My girlfriend works at the ER. She comes in today and tells me about this framer that was brought into the ER this morning. Evidently the story she got was that he was walking a wall, as he is walking he is holding a pnuematic air gun. Well the line gets hung up on something, it pulls tight and the safety contacts his thigh. You know what happens next, the gun does exactly what it is supposed to do, it goes off in the leg. To bad for him he is not done. So there is this poor guy with a nail in his leg, he does what any tough framer does he reachs down and pulls the nail out! Man don’t you know that hurt. I guess it did because when he pulls it out he starts doing, what I guess most of us do when something hurts us, he starts to jump up and down. Only he forgot where he was standing. So he jumps up once misses the wall and hits the ground, in the process breaking his leg. All in all a bad day at the office I would say.
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Walking around with your finger on the trigger of a nail gun will get your azz chewed HUGE on my jobs. I hate it. It shows a lack of focus and tells me your head isn't where it's supposed to be.... at work.
That being said.... I feel for the guy. Prolly coulda happened to most of us at one time or another. Can't say much about walking the plates, though..... I'm a lot of things, but not a hypocrite.
I laminated steel plates into my thighs..juzt in caze.
Be thinkin schmart..(g0)
Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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Oh. So THAT'S what she meant when she said you were getting a little rusty...
The person you offend today, may have been your best friend tomorrow It is easy to be friends with someone you always agree with.Free Sancho ! (When you buy Gunner for just 3 monthly payments of $99.99)
now ya gotta watch out for the ricochets.
Could get ya in someplace worse.
Whenever i do a similar thing, which is frankly about once every twenty years...(and I am not THAT old!), I am reminded of Darwin...and the lesson stays with me for a long time. Thankfully the lessons have been minor, but it doesn't take a nuclear engineer to see how so many things on our line of work can go wrong....Just look at teh insurance rates!
Jake Gulick
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CarriageHouse Design
Black Rock, CT
I just read about two construction workers who made the 2001 Darwin Awards; they fell to their deaths after cutting a circular hole in the floor, while they were standing in the circle.
C'mon!!! No WAY!
Darwin IS smiling somewhere even with the "dumbing down" and lowest common denominator protections society has built in....Jake Gulick
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CarriageHouse Design
Black Rock, CT
Really, just like Looney Tunes.
well the framer shouldn't have been walking around with his finger on or near the trigger to begin with....
bet he won't make that mistake again.
but yeah, it does sound like he had a bad day.
wait till monday when the boss has to call the comp company
First lesson you learn in gunfighter school is your finger only touches the trigger when you are ready to fire. That's a good way to get kicked out.
Free Sancho!
story on our evening news ...
3 "members of the same family" hurt ... one dies on the way to the hospital.
"whole street upset" ... as they're all related.
then the story ...
3 guys ... trying to pretend they know how to demo a garage.
from the news cam shots .... they did a pretty good job .... all 4 walls and the whole roof .... fairly neatly stacked and flat as a pancake ....
trouble was ... all 3 of them were standing inside when it collapsed.
everytime I've demo'd something big .... I've made it a point to not actually stand under what I'm tearing down?
also noticed on the news footage .... lotsa room ... all the way around.
house looked like it was next to go .... guessed the garage couldn't have been too solid ... I'm thinking a rope tied to the truck would have done a good job ...
as long as the rope is longer than the garage is high .....
everyone's drinking beer on the porch at the end of the day.
safety first ...
or at least second ...
or third.
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry in Carpentry
Pgh, PA
I once tried to pull a garage down on top of myself (Darwin Award Rehersal).Actually, I was trying to use a Come-A-Long to pull a car up a steep driveway, so I could work on it in the garage. I hooked the winch up to the back wall of the garage. The Score: Junk Car 1Garage 0Fool with Come-A-Long -1The back wall of the garage was not bolted down and must not have been nailed at the corners to the side walls. Usually when I'm trying to move a wall just an inch, on purpose, to plumb things up--I have far less "success".