Worst day of my Life!

Welshsparky · Jun 25, 2012

Apprentice dropped his hammer straight onto a toilet cistern lid, A very decorative one at that! 6 hours searching for a replacement and no joy ! i am close to tears, anybody else had the same misfortune and know were to look?

plugsandsparks · Jun 26, 2012

Was reversing out of client car park and whilst trying to avoid the boiler, that the plumber had put outside, I reversed straight into his new transporter, made a right mess, didn't touch my battleship estate car. Anyway when insurance came around for renewal it went up three times from last year, so i went on Meerkat website and got it back down to what i was paying albeit having to go 3rd party, anyway i got a really nice Meerkat toy to remember the occasion.
*hit happens as they say

ian.settle1 · Jun 26, 2012

DurhamSparky said:
while working on a cctv job with a scaffy tower my apprentice was up top and i was pushing the tower..!

any way i said is the run clear and he said yes then suddenly thud smash and oh ffff what was that!!

i had pushed into a sky dish snapping the arm off and bending teh actual dish..!!

accidents happen! £50 quid to fix but hey!

What was the apprentice doing on the scaffolding in the first place when it was being moved?

Moses · Jun 26, 2012

DurhamSparky said:
while working on a cctv job with a scaffy tower my apprentice was up top and i was pushing the tower..!

any way i said is the run clear and he said yes then suddenly thud smash and oh ffff what was that!!

i had pushed into a sky dish snapping the arm off and bending teh actual dish..!!

accidents happen! £50 quid to fix but hey!

Isn't that against H&S rules? surely?

VoltzElectrical · Jun 26, 2012

i put the scissor lift into forward instead of reverse on a fire station job, when it was parked right up next to the insulated sectioned roller shutter doors and put a barely perceptible mark on it. Only the site manager was on the other side when it happened! Honestly, You had to squint your eye along a specific angle to see the crease, but he did, and that's £1000 please!

DurhamSparky · Jun 26, 2012

the apprentice refused to climb down and climb back up...! so i pushed him 1 meter along...

JD6400 · Jun 26, 2012

VoltzElectrical said:
i put the scissor lift into forward instead of reverse on a fire station job, when it was parked right up next to the insulated sectioned roller shutter doors and put a barely perceptible mark on it. Only the site manager was on the other side when it happened! Honestly, You had to squint your eye along a specific angle to see the crease, but he did, and that's £1000 please!

I have personally done that one before on a brand new grain store :willy_nilly:, i was lucky enough to knock it out though , but my jacksey did twitch for awhile !
I can even remember the date as it was the morning of the 7/7 bombings , as my phone would not work all morning while i tried to get hold of one of the apprentices to come and help me get the bend out .

Marvo · Jun 26, 2012

Whatever can go wrong will go wrong. That's what insurance is for. The worst mishaps are the minor ones where you end up paying out of your own pocket cause it's not worth claiming. If you're going to hump the pooch make it a biggie so it's worthwhile claiming.

We had a few interesting claims, an air handling unit we installed on a commercial premises roof whet straight through and landed on a glass fish tank that was 2.6 meters long by 1.2m wide. The tank and the fish within cost the equivalent of 6500 pounds. The structural engineers liability insurance paid eventually.

Marvo · Jun 26, 2012

Just to cheer you up here's one of the insurance photo's I took of another minor mishap we had a few years ago whilst craning a genset onto a boat. There was some kind of confusion about the weight and gravity was the clear winner.

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Philpot · Jun 26, 2012

I did much the same at home but I got a really good one at the TIP for a fiver and it was the same horrible, out of date, green of the rest of the suite. At our tip they have an area set aside for baths, toilets and sinks etc. Maybe I should have claimed on the insurance?

Philpot · Jun 26, 2012

Not a boat gene.....a cistern lid!!!!

Tonkatoy27 · Jun 26, 2012

Whilst on a job the other day I walked into the bathroom to see a decorator busily working away in the corn, while his 500w floodlight was slowly melting its way through the plastic toilet seat.......