You should stop and think if you get stuck

Reported Incident Severity Level: MAJOR

My wife and I are cultivating flat mushrooms with used tea bags in our house. Originally it started with an all-in-one kit with specially prepared wood chips and spores. Then, we have been continuing on with tea bags culture bed as recommended in the instructions of the kit.

It requires a lot of used tea bags for each batch.  To prevent them got moldy, we store them in a plastic bag in the freezer of the refrigerator until we have enough of them. As more and more tea bags are stored in the freezer, they eventually get stuck when the freezer is opened.

This happened this evening and I was in a harry to unblock them when I forced the freezer box to slide out and pinched my finger which I had stuck into the teabag. My middle finger still hurts even after I had been cooling it with running water for a considerable time.

I should have stopped and thought and took a safer way like taking away the frozen tea bags one by one to unblock.

Actual Incident Severity Level: MAJOR
Root Cause: unsafe procedure

Maybe I need some stretch of the No. 8 Wire

Reported Incident Severity Level: MAJOR

Yesterday morning, when I drove to work, it was stormy in Auckland. I used an umbrella while I was walking from the car park to the office building. I headed to the back door of the building as it was a short path. Unfortunately it was still locked and I started to walk around the adjoining building to the front door of the main building.

Then, whoosh!

A sudden violent gust destroyed my umbrella. It was now useless and I was soaked while walking around to the entrance.

I thought that it was beyond repair and a write-off but a closer look revealed that it could be repaired somehow, maybe with some stretch of the No.8 Wire. Anyway, we should be careful when we are forced to change the course of our actions. That is a time more likely for us to be caught by the unexpected.

Actual Incident Severity Level: MINOR
Root Cause: slip of attention