I clean the windows on a church hall here. Yesterday whilst I was approaching one of the windows I stepped on a two-part man-hole cover. It gave way and without any time at all I fell through in to the void below. Fortunately it wasn’t that deep, it was man hole for a water meter and not a deep sewerage one. Anyway, I thought I’d broken my leg, the bone between the knee and the hip because of the pain. I lay there, in shock I guess, for probably 10 minutes, before getting myself to my feet and realising that although I had’nt done anything too serious I was in a lot of pain and disbelief as well actually.
I figure what happened was that someone had come to read the water meter since I last cleaned there and hadn’t refitted the cover correctly, like I say it’s one of those two-part covers.
Woken up this morning and I feel like I’ve been run over by a bus.
I emailed the centre yesterday after finishing and invoicing them explaining what had happened just in case I was unable to work. I don’t feel like going in today, I could do with a bit of a rest up but think I’ll go and knock a couple of medium size commercials out to just keep moving and stop mulling.
Anyway, keep safe guys, if you fall in anyway it comes at you with NO warning whatsoever, you have no chance to stop yourself.