Lets call this Roll Call!

I would love for any and everyone to step up to the plate and confess their discrestions as far as any reportable accident on any job site within all there years of doing what we profess to be professionals that cost any man a lost day of making a living.

I can honestly knock on wood and honestly say in twenty years I have not had one, yet I have given away a couple of tee shirts because shit hapened.

Is there anyone out there that will admit to these circumstances (ANONOMOUS), describe how they happened, and how we make sure they never happen again, or how we would bend over backwards in forsight to make sure it never hapens again. I am not asking for anyone to hang themselves, but how can we make sure it never happens again! Please Be HONEST, IT IS TIME TO LEARN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My whole first year was full of "oops sorry.s" never hurt anyone though. I have smashed fingers on form boards, I knocked one lady on her butt in the mud because of a hose whip. One time I hooked a hose up with no rubber because I was short, covered a man with grout. Never knocked anyone off the wall. I've learned "slow and easy for safety", when you get hurried is when shit happens.

Twenty one years and never sent a man to the hospital or injured anyone other than myself, I had a Y used to linepump off a whiteman fall and spit my head open 2 hours later and 12 stitches I was driving the pump home.Had a metal bur on a door off a gmc brigadier open me up pretty good one time also, but thats it no horror stories, now ask what I have seen thats a different story. 

I only pumped for a few years. Back in the early 80s for some reason companies out here in California did not like to build scaffolding so when I had to grout a wall I would just walk the wall. Once I fell off a 6 foot wall. It look like I landed on my feet but I landed on a 2x4 stake right on my ass bone. My feet never touched the ground. Now the top of the 2x4 was not pointed but blunt. It felt like someone hit me in the ass with a sludge hammer. Knocked the wind out of me. I could not breath. I pushed myself off the 2x4 and stood there with this dumb look on my face. Everyone just looked at me like “what the hell are you doing, get back up on the wall” once I could breath again I jumped back up on the wall and finished the job.. Only time I got hurt on the job. Sucked but I was ok, no hospital or damage,lol

A couple years ago, I was on an ugly line job in a warehouse. I plugged several times on the prime and on the last plug i forgot to take the pressure off the line...got  mud on the 20 foot high ceiling and the clamp got my ankle hard. I was big time lucky!!! ill never forget that one!!!

Once, along time ago I had an accident where I crossed my Optical nerve with my Rectal nerve.  The only bad thing is now I have a shitty outlook on life!!

Twenty somethign years ago. Rookie, First month maybe.

I hit a high line, Thought I killed the guy  on the wall. He fell off the wall on the other side. Didn't see him for 5 min. Need list to say, I stay along ways away now. Never be so scared in my life. Had some guy come up to me and asked me why I was still alive.Makes you think when you are 19.Never had another thing go wrong since.THANK GOD.

I saw a pump take out an espresso stand yesterday. He turned a bit tight, and knocked it off its foundation. The gal inside got shaken up pretty bad, had to go to the hospital.

I wonder if the guy is still working for them today...

On a putz elephant you got a washout/grout hatch on the valve, left the cap on the previous job one time , so was kinda stuffed until a carpenter offered to make one out of a piece of ply, seemed a good idea, at the time, until the pump, a 2112h blocked, and buried a week old mixer and its ownerdriver in concrete, poor bloke had cement in nearly every orifice!

Well, this one summer at band camp...

It's about time we all remember the days, and today smile and still are able to laugh. Thanks guys!

 Had an air pocket whip a nozzleman in the back as he turned away. Slammed him into the core wall and broke his nose!

The Jaymes Redsell Story.

The pump I was on that day had some maintenance issues which I was unaware of at the time, it was a work colleague's pump that I took out that day because he had to be at a wedding, I had a very young and unreliable line hand assigned to me that day and the final straw was when a complete novice pulled himself up onto the side of the pump-pulling the paddle lever on and the rest is history!!!

My employer has pleaded guilty to the charges from Work Place Health and Safety. My Employer was great to me, we had a good relationship and I felt he trusted me on his machines and I was confident operating them. This was an absolute tragic and the worst day of my life but this goes to show you never no what's around the corner!!