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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: windolene on March 31, 2007, 08:01:54 pm

Title: w/c loses arm.
Post by: windolene on March 31, 2007, 08:01:54 pm

Hi,

         It was only a scratch but it cost him his arm!


He just caught his hand on the window frame and scratched it slightly.

He never bothered to apply anything to it or take any precautions- after it was only a scratch.

Several days later his arm became painful. He stopped off work and went to the doctor. Unfortunately it was to late to apply the ordinary remedies and he was sent to the hospital.

Amputation was found to be necessary and in due course he left the hospital with but ONE arm.

He never cleaned windows again and to-day he is one of that vast number of helpless cripples who are dependant on charity for their mere existence.

A moments attention to the scratch in the fist place would have saved the arm and all the misery attendant upon its loss.



                                   SAFETY FIRST!


(Accidents similar to the above occur almost every day.)

Show this bulletin to your men.

Norman Harding.

Title: Re: w/c loses arm.
Post by: tacky on March 31, 2007, 10:02:55 pm

good info  i spect all of us at one time cut ower fi nger  an carried on working  in dirty water etc  trouble is plasters ar usless when wet  but good advice is notied  xcus spelling cans kicking in   

Title: Re: w/c loses arm.
Post by: Londoner on April 01, 2007, 09:03:09 am

Some of the things we come into contact with contain very nasty germs. I can remember encountering bird poo, cat and dog poo, dead birds, rats and leaking manhole covers.

I'm sure you can add to this list.

Title: Re: w/c loses arm.
Post by: colley614 on April 01, 2007, 10:27:57 am

Bloody hell the amount of times i've cut my finger whilst working and cracked on. I rememeber a guy stabbed me in the hand with a scrapper by accident one day and I left it and carried on. Another thing I've noticed is wc's cleaning bird poo off windows all morning and then getting their lunch out the van and scoffing it without washing their hands :P 

Title: Re: w/c loses arm.
Post by: Londoner on April 02, 2007, 04:59:47 pm

I've done that !

Title: Re: w/c loses arm.
Post by: eddie d on April 02, 2007, 05:23:18 pm

i think the above is a very rare and extreme example of what can happen .
i wont be loosing any sleep over it .

Title: Re: w/c loses arm.
Post by: bluesteve on April 02, 2007, 11:58:50 pm

classic!

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Post by: choice.clean on April 03, 2007, 12:29:32 am

what year did they invent penicillin then?

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Post by: eddie d on April 03, 2007, 10:36:16 am

classic is what i thought ,but you never know

Title: Re: w/c loses arm.
Post by: Polewash on April 03, 2007, 01:35:16 pm

And what date was this posted APRIL 1st  :D :D

John

Title: Re: w/c loses arm.
Post by: marc on April 03, 2007, 07:27:16 pm

if he had a supa-lite he would be ok and a automatic van of course