Went to work, had an accident, been to hospital, just returned home.
I had a stupid accident this morning i climbed on top of a high stack of timber packs to check the "bill of laden numbers". Normally a forktruck is used to lift the packs down for me to check which i wouldn't have to check had it have been properly checked by the guy who unloaded the timber in the first place. Anyway like an idiot i didn't wait for a forktruck or get one myself. I really don't know was i was thinking climbing up, guess i was in too much hurry. I was walking along the rows of timber and i slipped trapping my left leg between two timber packs twisting my leg at the same time. I really thought i had broken it but luckly it wasn't. I was lifted down in a cage via a forktruck. My first thoughts were, this is embarrassing lol. My leg was in agony so it was straight to the local hospital and i had an xray to check if there's anything broken, and there wasn't although i have a torn knee ligament and some may be frayed. Which they reckon will take about a month to fully heal. At the moment it's a little swollen and the bruising is coming up which i'm told is normal. I am so angry with myself for being that stupid, i should know better. When i first started at the sawmill, climbing sets of timber was common because if you only wanted two of three lengths, it was easier and quicker than getting a forktruck move a lot of packs in front just to get a few lengths. But of cause nowaday with safety regulations being much higher, climbing packs should be a thing of the past. But it still happens from time to time. I was just unlucky. It's unlikely i'll get sick pay so i'll use some of my holiday to cover it. Which isn't really a problem because at the end of the day it was entirely my stupidity and fault. I must have had my brain switched off this morning. Guess it could have been worse i could have fallen to the ground and landing on concrete doesn't bear thinking about. So if i'm on the forum more often, it's because i can't do anything else at the moment lol.