not the best health & safety practice ever!..."
Alex James Standen:
"Good Friday this year, walking round to put something in rational slip on dropped food item, put my arm out to catch myself and put it straight down on top of stove. Fun times."
Laura Claridge:
On a Sunday, headed to work early, after a cheeky Saturday night out, feeling miserable. I was slicing away on the meat slicer, last job, 20kgs of fennel on 3mm thick. On my 3rd last fennel, my left thumb slipped off the guard and went straight across the blade. I bandaged it up. found my piece of thumb in the fennel, threw it out and washed the blade. I carried on slicing the last 2 fennel, tubbed it up, labelled & dated it and put it away. Knocked off, went to after hours, bandaged it up, it was 'all good'... I went back two days later as the first doctor had put the wrong dressing on it and it had gotten infected so it had to all be ripped back open, cleaned and bandaged again. I had a week off work and I still don't have all that much feeling in my thumb..."
Alex Warren:
"I slipped on a wet floor and my left hand went through a faulty guard and straight into a dough mixer. I had a shattered thumb, 4 smashed bones on the back of my hand and muscle and nerve damage. After 2 operations and 6 months off work, I still lost 30% of use in my hand. The surgeons said I'd never be a chef again, physiotherapists said I'd never be a chef again... I proved them all wrong."
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