Posted on 10/11/2017 5:08:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said the construction worker wasn't paying attention when he took a backwards "misstep" and fell 40 feet down a hole at the foundation of one of the border wall prototype projects in south San Diego County
A man plummeted 40 feet down a hole while working at a construction site on one of the U.S.-Mexico border wall prototypes in south San Diego County Wednesday, officials confirmed. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) spokesperson Carlos Diaz said the worker survived the fall without serious injuries and promptly returned to work at the site in Otay Mesa.
Diaz said the worker was not following protocol and, as he walked backward at the site, fell into a 40-foot-deep hole around 10 a.m. The worker was not paying attention, said Diaz who classified the incident as a "misstep."
Diaz said the worker was hoisted out of the hole and was evaluated for injuries at the scene. He was not hurt and promptly returned to his duties.
Diaz said workers set up a double layer of plywood at the site to prevent this type of accident from happening again. Officials said the worker was digging the foundation for one of the border wall prototypes at the time of the accident.
Construction did not pause during Wednesday's incident.
Bulldozers continue flattening out dirt around the area by the corner of Enrico Fermi Drive and Via De La Amistad. Six companies will build eight different prototypes of the border wall proposed by President Donald Trump for the U.S.-Mexico border.
Four of those prototypes will be made of concrete and the others of different materials. The wall will be built not far from the current U.S.-Mexico border wall. No other information was immediately available.
South of San Diego, builders have started construction on eight prototypes of the US-Mexico border wall promised by President Donald Trump, and area officials are preparing for possible crowds of protesters. At this point, the company that the man works with is unknown.
Diaz said a so-called "emergency protocol" was put into effect following the man's fall, although he couldn't elaborate on details of that process.
Dang !
If the 40’ hole is NOT a feature of the border defense system, maybe they should add it to the mix (on the Mexican side of the fence ;>)...
Sounds like we have a Winning prototype!
2000 miles of 40 foot holes. For the real thing, though, skip the hoists.
This sounds exactly like the news of the worker who fell down a 40’ hole the first day of construction a few weeks back.
It even reads the same.
First, it’s one of the poorest written articles I’ve read in a while.
Second, I don’t believe a guy falls forty feet and they let him go back to work.
40 foot deep holes at the wall would be a great deterrent.
It even reads the same.
My thoughts exactly.
Either we are both suffering from strong déjà vu, or this story is being run again. I doubt a second man fell into a 40 foot hole without injury.
From a few days ago with some 29 comments if anyone cares to scan thru them.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3590796/posts
I just posted the link to FR
He’s lucky they didn’t put the sharks in the hole yet.
Good ol Otay Mesa
The “let him go back to work” issue is an amateur way of trying to avoid a lost time accident.
First of all, while he may have violated some policy, there is no 40’ “hole” that doesn’t require a barricade preventing such a mishap. Good safety practices don’t appear to have been followed. Construction “not stopping” is a dumb thing — this is a perfect incident for a job-wide safety stand-down and it always looks dumb when you try to sweep such an accident under the rug.
A forty foot fall, even if down an embankment instead of vertical, is a near miss for a fatality. The on-site safety office should have reamed the superintendent a new one, but it looks like he has no management support.
But WAIT! Ca is always bragging THEY ALREADY HAVE A WALL
Wanna bet the 40 foot hole was part or an underground drug tunnel?
It was probably a 40’ deep hole that sloped. If you hit the slope right, you just slide down.
When I was a child, I fell down a cliff, but I hit a sloped edge that cushioned me and I didn’t get injured.
if ya don’t clean um out. they will eventually fill up.... defeating the reason for them.
Hire liberals to dig them, with specific instructions how to dig the way out.
They’ll then be bottomless.
My idea was either an elevated super train or a sea level canal. Canals are cheap with the equipment we have now and besides it generates revenue.
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