Narrator: [Health and Safety at Work

Prevention Starts Here

But It Doesn’t End Here]

[Video interview with injured worker who had both feet amputated]

Kevin: My name is Kevin Bonnis. July 2003 I was involved in an industrial accident.

I was working as an industrial millwright, working on a piece of equipment with the operator.

I found myself in a position where the machine cycled while I was in it.

It amputated both my feet from my body.

I was trapped in the machine for an hour and a half while rescuers got me out of the machine.

Two teams of surgeons spent eight hours reattaching my feet.

After the surgery I was told that the success rate for the surgery was less than 5% and that I would most likely not be keeping my feet.

I can't squat.

I can't run.

My son plays hockey; I can't get on the ice with him.

I'm unable to do that.

And I deal with chronic pain every day.

Hopefully by taking this training you will be able to implement the lessons you learn through this training and not be in the position that I'm in.

Narrator: [Video interview with worker who broke his legs and shattered his ankle on the job]

Dan: Hi my name is Dan Maksymiu.

I'm a health and safety consultant with the Infrastructure Health and Safety Association.

I've been with this organization now for almost five years.

Six years ago though, however I was a small business owner, general contractor, and home builder, and I was involved in a serious accident within the construction industry.

I ended up breaking my right leg between my knee and the ankle in nine different places in both bones.

My left ankle actually I shattered completely.

Had my toe, my left work boot touching my knee.

I shattered that ankle and both my leg bones half way up the leg.

Lived in the hospital for a couple of months recovering.

A wheelchair after that for about fourteen months.

My business went bankrupt. Stopped working.

The biggest thing for myself, how it affected my lifestyle is even though I'm able to walk now I just can't do the same things.

I was big into sports before.

I'm very limited now.

And all for the sake of I was rushing on the job.

Quick as I could to get things done.

Cutting corners.

Taking chances and I just tell everybody when I'm training it's not worth it because one of these days, you may think it's not going to happen, but it could just happen so quick.

Narrator: [Video interview with mother who lost her son in workplace accident]

[She is holding a framed photo of her son, a young man]

Patti: Hi my name is Patti Penny I'm here to tell you about my son, Luke Patrick Penny.

He was water proofing a garage wall, when the wall collapsed on top of him, crushing him.

It was the worst day of my entire life.

And the worst day of my family's entire life.

Our lives will never be the same again.

I don't even know how to put it to words.

It was like shock.

Devastation.

Any emotion that you can have was there.

Part of me died that night with my son.

I have never been the same and I don't believe I ever will be.

My family will never be the same.

And hopefully somewhere in this video, people will realize, and it will help them be safe at work.

Narrator: [Prevention starts here, but it doesn’t end here]