Work accident advice

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Right then a week ago,

Managed to get myself tangled up in a machine at work basically no safety device on the thing that prevents material shooting forward and trapping a person and due to the nature of what is required to get it active you have to step inside the machine and do it manually with the machine active. Although normally you can isolate an area that prevents the material from moving. This didn't fail it was a case of material not seen on one end that had already entered the machine which prevented the shut off of the material moving.

Trying to be vague in case this is spotted by some employee or other but i ended up with material pushing me forward with quite some weight and ended up sore and bruised no lasting injury more so however it shook me up because had it been heavier material it doesn't bear to think what would have happened i wouldn't be here to tell the tale i know for sure. It was reported and put in the accident book plus i went to A&E to get checked over.

I obviously need to ask the works what the situation is going to be whilst I'm off work recovering my status of pay, should the answer be that they wont pay me for time off do i have to apply for work compensation and does this type of injury fall into this category?

To be honest going back to work is going to be daunting doing the same job and something i'll speak to them about in due course.

Just want to cover my ass nothing to do with making absurd claims for ££££s i have a young family and we can ill afford to take a hit financially whilst i get over the bruises.

Thoughts?

 

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How long are you anticipating being off? What do your T&Cs say about sickness absence?

My initial thought was just go back to work and request a move to a different area, if you're just bruised.

The rest of the week which would be total of 3 days off. Yeah i will have a chat when i go back to work for sure. Just trying to dig out my works handbook as you mentioned that.

 

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Just going through my old postings wow this was sometime ago eh!

I got paid full by employeer for this incident had 5 days off in total as the bruising came out worse than i thought it would.
At the time i was a trained shotblasting operator.

Imagine a long conveyor track that goes into a booth that uses steel ball bearings to shotblast material to certain specs required. Then dependant on machine it passes through booth into another for paint spraying (in this case it was the paint spray booth i was in wrapping the rotation arms this is to make sure paint doesn't pool up and contaminate the material as it goes through the annealing phase towards the end.

So basically previous shift had left material which had just gone through the shotblast booth but had yet to come through so nobody knew it was there. Cue me standing there wrapping the arm up get a smack in the back of the legs and end up pinned against the arm as its rotating knee height. Luckily these were channels 75x40 @7.5m which aren't heavy so i managed to just about push them aside and untrap myself. Had they been the big 5t beams 750mm and above i wouldn't be here to tell the tale.

The company were out of order as there was not a SWP (safe working procedure) for this. Since the incident the method had evolved to using pre made sleeves which are costly. Funny that.

Fast forward i moved on from this company and got myself a better job with better pay and hours. A small blessing as i wasn't happy with that job and in hindsight i knew the job was dangerous from the get go and i made several complaints which resulted in some safety issues being corrected.