Job accidents .

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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.

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).

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.

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

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Originally Posted by muddymech

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

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

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Originally Posted by muddymech

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

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

compo!!:):)

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.

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.

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