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In the late 70's Two months into my apprenticeship I was shipped off to British Leyland longbridge, (yes I'm ancient)( I bet half of you havn't even heard of the long dead car co), & was told by the sparks to label all of the relays & contactors in the panel he was working on.

Half an hour into it I'm suddenly stuck on 415V; my hand having strayed across two phases of the energised open contacts of an overload relay (IP2X, in the seventies, that's unheard of!).:eek:

Seconds seemed like agonising hours & I thought this is it, all of my muscles were locked in place, I couldn't move (one reason I don't believe the stories about being thrown across the room by 240V), so just before i blacked out I shouted as loud as I could (I like to think in a ninja kind of way, & not the girly whimper that probably eminated from my rapidly bluing lips) & forced my arm & body away from the panel.

As I looked at my now smoking palm (the smell of burnt flesh; Mmm nice) the 'sparks' said nonchelantly "by the way the panels live" & went back to his mods! :mad: I was not happy

The two scars on my palm have all but faded but the valuable lesson will remain.
 
Back in the 80's when I was still doing my electronics HND a bloke in the machine shop managed to rip 2 of his fingers off in a lathe. He calmly picked them up, walked through the factory to the reception office and politely asked them to call him an ambulance. He then sat down to wait and passed out.
Its amazing what you can do sometimes when in shock....
(they managed to re-attach his fingers, but he never had full mobility in them again)
 
Had a guy in the early 90s whilst cleaning the breach of a challenger tank somehow managed to chop off the 2nd and 3rd fingers at the 2nd knuckle. How he did this is completely unknown as the two fingers either side are still complete. Again he managed to open the breach, retrieve the fingers and climb out of the turret, jump down before the shock hit him. Never seen anyone so white.............

Unfortunately the fingers were too contaminated to fix back on, and now he only takes 1 1/2 sugars in his tea!!!!!
 
Still at the same factory as the lathe bloke they was a young chap well into his motors, he would spend most of the lunch break fiddling with it.
He also wore a watch with a metal watch strap, which was a good conductor when he somehow shorted out between the battery terminals.
Now, he screamed........

At the same place again there was a very clever electronics engineer in his early fortys who was a bit eccentric and a loner. After the christmas break one year he didn't come back to work. Turns out he had cooked himeslf a nice christmas lunch for one and choked to death on a turkey bone.
Something about that I find truely sad.....
 
Out in Bosnia in the mid 90's loads of Negligent Discharges,New rupert out of sandhurst arrives at Split airport with his new pistol and live ammo that he can't wait to play with shot his driver in the thigh , up in Donji Vakuf we were all in portacabins and someone was cleaning his rifle forgot to clear the chamber and shot someone 3 cabins down in the arm .

Felt for the poor Gurka's emptied an ambulance of med kit for them they had nothing not even shell dressings :(
 
Out in Bosnia in the mid 90's loads of Negligent Discharges,New rupert out of sandhurst arrives at Split airport with his new pistol and live ammo that he can't wait to play with shot his driver in the thigh , up in Donji Vakuf we were all in portacabins and someone was cleaning his rifle forgot to clear the chamber and shot someone 3 cabins down in the arm .

Felt for the poor Gurka's emptied an ambulance of med kit for them they had nothing not even shell dressings :(

I was working on a wagon in the school carpark in Vitez when one of the infantry guys let off a Millan missile accidentaly, fortunately it hit a building (their own HQ) before it has passed its safety arming distance..............ooops
 
I was working on a wagon in the school carpark in Vitez when one of the infantry guys let off a Millan missile accidentaly, fortunately it hit a building (their own HQ) before it has passed its safety arming distance..............ooops


Lucky Lucky B*********ards

jamie


Like this

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WwNjKNWxMg]YouTube - Missile problems[/ame]
 
Not had anything too bad from sparking but when i was a chef i saw a guy stick his hand in a deep fat fryer (2 to 300 hundred degrees) that was nasty.

My ex boss cut his hand open with his snips and tissue was hanging out, that was pretty nasty as well.
 
Many years ago was messing about in a warehouse when everyone went to lunch so as you do at 16 i thought what a good idea irll have a go on the big red side sitting forklift thing so off i went it was great i was driving ! next thing i remember was i crashed into the 40ft steel racking and almost ripped my arm clean off lucky it was only badly bruised and the 2 tonne boxes on the racking almost toppled off lucky the rack didnt overturn ! dammmmmm lucky anyway i parked it up where i found it and went to lunch ! other time i was 10 running on long grass when i tripped and my knee landed on a ripped open beer can ! opened my knee up and sock was squelching with blood anyway lived to tell the tail and 7 stitches !
Regards
Kung.
 
when i was a second year apprentice my firm was working on a army camp which had the corrigated steel walls around it, the brief in the morning was to put up 6 security perimeter lights and as it was a friday and the security risk was low we could go home without having to wait for an escort as soon as we got them done, so instead of the older guys taking there time building scaffolding they just got me to hold a 3 tier ladder for them and had rested it up against the top of the corrigated steel, an hour or so later we were getting on well when the guy at the top of the ladder dropped his screwdriver and asked me to throw it back up to him, he leaned over to much, put his hand on the corrigated steel, and fell. his thumb was being held on by a flap of skin, right through the bone. he also broke his arm in the fall, but in the state of shock he was in he just said to me ' i know its a friday mate but youll have to take me to the hospital i think, or the doctors at least' lol. i had to drive whilst lighting his feg and take it out of his mouth to flick it and put it back in whilst passing through the security gates at the barracks without stopping. i had passed my driving test two weeks earlier to make things worse
 

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