FabSwingers.com forum: Injury from April !!

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

when i was at the Kent social in Maidstone (20th April) I fell and fractured my shoulder. A well known hotel had a hard stone floor in the bar.

It happened as i got up from the table my foot got hook around a chair leg and on releasing it i fell heavily. (think del-boy when he fell through the hatch in the bar). The Hospital missed the fracture even though x-rays were taken, and it was a private Physio that sent off for the x-rays that found it. I am still in a immense amount of pain and after all this time they are now giving me a scan to see why i am in pain. Also i have lost about 40% use of my arm which is a huge hindrance for driving etc.

What i would like to ask

Is do you think bars in hotels should have carpets down or is a stone floor ok, even when the serve drinks in glasses to adults and children???

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No as I don't think your accident wouldn't have happened though with carpet if thick, may have been less damaging.

As a bar worker, clearing up broken glass is a whole lot easier on hard floor than carpet as we have both in the pub I work at. The likely hood is that there is less chance of any being missed on hard floor than carpet too

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By *hyllyphyllyMan
over a year ago

Bradford

are you sueing?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Actually there's alot to be said for having hard flooring around bars ect.

Because of what gets sold in bars, carpets tend to hold spillages and small pieces of glass despite how hard you clean them. If you put a carpet down the floor will still be quite hard.

On the other hand a hard floor is easy to clean, but also a slip hazard when wet. But you won't get the same grazing from a carpet as you would a stone floor.

I've seen somebody fall off a bar stool backwards and not injure themselves, but the fees on they fell into ended up with a broken hip And wrist

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's not just that -carpets can be dirty and smelly from spilt beer etc., can ruck up, be a trip hazard, need replacing more often and so on .....

However, many a traditional property had stone or wood flooring and it's often a much better look too ....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Person" not fees... Predictive txt

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"are you sueing?"

I am waiting on Scan results, but i can see where you are all coming from with carpets withholding dirt etc.

Maybe wooden floors would be better than stone... Ruby

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By *ondonpride69Couple
over a year ago

Blackpool

"are you sueing?

I am waiting on Scan results, but i can see where you are all coming from with carpets withholding dirt etc.

Maybe wooden floors would be better than stone... Ruby"

Moral of the story, stand at the bar and do the chatting up

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By *els_BellsWoman
over a year ago

with the moon n stars somewhere in gtr manc

"are you sueing?

I am waiting on Scan results, but i can see where you are all coming from with carpets withholding dirt etc.

Maybe wooden floors would be better than stone... Ruby"

Possibly, but then the cost of upkeep for wooden floors and when polished they can be like an ice rink.

Hope you feel some relief soon. I fractured my elbow some years ago now, which was missed by hospital. I struggle with it in the cold and damp, nor can I straighten my arm.

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

O o O oo

Moral of the story, stand at the bar and do the chatting up

Or watch where your foot is before standing up

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Moral of the story, stand at the bar and do the chatting up

Or watch where your foot is before standing up

we were tightly packed in around that table

ruby

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By *cottishrichMan
over a year ago

Here and there

"are you sueing?

I am waiting on Scan results, but i can see where you are all coming from with carpets withholding dirt etc.

Maybe wooden floors would be better than stone... Ruby"

I don't believe in the compensation culture we appear to have adopted from the Americans.

From what I've read the accident was your own fault. Pubs/bars/hotels have to comply with huge amounts of health and safety guidelines and complete due diligence checks and paperwork regularly, hopefully they would be covered against any claims of injury on their premises.

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By *els_BellsWoman
over a year ago

with the moon n stars somewhere in gtr manc

Moral of the story, stand at the bar and do the chatting up

Or watch where your foot is before standing up

It's easily done. I went to get out of a van and some how ended up underneath it.

No idea how or what happened, was chatting to the driver when I disappeared. Still laugh about it with him years on

Saying that, I can trip over a blade of grass

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

O o O oo

Moral of the story, stand at the bar and do the chatting up

Or watch where your foot is before standing up

It's easily done. I went to get out of a van and some how ended up underneath it.

No idea how or what happened, was chatting to the driver when I disappeared. Still laugh about it with him years on

Saying that, I can trip over a blade of grass

Exactly, accidents happen all the time.

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

O o O oo

Moral of the story, stand at the bar and do the chatting up

Or watch where your foot is before standing up

we were tightly packed in around that table

ruby "

But I don't see how that is the pubs fault at all that you are thinking of sueing.

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

In order for a case to be taken up by a solicitor or claims firm there has to be some degree of negligence or wrong doing on the part of the establishment accused......I don't think having bar stools and a stone floor counts as either.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

This compensation culture is ridiculous, can you imagine if we all claimed for everything we did. What would you do if you fell on the path? Sue the council for not giving us grass to walk on

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If you can't manage a pub floor, please don't venture out in the real world without body armour and a helmet!

If you have any complaint it would be about the medic that missed your injury

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By *he Original TTMan
over a year ago

Brackley, Northants

To be honest I think the only people you would have an even remote hope of suing would be the hospital that missed the fracture.

The bar we were in was well lit, and the floors were dry. The tiles would have made little difference had it been wood, or even carpet. The thing that did the damage was the angle you hit the floor and that you didn't cushion your fall with your arms in time...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You would now doubt have got the same injury, had you landed on a carpeted floor. It isn't the harness of the floor that does the damage, it is the force that is applied to the bone, from the fall.

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