Danger in everyday jobs...

[ironglow]

  Lloyd can probably relate...  https://www.news10.com/news/albany-county/deputies-utility-worker-electrocuted-in-berne/

[Lloyd Smale]

cable installer??? big question is why he was within reach of hot distribution wires. poles are purposely framed to avoid this. here cable and phone have to be 30inches under even 120/240 wires.

[ironglow]

cable installer??? big question is why he was within reach of hot distribution wires. poles are purposely framed to avoid this. here cable and phone have to be 30inches under even 120/240 wires.

  Am I right in thinking this may have been a green horn operator, who was sloppy in his controlling his work lift ? 

    Then too; many corporations are hiring by DEI, rather than mental competence..

[Lloyd Smale]

could be but you have to actually pass tests to get training and testing to get an aerial bucket license. but stupid could probably sneak through and especially today when its so hard to get quality employees. that and because of shortages of workers things are overlooked including safety to get the job done. id like to have a dollar for every time i told a supervisor to pack it when he asked me to have my crew take shortcuts or work longer hours without rest than Osha allows. theyd ask you to do it than if something happened denied it and put the blame on me or the other crew leaders. they tried it a couple times before we learned to tell them to pack sand. at the end we wouldnt even allow supervision on our work sites without hard hats, safety boots and flame retardant clothes. best move we ever made because those college boys wanted to wear dockers and not mess up their hair so they rarely came around.

cable installer??? big question is why he was within reach of hot distribution wires. poles are purposely framed to avoid this. here cable and phone have to be 30inches under even 120/240 wires.

  Am I right in thinking this may have been a green horn operator, who was sloppy in his controlling his work lift ? 

    Then too; many corporations are hiring by DEI, rather than mental competence..

[Ranger99]

cable installer??? big question is why he was within reach of hot distribution wires. . . . .

Was about a decade or so I decided to
come by the house for the noon time
meal, and I hadn't made it from the truck
to the front door and a transformer popped
about 70 yards away. I could hear the
dry grass catch fire underneath and I
went in and called the FD.
Long story short, the head man came and
got me and pointed out where somebody
had an extension ladder against the
pole and had shorted against the hot
trying to hook up cable television.
He asked if it was me, and I told him
that it obviously was not. Go look at
the emergency rooms for someone
with a light baste on their face and arms
from the hot oil cascading down.
He gave me a funny look that said
something so obvious hadn't occurred
to him.
Never found out what all happened to
the wise one trying to steal cable

[moamonkey]

Had a buddy that was a ‘once’ FAA A&P instructor. I say once because he got sick of the administrators pressing him to pass everyone for the money. Every time someone was placed in an occupation (hired), the school made money. Didn’t matter if the student was a failure, “just pass him and get him hired somewhere” was the mantra. My buddy couldn’t stand it anymore and walked. These are the guys working on the aircraft Americans fly on.

[ironglow]

  I have a niece who is a retired air traffic controller.  She recently hired on for a period of teaching new ATC candidates.

   I asked her if the feds are insisting on hiring peoiple by their DEI score, rather than by ability.  She said they are doing that, but she is trying to
   weed out the incapable ones.