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Thanks for the pick-me-up. Cheerful stuff!

On a serious note: it’s good reminder of how fragile life really is.

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I appreciate the concern. High rise work does have its risks. The building I referenced above didn’t have a certified swing stage, so we used a 44 ft scissor lift (osha approved method) to clean what we could without pulling a street permit. Client was thrilled. Saved them a quarter million.

That’s ridiculous. I was on 30’ and hated it. Boom lift much better and safer.

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Amazing how easy people can die. One guy fell off just the third rung of a ladder. Another one from this incident mixing sh and an acid!


Full story here: https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/establishment.inspection_detail?id=1443690.015

yes, you can die falling just half of your height.

I saw one incident in the list of someone who slipped on an icy sidewalk and had a fatal blow to the head. Yeah, it doesn’t take much.

Then you have someone fall 10 stories, land on a car, and manage to survive. Life is funny and unpredictable.

(Credit to @Fairtradenh Brandon)

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Had a substitute teacher that lost her best friend to a motorcycle accident. Well, sort of. Her friend climbed on the back of her man’s Harley and when he went to accelerate she wasn’t ready for it and fell straight off the back. Maybe 5mph. She hit her head and died that night in the hospital. Doesn’t take much.

I had a Sergeant First Class who clinically died twice while in the hospital from tripping over a curb and hitting his head. He survived but all that just from tripping over a curb.