Before the accident I had everything that I wanted.
You know I was really happy, we had a really good family life, me and Jane were really happy there was nothing else I wanted in life, you know I was really happy, but now everything's different.
Social life and spontaneity have kind of not stopped but we have to do things differently.
A lot of places that we used to go prior to the accident aren't accessible to a wheelchair so we don't go to them anymore.
It was all the debris of the concrete off the walls where there's been jack hammered off so it was like boulders of concrete was inside the hoist basket.
So as that swung out that dropped and landed on top of me.
There was one way into the vessel.
The hoist that we were using to get the debris concrete down to ground level was above the door way.
If I could ask anybody that doesn't work in that environment, where would you put the hoist?.
Would you put it over the door or next to the door?.
You know it's a pretty obvious answer I I'd have thought that you could ask anybody.
And I've got a phone call through on Bluetooth so it came right across the car from somebody whose husband was working at Shell with Ste just to say that Ste had been in a serious accident.
So obviously the kids were all upset and I just said oh it's probably Dad just probably he's broke his leg or something, nothing to worry about.
So I got them to school and then I went with a friend straight to Countess of Chester Hospital where Ste was in intensive care.
I broke my left shoulder, my sternum, my ribs, my pelvis, broke both my legs and my back in several places.
Obviously whilst I was in the hospital my lungs collapsed as well so I was put on a tracheotomy so I was put on a machine then to help me breathe.
When your part of such a, you know, this thing that's happened to us then you realise how important health and safety is and how much detail needs to be put into something to ensure that these accidents don't happen in the future.
It should never ever compromise the safety because the devastation what me and my family have had to go through is the proof of what this causes.
