Worst workplace incident/accident?
Discussion
The accident I had in the toilets this morning was probably one of the most mortifying things anyone has had to deal with.
I'd had curry last nice and cheap aldi beer which might have still had sediment. I passed as necessary some solids but mostly brown water, gallons of it, then discovered the schoolboy error of no paper roll in the cubicle. I hear the main door open and implored said openee to pass me the loo roll from the adjacent trap, the reply was "fkcu that, it smells like a rat has died in here, I'm using the upstairs bogs".
Having to then spend the rest of the day sans socks as I'd used them as a substitute taught me a vital HS lesson, i.e. Hygenic Shttng, always check there is loo roll before passing, indeed some mock blue advisory signs have already been made for the traps.
I'd had curry last nice and cheap aldi beer which might have still had sediment. I passed as necessary some solids but mostly brown water, gallons of it, then discovered the schoolboy error of no paper roll in the cubicle. I hear the main door open and implored said openee to pass me the loo roll from the adjacent trap, the reply was "fkcu that, it smells like a rat has died in here, I'm using the upstairs bogs".
Having to then spend the rest of the day sans socks as I'd used them as a substitute taught me a vital HS lesson, i.e. Hygenic Shttng, always check there is loo roll before passing, indeed some mock blue advisory signs have already been made for the traps.
Not an accident, an incident.
It happened at a Scottish Power station, better not name it.
A foreman was heavily disliked. He went to the loo, other workers followed him in to the Gents, sellotaped the cubicle door shut then set fire to toilet paper and threw the burning paper over the walls of the cubicle.
The foreman never returned to work.
It happened at a Scottish Power station, better not name it.
A foreman was heavily disliked. He went to the loo, other workers followed him in to the Gents, sellotaped the cubicle door shut then set fire to toilet paper and threw the burning paper over the walls of the cubicle.
The foreman never returned to work.
Robbo 27 said:
Not an accident, an incident.
It happened at a Scottish Power station, better not name it.
A foreman was heavily disliked. He went to the loo, other workers followed him in to the Gents, sellotaped the cubicle door shut then set fire to toilet paper and threw the burning paper over the walls of the cubicle.
The foreman never returned to work.
Wow :O what happened to the people who did that? It happened at a Scottish Power station, better not name it.
A foreman was heavily disliked. He went to the loo, other workers followed him in to the Gents, sellotaped the cubicle door shut then set fire to toilet paper and threw the burning paper over the walls of the cubicle.
The foreman never returned to work.
scorcher said:
Some horrible accidents here... https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=d4f_1492964068
Definitely not for the squeamish or easily shocked!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guys at the end were easily shocked.Definitely not for the squeamish or easily shocked!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A workplace accident? Well, kind of.
Being deputy editor of Kit Car magazine, I'd taken Nick Green's NG TC demo out on test.
The wheels were out of balance (wires) so I'd been the Kwik Fit in York and had them done.
Heading from Tadcaster Road towards Bishopthorpe, I opened the throttle to see all was well.
When I went past the 6th Form College, Flossie, in her Fiesta, pulled out right in front of me. I was
doing a perfectly legal 40mph and clouted her offside front just behind the wheel.
For those who don't know, the NG had a steel ladder chassis accepting MGB components
so it was an 1800 cc car with an alloy front end/bonnet and a GRP body and wings.
The impact pushed her car to sideways so I wiped off my nearside front wheel on her offside front corner.
I remember watching the NG's centre hinged bonnet flapping off down the road like a mad pterodactyl, followed by the GRP headlamp pods bouncing along.
For my trouble, I got...
Bruised/bloody knuckles from punchng the wodden dash when the woodrim steering wheel collapsed.
A broken watch strap.
Broken specs from their flying off and hitting the screen.
A spectacular seatbelt bruise.
Shock apart, Flossie was fine but she had to be pulled out of the window as the Fiesta's
doors had been wedged shut.She admitted her head was full of the chemistry exam she'd just sat.
Cue the appearance of one PC Strawberry (no kidding). He gave me a producer and later, a face to face at the nick.
A letter came later suggesting that my driving 'hadn't been 'perfect'? WTF? 20mph under the limit? Fully legal car?
all docs AOK and a surgically clean licence?
No action came of it. It was embarrasing to take the remains back to NG on a trailer but the chassis was 100% straight.Who'd a thought it?
The nearside lever damper's alloy housing had simply exploded. The driver's seat runner was twisted badly but the belts (bolted
to GRP) hadn't budged.
I also got some stick from the rival magazine, about crash testing the NG. I had to explain (in print) that it was
a titanic blunder, not a 'Titanic-esque blunder.'
In all, another day in paradise.
Being deputy editor of Kit Car magazine, I'd taken Nick Green's NG TC demo out on test.
The wheels were out of balance (wires) so I'd been the Kwik Fit in York and had them done.
Heading from Tadcaster Road towards Bishopthorpe, I opened the throttle to see all was well.
When I went past the 6th Form College, Flossie, in her Fiesta, pulled out right in front of me. I was
doing a perfectly legal 40mph and clouted her offside front just behind the wheel.
For those who don't know, the NG had a steel ladder chassis accepting MGB components
so it was an 1800 cc car with an alloy front end/bonnet and a GRP body and wings.
The impact pushed her car to sideways so I wiped off my nearside front wheel on her offside front corner.
