Posted on 08/11/2022 10:01:34 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
An eyewitness said the worker was out cold after the bottle hit him on the head.
“Somebody in the crane did something they’re not supposed to,” the witness said.
Sussex Police said the Health and Safety Executive will be investigating the incident.
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A spokesman from Building firm Galliford Try said safety was their number one priority.
“As a responsible contractor, health and safety is Galliford Try's number one priority,” he said.
“We can confirm that an incident took place on our site at Worthing on Friday.
“Investigations are currently underway.”
A spokesman for the Health and Safety Executive said: "HSE is aware of the incident and making enquiries"
Work started on the Worthing Integrated Care Centre (WICC) last year.
The new clinic will bring together GP surgeries, mental health provision, community care and a pharmacy on to one central site.
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You try to be so careful on the job.
He worried about when the SHTF.
Then this happens out of nowhere.
This has always been on the list of Builder’s Secrets.
It happens when you are under a tight schedule to get something built, sturdy, properly on time and under budget.
It happens when your supervisor is told to dock the worker’s pay for any time they take off task.
From what I have heard, many work environments are like this besides building.
How often have you heard of Amazon delivery people who are afraid to stop by a gas station to use the john, they instead use a tall rose bush or the stray potted plant.
Talk about getting P**D on.
Crane operatoes cant come down every time they have to pee
They pee in a bottle
Was the guy on the ground wearing a hardhat?
At a construction project a few years ago had a couple of workers going to the bathroom in one of the offices that was still being roughed in. Very blatant about it. Bathrooms were available maybe 200 feet away. Construction Manager found out and told the shift foreman for that company to get those guys out of there and they don’t come back. Foreman put up a stink and he got booted from the work site also, once the CM called the company owner.
He needed a hard hat and a raincoat....and eventually a shower.
At least for me, the unforgivable behavior is stealing tools. One guy would go through the joboxes of other trades while they were on break and look for tools to “borrow”. He eventually got caught, roughed up and quite a few of stolen tools recovered. No need to call the cops, as he got fired and the union local was notified, so no work for him for awhile, as the nearby non-union shops were also made aware. Tool stealers eventually get caught.
Hey Man you got to go you got to go!
I was a union iron-worker for 15 years in NYC. On one job a guy I worked with as partner had like 10 children. During that time one of his sons owned a boat engine repair shop. A worker there stole tools so the son took him out on a boat and left him to drown out in the ocean. I don’t recall what happened with the son but Pete had connections and the story was quickly dropped in the press.
Same job site a few blocks north of Times Square, but this picture was taken by my North American Indian (Apache) friend who traveled down from outside Montreal and slept on my couch during the week.
My worker ID card from another iron-working job.
Way of the road, Bubs....!
If safety was their number 2 priority then things would get awful messy and smelly on their sites
Worthing is a seaside town in West Sussex, England
On jobs I’ve worked you learn “never open the empty compound buckets”. They’re not really “empty”.
Screw that.
My pants would be filled with a steady flow of crap and piss……..
I’m not even ashamed to say it either. 😆
There’s a YouTube video from 2016 of some Romanian guy riding a unicycle at the top of an 840-foot chimney. It’s hard to watch even if you’re not particularly acrophobic.
The problem was dropping it out of a crane. In my cabbie days, there was a secluded downtown parking lot under a railroad trestle where I went to empty the bottle in the storm sewer.
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