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gah DAMN you came close to being sued. drinks on you!
We weld elevator jacks for a couple of the elevator companies in town since I have a code shop and certified welders...one of my guys was in the pit on a big new construction job welding a 12" jack...he had just finished a section and moved around when some numbskull on the 6th floor dropped a piece of 6" pipe down the shaft...it went straight through a piece of 3/4" plywood he had been kneeling on and stuck straight into the ground right where he had been 30 seconds earlier...on a job like that all openings are supposed to be barricaded and toe boards installed so nothing can roll in...don't know what the happened yet. That could have been very very ugly.
gah DAMN you came close to being sued. drinks on you!
I'm an industrial construction electrician and even with all the safeguards employed on a construction site, there's always going to be some schmuck that's going to get careless. Glad to hear your man is OK.
Well, that wasn't my first thought but I have to admit it was the third or fourth. It would have been very ugly.
Don't lose sight of the big picture, lives of American workers are cheap
Work-Related Deaths Kill 150 Americans Per Day
More than 100 people in the United States die every day as a result of their work, according to a new report from the AFL-CIO.
The union found that about 4,693 workers were killed on the job in 2011, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates 50,000 workers per year die from work-related diseases. Combine those numbers and you get about 150 work-related deaths per day, the AFL-CIO report found.
To put that number in comparative terms: Americans are 271 times more likely to die from a workplace accident than from a terrorist attack, according to an op-ed last month from Mike Elk, a labor reporter for In These Times.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3231919.html
don't get all worked up just because once ALMOST happened "in your backyard", otherwise it's "I don't GAF because NIMBY"
GFY Boutox
CC, like any hard core conservative businessman/extremeist, surely hates OSHA, EPA, etc, etc.
boutons, like any vacant-minded moonbat/rssfellator, can only parrot what his blogs tell him to.
Glad your guy is safe, but how is this relevant to the political forum?
boutons bait, tbh.
All of Cosmics stories are relevant…One day he will get them all to script and have his own TV Series…
Then we can say, “Hey I used to troll that guy”!
No matter how safe you try to make a job site, it's impossible to make it completely safe.
I respect OSHA. They have some good policies. Problem is, too many people don't understand them, and then go farther than what's actually required. the EPA however... They became a total joke when they buckled under political pressure to make CO2 a pollutant.
I do wonder though. Isn't that an OSHA violation to work with heavy objects above another? Most definitely larger than a hard hat protects from. Shouldn't either the above floors been tagged out, or the lower ones, depending on who started the work first?
Oh please.
Common sense tells you not to let a piece of 6" pipe get away on the 6th floor of an elevator shaft. Somebody ed up and broke a lot of rules.
Well, you don't do such things intentionally.
Am I to assume you have never dropped a tool or material you have worked with? Ever?
If that's the case, you're a far better man than I.
Accidents happen.
Why was your guy working under another project anyway?
Because in this forum anything can be turned into a political argument
I disagree with most of CC's politics but from what I can tell it seems like he cares about the people who work under him and his first thought was someone in his company getting killed, not the fact he would have gotten sued.
benevolent slavemaster, tbh...Because in this forum anything can be turned into a political argument
I disagree with most of CC's politics but from what I can tell it seems like he cares about the people who work under him and his first thought was someone in his company getting killed, not the fact he would have gotten sued.
benevolent slavemaster, tbh...
I'm in Manhattan, btw. I don't think I'm ever leaving.
Have fun paying your fair share of taxes.
I'm in Manhattan, btw. I don't think I'm ever leaving.
If I wasn't swamped with work, I would buy you a beer... enjoy, tbh... the humid heat sucks.
I'm in Manhattan, btw. I don't think I'm ever leaving.
I've had to wear a suit the last two days for speakers and I've never sweat more in my life than I did on the subway to/from work
And they have ACs on those es, but you wouldn't know... what part of town are you at? Anywhere near Penn Station?I've had to wear a suit the last two days for speakers and I've never sweat more in my life than I did on the subway to/from work
Murray Hill area so not too far from there.
Do you live in Manhattan or Jersey? Can't remember tbh.
I'm in the Jersey shore... about an hour from the city, 10 mins from Sandy Hook...
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