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Posted By Martin Taylor
All
after a couple of serious cases of harseplay at out site I am putting together a tool box talk on horseplay and fooling about.
Our cases have not resulted in injury so I would be interested in hearing of anybody experiences of real horseplay cases that have led to injury - no matter how serious
looking forwards to your feedback
thanks
martin
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Posted By Ron Impey
Hi Martin,
Two cases spring to mind. One was a worker who was playing with a horse when it stepped on her foot breaking several bones. Should people at stables wear footwear with protective toe caps? Should these be the type that are suitable if the horse treads on someone's foot while they are standing on soft ground?
The other was two students chasing each other in the a corridor. One went through a fire door then slammed it shut catching the other person's fingers in the hinge side, taking a couple right off.
I recall a case in a HSE publication in which one workman during horseplay with a nail gun fired a nail into the arm of a colleague. The accompanying illustration sticks in my mind. The man with the nailgun looked very much like Colin, a builder friend of mine, who one could easily imagine would do that kind of thing.
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Posted By RP
There was a case in the 70's where in a woodworking machine shop employees used a compresssed air hose to clean down machinery.(A common practice). During a 'prank' an air line was pushed down an employees trousers resulting an a blast of air penetrating his rectum. This lead to a death as the air cause severe trauma to the internal organs. I worked in the industry and remember it being related during H and S training.
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Posted By Paul L Williams
Martin,
We had one incident where a young man was getting playfull with a young lady and lifted her up and put her in a waste paper bin. Unfortunately she sprained leg and took a number of days off work. The young man was disciplined and the young lady returned to work a few days later. I asked the HSE whether this was an over 3-day reportable accident and their response was that it is not a reportable incident under the RIDDOR regulations as it was not work related.
Please see below, quoted from RIDDOR (Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995):
"An accident or dangerous occurrence which arises out of or in connection with work shall include a reference to an accident, or as the case may be, a dangerous occurrence attributed to the manner of conducting an undertaking, the plant or substances used for the purposes of an undertaking and the condition of the premises so used or any part of them."
Thanks
Paul
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Posted By Paul L Williams
Martin,
The case with the airline RP refers to above is Smith V's Crossley Bros Ltd (1951). In this case the employer was held not liable as it was not foreseeable that his " fellow workers would undertake such a prank.
Thanks
Paul
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Posted By Lorraine Shuker
The wife of a friend of mine was badly injured when someone pulled her chair out from under her as she was about to sit down. She ended up being off work for a long period with the resulting injury to her back and was left with painful back problems for many years.
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Posted By Ian Stone
We had two students who were working in a garage, decided to throw stuff over each other and eneded up pouring brake fluid on each other. Few minutes later one student lit up and went boom, luckily no serious injury
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Posted By Richard Mathews
Here is a good one for you.
My son, who is 25 years of age and works self employed as a plasterer. Left the site he was working on (converting old terraced houses into student accomodation) to pick up some materials from the local builders merchant. Whilst he was gone the other two people working on the site decided that it would be a good laugh if they threw a lump of putty at the door as he returned to site.
The lump of putty missed the door and hit my son in the left eye resulting in him suffering a detached retina and needing emergency surgery to save the site in that eye.
It's worse than that. He has had very limited vision in the right eye since birth. Had he lost his sight in the left eye (which would be bad enough) he would have been, for all practical purposes, totally blind.
Richard
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Posted By Brett Day
One of our squadron's 'numptys' excelled himself in Northern Ireland:
Numpty one demonstrated that by cocking a browning 9mm pistol you could put a pencil down the barrel and the action firing would propel the pencil out across the room.
Numpty two thinks thats a good idea and cocks his pistol, puts a pencil down the barrel and pulls the trigger.
Unlike numpty one he hadn't pulled the magazine out or cleared his weapon, a bystander was shot in the arm first with a pencil then with the round that propelled it out of the barrel.
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Posted By Barry Cooper
Last year at our company, two guys working together, Guy 1 placing wooden bungs into the ends of cardboard cores, Guy 2 knocking the bugs into place. One bung, slipped out of alignment, guy 1 went to realign, Guy 2 swung the 4lb lump hammer. Ow! broken finger.
Discovered later that they were larking about. Of course no one saw it happen officially. Guy 1 off work 4 weeks
Barry
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