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Is my job too unsafe?

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  • Comms69
    Comms69 Posts: 14,229 Forumite
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    The door speeds up really fast as it closes and i was having problems getting the light switch.



    But you must've seen the door closing? Surely at that point you stop it?
  • ohreally wrote: »
    You’re not off sick, it’s a workplace injury.


    what does that mean sorry, can they dismiss me for that?
  • marliepanda
    marliepanda Posts: 7,186 Forumite
    The door speeds up really fast as it closes and i was having problems getting the light switch.

    I don't know the room at all so it is hard to judge, but where was your other arm. In my head I'm thinking on arm holding door, one arm switching off light, and then leave the room.

    Does the door have a mechanism to hold it open? Should you have left it on that until the light was off, and then closed it (Im thinking of those little kick bolts)

    Is the only way to leave that room one which involves this dash and switch?
  • Comms69 wrote: »
    But you must've seen the door closing? Surely at that point you stop it?

    I didn't because it was dark, because it speeds up and slams so fast. Had no time to stop it .
  • BorisThomson
    BorisThomson Posts: 1,721 Forumite
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    The door speeds up really fast as it closes and i was having problems getting the light switch.

    What exactly hit you in the eye socket? What did the doctor say? How long a recovery do you foresee for a bump and a mark?
  • marliepanda
    marliepanda Posts: 7,186 Forumite
    I didn't because it was dark, because it speeds up and slams so fast. Had no time to stop it .

    So you were going INTO a cupboard, opened the door, stopped holding the door to find the light switch and then it hit you coming back towards you after you just opened it?

    Why did you stop holding the door?
  • What exactly hit you in the eye socket? What did the doctor say? How long a recovery do you foresee for a bump and a mark?

    the edge of the door slammed into me. It could be another week if i still feel dizzy.
  • marliepanda
    marliepanda Posts: 7,186 Forumite
    the edge of the door slammed into me. It could be another week if i still feel dizzy.

    What did the doctor say.

    Also, you havent answered a couple of my questions about whether or not you were acting unsafely in how you used the door
  • marliepanda
    marliepanda Posts: 7,186 Forumite
    I didn't because it was dark, because it speeds up and slams so fast. Had no time to stop it .

    I don't get it, how did the edge of the door hit you in the eye when it was about to close?

    I don't understand where you were stood in order for a door edge to hit you in the eye...
  • BorisThomson
    BorisThomson Posts: 1,721 Forumite
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    the edge of the door slammed into me. It could be another week if i still feel dizzy.

    Do you feel you might be overreacting a tad? The best part of two weeks off sick for a bump, apparently in the eye?
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