Thread: Job accidents .

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...

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

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.

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.

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" ...... thought i was going to cough them up ... oh the pain

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

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

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!!

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...