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Well it is Friday....
I was always told that people could not be accident prone - incidents were always systematic failings.
But as an example we had one guy who..........
Walked out of the office door reading the paper. Walked into post and broke his false teeth.
Whilst catching empty barrels beyond rolled to him along the floor was distracted, waved at someone across the yard and was knocked down by a barrel ( rather like donkey kong I thought ).
During yard repairs managed to fall over a sign warning that repairs where being made in the area.
I know we shouldn;t find these things funny but......... ( no serious injuries by the way ).
Any offers?
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Clean, well lit, clear open floor....he tripped over his own feet and broke his arm (we had it on CCTV too)
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martin1 wrote:Well it is Friday....
I was always told that people could not be accident prone - incidents were always systematic failings.
But as an example we had one guy who..........
Walked out of the office door reading the paper. Walked into post and broke his false teeth.
Whilst catching empty barrels beyond rolled to him along the floor was distracted, waved at someone across the yard and was knocked down by a barrel ( rather like donkey kong I thought ).
During yard repairs managed to fall over a sign warning that repairs where being made in the area.
I know we shouldn;t find these things funny but......... ( no serious injuries by the way ).
Any offers?
They are not accident prone as such but they might have “problems” like dyspraxia. We had guy who simply had no sense of self- preservation- one day he decided to cycle underneath a closing barrier. The CCTV footage was funny as the barrier bonked him on the head. He also decided to stick his head under a shower without testing the water first and scalded the top of head. He ( and his sore head) are now gone but we did spend some time looking at what we could do with him to keep him safe but it was difficult as he kept finding new ways to injury himself
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Send him to specsavers - LOL!
Empirical evidence suggests that some people ARE accident prone.
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Mr.Flibble wrote:Clean, well lit, clear open floor....he tripped over his own feet and broke his arm (we had it on CCTV too)
SNAP!
I have investigated exactly the same :)
My favourite investigation ever though - as it's Friday - was a broken arm from a trip. Report read "I was running away from the ghost"
How on earth do you phrase that on your RIDDOR report :)
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Many years ago I started with a new company and sat down to read through their accident books.
The very first one started with a comment like this.....
"We don't know how the accident happened. Joe was on the pallet as usual being raised up on the forklift with a jug of bleach to dose the tank. The next thing he knew he was on the floor".
I knew I was in trouble straight away!
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A 4th year apprentice once told me that he, inadvertently, swallowed a bee/wasp that then stung him (whilst in his throat). He was playing cricket at the time. Disaster was averted, apparently, by a quick-witted doctor who inserted a length of hose down his enflamed throat, saving his life.
The same guy was nicknamed "struggles" by his peers.
Make of it what you will
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quote=teh_boy] Mr.Flibble wrote:Clean, well lit, clear open floor....He tripped over his own feet and broke his arm (we had it on CCTV too)
SNAP!
I have investigated exactly the same :)
My favourite investigation ever though - as it's Friday - was a broken arm from a trip. Report read "I was running away from the ghost"
How on earth do you phrase that on your RIDDOR report :)
More to the point how do you justify it as work related ? Don't tell me it was the ghost of the last employee to trip in this area?
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I received an accident report where a young lad was so busy ogling a passing girl that he wandered backwards and fell over a large concrete ball.
Guess that ruined any chances he had :)
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At a facilities Management Company I worked a few years ago, we had a young girl mopping a floor and she somehow when stepped back she went straight over the wet floor sign she had just placed there.
Same company we had a girl who would have a accident a week, she slipped off the same broken curb on site on a number of occations, she was cycling into work today and didn't stop in time to avoid the closing barrier. She ended up knowing the Nurses at the on site medical centre on first name terms. However, after the final accident she had, I took her to the medical centre and she was crying that they were going to sack her etc, me being the positive man that I am comforted her telling her she wouldn't be sacked for having an accident, within half an hour the site manager sacked her, and I had to escort her off site. There was an awkward silence from leaving the office to the gate, and I swear she was calling me every name under the sun under her breath.
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In a previous role we had a female worker who insisted on wearing very tight skirts and very high heels. She was always slipping, tripping or falling. The root cause was obvious and entirely hers.
On one occasion she fell on a stretch of pavement and was off work for several days. There were no witnesses but she described over the phone rougly where the fall took place. When I looked at the stretch of pavement I found that it had been laid in poured concrete sections but one section had been cut to bury services and the 'made good' surface in tarmac had sunk.
Before she returned to work we had the tarmac removed and the hole refilled with new concrete. After she returned she pointed out that the actual place she fell was on the next poured section of concrete and the surface was like a billiard table. The lesson there is to always interview the injured person!
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Site Safety Manager (Not me) running to attend on site incident to get his BA set...tripped and fell into a fog of released CO2...no physical injuries...lots of mental ones as it was on CCTV!
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My favourite so far is: "I was sitting on the chair holding a knife (scalpel type) when I accidentally stabbed myself in the other hand"
The guy in question should not even have been holding a knife, he just picked it up to have a look at it as it was being used (safely) by one of his colleagues.
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When I was on the trains we had a guy who was infamous for operational incidents, don't know how true some of these stores were but great stories. My favourite - whilst getting a ride home on a staff bus late at night he asked the driver if he would take a short cut direct to house - the driver obliged. However there was a low bridge on the route and bang! Topless red bus = red faced driver.
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I think that there is a potentially interesting point being made at #3. Dyspraxia manifests itself in a number of different ways including some aspects which some might regard as being 'accident prone' e.g. a tendency to trip, fall over or bump into things.
The dyspraxia foundation have produced an intersting guide for employers
http://www.dyspraxiafoun...ide_to_dyspraxia_1.0.pdf
Looking at the 'checklists' on pages 5 and 6, there are a number of 'traits' that I recognise in myself!
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I received an accident report the other week with the description "I was cleaning Kelvin when I bent down and smacked my head off him". I was totally Confused and bewildered, so went into the warehouse to ask the guy who or what Kelvin was...turns out that's what he calls one of the FLT's.
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We have 1 man here who the guys on the shop floor have nicknamed NAPO :-)
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Katrina_bee wrote:I received an accident report the other week with the description "I was cleaning Kelvin when I bent down and smacked my head off him". I was totally Confused and bewildered, so went into the warehouse to ask the guy who or what Kelvin was...turns out that's what he calls one of the FLT's.
That's what they're telling you!
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We all tell people about the triangle and how important it is to report minor accidents so I applaud the dilligence of this person at a previous employer.
I checked the accident book one day to find two new entries:
"9.00 am - accidentally stapled own finger."
"9.15 am - accidentally stapled own finger again while showing someone how I'd done it the first time."
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...............hilarious. I had such a rubbish day yesterday I needed that laugh.................brilliant, thanks everyone!
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I used to keep a book of unusual accident descriptions, the funniest I ever got but a little concerning at the time was; 'I reached under the machine for a bucket and caught my head'.
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