Molly Coddle

On Friday my husband told me that all work on the Crossrail job he works on had been stopped, one of his work colleagues had been killed.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/crossrail-c...ncrete-1439326

My husband was quite shook-up and upset as he does that particular job.

We are still waiting to hear more, we don't know whose fault it was yet, if anybody's.


My heart goes out to the guys family.

It could have been me hearing that news, you just never know what is around the corner of life.



So lesson learned from this, is never take anything for granted.

scrubbedexpat098

I remember when one of our blokes got killed on the CTRL, it totally knocks the guts out of everyone on site, heart goes out to the family.

Amazulu

I worked on that project for a while

A French sparky was killed in Kent (his fault basically) and that was very sad

Molly Coddle

Yep. It's sad.



I bet when the original London Tube was first constructed there must of been a lot of fatal casualties.
The guys back then did everything by hand, the whole London Tube system was dug out by hand. I think about that every time I go down there, it never ceases to amaze me.




Apparently there was another guy killed last week on a Crossrail site but because he wasn't working directly for Crossrail it hasn't made headlines. I think it was on the DLR track, something to do with a digger.







Two deaths in the space of two weeks won't go down well.

scrubbedexpat098

that's exactly the one I was thinking of, very sad indeed, 2 young kids and wife