[Robert A Cook PE]

The least valuable PPE is the piece you choose not to wear....

[cripplecreek]

Anderson was not wearing a hard hat, but had one in his truck at the time, according to the police report.

Didn't do him any favors in the truck.

When I worked in a sawmill I got into the habit of wearing my hardhat in a hurry. Moving around in the maze of steel I-beams meant smacking your head a lot.

[Gamecock]

Million to one shot.

[Larry Lucido]

I suppose that even if he had his hardhat on, it would have still hurt.

One foot to the left, and he’s still here.

[Tax-chick]

The poor fellow.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Bad luck story of the morning.

[Vaquero]

why you wear a hard hat in a construction site.

I have been guilty of not wearing one.
Had a larger chunk of something hit him it would be no issue as the hard hat might have been the missile that killed him...but for small objects?, yeah its worth wearing the PPE.

[Jack Hydrazine]

New Jersey?

[CrazyIvan]

 ”The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation”

[Tucker39]

Proverbs 27:1 Boast not thyself of tomorrow; For thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

[rfreedom4u]

My best friend from high school worked construction for a while. A brick fell from a few stories up and hit him on the head. Destroyed his hardhat and knocked him out but he lived with no damage.

[headstamp 2]

Was at the range about a year ago firing one of my single-shot pistol super duper 35 cal. wildcat rifle cartridges. Pistol was muzzle braked.

The concussion from firing worked one of the stored 2X4’s lose up in the rafters of the covered firing line.

2X4 fell out of the rafters right after I fired my last shot and hit the cup of my hearing muffs flipping them off and across the room.

I thought it was the range officer coming to kick my ass for making so much noise. (grin)

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

When I worked in steel shops and power plants I was saved many times by a hard hat, AND steel toed shoes.

Others scoffed till they hit their heads HARD! Then they became believers.

I had an old worker tell me that if you see someone you don’t like below you, drop a large steel nut. If you miss him the bounce might get him and you can always claim it is just a work place accident.

[LucianOfSamasota]

All the more reason for stronger tape measure laws?

I’m pretty certain it was one of those assault tape measures with a high capacity tape.

[SamAdams76]

I'm not a construction expert but I'm having a hard time trying to figure out why you would to haul an old-fashioned tape measure 50 stories above the ground. If one needs to measure something dangling that high off the ground, you would think there were be a more high tech way of doing it.

[sphinx]

Someone could drop a second tape measure right now and take out about a dozen lawyers. Failure to wear his hard hat will undoubtedly turn into the employer’s fault.

[JRios1968]

Something tells me he didn't quite...measure up.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Sorry, but that is what cleans out the gene pool, stupidity. You NEVER go near a construction site without a hard hat. Too bad for the guy, but life is about shortcuts and choices. So is an early death!

[JimRed]

When you drop something from height on a construction site, I believe you’re supposed to yell “HEADACHE” to alert those below. And, was the victim wearing his hardhat?

[RobinOfKingston]

A 1/4 to 1/2 pound object falling at 32’/sec/sec is gonna have some kinetic energy built up by the time it impacts a skull 50 stories below.