rail worker losses legs

[westcoaster]

saw this on teletext earlier, this is the only link i could find.

http://www.teletext.co.uk/news/regional/east-anglia/1/Rail+worker's+legs+severed.aspx

might be a shunter, not to sure.

 

[me123]

Ooh, I hope he's OK. If they were quick, they might be able to do something, but I'm not too sure about severed limbs. Anw help Djw?

 

[Sir_Clagalot]

ouch! That's gonna hurt.
Hope they can work wonders with his legs.

 

[westcoaster]

seen else where it was a shunter at harlow stone yard, it says they were unable to save his feet/legs,
my thought's go out to him and his family, show's no one is safe and to remember the railway is a dangerous place to work.

 

[D306]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/6958436.stm
From BBC news in Essex

Man loses legs in train accident
A rail worker has lost his lower legs in an accident in sidings close to Harlow railway station in Essex.
The man, in his 40s, was overseeing a nine-carriage train carrying freight when the accident happened. Emergency crews freed him from under the train.

Mark Samuels, fire officer in charge at the incident, said: "It appears the man slipped underneath the carriage as he was seeing back the train."

The firefighters recovered his limbs in the hope that surgeons can save them.

A police and Office of Rail Regulation investigation is now under way to establish the cause of the accident.

He's really lucky to be alive.

 

[westcoaster]

i belive there is on bbc essex website

 

[Spaceflower]

hope he's OK.

of course he isnt ok

 

[Jim]

of course he isnt ok

He said HOPE:roll:

 

[Spaceflower]

hope has nothing to do with it. he has lost his legs.

 

[Crompton Karl]

What i think me123 was trying to express was he hoped the member of staff who was injured and lost his legs did not suffer any further complications, ie death or further injury and possibly the medics attending to him might be able to save them or possibly in the future this person could again walk with the aid of prosthesis. In that way the person injured could quite happily be OK, especially when you think of the things that could have happened, he may feel that he was lucky not to die or be paralysed. Depends on your interpretation of OK.

PS, i hope the injured person is able to live a full and happy life in the future.

Karl

 

[me123]

There is (I believe) the possibility of surgical reattatchment if done quickly enough, but I did mean that no complications (infection, for example) arise and hopefully prosthesis will allow him to lead as full a life as possible, if they cannot save his severed limbs.

 

[TheSlash]

hope has nothing to do with it. he has lost his legs.

Better than death.

 

[Coxster]

According to the BBC, the worker's lower legs could not be saved.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/6960201.stm

 

[me123]

That's terrible. TheSlash, he might think that his obvious lack of mobility is "worse than death". Nowadays, he'll be discharged and could be moving again in an electric wheelchair though, thankfully. But the poor guy'll probably be mourning the loss of independent movement. At least he's stable, though.

 

[paul1609]

Dont understand what the problem is theres plenty of potential rail workers

 

[TheSlash]

Avast me hearties, I Dunny understand what thy problem is there be plenty more potential rail workers Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum

I'm sorry, i don't speak Matelot, you lost me after "Avast" hock:

 

[westcoaster]

just an update for you, the shunter was in the four foot on his mobile, with his back to the wagons

 

[CosherB]

just an update for you, the shunter was in the four foot on his mobile, with his back to the wagons

I do hope that's not true.

 

[westcoaster]

tis true there are safety bulitins up about it , reminding us about the mobile phone policy , and gives this as the example

 

[CosherB]

Not wishing to speak ill of the injured but.... in the 4 foot, on a mobile?

 

[westcoaster]

no acouting for some people

 

[me123]

And this goes to show the importance of health and safety.

 

[mbonwick]

Goes to show how dangerous the use of mobile phones can be.

 

[Jim]

If that is indeed the case, then it goes to show that H&S do cause 'decent rules' to be set, alas occasionally!

 

[pedned]

When i first heard about this, I did feel sympathetic. But now we know he was on his mobile, in the 4 foot... i really havent got any symathy for him, his own fault at the ennd of the day.

 

[TheSlash]

Nothing to do with Health and Safety, it's basic common sense!! :roll:

 

[Ascot]

How can ya stand in the 4 foot though, it's hard enough as it is with the sleepers... Wonder who passed him out with a PTS

 

[Gavelex]

I had sympathy at first, but in the 4 foot on his phone and apparently 'walking backwards'