitched back together, the 5 weeks later the physio trying to straighten your arm, i can still feel the muscle tearing, **** that hurt:BigCry:

[Lucus]

6.5 rangie, A good mate of mine blew his shoulder out and after the recon needed my help (on direction from the physio) to rotate his shoulder and assit in moving it through its whole range of movement for a few weeks. I can still hear the solidified fluid cracking and breaking up..............:eek:

I can only imagine what physio on a stitched up muscle would feel like.

[hiline]

well working in the building game for a few yrs now :angel:

i have heaps of story's about scaffold leaping to safety :p

makes for good conversation around a fire..........

[Lotz-A-Landies]

No I don't want to go into the horror of the trauma room - but there are some awful injuries.

Kellog's at Botany, cooked one of their apprentices, almost 100% burns - the worst thing was that the poor fellow lived for a few hours.

A building larourer, had a nail from a Ramset nail gun (used 22 cal cartridges to power the device) the nail went through a crack in the floor above and into this guys shoulder, through his lung, nicked the inferior vena cava, through the diaphragm, through the stomach and was lost in the small bowel.

Another building construction worker fell from height and impalled his thigh and abdomen on a cyclone fence pole.

Garbo got caught in the compactor horrific injuries but the worst of it was the putrid state of everything.

I can go on but wont.

Diana

[B92 8NW]

Grass cutting using Ride on lawnmower - big toe cut (blades not engaged but "spooling down") - toenail turned black, was removed, toe stitched.

Another ride on mower (this one was a "Rover") - engine fire, minor damage to clothing.

I guess I've come off quite lightly:D

[Blknight.aus]

some people whove followed me around have unoffically nicknamed me the crash test dummy as Ive walked away nearly unscathed from almost everything that should have deformed or killed me.

my acutal breakages are from

1. left clavical, broke it coming out of the 4th turn of an outdoors velodrome only to find a bank of asians walking the track (why they were walking on a signposted cycles only track I will never know) in the wrong direction I headed up the bank aiming to hit the ramped back slope but wound up going over the cut away for the lighting poles and slapped straight into is, relvent as I was a push bike courrier at the time.

2. broke my left middle finger after lashing down a load, put my hand on a box of vertically standing pipes that were about 3-4 foot long with flanges on them and knocked one, it moved away, swung back and just caught the edge of my finger between the flange and the box I yanked it back in pain and now have a free floating chip on the end of my finger.


Ive fallen off of stages, armoured vehicles and truck trailers, Ridden a tipping crane to the ground (mobile crane that rolled while being driven from lift site to lift site) been zapped, nearly shot (civilian rifle range where the ranges cross and there was a double booking), hit by large farm animals and occasionally vehicles.

[CapeLandy]

My wife being a nurse in casualty at the time in Pietermaritburg treated a "local" who had tried to rob a store and pulled out a gun from his pants and was now missing half a pecker.:D

[barney]

many stupid injuries and accidents over the last 25 years. from electric shocks, (not so many in recent years, but back when i was invincible, quite a few "one handed" shocks), back injuries, nails thru the foot, screwdrivers thru hand, all of these i survived with minimal or no permanent damage.
the worst one i ever had was with my present employer, about 10 years ago we were doing infrastructure work for foxtel and this particular day i was out around nth parramatta. my collegues from Telstra were running late and i needed to get some gas for my burner so i went down to BBC in church street in Parra. on my way back i was motoring along in a econovan that was woefully underpowered doing roughly 50 or 55 km/h, approaching the intersection where pennant hills rd meets church street and windsor rd i noticed an old man with walking stick and a teenage girl waiting to cross at the next set of lights.
the girl, about 14 yrs old, ran out to the median strip and she was looking away from me up pennant hills rd, at this stage, i was about 1- 1+1/2 car lenghts away from the traffic light pole she was leaning on. as the lights on the top of the pole disappeared from view due to my roof, i saw them turn orange, at this exact moment something hit the front of my van right in front of the steering wheel. i got showered with broken glass and although i can't remember what happened next, i can only assume that i turned my body away from the shower of glass, at the same time pulling the wheel to the left and hitting the brake.
as the van skidded to a halt sideways within the width of two lanes of the side street, i saw the girl that was standing on the median strip hit the ground in a crumpled heap about 20 meters away.
luckily for the girl, and for me as witnesses, the line of traffic waiting at the lights opposite was full of doctors and nurses on their way to westmead hospital.
the old man and several witnesses came forward to the police and explained to them what had happened and that there was no chance in the world that i could have done anything to avoid hitting her.
while i quickly came to terms with what had happened and with the help of one of my friends, a psychiatric nurse, i don't carry any blame on myself and i am convinced that my actions in no way influenced the situation.
she lived, but the hospital would not release any details other than tha night she was serious but stable.
i do however, have that image of the girls body landing on the road burnt into my mind and i will never forget that. i am more aware than most people of potential hazards from the side of the road and tend to be ready to jump on the brakes at the slightest sign of a kid that is either not paying attention or not under full control of it's parent.

