Health and safety.

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

I watched a documentary earlier, about the building of the Empire State Building. Had a look on you tube and found this, you've probably seen this before, gives me the shivers.Brave Men Building the Empire State Building (1930) - YouTube

 

[John Benton]

Can't agree more Phil about H&S, accident waiting to happen - No hi-vis vests, shocking :lol:

 

[Bubblecraft]

I'd do that no probs but my PLI only covers me to 10m lol

 

[peteablard]

You wouldn't catch me up there without my work boots on! Crazy to see what was once classed as acceptable working conditions!

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

What bothers me is the fact that none of these guys are wearing hard hats, can you imagine falling from that height without a hard hat, you would get a right bump if you landed on your head.:yikes::lol:

 

[White Room]

The guys out on the steel girders, makes my legs go cold:yikes:

There best chance was being issued with parachutes...

 

[Dougs Third Go]

brilliant,, I was born in the wrong era:lol:

 

[Pebbs]

My grandad built tall buildings, turns my blood to ice now thinking about what conditions he went through. He was working on a building in Liverpool, and the scaffold (and I use the term lightly, its not what something we would call scaffolding today) went, the lad working next to him dropped straight down and was crushed to death. The men were then all moved to the other side of the building and work carried on. What a cruel brutal world it was back then, but if they didn't work they didn't get paid. They used to have to wrap their hands up in rags in the winter so their fingers wouldn't freeze to the steel. My mum said he would do his nut today, if he ever saw me on a building site, let alone on the 72nd floor at the Shard, and it was blowing a breeze that day, and make no mistake.

Pebbs

 

[Ajax123]

To be fair though the Empire State Building was built before health and safety was invented....and sick pay and death in service benefit.... If you fell off you didn't get paid and your family starved....

 

[Aston]

What bothers me is the fact that none of these guys are wearing hard hats, can you imagine falling from that height without a hard hat, you would get a right bump if you landed on your head.:yikes::lol:

apparantly only 5 recorded deaths during construction phil!!
one guy fell down an elevator shaft, one died getting hit by a truck and one killed by a blast, one guy hit by a hoist and one fatality from falling off scaffold...

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

apparantly only 5 recorded deaths during construction phil!!
one guy fell down an elevator shaft, one died getting hit by a truck and one killed by a blast, one guy hit by a hoist and one fatality from falling off scaffold...

I know Ed, amazing so few were killed. I think they expected one fatality per floor.