In a&e...

[Geordie Spark]

I stabbed my left hand with a knife today, 20 mins later was holding the hole saw and knocked the trigger and took a slice out of it, then when poking a hle in some plasterboard by hand slipped and I half ripped my right thumb nail off and got blood over everything. I'm glad it's the weekend, I hope you feel better.

There really is no hope for you is there??

Have you considered a change of career ........ maybe flower arranging?? ...

 

[uksparks]

Lol, no but I have a first aid box in my van that's huge! I don't know how many of you have first aid boxes and stuff in them worth having...? I have loads of eye wash pods, a full bottle too, zillions of different sizes and types of plasters, bandages, CPR masks, scissors, gloves, you uname it it's in there.

You shouldnt and cannot rely on a customer to have the right stuff, your eyes for example, you only have one set, so you should have the correct stuff immediately available should you need it.

 

[uksparks]

There really is no hope for you is there??

Have you considered a change of career ........ maybe flower arranging?? ...

I was hot and been up and own the ladder into the loft so many times I lost count, then the shower cable was being a sodd getting it through the holes, I'm usually careful, today was just one of those days, oh and then I went to connect the shower, and the pipe was fouling where the case sits so had to take it all off agan.

This is the shower job I had where the garage door was in the way, they removed it this morning so I could do it.

 

[trev]

A shower beside the garage door?
What colour is the sky in your world?

 

[Geordie Spark]

Lol, no but I have a first aid box in my van that's huge! I don't know how many of you have first aid boxes and stuff in them worth having...? I have loads of eye wash pods, a full bottle too, zillions of different sizes and types of plasters, bandages, CPR masks, scissors, gloves, you uname it it's in there.

You shouldnt and cannot rely on a customer to have the right stuff, your eyes for example, you only have one set, so you should have the correct stuff immediately available should you need it.

I only needed to use a First Aid box once in my entire working life and it was when I was a 17 year old apprentice (engineering then) and I had an argument with a radial arm drill which ripped a lump off my thumb. The boss first -------ed me for bleeding on the pristine white brand new concrete floor (it was our new factory & we'd only been in it a couple of weeks) and he then produced the First Aid box which was a wooden Ex Army affair with the date 1942 stenciled on the side of it. All its contents were marked 1942 as well!!

I declined his offer of a splash of 1942 vintage Iodine and a 1942 bandage ....

 

[Marvo]

I just carry a large tube of superglue and a body bag which covers most eventualities on site.

 

[Eddiesparks]

!!! Marvo !!!

 

[Englishman]

You're a macabre bunch!! By the way i did my thumb first then half hr later did my finger same way. Milwaukee drill is lethal! Big skin flap on thumb has fused itself back on but i assure you it was deep, and stings like mad!

And the nurse made it look extra dramatic (she said she knew i wouldnt keep it clean because i'm a tradesman so she put extra bandages on! Her dad was a joiner apparently)

A&E for that is pathetic haha.

I've done that and worse numerous times, insulation tape and plasters sort it out quickly enough. Mind you, I'm one of the clumsiest and most accident prone people you'll ever meet, I blame that on my dyspraxia though.

My latest cut was when I was stopping cable with a stanley, it somehow jumped and landed straight on the tip of the finger, then cut half way up the middle of my nail. I'm bloody used to it.

 

[specs]

You shouldnt and cannot rely on a customer to have the right stuff, your eyes for example, you only have one set, so you should have the correct stuff immediately available should you need it.

Lol, cant imagine why, but from reading your posts I think you might have put the wrong set of eyes in, you might have Geordies !!!

 

[Englishman]

Lol, no but I have a first aid box in my van that's huge! I don't know how many of you have first aid boxes and stuff in them worth having...? I have loads of eye wash pods, a full bottle too, zillions of different sizes and types of plasters, bandages, CPR masks, scissors, gloves, you uname it it's in there.

You shouldnt and cannot rely on a customer to have the right stuff, your eyes for example, you only have one set, so you should have the correct stuff immediately available should you need it.

I have a small first aid pouch with plasters, bandages and eye wash in it, use the plasters all the time but nothing else really gets used. Only used the eye wash once (and I might as well not have for all the good it done), got a tiny shard of metal in my eye while I was changing a pendant, thing was stuck in there all night, wasn't enjoyable

 

[ferg]

I'm assuming this is a wind up.

You will not find a single man on here that hasn't hit a finger with a hammer,fired a nail gun through a finger, screwed or drilled a finger / hand.

Anyone who hasn't done any of the above has laughed at someone else doing it.

 

[Maddison]

I was expecting a compound fracture or huge gash haha. I was we'll and truly let down ha

 

[GMES]

I was hot and been up and own the ladder into the loft so many times I lost count, then the shower cable was being a sodd getting it through the holes, I'm usually careful, today was just one of those days, oh and then I went to connect the shower, and the pipe was fouling where the case sits so had to take it all off agan.

This is the shower job I had where the garage door was in the way, they removed it this morning so I could do it.

Yes it alway's better than renting them. :bucktooth:

 

[R G]

Looks like a near death experience , In had better get me some life insurance ,,,LOL,,,

 

[Eddiesparks]

Well i'm back on the job now you'll all be happy to hear. Ps i bought some rigger gloves!