Man killed by tape measure that fell 50 stories

[Displaced Bama Fan]

Ugh.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/11/0...on-site-by-tape-measure-that-fell-50-stories/

 

[twofbyc]

Measure twice, drop once...?

 

[ValuJet]

Ouch.

 

[OreBama]

Outlaw tape measures. One death is too many. When will the madness stop?

 

[TideMom2Boys]

Crazy accident. Isn't that why they have to wear hard hats?

 

[Tidewater]

Ugh.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/11/0...on-site-by-tape-measure-that-fell-50-stories/

A lot of coincidences.
Sometimes you're number is just up.

 

[CajunCrimson]

When God wants you, he wants you....

 

[TIDE-HSV]

I once built a house of my design. (Later, I told my wife to just kill me, if I ever started talking about building another, which I did.) It was English Tudor with a 27' great room ceiling. I was standing in that room when a carpenter above me at the ceiling dropped a countersink bit which stuck into the floor about 2' from my right foot. I just looked up and said "Now that would have been interesting. You haven't been paid yet, you know."

 

[cbi1972]

I once built a house of my design. (Later, I told my wife to just kill me, if I ever started talking about building another, which I did.) It was English Tudor with a 27' great room ceiling. I was standing in that room when a carpenter above me at the ceiling dropped a countersink bit which stuck into the floor about 2' from my right foot. I just looked up and said "Now that would have been interesting. You haven't been paid yet, you know."

I take it she don't listen too good?

 

[CajunCrimson]

I once built a house of my design. (Later, I told my wife to just kill me, if I ever started talking about building another, which I did.) It was English Tudor with a 27' great room ceiling. I was standing in that room when a carpenter above me at the ceiling dropped a countersink bit which stuck into the floor about 2' from my right foot. I just looked up and said "Now that would have been interesting. You haven't been paid yet, you know."

Have you ever wondered if your wife has a Voodoo Doll of you she keeps hidden in the closet?

 

[twofbyc]

A lot of coincidences.
Sometimes you're number is just up.

His was - killed by a ricochet? No other way to call that one.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Crazy accident. Isn't that why they have to wear hard hats?

yes this is why it is a rule on any job site to wear a hard hat. you are supposed to report people who aren't abiding by safety standards.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

I once built a house of my design. (Later, I told my wife to just kill me, if I ever started talking about building another, which I did.) It was English Tudor with a 27' great room ceiling. I was standing in that room when a carpenter above me at the ceiling dropped a countersink bit which stuck into the floor about 2' from my right foot. I just looked up and said "Now that would have been interesting. You haven't been paid yet, you know."

never do that ever.

 

[2003TIDE]

More Americans have died from tape measures this year than ebola. Huh. Guess CNN and Fox News didn't see that one coming.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

never do that ever.

You would have liked it. The great room plus a back bedroom were balloon-framed and the remainder was platform-framed and teed into the great room frame. Well, maybe you wouldn't have liked it, but several architects praised it and said I'd followed the wrong profession. Well, maybe you wouldn't have liked it...

 

[Displaced Bama Fan]

More Americans have died from tape measures this year than ebola. Huh. Guess CNN and Fox News didn't see that one coming.

Classic.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

You would have liked it. The great room plus a back bedroom were balloon-framed and the remainder was platform-framed and teed into the great room frame. Well, maybe you wouldn't have liked it, but several architects praised it and said I'd followed the wrong profession. Well, maybe you wouldn't have liked it...

my comment wasn't a knock on you design skills but more of a social comment that building a house can cause a lot of fights with your significant other.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

my comment wasn't a knock on you design skills but more of a social comment that building a house can cause a lot of fights with your significant other.

Well, that was my ex-wife, but I don't think the house caused it. I hate to say it, but it was a lot more fun to build than to live in. I guess I should have realized that. I spent a lot of time in the library, studying Tudor, Jacobean and German Fachwerk trim. Then, on my morning five mile run, I'd design the elevations, exterior and interior. I finished the last part, a 660 sq. ft. rec room myself, with some help from a friend with the framing and hanging the sheet rock. Otherwise, I did it all. It took about six months, working just weekends and evenings. I designed solar water heating, using silicone, instead of water, to avoid the freeze/stain problem. However, I still wouldn't want to move back into it...

 

[Bamaparrotheads]

Crazy accident. Isn't that why they have to wear hard hats?

A typical hard hat is probably not effective against something with the mass of a tape measure dropped from 50 stories. At our job site, we are required to tether our tools to prevent dropping to grade in situations in which we are also required to be tied off to prevent personnel falls. There are so many hazards on some of the sites.

 

[TrampLineman]

Crazy accident. Isn't that why they have to wear hard hats?

That wouldn't have saved him. I watched a 10-15lbs fiberglass jib cover (the hydraulic arm on the side of our buckets to move lines, the cover partially covers up the jib rope on our winch) fall about 30 foot after it came off the bucket and hit a guy on the ground and it hit hard enough at 30 feet to require 5-6 stitches in the top of his head.

Now think of a tape measure falling 50 stories.

Hard hats only save most small things from seriously hurting you. Heavy things and things that are falling from that far up is going to kill you pretty much every time, hard hat or not.