We were moving boxes of papers (hundreds of boxes) from the storage room to a container so the storage room could be racked properly.
The warehouse is full of men and pump trucks, but no, it was decided the 6 women in the office could move these hundreds of boxes (most were falling apart).
The day of the move it was pissing it down and really windy, there was only 2 of us doing it, we had walk hundreds of boxes from the store, across a yard into the container. I came up with a good idea, use the work van, load it up, drive over, empty it. The warehouse manager took pity on us and lent us a worker who was Polish and didnt speak any English.
So in mid move, outside the store room they have huge decorative cobbles cemented right outside the door, with a heavy box in my hands i slipped on a cobble, my foot twisted and i went down onto the ground, on my hands and knees, the box tipped and papers were flying everywhere. I thought i had broken my ankle, then i was going to be sick, whilst asking the warehouse man to catch the papers, he didnt understand what i was saying. I think he was asking if i was ok, he looked shocked.
Anyway, the pain subsided and i managed to get back up and hobble around still loading boxes, it took a couple of weeks to do it all.
The bruising was unreal, my whole foot and ankle was blue/purple. Made sure i put it in the accident book.
And i didnt realise at the time that loads of warehouse workers saw me on my hands and knees in the yard.