I have coffee with some old guys most mornings at McDonald's before I
come to the office. They are all retired. About a week ago, one of them
told us that his neighbour's son was killed the day before. He owned a
construction company (trucks, backhoes, loaders etc) and they were doing
a foundation repair on a building. He and 2 employees were down in a
trench laying re-bar for a concrete pour when the trench caved in. The
other 2 fellows jumped out but the business owner was buried. He was in
his 50's. He must have known better than to do that, but trades people
are often very careless. It becomes all about how quickly they can do a
job in order to make more money and they take chances that they ought
not to take. If it had been an employee that died instead of the owner,
he would likely have been fined tens of thousands by the workplace
safety department of the provincial government.
On 26/06/2019 3:33 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:
Wow! That’s dangerous! My Dad always told me to never be in a trench any higher
than my armpits, if that.
-D
On Jun 26, 2019, at 4:27 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
wrote:
I saw a crew putting in a water line this morning, you could just see their
heads in the trench. It freezes pretty good here, in 2015 our neighbor's water
froze twice between his house and the street.
That said my aunt and uncle have solar hot water and claim its the bee's knees.
We've been considering it.
-Curt
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