Getting Paranoid

denick

With all the speed of new equipment and so much of it around people seem oblivious to the danger of being around working equipment. Many times it seems every time I swing one way or the other there's some one standing in the path of 30,000 lbs of steel.

I once knocked a laborer off the side of a gunite pool into the deep end with no water in it. It was one of the longest minutes of my life before I could get to him and see he was alright. He wanted to see what I was doing. I was lower than the pool swinging fill up and over to backfill. When I swung away he was nowhere in sight when i came back there he was.

About three years ago not too far from here a man was standing next to an excavator shoveling. They were spreading gravel on fabric when the excavator counter rotated the tracks it pulled the fabric in and the man was sucked under the tracks.

I stop whenever there are kids around and tell them where to watch from a safe distance and please make sure they make eye contact and I nod or wave before they move or go home.


Nick

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I hear ya, everybody always wants to watch what's going on and seems to lose all common sense in the process.

Mines mostly with my snow removeal accounts at many of the low income apartment complexes I take care of. I dread plowing on weekends or when they cancell school, all the kids in these slum places think it's fun to try and "scare you" by acting like they're going to jump out in your way, they constantly are running back and forth across my path/behind the truck. I yell once and if they continue I leave. Simple as that, I refuse to put myself in a bad situation because of idots and I have notified the gal I go through on these accounts of it as well. Let her know if I get snowballed or kids are out playing in my parking lots I'm out and wont be back until the next storm hits no matter how bad the lot is at the time, so she made up fliers and handed them out to all tenants letting them know when my trucks are on the scene-turn the place into a ghost town if you want to get your cars out.

I would not hesitate to enforce this rule if any homie or non employee got in the middle of my work zone when equipment is running...I dont want to be responsible for maming or killing somebody since it's hard to get any work done if your constantly looking out for idiots 99% of the time.

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rino1494

Yeah, most ppl don't realize how dangerous it is. This past summer, I was laying down a shale sub base for a road with a excavator. I go to swing and I see a old man walking a dog right next to the machine. He came up from behind me. I told him that he is lucky, a couple seconds sooner and he would have been a dead man.

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jojo

Maybe you guys should put up a sign that says,,DANGER STAY BACK 50 FEET,,,,might help a little

IHI

That sounds good in theory, but when I used to work for a large concrete contractor yrs ago it became very obvious very quickly people have no regard to warnings. I cant tell you how many times we'd have freshly poured/floated areas with barriers and caution tape around them to prevent anybody from walking on it. I sat babysitting a few times and these idiots would literally lift up the caution tape to walk across the area to get where they were going. Worst part...those with children 9 out of 10 times the kids would walk around the area while the parent disregarded it.

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denick

30 years ago in the city Of Stamford on a 4 lane downtown city boulevard doing a 3 lane road crossing for a sewer hook up 11 feet deep. With signs, cones, flashing lights backhoes and police officers a woman drove right through everything. Did not even touch a cone, and came to a screeching halt tires teetering on the edge of the asphalt.

The two of us in the trench looked up with the noise of the screeching tires and screaming police. All we saw was the underside of the bumper and motor. And we heard "I didn't see it"

rino1494

^ jesus tits......i would be livid

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bobstrat

it seems common sense has been done away with .... maybe it could become a college course ..... i was installing a water line at a ymca playground , approx. 300' trench and do you know those idiots still let the kids out ????