I remember watching the NG's centre hinged bonnet flapping off down the road like a mad pterodactyl, followed by the GRP headlamp pods bouncing along.
For my trouble, I got...
Bruised/bloody knuckles from punchng the wodden dash when the woodrim steering wheel collapsed.
A broken watch strap.
Broken specs from their flying off and hitting the screen.
A spectacular seatbelt bruise.
Shock apart, Flossie was fine but she had to be pulled out of the window as the Fiesta's
doors had been wedged shut.She admitted her head was full of the chemistry exam she'd just sat.
Cue the appearance of one PC Strawberry (no kidding). He gave me a producer and later, a face to face at the nick.
A letter came later suggesting that my driving 'hadn't been 'perfect'? WTF? 20mph under the limit? Fully legal car?
all docs AOK and a surgically clean licence?
No action came of it. It was embarrasing to take the remains back to NG on a trailer but the chassis was 100% straight.Who'd a thought it?
The nearside lever damper's alloy housing had simply exploded. The driver's seat runner was twisted badly but the belts (bolted
to GRP) hadn't budged.
I also got some stick from the rival magazine, about crash testing the NG. I had to explain (in print) that it was
a titanic blunder, not a 'Titanic-esque blunder.'
In all, another day in paradise.
This (from my profile picture) happened to me at work. I walked away, completely unscathed, but the Mondeo was written off. It cost me a lot of cakes.
I’ve had the odd scrape at work, but the most serious physical injury I ever got was a human bite through an undershirt, shirt, NATO sweater and anorak, which really hurt and I’ve still got the scar on my arm - it’s getting on for 20 years ago now.
I’ve seen plenty of nasty stuff that’s happened to other people - murder scenes, suicides, decomposed bodies/part eaten by pets, fatal RTAs, none of which really bothered me at the time (or so I thought). I ended up being diagnosed with a pretty hefty dose of work related PTSD back in 2013. The trigger event was a five year old child who had drowned in a swimming pool at a family party, two or three years previously. While the incident and my involvement in it are still very clear in my memory, it wasn’t the “worst” job/incident I’ve been to in terms of blood/guts/gore (that’s usually deaths involving trains, unsurprisingly, plus a few select RTAs, like the one where we had to recover someone’s degloved face from the lamp post at the scene...).
While I was being treated (by an utterly brilliant NHS team who dealt exclusively with trauma), I did ask why the drowned child had sent me over the edge. They explained to me that by that point, due to my upbringing and more than average exposure to trauma and not dealing with any of it, pretty much anything could have tipped me over the edge, it just happened to be that incident (the same night I went to a suspicious fatal RTA, which was much more gory, but did t phase me in the slightest). Apparently I could’ve gone to the drowning an hour earlier or later and it not have triggered me, but eventually within a short space of time, because I’d had 20 odd years of being “loaded” with stuff, I was due to go “pop”.
Having gone through it, I’ve now become a bit of an evangelist/advocate for mental health within the workplace. I really wouldn’t wish what I went through on anyone. It was bloody horrible, but thankfully, I managed to get through it and while it’s changed me forever, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. If I’m honest though, I’d rather have been able to be a bit more self reflective without having to go through all the nightmares, anxiety, flashbacks etc first!
I’ve had the odd scrape at work, but the most serious physical injury I ever got was a human bite through an undershirt, shirt, NATO sweater and anorak, which really hurt and I’ve still got the scar on my arm - it’s getting on for 20 years ago now.
I’ve seen plenty of nasty stuff that’s happened to other people - murder scenes, suicides, decomposed bodies/part eaten by pets, fatal RTAs, none of which really bothered me at the time (or so I thought). I ended up being diagnosed with a pretty hefty dose of work related PTSD back in 2013. The trigger event was a five year old child who had drowned in a swimming pool at a family party, two or three years previously. While the incident and my involvement in it are still very clear in my memory, it wasn’t the “worst” job/incident I’ve been to in terms of blood/guts/gore (that’s usually deaths involving trains, unsurprisingly, plus a few select RTAs, like the one where we had to recover someone’s degloved face from the lamp post at the scene...).
While I was being treated (by an utterly brilliant NHS team who dealt exclusively with trauma), I did ask why the drowned child had sent me over the edge. They explained to me that by that point, due to my upbringing and more than average exposure to trauma and not dealing with any of it, pretty much anything could have tipped me over the edge, it just happened to be that incident (the same night I went to a suspicious fatal RTA, which was much more gory, but did t phase me in the slightest). Apparently I could’ve gone to the drowning an hour earlier or later and it not have triggered me, but eventually within a short space of time, because I’d had 20 odd years of being “loaded” with stuff, I was due to go “pop”.
Having gone through it, I’ve now become a bit of an evangelist/advocate for mental health within the workplace. I really wouldn’t wish what I went through on anyone. It was bloody horrible, but thankfully, I managed to get through it and while it’s changed me forever, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. If I’m honest though, I’d rather have been able to be a bit more self reflective without having to go through all the nightmares, anxiety, flashbacks etc first!
Captain Smerc said:
I've seen hundreds of videos more gory than that but something about that went deep.
I hope he died quickly.
Surprised this one has not been posted yet. 2 people with hearing injuries, but could have been a lot worse. However I suspect they will get a lot of stick in the future.
https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-f-16-belgia...
https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-f-16-belgia...
Captain Smerc said:
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