I've spent most of the Day in Whiston Hospital, We got a call from our son Just after noon today to tell us he was in the Royal Hospital in Liverpool and he'd cut off his thumb.
He works for a very large Heavy Plant manufacturer I will not name on here and he's Service engineer.
He attended the site to repair an excavator, He looked in the engine bay and asked the driver to try and turn over the engine, the driver did this and John spotted the defect and told the chap to switch off the engine this he did only to try and resart it just as John was reaching into the engine
The result was Jonh had the top of his thumb amputated
He'll have surgery tommorrow to remove the thumb down to the first joint.
My opinion of the health and Safety manager for such a multi national company is very low just now as nobody attended the Hospital to establish what went wrong and Doubt very much if a full investigation has been carried out even though an employee has lost a finger
I was an engineer for years and never suffered and serious injury but he's only 27 with his career ahead of him I'm a Manager now and if I could I'd give him my right thumb I would I don't need it
If only he'd said Just "get out the cab mate"
Sorry this is the longest thread I've ever posted but it's been a Sh!t day
All Day in the Hospital
