While surely different crews have different practices, I also worked on a big tank and those guys doing the welding/blasting/painting were crazy and were being paid jack sh*t. Nature of the industry methinks.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cameron Crum Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 2:06 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Workers Trapped in Hollywood Water Tower Tank I know first hand that these crews who blast these towers are very unsafe. We had to erect a temporary tower while one of our water towers was being blasted and repainted. They had to rig a curtain on the outside, so they were welding some pig joints on the top of the bowl to attach some poles to that would eventually hold the curtain. While erecting our temp tower, I watched a guy hang on to one of the joints with one hand while leaning out of the side of the bowl and grab a 100 lb pole from a guy on the catwalk with the other hand and then try to hoist it into place...all with no safety harness or even so much as a rope tied to his belt. I thought for sure I was going to witness a death that day. Cameron On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Forbes Mercy <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Fire Departments should have an Access Point and recording device on the rescue vehicle and a camera with audio with wireless on their rig so they can lower it down to the victims when they first get there to better size up the condition of the payment and have instant communication. No more (Hey are you OK down there?) Hell they could put telemetry on it too. Forbes On 10/8/2010 10:23 AM, Cameron Kilton wrote: > There real question is where is the safety equipment? fall arrest > laynards etc. This is why we have all this equipment. If they fell and > were clipped in, it just would have been more uncomfortable rather than > potentially deadly. > > > -Cameron > > > On 10/8/2010 1:34 PM, St. Louis Broadband wrote: >> My pelican clip froze and I had replaced my wd40 with a red bull, >> unfortunately it did not give me wings... >> >> ~V~ >> >> *From:* RickG [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] >> *Sent:* Friday, October 08, 2010 12:22 PM >> *To:* [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>; WISPA General >> List >> *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Workers Trapped in Hollywood Water Tower Tank >> >> I've got both water tanks and communication towers. I'll take the water >> tanks hands down as long as they're in good shape. They're much easier >> to work on without hangin around :) >> >> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:06 PM, St. Louis Broadband >> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>> >> wrote: >> >> Nasty. 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