Sling Incident
Aftermath of sling incident.
As you may have gathered I work in the construction industry. Statistics released by the Health and Safety Executive tell us there were 229 fatally injured workers in the year 2007/2008 and that this figure has been fairly stable for the last 5 years. We do not work dangerously in the construction industry but we do have to deal with potentially dangerous scenarios nearly every day. Thankfully we work to control and minimise these risks to ensure everyone gets to go home at the end of the day. Back in December 2008 I witnessed a potentially fatal incident at our job in Tile Hill, Coventry. Thankfully the worst injury was a couple of bruised knees and a few shocked people.
