A common sense cautionary tale

[Dave]

Thursday, Friday and Monday, I worked wearing boots in the workshop. Tuesday I put slippers on because my feet ached. Tuseday afternoon I stepped back onto a 4 by 3 sheet of glass smashing it. All of tuesday afternoon in A and E, all yesterday morning at the fracture clinic. Because I have partially cut my achilles tendon, I am now on crutches for the next two weeks, I will have to waste more time getting the stitches taken out and my wife is fetching and carrying for me constantly. Not only very painful, but I have a shop full of work and not a chance of completing it in the next two weeks. Luckily mostly for regular customers who are very understanding.

I wouldn't want this to happen to anyone else, please think about what you wear in your workshop, it has not been unusual for me to wear sandals or even be barefoot during the summer..... never again.

Dave

[JohnMcafee]

Sorry to hear that, Dave.

Get well soon.

[Graysalchemy]

Hope you get well soon Dave. I have work steel to caped shoes for about 8 yrs now I feel naked in the workshop without them. However I suppose if i did the same as you then I would have similar injuries, boots may be the answer.

[Bagpuss]

That's dreadful luck, I'm very clumsy around the workshop so know how you feel, never anything as nasty as that though, hope you're back on your feet soon.

[prospero]

Hell's B*llocks Dave that sounds nasty.


No more slippers for me.

[Nigel Nobody]

Dave,
I wish you well for a speedy recovery from your accident. I hope the pain doesn't last.

I guess there are two issues that we all should pay attention to. Solid shoes and the location of sheets of glass. I often leave sheets of glass, that have come out of an old frame, in places where they could cause an accident.


For many years all I wore on my feet was rubber thongs. Never once got cut by glass. (I did drop a 16 inch by 1 inch board, 12 ft long, on it's edge on my big toe and ripped the toenail out once.)

[MITREMAN]

Hi Dave,
Sorry to hear of your injury
How close to Norwich are you?
Give me a ring I maybe able to help you out.
Mobile 01604 790810

Mitreman

[Nigel Nobody]

That's a very generous offer, Mitreman! Good for you!

[Jonny2morsos]

Dave,
For many years all I wore on my feet was rubber thongs. Never once got cut by glass. (I did drop a 16 inch by 1 inch board, 12 ft long, on it's edge on my big toe and ripped the toenail out once.)

Over here a thong is a a skimpy piece of women's underwear!

I would insert an image here but I think our moderators would remove it.

[mikeysaling]

I would insert an image here but I think our moderators would remove it.

oh! go on - it wouldn't be a very big image !

[AllFramed]

Sorry to hear that, hope it repairs quickly and well.

You do have to be careful where you put things. My wife walked into the workshop yesterday and kicked into an old frame that I knew was there, but she didn't. Lucky she wasn't carrying anything breakable or a cup of tea.

[Dave]

Thanks all for the kind words and the offers of help.

Dave

[blokman]

Think I am most definitely going to start wearing my old cast off steel toe capped workboots last used when I worked in the quarry.
I am also seriously considering getting some rubber thongs, might give me an edge over the competition!!!

[Nigel Nobody]

Blokman,
You wearing a thong might give your competitors and edge!

"a thong" and "thongs" are two different types of apparel in this country. Both have a component that fits between two parts of human anatomy, but they are not the same parts.

New Zealanders call "thongs" (the things that are footwear), "jandles". What do you people in the Motherland call them?
Oh, silly me.....you guys probably don't ever have enough dry weather to even think about wearing them! You do know that they flip water up your back in wet conditions, don't you? ......... mmmmm...probably not! ROTFLMAO.

[Roboframer]

Flip-flops is what we call them, but I wear Flip-flips because I've got two left feet

I always wear ankle boots at work, anything with an air cushioned sole and an ankle cushion, never wear shorts (my legs scare people anyway) and rarely short sleeves either.
Hardly ever wear gloves though, unless I'm lifting more than one full sheet at a time, then it's rubber/kevlar ones; cotton ones for optically coated glass, but that's not for safety. I Never wear goggles - a sign on my excalibur says I should but I haven't worked out why - they'd have to be prescription goggles or massive things that fit over my specs anyway.

I once flipped a spring out of the back of an aluminium frame and it hit my spectacle lens and wrote it off, that could have been nasty!

[Nigel Nobody]

"flip flops" ......you guys make me laugh. All your sophistication goes down the drain with that one!

[prospero]

One thing you should never do. Wear gloves while operating power tools. It made seem sensible on the face of it, but the gloves will give zero protection in the case of an accident and while you wear them you are more likely to have one. Heard of some nasty injuries that way.
I once had some latex gloves on while using a power screwdriver. The glove snagged the end and wrapped round it. No injuries, but it was starting to cut my circulation off. If it had been a cutting tool on the end it would have been a different story. As it happened I yanked my hand back and the screwdriver bit was catapulted across the room right into the screen of a little TV in the corner. It now has a permanent ding.