mine was underpinning 4 holes and not concreting them leaving them for the weekend on morden road in blackheath,when i came back monday they had collapsed,the owners had to leave the house while we were in there and one weekend they came in on saturday to check on the house in the eve to see me and my downham chums making fry ups in there kitchen.
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Was this you then Nolly?
Big hole
There are plenty though!!!
Trying to clean up a stainless steel tank I mixed sulphuric acid and nitric acid together. I was told this would remove weld tarnish. The acids were a little on the concentrated side. What I actually got was a room filled with a yellow fog that is pretty nasty to your eyes and respiratory bits.
A friend of mine used chloroform in a confined area, he had 3 weeks off after that.
Plunging your hand into a tank full of live lobsters - most of which hadn't had their claws banded - and almost having various tendons, ligaments and fingers severed - still got a hand like a noughts and crosses boards from the scars
or: Moving a 42U server rack by tilt walking it corner by corner without checking that the power was unplugged first (it wasn't) - chopped through the cable, sent a massive shock through the rack, my hands and chest, knocking me back about five feet which, as it turns out was a blessing, otherwise the rack would have landed on my head as I fell down
or: Not reading the label on a bottle properly and, having never cleaned a drain with it before, mixing up a big ol' bucket of spirit of salts in my basement and inhaling a goodly dose of the fumes which almost knocked me the **** out. Spent the next 45 minutes intermittently passing out, talking gibberish to my missus and throwing up...
A traveller once told me a great story about ten years ago. For some reason, he had this great big sword, and once on a building job he dared the young un on the firm that if the kid stood still on the ground with the sword outstretched, he could perch out the 1st floor window and 'drop one' accurately onto said sword. So the kid was standing outside with the sword out and the deed was done. And he did manage to catch it on the sword, but hadn't given any thought to the 'splatter effect' once it landed.
The fella tells the story brilliantly and i'm still chuckling again now !!
Pulling cables through tunnels full of mud and filth that aint moved for 100 years when only rats and feral cats to keep you company ! The cats where the most lethal looking things i have ever seen ! hairless and fearless.Always carried two torches, it wasnt a place to be in the dark !! Im sure that James Herbert and Stephen King wrote stories about that place.
No wonder H&S at work act was brought in.
my old man worked on the Thames Barrier as conrecte forman and by god he's told some stories of accidents that happened there.
I hope you get paid well mate
i am now mate, but i only get me hands dirty wheni fall over pi55ed or inme garden !
A few that will always stick in my mind.
1. One of my first Breathing Apparatus wears was in a 3 storey terraced house and due to the nature of the property we had to disconnect to go up the stairs (a bit of a no no but needs must), we had extinguished the blaze on the first and ground floors and my partner was going up the stairs to the top floor while I fed the hose up to him. As he cleared the top of the stairs and I was ready to follow him I heard this clicking noise and noticed a glow in my peripheral vision. The whole first floor had reignited and so I had to yank hard on the hose to attract my buddies attention, so he could give the fast approaching flames a dose. Funny thing is was that my boots melted to the wooden floor and it took both of us to get me moving again.
the hottest fire i have been in by a long way.
2. New Year's Eve about five years ago we were called to a fire in a carp nursery, where they bred the fish in warehouses in huge vats. We had no idea what was in the building but me and the same firefighter were dispatched to enter the property and fight the fire that was fast catching hold. We made initial entry but due lack of visibilty could not make any real progress, the whole place was a like an overworked sauna. So Tony made the decision that we should leave and go back around the front to tell Colin (our sub officer) that entry was a no go. Just after we shut the door there was a huge bang and moments later Colin was hugging us, the whole place had flashed over and if we had delayed a moment longer we could have been statistics.
3. My worst experience was aiding the Ambulance service with a 40 stone plus fat woman who had fallen out of bed. We had to lift her back onto the bed and to get her into a sitting position otherwise her own weight crushed her lungs! the stench and sounds emanating from her made one of our lot throw up in her bedroom. Later we were called back as the stress had given her over worked heart one final jolt and we had to help the undertakers carry her to the hearse. It took nine men to carry her and their volvo was probably not road legal after it carried her bulk!
Plenty of stories from the old boys about workers losing arms etc. Not nice!
Still think GH is the maddest of the lot...
Guess it was all " character building" ! wonder if i can claim Post Dramatic Stress Disorder ?
You should've quit and become a stunt double or something. These blokes hanging off cranes in James Bond films aren't a patch on you