After suffering a traumatic accident at work, an American man filled in the appropriate accident report form. According to the claims adjuster, “trying to do the job alone” was not a detailed enough description of how the accident happened. The following account was then given to explain how his injuries occurred:

“At the top of a six story building when working alone as a bricklayer I discovered at the end of the day that I had over 500 pounds of bricks left over. To avoid carrying them down the six storeys by hand I decided I would lower them down using the barrel and pulley attached to the roof.

After securing the ropes I returned to the roof and began to fill up the barrel. Once full I returned to the ground to release the rope, because the bricks weighed almost 5 times more than I did, I made sure I had a firm grip of the rope before releasing it. Unsurprisingly I was launched off the ground quite quickly and did not have the foresight to let go of the rope.

Proceeding at a rapid rate up the side of the building I was around the height of the third floor when I collided with the barrel causing the fractured skull and broken collarbone. Continuing my rapid accent I was stopped only by my fingers getting dragged into the pulley system.

Fortunately I had the foresight at this point to retain my tight grip of the rope despite missing half my hand. However at about the same time the barrel crashed to the ground subsequently spilling its entire contents. Now weighing double my opposite load, we began to swiftly change places which accounts for my two fractured ankles and lacerations to my legs and lower body.

This collision was enough to reduce the speed of my impact with the ground but it was still severe. Unfortunately as I lay on the pile of bricks with three broken vertebrae and the previously mentioned injuries, I did not have the forethought to continue holding on to the rope…

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