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>> Andreas Palmer: We do tight access excavation. We do general excavation likes pools and site
blocks and footings. We do demolition. We do bulk haulage and transport.
It's fun doing different things. One day you're on an excavator, you're in a truck, you're
on a bob-cat; and you're at different locations, so it makes a difference.
I enjoy driving the machines from day to day, but my passion's jumping in my truck, and
going to work and running with the boys on teh big jobs, that's what I enjoy; it's fun.
No, I didn't think I'd get injured. I thought I was fit, young, everything was good.
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>> Andreas Palmer: We were washing some trucks and I wanted to tidy up some hoses underneath
that looked as though they needed to be zip-tied because they were hanging down a bit.
I had the tipping body up and the chassis rolls like that, I had the tipping body up
and had my arm over the rail, tidying up these things so they wouldn't hang down.
And as I've got my arm over the rail like that, teh tipping body's come down and crushed
my arm between the tipping bodyand the chassis.
I thought I'd lost everything, everything's , everything's gone. I didn't know
the extent, or how bad or whether I was going to lose my arm or not, at that point.
So yeah, I thought everything was gone. I had probably two months off work, I had lease
payments, I had fuel, I had rent, I had everything.
Getting money, doing this, doing that, then also trying to feed meself like, it's pretty
hard to feed yourself and cook with one arm.
It took five years to get back to normal and the hardest part was trying to find the time
to train, as well as run a business full time.
Train to build it back up to what it was. You've got to - obviously you finish work
- and then you've got to go to the gym.
To everything that I do, drive, work all day, book work, and then do that - it's finding
the time to fix it. But you have to.
Having insurance would've made a big difference, a massive difference. It would've helped me
to live day to day and just keep things going.
I took out insurance because I learned from my mistakes last time. I've got s lot more
responsibiltiies now.
That doesn't mean it gives it any more leverage but I've just got more people working for
me, so I've got more responsibility, I've got to look after more families.
And after going through what I went through last time; never again, never again.
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Income protection; I call it sick pay.
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