My version of the Sad Safety Reminder
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06-11-2008, 15:41
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My version of the Sad Safety Reminder
Don, thanks for the reminder, you and the Scoggins family are in our
prayers. I worked with some sheetmetal stud framinging for a gunite form over a cliff.The contractor used a batteryoperated impact screw gun. wonder if it would help with future repairs of the sort??? GregoryO'Connor 94ptRomolandCa --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Fred Hulse" wrote: > > Don > We are sorry to hear about your fall, > We hope it heals quickly. > > Guess you get to slow down a bit. > > Fred & Jeanne Hulse > Morristown Arizona > 1997 Wanderlodge WLWB41 > |
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06-11-2008, 16:20
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My version of the Sad Safety Reminder
A change in tools might have been good, but a change in ladders was the real
issue. A properly tilted/anchored straight extension ladder would have given me much more leverage. I was shortcutting. With a step ladder I could do a significantly longer piece of the dripline without going down/up the ladder. On 6/12/2008 at 3:41 AM Gregory OConnor wrote: >Don, thanks for the reminder, you and the Scoggins family are in our >prayers. > >I worked with some sheetmetal stud framinging for a gunite form over >a cliff.The contractor used a batteryoperated impact screw gun. >wonder if it would help with future repairs of the sort??? > >GregoryO'Connor >94ptRomolandCa > > --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Fred Hulse" >wrote: >> >> Don >> We are sorry to hear about your fall, >> We hope it heals quickly. >> >> Guess you get to slow down a bit. >> >> Fred & Jeanne Hulse >> Morristown Arizona >> 1997 Wanderlodge WLWB41 >> > > > >------------------------------------ > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > |
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06-11-2008, 18:50
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My version of the Sad Safety Reminder
Don, Thanks for sharing that with us. Might just save some ones life.
Many of us seem to be cut from the same cloth in that we are folks who "work on" stuff. I've told my wife (with no positive results as yet) that she should "check on me" from time to time when she knows I am out in the garage or "working on" something. This is a perfect example of just how fast something can happen. Bad as that looks a person can bleed to death from an injury like that if the bone breaks the right way and cuts a major vein or artery. I've fallen doing similar things but not from as high up and being the graceful person I am was able to roll with it and escape injury, but kidding aside there are all manor to things that can happen "around the house". I am going to show that x ray to my wife and see if I can get her to do as I have suggested and "check on me". I'll tell you a funny one along the same lines. I was bolting on my new seats and had a heck of a tuff spot to get into to tighten down one last bolt. I slid over the seat (it is slippery) and ended up upside down and under the seat in the floor well of the bus. I want to tell you I had a H of a time getting my fat A out of that situation. I am going to show her that x ray. John Heckman central Pa 1073 FC > > On 6/10/2008 at 7:15 PM jim riordan wrote: > > >Better falling then fallen on! > >jim riordan > > True, but better does not necessarily mean good! On Sunday, before there had been any discussion here of the cause of Jim's death, I took an ambulance trip due to a 'Bird maintenance fall, and just got out of the hospital a couple of hours ago. I'll describe the stupid thing I was doing, but not so much in the vein of "don't do this" but rather consider that there are a lot of ways to hurt yourself when working around a 20+ton vehicle that is nearly 12 feet high. Common sense would have prevented my injury, and I consider myself to have fairly good common sense; just easy to let it lapse. > > First the injury pictures: > > http://www.arcatapet.net/xray/before.jpg > http://www.arcatapet.net/xray/after1.jpg > http://www.arcatapet.net/xray/after2.jpg > > What I was doing: replacing the drip line around the top of the bus after re-caulking. I was on a tall step ladder, positioned parallel to the bus, and on a stubborn screw I pushed hard with the power screwdriver to get it to turn. Had the predictable effect of pushing the ladder right out from under me > > The reason that it took them three days to release me is that it was a compound fracture, with about 4 inches of bone out of the skin. Makes infection a high risk, so they wanted to keep me pumped full of antibiotics. > |
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06-12-2008, 05:55
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My version of the Sad Safety Reminder
Good grief Don, that hurts just to look at it. Glad it was not worse
and that you are on the mend. Everyone please be careful out there around these big toys. It should by now be self-evident that they'll bite you quickly in many different ways. Mike Bulriss - not wanting to build any more "In Memoriam" front pages 1991 WB40 "Texas Minivan" San Antonio, TX -- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Don Bradner" > > On 6/10/2008 at 7:15 PM jim riordan wrote: > > >Better falling then fallen on! > >jim riordan > > True, but better does not necessarily mean good! On Sunday, before there had been any discussion here of the cause of Jim's death, I took an ambulance trip due to a 'Bird maintenance fall, and just got out of the hospital a couple of hours ago. I'll describe the stupid thing I was doing, but not so much in the vein of "don't do this" but rather consider that there are a lot of ways to hurt yourself when working around a 20+ton vehicle that is nearly 12 feet high. Common sense would have prevented my injury, and I consider myself to have fairly good common sense; just easy to let it lapse. > > First the injury pictures: > > http://www.arcatapet.net/xray/before.jpg > http://www.arcatapet.net/xray/after1.jpg > http://www.arcatapet.net/xray/after2.jpg > > What I was doing: replacing the drip line around the top of the bus after re-caulking. I was on a tall step ladder, positioned parallel to the bus, and on a stubborn screw I pushed hard with the power screwdriver to get it to turn. Had the predictable effect of pushing the ladder right out from under me > > The reason that it took them three days to release me is that it was a compound fracture, with about 4 inches of bone out of the skin. Makes infection a high risk, so they wanted to keep me pumped full of antibiotics. > |
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