Dan the roofer
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Fought it in court got it reduced to $5000 . Lawyer costed about $7000. I just paid the fine last week.
I think it's time to look for a harness.
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Dan the roofer
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Safety is serious business here!
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You can't use that strap for supporting any load. It's not meant to be used as fall restraint. It's fall arrest only. If you put any load on it, the stitching that keep it bunched together will start to get pulled out. Those stitches break sequentially to absorb the shock as you fall, as well as the fabric stretching. If one of those stitches gets cut, we have to send ours back to the factory for repair/replacement. That's why the plastic is on them. To keep the stitches from getting damaged.
That strap is 48" long and stretches to 72". So if you fall anywhere within 6' of the edge of the roof, you stand a good chance of slipping off the edge and dangling right around the soffits. Then, if you don't have foot supports, the harness will cut off the circulation in your legs, the blood will go into your legs and not be able to come back to your heart. You'll be dead in about 20 minutes without an escape plan, like a 2nd person to call 911, hope someone gets there with a ladder or something to get you down within that 20 minutes. That's why you need foot supports as well.
goeduck
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Back in the day I walked construction iron 100 feet in the air without fall protection, day in, day out. I always thought through where I was going to fall and what I was going to grab onto if I did. I never fell, but times sure have changed. For the better, with the intent to get employees home to their family.
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We had a 105' Genie manlift that would bounce you out of the basket when driving around the plant since the first section of boom was so long. Plant policy superseded OSHA rules at the time.
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I think in a case like this I would rather be ejected than smashed against the machine with a leash.
Obviously, if you have a functioning brain, that shouldn't have happened.
I think in a case like this I would rather be ejected than smashed against the machine with a leash.
Obviously, if you have a functioning brain, that shouldn't have happened.
Streetcar
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OSHA rules are a minimum, plant can enforce stricter rules
Streetcar
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Similar thing happened to me. Driving lift across grass field and hit large hole. Sorry no pictures and I stayed in basket
NewfieDan
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The picture shows a part of the lanyard called a shock absorber. It reduces the shock to your body. Typically a sudden stop at the end of a lanyard can have forces of about 2000lbs put onto your body. A shock absorber reduces these forces to something your body can handle.
NewfieDan
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This happened on a site I worked at. A person was thrown out of the basket, when he made a minor mistake. He died when he hit the ground, at the feet of his co-worker. The co-worker also happened to be his son.