20th August 2012, 04:33 PM
Quote:If your unlucky enough to be visited on site and someone says you should be wearing a hard-hat/goggles/spark-proof overall etc.
Then politely say....i'm following the risk assessment for this particular job...show risk assessment.
You won't be laughing when that next urn burial explodes in your face Jack.
On my very first dig Tony Wilmot once told me a story about a particular variety of Georgian lead-lined coffins - they were so well sealed that as the ensconced body decayed they became like an aerosol can. He was (he claimed - and who am I to doubt him) once working beside someone who accidentally hit one of these with a mattock, the two of them were sprayed with the contents and had to be rushed to hospital.
I've never come across anything like these in Ireland (lead-lined coffins yes but not terribly well sealed) was Tony just pulling my leg? Could any of your readers enlighten me?