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Major Bridge in Baltimore Collapses After Being Struck by Cargo Ship

Bal'mer is at the top of the bay. Availability of any crane is a factor. They just got done building a new bridge from MD to VA a year or so ago, they had a pile of big cranes there. There are only so many places to park them in the area.
 
arse_sidewards said:
Rulebook says to use harnesses, not common sense.

You don't wind up getting a cut of money stolen from all of us at gun point by asking questions even if they're good ones.

Personally I'd be wearing a life jacket on top of whatever else if I were fucking around over water.

Edit: Figuratively on top, not literally no top. :laughing:
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I wear an inflatable and my fall protection.
 

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KarlVP said:
Videos of the team cutting the bridge apart while on those JLGs. They are all harnessed in to the JLG. What happens if that thing ends up in the water and they are attached to it?

They should be wearing life jackets, not harnesses.
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We basically decided if the man lift was secured to the deck of the barge you clip in. If it's rolling around you just rely on the life jacket. Safety guys successively punted the question until it got high enough they just didn't answer at all. :shaking:
 
I remember hearing about the local that died while building the local bridge and he was tethered to the lift. That would be a shitty way to go

Almost $18M awarded to family of worker killed building Baylor bridge

A jury Thursday in Houston awarded almost $18 million to the family of a worker who drowned when a lift collapsed during construction of the bridge that links the Baylor campus to McLane Stadium.
www.kwtx.com www.kwtx.com
 
Back in the day I ran drill rigs for bridge replacement foundation designs. Drilling through existing bridges for deep borings. Some pencil dicks from HQ came out and said we need to be tethered to the drill rig for fall protection while working on the bridge decks.

I told him he can fuck right off, nobody is getting tethered to spinning equipment. :homer::eek:
 
Deuce 40s said:
Back in the day I ran drill rigs for bridge replacement foundation designs. Drilling through existing bridges for deep borings. Some pencil dicks from HQ came out and said we need to be tethered to the drill rig for fall protection while working on the bridge decks.

I told him he can fuck right off, nobody is getting tethered to spinning equipment. :homer::eek:
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4'-2" above the deck? Harness up. :laughing:
 
4Eyedturd said:
I remember hearing about the local that died while building the local bridge and he was tethered to the lift. That would be a shitty way to go

Almost $18M awarded to family of worker killed building Baylor bridge

A jury Thursday in Houston awarded almost $18 million to the family of a worker who drowned when a lift collapsed during construction of the bridge that links the Baylor campus to McLane Stadium.
www.kwtx.com www.kwtx.com
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nOOB academic question:
What are the chances/odds of a lift collapsing?
Versus falling/injuring for not being tethered?

nOOB observation:
I'm going to W.A.G. and say falling/injuring from not being tethered is far more likely than having the lift collapse.

Summarizing others points (which I agree):
It's impossible to predict/prevent every possible safety issue.
Even when all the mandated precautions are abided by/adhere to; shit happens.
 
CDA 455 II said:
nOOB observation:
I'm going to W.A.G. and say falling/injuring from not being tethered is far more likely than having the lift collapse.

Summarizing others points (which I agree):
It's impossible to predict/prevent every possible safety issue.
Even when all the mandated precautions are abided by/adhere to; shit happens.
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Working at a copper mine in southern NM, there were several jobsites with different companies, I always stopped at the RV parks store for an icecream sandwich. One afternoon they asked me about an accident that had happened at the time I knew nothing about it. Next morning at our gangbox meeting we were told another company was putting up an I beam crane swung it over the JLG someway it slipped I beam hit motor section and launched the two workers who weren't harnessed out of the basket like a catapult.
At least that was what we were told, for all you who undoubtable claim it couldn't happen
 
CDA 455 II said:
nOOB academic question:
What are the chances/odds of a lift collapsing?
Versus falling/injuring for not being tethered?

nOOB observation:
I'm going to W.A.G. and say falling/injuring from not being tethered is far more likely than having the lift collapse.

Summarizing others points (which I agree):
It's impossible to predict/prevent every possible safety issue.
Even when all the mandated precautions are abided by/adhere to; shit happens.
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bigun said:
Working at a copper mine in southern NM, there were several jobsites with different companies, I always stopped at the RV parks store for an icecream sandwich. One afternoon they asked me about an accident that had happened at the time I knew nothing about it. Next morning at our gangbox meeting we were told another company was putting up an I beam crane swung it over the JLG someway it slipped I beam hit motor section and launched the two workers who weren't harnessed out of the basket like a catapult.
At least that was what we were told, for all you who undoubtable claim it couldn't happen
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I've seen some vids of people getting absolutely launched out of a manlift basket without a harness. Then can turn in to giant catapults under the right conditions. Then again, people with the wrong lanyard can get equally fucked up. A 6' lanyard can turn you in to a human pendulum, smacking everything in the way if you get tossed out. Still almost always better than no being tied off. I'm a fan of retractables or a waste positioner if you're working out of the basket and don't need to be moving around a lot.

When they were building the new Cooper River Bridge in Charleston, SC in the early 2000's, an iron worker who apparently had been reprimanded for not tieing off weeks before, took a fall off the one of the main spans in to the water. He probably could have survived the fall but he didn't stand a chance with the heavy ass tool belt around his waste. :shaking: From what I heard the company dodged most of the liability because they proved that he had been properly trained and had been warned more than once about not being tied off.
 
shortbus4x4 said:
So what I hear you saying is we're going to have endangered Baltimore Bay sea bass for dinner.:flipoff2:

Do they make cranes that can float over and then anchor to the sea bed? Like an oil rig.
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Blue Crab.

Chzbrgr said:
I tried to get an eye on it today. Ft. Armistead park is as close as you can get on the southwest side. The revenuers had the road blocked to the park. That pretty much shuts down joe public from seeing it themselves other than a 2000 yard no go from the water.
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Just grab a rifle with the highest power scope and go have a gander. :flipoff2:
 
I used to hate the 2 foot tie off rule with a 6ft lanyard hooked just above my head there was enough slack that if I forgot to unhook I could touch ground take half a step and come to a sudden stop
 
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