stupid accidents and near misses

[Carter]

jeez Carter that sent shivers down my spine reading that

I was once using an angle grinder with an abrasive pad and had that moment changed from a cutting disc I had been using..the grinder snagged and grabbed my t-shirt and clamped my hand to the grinders 'on' button and I couldnt stop it! it sanded my stomach red raw before the other engineer cut the power, would have been a lot messier if i'd still been cutting

Mate did pretty much the same thing when we were putting together a chopped Triumph Bonneville. He was fettling a bracket with a grinding wheel in a drill with his greebo hair hanging loose. The wheel picked up in his hair and in a split second had wound itself towards his face and took a huge chunk out of his eyebrow before it ripped the chunk of hair off his scalp! Lucky/stupid sod!

When I was apprentice I was chatting up a girl whilst working on an overhead rotating bar clothing conveyor system when my sleeve got sucked in and ripped off my jumper followed by my tshirt and left me screaming dangling half naked whilst being transported round the system lol

Christ, that could have been messy! Some people will do anything to impress a woman.

 

[Spudmiester]

Mate did pretty much the same thing when we were putting together a chopped Triumph Bonneville. He was fettling a bracket with a grinding wheel in a drill with his greebo hair hanging loose. The wheel picked up in his hair and in a split second had wound itself towards his face and took a huge chunk out of his eyebrow before it ripped the chunk of hair off his scalp! Lucky/stupid sod!



Christ, that could have been messy! Some people will do anything to impress a woman.

A bit non electrical but along the same lines, My late Grandmother when she was young used to work in the woolen mills in Bradford back in the 1930's.When I was a kid she used to tell us stories about 'the olden days'. One day she recounted an horrific tale of a new girl who had long hair came to work,at the mill and was told to tie her hair up.
To cut a long story short , she diddnt, and it ended up getting caught in the leather belt that drove the machine (you know the type, we have all seen Fred Dibnah's programmes), anyway, the whole lot lot ripped out.

Grandma said she could never forget the poor girls screams !

Makes my eyes water just thinking about it !

 

[Bane]

Once shot myself in the finger with a staple gun.

 

[Spudmiester]

Once put my finger in a motorised SAFI valve to see how far it was open.

It was open fully and closed on my middle finger................ouch !

There was a 2A fuse backing it up which thankfully popped. Good job I had swapped the 6.3A one earlier

 

[ian.settle1]

Once shot myself in the finger with a staple gun.

A bit different than a 7.62mm what Spark-Doctor got shot with

 

[rumrunner]

I once tipped an aluminium tower over while we were pulling in an arnourd all i had to hang on to was the cable and slid down it to the floor ,

the gas regulators on oxy/accetilene bottles caught fire while i was burning some rsjs

Hit my boot with a circular saw and cut into the steel toe cap

slid down a roof and neally fell right off

hand saw slipped sawing a bit of wood and neally cut my thumb off

 

[Bane]

One got an infection in my ear after trying to pierce it at home.

 

[ian.settle1]

One got an infection in my ear after trying to pierce it at home.

That's your fault for being a poof and wanting an earring

 

[ninjadeathstalk]

One got an infection in my ear after trying to pierce it at home.

Hi everyone.

I did the same thing with my ear as well when I was 16 or 17. Sterilised a sewing machine needle with a flame and put into the arm of the sofa for safe keeping then into my ear, lol.

My father was up a ladder working on some temporary lights one day and got a belt, fell off and then went back up to finish off with a dislocated shoulder.

When I was an apprentice doing basic hand skills we were told not to flick files at each other because the file flies out of the handle. Several minutes later flicked the file at some other apprentices and it flew at them across the room and smashed into a partition wall. Fortunately it missed everyone.

 

[Bane]

Once managed to cut my bum whilst having a poo.

 

[ScottGlover]

I once got a job to deliver baths to a warehouse on newcastle docks i was late and trying to find the dam place when i hit them bit things the ships tie the ropes to. the baths came through the cab and wedged me against the steering wheel i was stuck there for an hour before someone found me. I had broke my arm and fracktured my pelvis and broke my back in 2 place but did not paralyize me or anything. I had a lucky escape and live to die another day. lol

 

[kung]

When i was 16 long time ago i was working in a warehouse and everyone went out for lunch exept me so as you do i had a quick go on the big red forklift the ones you sit sideways on anyway four laps of the warehouse later i took a corner to fast and slid towards a huge 40ft racking loaded with about 12 tonnes of stock i caught the edge of it and the forklift stopped 10mm short of taking my arm off then the racking started swaying and almost tipped over but although my arm was sprained and black and blue my arm was ok ! phew now that was close !
2 weeks ago my sodding aprentice drilled through a hole and said to me tell me when the cable comes through the hole then after a min he said its stuck can you see what its stuck on so out comes my torch and looked just then the sod blew and gave me a face full of dust eyes were streaming and gritty ! bless his cotton socks !

 

[Guest123]

I nearly choked on a cheeseburger once.

 

[johnnyb]

Scenario up a high ally scaffold with a young new apprentice taking a 3mtr length of track lighting down in an old listed building, the track only had 1 light fitting on it, and we had just taken 3x of the same down previous. This proves a point that NO matter what you should always tests circuits are dead. Another spark at the consumer unit was flicking the breakers on and off, and sure enough our light went out, dead you presume, Not, bearing in mind i had unscrewed my end being quicker than a young lad i had it resting on my head while he disconnected the mains end, i couldn,t see and he did,nt know that yes all the previous tracks had 3x wires, not this one it also had 2x switch wires and guess what it was still live, and i got the bloody shock right through my forehead, hence i have lost a few cells since then, i tell you what that bloomim heart guys. needless to say my mate at ground level was rollin about with laughter, still feel it now.

 

[maddfridge]

i there

no miss this time got totaled last week by five teenagers ina vw polo

somehow got out van total write off

but lived to keep on helping you lot

have some time now to answer or help

cheers one lucky sob