scariest moment at work

[Paul.M]

What all 185miles? It was scary but not that scary…lol

You drove 185 miles with a dead workmate in the back?????

 

[Kamikaze]

What’s worse is, none of us had a licence. You can not believe the amount of grief our gaffer had about the whole affair.

 

[Paul.M]

What’s worse is, none of us had a licence. You can not believe the amount of grief our gaffer had about the whole affair.

I'm not surprised!

How old were you all? 12!

 

[Kamikaze]

I'm not surprised!

How old were you all? 12!

It just proves that the brain really doesn't need blood to work. It just needs to be kept wet.

 

[Cyberprog]

I'm surprised nobody suggested giving him a jump start!

 

[RWJ]

I had a fairly scary moment yesterday..

The alarm guys were doing an install on a new shop.. I was sent to install, test & commission the two radial circuits they had brought to the board (old Wylex re-wireable).
The front was already off the 6 way board we were going in to ,I was pulling and prodding some cables going into the another board....

BANG! massive flash and a bit of molten metal went up me sleeve.

All the shop fitters looked, pointed and said some stuff in Polish (non spoke english)...

I was then contemplating what had happened... (I thought for a second I might have even taken the main fuse out!)

Then there was a shout from Yako (alarm guy) who had been in the basement drilling a wall to pass some cable through......
He'd only drilled through a cable concealed in the wall, which was going diagonally.

My simple job soon turned into a nice hack plaster off the wall and joint the cable.. We also noticed some junction boxes in another part of the shop where someone else had obviously (due to the scorched wall) done the same.

 

[BOROROBBO]

working on a MEWP extended to full height and the lad stood next to me decided to show me how stable they were by rocking backwards and forwards. i swear wheels were leaving the floor at one point!

 

[pinkfish]

Used to be the leader of the monkey tree gang on our estate; 8 years old.
We had many dares that had to be fulfilled b4 you became a member.
One in particular was jumping of a 10 ft wall and grabbing a branch at same height 5ft away.

Me and bro, aged 20 odd going to local rip off shop to get a white lightning, found same said wall,
with same said branch..........

On taking the leap I easily grabbed the branch and as my legs swooped to the horizontal .......CRACK !

I just remember flash backs of bro helping me back home and sitting there with my Mum and Uncle; Saying stuff
like...... I feel safe here.... but who are you? Where am I?

2 broken ribs
1 fractured wrist
1 broken finger
and concussion !

Happy Days :0)

 

[millwall ken]

Back in the day when I was still a lad. I was on a job in London when the electrician in charge suddenly died of a heart attack whilst at work. Well none of us apprentices had ever seen a dead person before or knew what to do with one. So in our infinite wisdom we decided to load him into the back of the van and drive him back to the yard. It didn’t half freak me out driving around with a corpse in the back.

Don't suppose that you stopped off for a pint and some scoff on your way back did you? I can see it now, driving up the motorway listening to hard rock music, and when you get back to the yard and ask the govnor 'what shall we do with him?' LOL

 

[Kamikaze]

The thing was, I flooded the engine because I wasn’t used to the manual choke & couldn’t get the hang of the clutch so one of the other lads drove the van. Of cause when we got back the police were called and we spend a couple of hours in separate cells while we waited for our parents to pick us up and got formal cautions on the way out. As luck would have it, we never got the idea to try and jump start him with an improvised cardiovascular contraption. Can you imagine the fertilizer we would have been in then? But your spot on about the hard rock music and we should’ve stopped off for a bite to eat. I was starving by the time I got back home.

 

[nikmet]

Don't suppose that you stopped off for a pint and some scoff on your way back did you? I can see it now, driving up the motorway listening to hard rock music, and when you get back to the yard and ask the govnor 'what shall we do with him?' LOL

Gotta be ACDC "Highway to hell" on full volume as you skid to a stop in the yard :-D

 

[Kamikaze]

I think it was “Wheels of steel” by Saxon if my memory serves me right. :biggrin:

Went to a wedding reception last Friday night and got reminded of this story because one of the lads that was with me that day was there. According to him I said “We'll just leave this here” and tried to run off. His wife’s jaw dropped when we were talking about it. She thought he had made that story up…lol

Oh the good old days. How I miss them! :yes:

 

[Geordie Spark]

Back in the day when I was still a lad. I was on a job in London when the electrician in charge suddenly died of a heart attack whilst at work. Well none of us apprentices had ever seen a dead person before or knew what to do with one. So in our infinite wisdom we decided to load him into the back of the van and drive him back to the yard. It didn’t half freak me out driving around with a corpse in the back.

That reminds me of when I worked for a builder & used to drive the van with him in the passenger seat.

He wasn't dead, but for what use he was he may as well have been !!!

 

[drew35]

A gang of us were rewiring a car garage and we had a 5 watt apprentice with us. The garage was still being used so we were all working around each other, chaos. While I was replacing sockets along a wall in front of a four post ramp, there was sudden shouting and smashing of glass, I turned around to see a car heading off the ramp in my direction only a few feet behind me.
The apprentice was playing with the buttons on our scissor lift and not even looking at what he was doing. He had positioned it just underneath the end of the four post ramp, the ramp was about waist height. The scissor lift had lifted the back end of the ramp up and the car rolled off. No stops on the front of the ramp so off it came! A manger in the office saw it happening and banged so hard in a panic on the glass that he put his fist through it.
I jumped out the way just as a car crashed into the metal workbench I was just leant over. It crushed the bench, did a serious amount of damage to the Land Rover, and my pants! The company's insurance had to pay out, and 5 watt was no more!

 

[cogsey133]

Don't know about the scariest but this one was quite amusing. We were working all hours possible on the London underground carriages in rosyth dockyard and i mean all hour 18 hour days three shift system so everyone was tired and downright grumpy and indeed not very sociable toward each other. Anyway one night one of the carriages was to be moved, to do this the under carriage sat on a special cradle with stops on to stop it rolling then it was moved by a hovair set up (think hovercraft); But because of one thing and another the stops were off and the carriage started rolling down the workshop. As you can imagine bodies started running away from said disaster except the smallest guy in the place who started to run toward it and tried to put his shoulder on it to stop the runaway. Next thing we see is two large lads with and end each shifting him out the way and him still insisting he could stop it on his own.

It was so surreal it was hilarious and his name of mighty atom stuck since, luckily no one was hurt on that evening