And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I take a hard line on stuff like this. The guy who breaks the safety rules is not always the guy who pays for it.
Years ago, there was a foreman assigned to some of my projects. He was a walking hazard and in my view, a danger to his crew. Not to mention me. I tried talking to him about slowing down and working safely, to no avail. Finally I had a chat with the general superintendent, who poo-pooed my concerns. I told him well, it's on your conscience not mine, when he gets somebody killed, and you know he will. The gen supt threw me out of his office, but after that assigned him to other projects besides mine, which solved my immediate problem but only kicked the can down the road, in my view.
Fast forward a few years, and I'm moved on to another job when the call came that this guy got killed when a scaffold collapsed. He rode it down. He wasn't tied off or even in a harness, but thank God the rest of his crew was. Of course, they dangled there for several hours waiting for the day shift to show up (the days before cell phones) because this guy wouldn't have a ground man. Waste of man hours, you know. Totally preventable, what a shame.
An observation. Shouldn't the guy with the cutting torch have started cutting the fare end first instead of last? That way the I beam might have fallen away from them.
A rope at both ends of the cut perhaps? Darwin.... Darwin.... Darwin.....
ReplyDeleteNext step ... what's their rescue plan?
ReplyDeleteLooks like the guy on the left took a bad blow to the left leg on that one! Ouch! That's gonna leave a scar.
ReplyDeleteThe guy with the welding torch held on and kept it from flying around thank goodness.
ReplyDeleteI take a hard line on stuff like this. The guy who breaks the safety rules is not always the guy who pays for it.
ReplyDeleteYears ago, there was a foreman assigned to some of my projects. He was a walking hazard and in my view, a danger to his crew. Not to mention me. I tried talking to him about slowing down and working safely, to no avail. Finally I had a chat with the general superintendent, who poo-pooed my concerns. I told him well, it's on your conscience not mine, when he gets somebody killed, and you know he will. The gen supt threw me out of his office, but after that assigned him to other projects besides mine, which solved my immediate problem but only kicked the can down the road, in my view.
Fast forward a few years, and I'm moved on to another job when the call came that this guy got killed when a scaffold collapsed. He rode it down. He wasn't tied off or even in a harness, but thank God the rest of his crew was. Of course, they dangled there for several hours waiting for the day shift to show up (the days before cell phones) because this guy wouldn't have a ground man. Waste of man hours, you know. Totally preventable, what a shame.
An observation. Shouldn't the guy with the cutting torch have started cutting the fare end first instead of last? That way the I beam might have fallen away from them.
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