hey all,
stuff always can go wrong and at work places and im sure its goes wrong often and can sometimes be rather expensive for the company/boss..
so i thought there must be lots of stories and pics that can accompany what goes wrong at work so here is a thread for such antics....

i'll start off with a ute that got well a wee bit bent under a tyre of a 60ton forklift last week..
the driver was luckily outside the ute on the passenger side of the car..
the driver of the fork reversed into it with the steer tyres... 'whoops'

enjoy the pics....

last one for now..
how lucky was the driver not to be in the hot seat..:o

oh what a feeling... bugger!

yeah nice one bob.. plenty more where they came from..

Can I write about injuries?
-Staggers.

yeah suppose so.. so long as it happened at the dreaded workplace..
bring on the papercut stories.. haha

I've burnt a hole in my arm on a fresh weld,
Dislocated my shoulder when I fell into service pit,
Cut my wrist when opening a box with a stanley knife,
Fractured my elbow when I jumped off truck engine,
Lost my finger nail twice by hitting with piston/hammer,
Broke a toe when I dropped a 14 litre V8 crank on my steelcaps.
And...
Blew the diff on the 'Gopher' ute (It was buggered for a while before)
All at work.
Oh yeah, someone tried to blame me for burning down a Scania (I wish I did, but as it turned out they did!)
What, do they think I'm clumsy or something?
-Staggers.

Yep or wrong place wrong time, youre an apprentice arent you? At my work I overhaul jet engines a TA left a whole unnassembled compressor assy and magnesium gear box housings in the cleaning tanks for the whole weekend when max dwell time is two hours. $320000 worth of parts destroyed, he still has his job.

[ Edited on 12-4-2006 by 66deluxe ]

Yeah, third year Diesel. How'd ya guess?
-Staggers.

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Originally posted by h yeah suppose so.. so long as it happened at the dreaded workplace.. bring on the papercut stories.. haha

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Hmmmm......OK. Fractured skull:o,dislocated shoulder,dislocated knee and broken knee cap:duh, crushed neck vertabrae:o....all in the one accident.Lucky for me i had my hard hat on or i would be dead:jesus

My old boss used to get a little bit fired up and a tiny droplet of his (YUK) spit went in my eye on more than one occasion. :repuke

Ewww...
-Staggers.

Oh, by the way I was on lunch break driving back from smoko shop in Dec 04 when my axle nut came off the arse end!
-Staggers.

didnt happen at my work place, happend at a friends old work place, this was in aged care. a lady that was bed ridden had her leg sticking out of a bed rail and a staff member pushed the rail down on her leg, shattered the bone and no one owned up to it, wasnt picked up for 2 -3 hours.

Dani

Ouch!!!
-Staggers.

my folks just love that i work on a farm and that im there by myself most days
apperntly one of the most dangerous occupations around if u believe that
glad the boss trusts me with the tractors so much LOL

Joel


[ Edited on 12-4-2006 by DUB74L ]

well thats one way to lower your ride..

dont worry VWboy ur not alone
i seem to be captain of f**k ups lately
this was todays effort
i got less than 30mins harvesting done this morning and a rock went up into the leaf extractor and it threw a blade
i didnt hear it grinding away coz the harvester runs at full throttle and i wear ear muffs and have the stereo flat stick to hear it through the earmuffs LOL
i lost an hour and half removing, straightning, welding, balancing and refitting the bloody thingh not happy jan


Joel

i could probably post on this thread daily cept i'd never get another job again LOL

Joel

Hehehe Bad luck eh?
-Staggers.

hehe yeah or karma
i swear lately i must have been hitler in another life

Joel

New Years Day 2000 i had to do a job inside an escalator, the old piece of crap malfunctioned and started up just as i got out, had 3 fingers taken off by the bloody thing, got them back on, man they were greasey to! Happy New Year!!! I can joke about it now, i still have work on the thing to, but i dont turn my back on it.

old boss of mine decided to get up in the ceiling and have a look because he thought we had mice up there, fell through and onto his desk, broke his leg and the desk. That healed and then he undid an occy strap on the roof of his car and copped it straight in the eye!

I haven't done many bad things at work...

Last year I cut my pointer finger knuckle open on a metal shelf... it had just healed when I did the same thing again! Same spot on knuckle, 2nd time I couldn't feel my finger. But it's all good now, complete with wicked little scar. :P

I used to be friends with a guy who turned out to be a real dumbass. He was riding his pushbike and the chain came off..... so while riding still he decided to try and get the chain back on. The moral of the story? Don't try it unless you want to lose an inch off 2 fingers.

:P

A different guy I know bought some piece of exercise equipment and decided to change something on it... not sure how but he lost an inch off one of his fingers too AND managed to get a payout from the company when it was his stupidity in the first place. :duh

I hit a wrong note and had to listen to it....