A friend of mine – a local builder – was working alone once. He took off his hard hat to wipe away the sweat from his brow just as a big piece of timber fell from the roof of the building and hit him square on the head. He came round minutes or possibly hours later, felt the blood in his hair, and went back to work.
Another bloke I know was on a building being stripped. He knelt down to pick up some tools and managed to gash his knee quite badly on a piece of broken tile. He was sent to A&E; but when he found it busy, he decided to self-medicate, sticking the flaps of skin back together with Super Glue. He then returned to work.
And on one demolition site, an occupational nurse I know found cases of undiagnosed heart disease, undiagnosed liver disease, undiagnosed hearing loss. Each of them got their diagnosis and went straight back to work.
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