Declaration of a work accident

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Source: Archives from Kiki and Sotiri Lamprou with a declaration of a work accident on the 1st of November 1995

Author: Digital Core

License: GNU Free Documentation License v 1.2 or later

 

DECLARATION OF ACCIDENT 



I am a professional Bricklayer. 

On the day of the accident I was working on the roof of a six-storey building. 

After work, I saw that I had over about 250 kilos of bricks left. Instead of carrying them down by hands of the stairs I decided to put all of them in a barrel and sent them down using a pulley which fortunately was on the roof before. 

So I push the barrel in the void. I filled it up with the 250 kg of bricks and went down to the street. Then I unhooked the rope holding it tight bringing the barrel slowly and steadily.

As I wrοte on the form you gave me my weight is approximately 55 Kilos.

Suprised by a strong jolt I lost control and forgot to let the rope free. As you can understand I took off and began a rapid rise in parallel with the building.

On the third floor approximately I met the barrel coming down. That explains the skull fractures and my broken shoulder.

The encounter with the barrel slowed my rise and I continued to climb until the fingers of my right hand rammed into the pulley.

Up to then I had already found my conciousness, so I could keep myself from the rope tightly despite of my pain.

At the same time the barrel had crashed its bottom on the sidewalk and leaves the burden of the bricks. Free from the weight of the bricks the barrel now weighs only 29 kilos.

As you can understand I started a rapid descent downwards the pavement. On the third floor, I met to the barrel's rise. That explains the ankle fractures and traumas in the lower part of my body.

This time the confrontation with the barrel delayed enough my fall making in it soften onto the pile of bricks.

I regret to inform you that lying on the ground, immobilized by the pain watching the empty barrel six stories above my head, I lose my senses and loosen the rope.

 

THE DECLARANT