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Years ago , we had a 22 year old kid (engaged, his fiance expecting their first child ! He was pulling a pallet towards the edge of the 2 storie flat roof we were stripping , Like so many of us have done , he was so eager to please , and learn , myself and another co-worker , were arguing, about putting up safety rails , all he had up , were those chincy , "safety ribbons" , the kid was moving a heavy pallet of shingles , one of the other roofers , started screaming for him to stop , but ,the mommentum , pushed him right off the roof , he died on impact ! I will never forget that sound when he hit .one of the truly sad thing is , the boss told us to start putting up the rails !! The company shut down a week later ( between the fines and everybody quitting . We started a collection , and ,( I'm proud to say ), roofers from all over ,were sending donations we, as EXPERIENCED roofers , felt bad because ,we were supposed to look out for rookeys (as well as each other ). SO PLEASE , NO MATTER THE , JOB , PLEASE LOOK OUT FOR EACH OTHER !!

when i hear canadians talk, i'm often surprised at how kind, compassionate and intelligent they are. the empathy at the end for his boss is unheard of in the US. we are all far too self absorbed here for that to ever happen. we could learn a few things about how to treat each other from our neighbors up north.

@BloodSoakedGoat

4 жыл бұрын

No, it's not unheard of in the US, and no, we don't have much to learn from Canada, it is a place filled with normal people and crime like anywhere else. This self hating pathetic attitude is why other countries feel so comfortable putting us down and insulting us. Canada is known for being a relatively easy country to get citizenship for (or at least whatever visa grants you permanent stay), visit and see if you like it enough to move (though you won't). Or maybe realize we are 50 states where each individual one is often the size of countries by themselves and that one of them might be closer to your preferences, instead of saying this ridiculous shit.

@wickedchess it's always best to treat everything as if it were type c soil as conditions can change in a trench quickly due to ground water, vibration, etc. The osha standard is anything 5' or deeper needs to be shored, these standards are not there to be a nuisance, they were written in the blood of workers.

Hi Curtis, I was buried in a trench last yr 6th of July. I'm still of work, broke 13 bones and squashed all my internal organs. I died over and over that first three days in ICU. All I remember is beautiful nurses fondling and giving me more drugs, that was the good part. The last yr has been absolute hell and I was wondering if 13yrs down the track you have any wise advise as I am only just realising the affect this traumatic experience has had on my life, and will continue to give. Hope theirs a happy ending somewhere. Kind regards Nicholas Daly

13 months ago I was buried alive in pipe collapse. 10' diameter CMP pipe collapsed while 4 of us were inside. 3 of them got clear, but I was bent over working on the jack and didn't make it. I got knocked down as I started to run, and the pipe crushed my legs over the 4x4 boards on the bottom of the pipe, and then the dirt covered me as I reached for help. Covered all but maybe my finger tips. The entire time you think that no way is this happening to me. This can't be how I go out... But eventually you start to think it's over. You think about your poor wife and family. Even though you're buried, you can hear your coworkers screaming for help. It's the most haunting screams you can imagine and I still wake up at night hearing them. My foreman eventually found my face and dug the dirt out of my mouth and I just barely remember telling him to dig my chest out. Somehow, I remember all of it even though I really wish I couldn't. So much panic and screaming for help and my legs were crushed in the pipe. The fire department showed up incredibly fast but it was still 2 hours before they got me out. I had a compound fracture left leg, broken both sides of my right ankle, about half my ribs, and even now, 13 months later my sternum is still broken as I wait and try to get a surgery scheduled. I've had 3 surgeries and at least one more coming. The physical pain sucks for sure, I'll never be the same, but the PTSD or emotional or mental trauma , whatever you want to call it, it's truly crippling. The story of my father falling to his knees when my wife called him to tell him that I was in an accident but I was 'still alive but still trapped underground' just tears me apart every single day. But I survived, I can walk and I can drive, I'm back to work the best I can, and life goes on. It's a struggle every day, but each day gets better.

thanks for telling us what happened and how to avoid it... geezz..

Was in a collapse in 2016. Wall fell buried up to my chest with a coworker. We both had sacrum and pelvis fractures. With 3 screws inserted into my sacrum I’m back to normal with my hips and back aching sometimes but watching this makes me feel far more fortunate to not have to use a cane. Thanks for sharing

Accidents like this can happen so suddenly. Supervisors can't let the training and proper precautions slide or management assume that the supervisors them selves are trained well enough to prevent this.

For those of you confused by why he was going blind, due to the lack of oxygen he wasnt able to see. He was basically blacking out

Thanks for Sharing!!!! We definitely get Comp.lacent in our everyday task/jobs

My friend said a guy laying fiber optics in florida said skip calling for locates he had been doing this for 20 yrs and he dug into an electrical line underground and was electrocuted..

sometimes the issue is getting management on board. a challange i face, is that some seem supportive of the programs, yet wont send thier staff o the training when its provided....

1:21 everything that man is saying is so true. Every bit of it. Even from the managers/ employers! 😔

sometimes you can have all the training but accidents happen, at my dads company, a worker was working as per the SOP(standard operating procedure) and a forklift driver was making a turn and knocked over a jug of acid, it his the workers legs and he had to be taken to the hospital

yeah, today 2013 we learn about 3 different types of soil. A,B,C. A is cohesive, sift and holds together. B is semi cohesive. It gave gravel in it, but can some what hold together. C is very sand like. this type is usually around beach like cities like South padre Island, Texas.Doesn't hold good together at all. so yeah like WickedChess say know your soil.

I wonder what kind of soil this was? gotta know what kind of soil your dealing with, you may know how to run a trackhoe, etc but if your dealing with poor soil your gonna have some problems no matter how good of a operator/labor your are. It's all about safety and soil.

people will have to stand up for them selves when safety is involved! some bosses, etc, dont care except for taking short cuts, etc... best to work for companies with unions, etc, as the companies are forced to looked out for the safety of the worker!

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Or sloped at a 1 1/2 to 1 ratio

so sad! he's soo cute too

It's expected that you do a good job. Ofcourse that makes people take more risks..

He could have prevented this... how? Besides not being in the trench.

@Dylanwoods99

5 жыл бұрын

reinforce the banks of the trench with either wood or steel supports...

@wailnshred

Жыл бұрын

Trench box, or peeling the sides back.

Why does don't they care about older workers?

@dougrogan379

5 жыл бұрын

Because they're gonna die soon anyway