this could be part of the answer:
http://www.flagpoles.com.au/finials.html
Ellen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I wonder what the purpose of the ball is? To keep the pole weighted
on top?
--- In [email protected], Diane Lochner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> quite a freak accident.
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> Worker dies after metal ball falls off flagpole
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> AP - 01/25/2007
> ST. PAUL (AP) - A 63-year-old man died Wednesday after a heavy
metal ball fell from the top of a flagpole and struck him on the
head. Regions Hospital identified the man as Eugene White of
Anoka. He and his wife are co-owners of Flag Source, an Anoka company
that installs and repairs flagpoles. Authorities said White
was working under the pole when the ball fell Wednesday afternoon.
The flagpole, outside Perkins restaurant on University and Snelling
Avenues, is about 70 feet high. The ball on top weighs more than 10
pounds and is bigger than a bowling ball. "This is about as
bizarre an incident as I can remember," said St. Paul police
spokesman Tom Walsh. It wasn't immediately clear whether White
was wearing a hard hat. He died at Regions Hospital a few hours after
the incident. James Honerman, a spokesman for Minnesota OSHA,
said Wednesday afternoon that his agency is investigating.
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