[loanrangie]

Only had minor cuts and burns myself as a chef but heard the other day that my BIL who lives in Adelaide was up at Port Augusta cutting up scrap railroad tracks using a power saw of some kind and it bucked back and removed half his chin and a few teeth. He is waiting to see a plastic surgeon about facial reconstruction , he was lucky he didnt cut his jaw bone in half or hit am eye :eek:.

[BMKal]

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I wasn't directly involved in this accident myself, but was the project manager of this job and had to deal with the consequences on the day and for many months afterward.

The girl in the picture was driving the ute - she got out through what was left of the drivers' door window. The passenger in the ute (still in there when this photo was taken) received numerous broken bones, both lungs punctured & collapsed, collapsed chest amd a lot more. He has never worked in the mining industry since. last I heard, he was a used car salesman in Queensland.

Exactly one month to the day after this accident, I was helping the operators change the GET (bucket teeth) on this same loader. One of the operators hit one of the teeth with a sledge hammer - a small chip of steel (about the size of my thumb nail) came off the bucket tooth and lodged itself against the bone in my right shin - 85 stitches in three layers and I've got a large scar on my leg as a reminder of these events.

[simonl8353]

18 yrs ago. Selling aerial photography of houses to owners in the UK, ignored "Beware of the Dogs" on the gate and got attacked by a Border Collie and Labrador. Oh SURPRISE! :o

Hospital, multiple stitches in right arm and left leg, went back out same day and made record sales in our team (sympathetic the English, you'd be laughed at here).

[Cameron_Def]

I have had decompression (DCI / Then Bends) twice when filming Deep wrecks (ww1/ww2, 60-120mtr deep) around the world.. lost laot of vision (Had 20/20 before all this) / can not move my shoulder 100%, now feel pain when ever I dive, and my concentration is not what it used to be..

This all happened on a remote island in Solomon islands, with only 4g's of 02, its dark and 40knot winds, and no longer able to feel your feet, arms or move your neck .. Helicopters / boats / Planes could not come get me for 3 days...

Lets say I soul searched allot that night, got all better in time, and then had 3 years of unsettled employment and life (so unsettled I wanted to go for a drive, so I drove from Sydney to Dampier and had a beer and drove home ... yeap pretty fuked in the head right there!) as I could not settle down, nearly lost my gf, my friends due to the emotional issues from that accident (hard to explain what was going through my head).. was saved by a total stranger, who sat down next to me on a remote in the solomon islands jetty and talked to me about life .. he was a ww2 digger living in the solomons and he told me stuff that made me no longer want to take my life and how he got through it all ... he died a year later or so .. owe him really my life.

Strange period of my life 25-28 ... made me a stronger person.

[muddymech]

i got a paper cut last week, nearly started bleeding.

[hiline]

i got a paper cut last week, nearly started bleeding.

i hope you got through ok ..........:D

[Fusion]

i got a paper cut last week, nearly started bleeding.

:Rolling::Rolling::Rolling: ...... i hope you went to the doctor to get it checked out :D:p

[moose]

compo!!:):)

[George130]

Only 2 injuries at work.
One was while driving my Datsun 280ZX next to a bus that turned right from the left lane. Crushed the passenger side of the car. Took 4 hours for the adrenalin to stop. Ended up with concussion and having to stay in a dark room for a week. Would throw up if I watch TV, got in a car or tried to use stairs. We lived in a 2nd floor unit at the time:angel:.

The other was just slicing a finger open when I worked in a bottle shop. By the time I managed to get the customers out it looked like someone had been murdered at the counter. Registers, counter and first aid kit were covered in blood. As it wouldn't stop I went into the Coles store next door and asked the butchers if they had anything to stop the blood. 4 stiches at hospital and I didn't have to clean it up:D:D.

Beyond that it has been home renovations and growing up.

We did have a family frind who was run over by an earth mover. He grabed the tread and road up the wheel so only his legs went under.

Annother family friend was clearing the old WW2 explosives from storage near the ANU in Canberra. The day of his accident his supervisor convinced him to do one more before nock off. That one blew up taking most of his face, one arm and a leg.

[Debacle]

Had a bit of a funny one happen yesterday. Went to fill up van, had to get both petrol and lpg so had to position between the two pumps. Lpg hose didnt reach so had to go and roll van back. Van all of a sudden wouldnt move, looked down and realised thats because it is sitting on my foot. Was on a slope so couldnt roll forward so had to keep it going backwards over my foot.
Would probably have severe brain damage if not for my steel caps. Thats a few times they have saved me.

[stock]

a couple of years ago slipped while getting off a loader fell to the ground only to be driven over, have it stop then reverse and break my leg , and on the 26 nov fell broke , broke my wrist ,10 weeks in cast let out and broke it 4 days later (13 feb) and hopefully will be out of cast on the 20 march

[procrastination inc]

*refrains from Irish joke*