heard the screams…
looked in that direction…
there goes 2 guys riding a baker scaffold off of the 2nd story roof….
landed in their pickup….
the two that crashed I think may have burned….
the other 4 guys on that job cleared the AO before the dust even settled….
think they were painters…
no clue why the baker scaffold..
be have nothing to do with painting….
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming <!—-><!—-><!—->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!—-> <!—->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
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local news the other day ...
guy shows up at a commercial site ...
around 8:05am sticks his head in an elevator shaft to look up ...
elevator comes down ... cuts off his head.
what a way to go.
pretty unbelievable ... aside from the fact it happened.
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
I'll have to add a new rule to the list -
"Always look before you look"
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The insane part was the casters on the Baker on a roof,,,Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Similar thing happened in Houston about 3-4 years ago at a hospital. One elevator had been out of service for a few days for repair, and it was put back inservice and certified ready to use. The hospital was not under construction, it was fully operational. Young-ish surgeon goes to get into the cab one day, and something went wrong. The doors closed but didn't open when they trapped his body, and the cab went up and cut off his head. Never heard the outcome, but there were reports that he had been drinking.
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
Thought of a similar story to the OP. Many years ago, working commercail high rise construction, we were building a 49 story building in Dallas. Our offices were in a 4-5 story building right next door. Somewhere around floor 25 there were some pipefitters working, installing fire sprinkler pipes. No exterior walls yet, just the structural steel columns and one or two rows of 3/8" cable.
Wind was blowing pretty stiff that day. About mid morning we heard a loud bump. Got a call from an acquaintence in a nearby building who saw it all. The wind started blowing the rollong scaffold that the fitters were using, and they couldn't stop it. Fortunately they were standing on the floor, not on the scaffold. The wind pushed it all the way to the edge where it "tripped" over the cables and flipped onto our roof. Many of the tools and fittings fell to the street. Fortunately no injuries.
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
you and anything paint just simply do not get along
was it a sloped roof ?
carpenter in transition
4/12....Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
now that is just plain dumb.
I was thinking a flat roof ... parapit walls ... that sorta thing.
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
they did put some chlorine in their own gene pool...
dumb doesn't seem to quite cover...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!