My Accident At Work

Written By: Tom Doerr on March 19, 2010 No Comment

After suffering severe injuries at work an American bricklayer was told by his claims adjuster that “trying to do the job alone” was not a detailed enough description of how the accident occurred for the insurance paperwork. The man then gave the following account of how his injuries transpired:

“When working alone as a bricklayer at the top of a six story building I discovered at the end of the day that I had over 500 pounds of bricks remaining. As opposed to carrying them down the six flights of stairs by hand I concluded I would lower them down using the barrel and pulley attached to the roof.

After securing the ropes I returned to the roof and began to fill up the barrel. Once full I returned to the ground to release the rope, because the bricks weighed almost 5 times more than I did, I made sure I had a firm grip of the rope before releasing it. Unsurprisingly I was launched off the ground quite quickly and did not have the foresight to let go of the rope.

I began to ascend at a rapid rate until I was around the height of the third floor at which point I was greeted by the barrel travelling in the opposite direction causing my fractured skull and broken collarbone. My ascent continued and I was eventually stopped by my fingers getting entangled in the pulley system.

Luckily at this point I had the common sense to keep hold of the rope despite being less a few fingers. Unfortunately at about the same time the barrel crashed to the ground expelling its contents. With a sudden change in balance myself and the barrel began to swiftly change places which accounts for my two fractured ankles and lacerations to my legs and lower body.

Thankfully the collision was enough to make the remaining three storeys fall less fatal. Unfortunately as I lay on the pile of bricks with three broken vertebrae and the formerly mentioned injuries, I did not have the common sense to continue holding on to the rope…

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