Following on from Daves recent accident I`m glad to say he`s now out of all the braces and plaster casts and is awaiting physio.
Shortly after his accident I raised a question/concern that it was rather odd that he broke exactly the same 9 bones in his hands and both wrists (tho one wrist was more severely damaged and required surgery). I wondered if perhaps the new RST gloves he`d bought had been a contributory factor to the damage.
Now he`s had the opportunity to put the gloves on and look at the position of the armour etc. in relation to the broken bones in his hands it stands out like a sore thumb (no pun intended
) that the gloves must have been the culprit. It was such a low speed off and when you look at the back of the gloves just below the knuckle armour there is a solid rounded plate which when the hands are angled backwards digs in to the exact same place where he had broken bones. On the right hand glove the plate has broken and this is the wrist that was a little worse and required surgery.
Dave will take the gloves with him on his next orthopaedic appt. and ask the consultants opinion but I feel that we need to make RST aware of the potential risk to people wearing these gloves. Prior to surgery Dave was warned that they might not be able to repair the damage to his hand and he could face amputation. That`s so scary hence the importance (I feel) of informing RST.
He doesn`t want compensation as its more important that other people don`t suffer the same fate but he would like the cost of the gloves reimbursed cos they weren`t cheap. Has anyone any experience of this kind of complaint before and ideas on how we go about starting the ball rolling?