scariest moment at work

[grantr37]

Come on guys you must have had one here mine : working on lighting conductors at a castle ,not the one on the island the other one not saying where , replacing damaged sections of the tape beautiful sunny day cut it out put in a new piece bolt together test and jobs a good one move on to the next , i was working at the top of the tower strapped out the damaged area of rod ,basically a large jump lead , cut out the damaged bit just bolting it back together and there was a huge flash of lighting, ill tell you ,youve never seen people run so fast ,that wasnt due to the lighting but due to the noxiouse pong that came from me lol boy did it put the willies up me never did it again with out me rubber gloves on i can tell you

fraid rubber gloves won't do you any good

 

[Bobster]

I've had a few scary moments.

I think the two that will stick with me the longest are:

Being in the substation when a 2Mva 11kv/3.3kv failed, all the circuit protection worked as it should so no fire or explosions.

The noise of it roaring has haunted me, I couldn't get out of the sub as I'd of had to run past the failing tx. Let me tell you 3-5seconds, of that roaring away and no place to run was horrible.


The other one was working on an overhead crane when the brake on the cable drum shattered, it dropped the 4ton bucket a good 40feet. That made a bang.

 

[cogsey133]

Now guys if you want the scariest here it is. On the same job mentioned in my other post i was sitting down cutting kopex and being so tired well you just know the knife slipped. As a result i have a nice 3 inch scar about 3 inches away from my crown jewels....what a lucky escape that was or my family allowance would have been drastically cut!

ps i was the fourth guy that night sent to hospital with a knife wound and thats my work place!

 

[jumpin jax]

I worked in a boatyard in my former life and was the crane driver, i had got on to the owner telling him the crane was knackered( old 7.5 ton coles crane with lattice jib), any way was lifting a freshly painted boat from the shore into the water and the jib lifting gear failed internally and the jib came crashing down onto the boat crushing the cabin in. This all happened in slow motion and could not do a thing about it, insurance paid out for repairs to the boat.

 

[Guest111]

my scariest one was when a young lad ran onto a factory yard I was working on,rapidly followed by 8 big lads in a car hell bent on killing him.there was only me and a german shepherd to prevent mayhem,oh happy days as a dog handler.

 

[grantr37]

I was speaking to an old sparky who's retired, see him in the pub now and then, he told me about a substation back in the mid seventies where there were 4 people working inside and a bit of equipment (filled with highly flammable oil that I'm sure is long banned/phased out) exploded and made the whole inside of the concrete shed into a furnace in 2 seconds flat...they got roasted into something resembling granulated coffee judging by what he said.....

 

[Cyberprog]

my scariest one was when a young lad ran onto a factory yard I was working on,rapidly followed by 8 big lads in a car hell bent on killing him.there was only me and a german shepherd to prevent mayhem,oh happy days as a dog handler.

It's always interesting when you add a dog into the equation. They know if they mess with it, the dog will eat one of them. But which one? That's the dilemma. And usually the handler's are fairly well built chappies, so that's two of the 8 which will be in trouble... the odds start drawing in...

 

[Paul.M]

It's always interesting when you add a dog into the equation. They know if they mess with it, the dog will eat one of them. But which one? That's the dilemma. And usually the handler's are fairly well built chappies, so that's two of the 8 which will be in trouble... the odds start drawing in...

Phil's not the biggest of blokes but I assure you that he would have taken down more than one of them lol.


No way near what you guys are posting up but yesterday whilst on the top of a ladder using my side cutters to strip 4mm t+e and they slipped off the cpc and I smacked myself straight in my face and bust my nose lol. Blood everywhere, it was a good hit. Got off the ladders and went outside to bleed in the drain just as the office next door was finishing for the day and loads of people walking out of the door looking at me bent over with loads of claret flowing from my snoz. God only knows what they thourght, it was funny but my nose still hurts now and I've ruined my favorite Caterpillar t-shirt.

Could have been worst, could have fallen off the ladder. At least I can laugh about it

 

[Sparky Ninja]

I got held hostage at knife point when doing a normal night call out once working for the council.

We were on a call-out rota in teams with 1 of each trade, and I was teamed with a multiskiller - so he did plumbing, locksmith and glazing.

We had a call to a block of flats/bedsits which were filled with drug addicts - and it was sited right in the middle of the town centre. The job was to help someone in who lost their keys, so it was the other guys job, but due to the nature of the location we had to go in pairs.

Turns out the guy had been kicked out of his own pad by some dealer chaps and so when we broke back in it all kicked off with us 2 standing in-between 5 guys.

I don't remember much about what was shouted and discussed but I do remember the state of the place, and the smell

:ack2:

 

[kingeri]

I was present during an armed robbery at a large computer retailer, was only there to service the fire extinguishers. Four guys with swords, hammers etc. hit the cash collection guys. The money box exploded and I, along with the bad guys and several other folk, got covered in horrible dye. Felt like a criminal for a while after that!

 

[Kamikaze]

It's always interesting when you add a dog into the equation. They know if they mess with it, the dog will eat one of them. But which one? That's the dilemma. And usually the handler's are fairly well built chappies, so that's two of the 8 which will be in trouble... the odds start drawing in...

A game of Russian roulette with a german shepherd, and the dog wins. I like it! :yes:

 

[Thefailsafe2012]

Pretty pale in comparison to all the previous posts, but about a year of being on the tools I was tasked with fitting some really expensive outside lights. Big ol' brass things with a thick glass cover. After being explicitly warned about not over tightening the glass cover screws I was really carefully doing quarter turns until I was happy that it was securely on. Took a step back to admire my achievement only to hear a loud clunk and see a huge crack right down the middle of the glass, then it was a long walk back to the boss to sheepishly surrender.

Also I had climbed up to a pretty decent height on an extension ladder to give the boss some stuff, as I got to the top he leant over the and showed
me what he used to do when he was a scaff and pushed the ladder out an arms length, I hung on so tight me knuckles nearly burst through the skin!