The Accident

On 8 June, Wednesday, an accident occurred in Popular. On that day, it was a store visit by higher management in Popular. Just after my lunch break, an accident occurred. The area was located at the Multimedia department where thousands of CD-R cylinders are placed on the tables. The management had suggested that we shift the tables inwards instead of near the railings so that customers had enough space to move around.

By right, based on the force of the millions of CD-R exerting on the table, they should remove all the CD-R before the table can be shifted. But one of them, the promoter, decided to push the table despite the warning to remove the CD-R before pushing the table. As the promoter pushed the table, two of the table legs had bent inwards causing the table to tiled sideways. One of my colleague (Jian Ping), was about to adjust the legs of the table back to its original position, but before he could do that, the promoter give another push causing the legs of the table to give way and causing the whole table to come crashing on the floor. This crash resulted a deep fracture in my colleague finger. Blood was oozing out from the wound and he was sent to the hospital immediately.

Luckily, it is only a fracture as it could be much worse to the state where the finger need to be amputated. He was discharged the next day. From that incident, you will notice that all table use to place the millions of CD-R are placed in a platform position across all Popular store. Sad.