[JW1]

When working trad, have you ever had a fall from the ladder?

[steven ainger]

i was only trad for just over a year till i changed to wfp, i voted for the second option, ladder slipped but didnt fall.

[Sir Squeaky]

Never any problem.
But then i'm not generally clumsy!

[Nathanael Jones]

i was only trad for just over a year till i changed to wfp, i voted for the second option, ladder slipped but didnt fall.

Ditto,.. but the guy I was working with fell twice and was off work for a week each time,... the 2nd time he landed on a car too and had to pay €800 to fix it!

[Paul_Rolfe]

I had a custard tell me today that she fell 8 feet off a ladder and cracked her hip.

She was cutting a tree branch.

[Sunshine/Cleaning]

I had a custard tell me today that she fell 8 feet off a ladder and cracked her hip.

She was cutting a tree branch.

Custard is known to be fragile!

[GWCS]

I had a custard tell me today that she fell 8 feet off a ladder and cracked her hip.

She was cutting a tree branch.

Custard is known to be fragile!

I would have though more gloopy?

my dad dislocated his shoulder cutting a tree branch - i think he forgot what side of the branch he was holding onto..LOL

[Gleaming windows]

I had a custard tell me today that she fell 8 feet off a ladder and cracked her hip.

She was cutting a tree branch.

A what? 

Thats the funniest thing Ive read on here for ages. Surprising coming from Wolfie too 

[windymiller]

Ive not had a fall off a ladder but have slipped backwards off a sloping slate porch roof.
I dropped about 8ft, landed on my heels and ended couldnt walk on them for about 3-4 months. Very Painful.

[EZclean]

fell off a slope roof doing window above garage, took gutter down with me. still had applicator in my hand as i landed. was pierced in the side from the squeegee in boab, in a lot of pain.

[Mike #1]

after 5 yrs trad ladder slipped out on paving my own stupid fault broken wrist, broken back in 2 places and crushed one of my vertabrae 70% if it had been fully crushed would never have walked again

[DaveG]

I fell off a ladder when i was 18, i reached over that little bit too far when i was cleaning a bay window and the ladder slipped ( my own fault, ladder was on soft ground and didnt "tamp" the ladder into the ground properly) ...

 My Stepdad was working with me and the ambulance guy said if he hadnt called them as quick as he did ( or i was working on my own) then i wouldnt be here to tell the tale!

Fractured my skull and was off work for a while...

aaahhhh them were the days!!!

[windowashing]

Working on a window above a garage, and the owner decided to go out in the car.

She opened the electric garage door (up and over type)

The door was bending as it tried to push the bottom of the ladder away.

I was coming down as quickly as possible, and the bottom of the ladder was skitting backwards - but I managed to climb down and off quickly and grab the ladder.

The woman in the car looked very shocked! (I probably did too!    )

I was suprised the how much the door was bending, and I'm not heavy!

[Ste M]

had two slips where the ladder has moved about a foot, the best one was the ladder went totally from under me when i was cleaning a 1st floor window, i fell about 10ft and just landed on my feet waiting for the pain to come, it never and i just stood up straight got my ladders back into position and carried on. My two biggest worries are wet decking and wet block paved driveways

[AuRavelling79]

Where's the option for "all of the above have happened to me"? 

Or the option for Squeaky - "I'm so brilliant, I never make mistakes"....  :

[chris@c.m.s]

Wow that's 54% so far have come off a ladder 

[Sir Squeaky]

Or the option for Squeaky - "I'm so brilliant, I never make mistakes"....  :

I make mistakes all the time.
But i wasn't going to while working up a ladder was I?  : Doh!

[Paul_Rolfe]

Custard = customer/custy.

I find it easier to type custard.

Of course! Try it sometime. 

"Customer" "Custard"
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