Yep, I got in the sh1t for not filling out an incident report when I broke a rib back in 2008 Mick. My (then) Operations manager was sucking up to the National Manager, so got me to do a favor for him. The National Manager's (who's not a bad bloke anyway, so I didn't mind) father in law bought an engine for an old Dodge car from a bloke in Frankston, but needed it picked up and freighted to Perth.
I had a portable engine crane, so when my boss asked me if I'd go pick up the engine, I thought, "Why not, it'll break the boredom" so off me and my offsider went, to collect it. When we got there, the old bloke who was selling it let me back the ute up to his carport, and the only problem was the engine was sitting in a garden bed and I needed to drag it across the dirt onto the concrete before I could lift it with the crane into the back of the pickup.
Now this was a big 6 cylinder cast iron lump, and probably weighed half a ton. My offsider was useless, so it was mostly me dragging the engine across while he steadied it. Anyway, I'm pulling the thing while in a crouch, and I felt something go "crack" in my guts. Ouch! We kept going, finally got it hooked up to the crane and slung it into the back of the Ford. We packed it all up, thanked the old bloke, and drove back to Laverton where we used the fork to take it off, banded it on a pallet and it was on it's way to Perth that arvo.
That was on a Friday, on the following Monday I went to Tassie to do some Chocko (Army Reserve) work, and as I was unloading the truck my ribs were getting pretty sore, so the nurse sent me off to the Hobart hospital, and they did an XRay and confirmed thet the rib was busted. No biggie, they just wrapped a tight bandage around it, and I was good to go.
When I got back I was telling the new Operations Manager about it, and when she realised that I'd busted my rib at work, she got up me for not filling out an incident report. I thought, "What the fcuk for?" I wasn't claiming compo, I didn't take a sickie, and by the time I came back from the two week chocko exercise, it was probably healed anyway. Pointless Incident reports piss me off..........