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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🤢🤮 think I rather not have a claim to fame…..
The old rivet days.
Glad I didn’t have to work with those.
Reminds me of the high school summer construction job I had. Sitting on a scaffold at lunchtime, third level up. Pulled a sandwich out of a baggie...aimed and dropped the baggie...it floated down towards one of the other summer labor guys standing below. Just as the bag was about to hit the guy, I made the sound of coughing up a loogie and spitting. The bag brushed down ever so slightly along his bare arm...luckily, a perfectly placed shot....as his mind recorded the “spit” sound. He jumped back, looking up in abject horror, saw us laughing...saw the bag.
Needless to say, it was game on for the rest of the summer. Life was simple back then...
Builders constantly train to prevent falling object incidents, due to the potential for great injury. But you can’t prevent it 100%.
Re: 16 - Yikes!
Serving in the Navy I spent time in a bosun’s chair, like the guy on the lower left, slushing down rigging.
Do constructions workers pee when they are standing on beams high up in the air?
I say yes. Especially when you consider it would take them at least a half hour to ride the construction elevator down to the bottom and then back up again. I can see the foreman not having patience for bathroom breaks up there.
So when they need to go, they just unzip and let it rip, as they are hammering in another rivet.
The terrifying yell of “HEADACHE!”
On high rise construction, often as a floor is placed, a portable toilet is lifted to that floor. The framing or decking goes on two to three floors above typically ahead of the final floor but rarely do you see anyone having to go to the ground to take a leak. Does someone do such into a can occasionally in an awkward location? Sure, but not very often.
I re-read the article and although it is not specific, I think this was the tower crane operator who had taken a bottle to his cab to use to pee into to avoid manually climbing down and I will say that is not uncommon. Dropping it on your boss is pretty uncommon I imagine. Almost anything dropped from forty feet and up gets up enough velocity to kill someone.
I can’t figure out what or how that guy on the steeple roof got up there or better yet .. how did he get down!?
How is he JUST STANDING THERE?😬
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