I knew this guy and his parents live not two miles from here. Uncle and aunt are about 3/4 mile from here. Known these foks for many years.
This shouldn’t have happened. They were cutting an opening in your run-of-the-mill concrete basement wall. Nothing there but the footings and the basement/foundation walls.
Two adjacent walls simply sheared and fell on them.
Heads up everybody. It never happens when you expect it, only when you don’t.
http://www.journalstandard.com/articles/2005/01/13/local_news/news03.txt
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Wow.
Thanks for the heads up.
It sounds like he was doing everything right, and something still went wrong.
My prayers to everyone out there.
Damn....
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i've had the ame shocked and disoriented feeling for a few days, 'cause I'm constantly thinking of one of my guys.
His uncle was working on a car or truck in the garage and it fell on him. Don't have any more details except that he died and his wife found him.
It isn't so much him that I keep flashing on as it is her reaction that I imagine...and feel for her.
IMERC, You met this young guy whose uncle is gone now.
When I'm working on a roof or in the ground, my wife always tells me, "Be carefull" when I leave in the morning. maybe it's time to start listening to her
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Bummer.That sort of thing seems to happen all too frequently. A guy's sure he has everything under control and then........wham.Had a young fella here a few years back changing out the bean head on the combine for the corn head. First time for him to do it alone. His wife is there and asks if he's sure he knows what he's doing. "Yup, not to worry." He then proceeds to unscrew the hydraulic lines from the head........not realizing that those are what is actually holding up the head at the moment cause he hadn't placed any jacks or cribbing yet. You can guess the rest. Death was instantaneous when it fell on his skull. My cousin died in a trench silo accident about 15 years ago. 42 YO. Was packing the silage by driving the tractor on top of it when the stuff collapsed out from under one rear wheel. The cabless tractor flipped over driving a rear fender mounted light fixture right into his heart. Left a wife and four young ones behind. She's never remarried, but has done a great job with raising those kids all alone. One is to be currently found at West Point. His youngest daughter. Heads up out there.Knowledge is power, but only if applied in a timely fashion.
I helped bury a friend in Colorado who had a trench collapse on him and his son.Never know when...
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was that Stan???
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WOW!!! What a Ride!
No - long timne ago, was back near Steamboat - Hayden
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Kinda ironic that the article page is sporting an advertisement for wedding bands.
The films shown on the local news showed that some large sections of the wall they were working on and the adjacent wall just sheared in a random ragged diagonal fashion.....and down they came.
Something isn't right here. Faulty pour, materials, curing or the like.
OSHA was on site within a couple hours. Investigations to follow....not that those will do anything for either of these fellas now.
I noticed how tasteless that add appeared too, butit is probably just an automatic result of the electronic information age
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