I just hope the car driver got their insurance details...
What insurance?I just hope the car driver got their insurance details...
Ah, the marvels of leverage.Saw this on the BBC website….
Scaffolding and workmen fall on to passing car
The scaffolding bounces off the top of the car and two workmen land in the road.www.bbc.co.uk
Workmen climbing a double extension ladder with it’s feet on the top platform of a single width tower, which has it’s outriggers straight in line with the long edge (as correctly positioning them would require a Traffic Regulation Order and for the appropriate barriers / cones / controls to be in place)
What could possibly go wrong?
Same bloke that hit my van and drove off then.Mustafa Dunabunk wouldn’t know what you are talking about.
Bob
Looks like a convenient lamp post as well?Think I would have anchored the top of that tower before putting the ladder up. There's a convenient window that could have been opened for a restraining bar behind or even a couple of eyebolts in the wall would have given them something to rope on to.
Why not use a higher tower with correctly positioned outriggers? Cone off the road and park your van to block traffic on your side of the road as well
When I was working on ships in the Gulf of Mexico we had one ship being derigged, all our survey gear being removed, in Galveston. To save a quid our illustrious shore side management sent all us crew home, and paid local labourers to strip off all the heavy gear, cables, lifting equipment etc. One such guy had never actually worked on a ship before and ended up falling off a ladder, and being fatally injured.
A big investigation followed and our company action, to ‘be seen to be doing something’ was to ban the use of step ladders on all our ships.
The guy had fallen off a normal ladder, that he had leaned against a big cable reel, 25’ diameter, and the ladder had slipped out. What that has got to do with step ladders is beyond me. But that was the way our ‘health and safety’ office idiots did their thinking.