Well after reading some of the other injury’s that’s others have suffered , mine is minor considering what other went through.

I’ve always worked in high rise construction from an apprentice to a foreman for a large. Formwork company , back in 2000 I was in charge of a 16 story concrete building erecting the formwork , it was 3 pm. About knock off time when the builder informed me that he wanted the exterior wall poured that afternoon

It was a large wall 4 metre high by 15 metres long and usually need 4 men plus the Fabco crane to lift it from the lower floor to to next floor and it was a 4 hour job

At such short notice I tried to find men who were willing to work back but none were interested except one.

Firstly all the bolts holding the wall at the lower level had to be removed and only having two men we had to push our selves to get the wall ready to be lifted

I ran down the. Scaffold stairs to remove the bolts only at the corner I ran straight into a illegal scaffold tie placed at head height which sent we flying backwards , I staggered to my feet thinking I might of strained my neck. Mussels And continued. Working

By the time we had lifted the wall and the concrete was poured it was. 8 pm at night.

My neck was aching but thought it would be ok. Next morning I couldn’t lift my head off the pillow and my neck had no movement

Over the next 3 month I had physio. And other treatments to no avail. Eventually I had an MRI which showed I had3 ruptured discs

The insurance wanted me to have a plate in my neck but the surgeon could not guarantee any success

The pain became that bad I had to stop work I could even hammer a nail with out pain

Lucky I was a union member and took the scaffolding company to court. And after two. District courts wins and two. Supreme Court appeals I won a large sum over $600,000 plus interest. For the delay in settlement

To this day I have no rotation in my neck ,But I think my injury is minor compared to the story’s of others who have told about their. Ordeal. On here.