Yep. Saw an Iron worker lose his legs because of bad rigging. Another guy in that same incident ended up with a nasty orbital fracture. They knew better and did it anyway though.
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Yep. Saw an Iron worker lose his legs because of bad rigging. Another guy in that same incident ended up with a nasty orbital fracture. They knew better and did it anyway though.
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What do you exactly mean with "They knew better"? 🤔 Maybe they were just forced to do their jobs because they really needed money. 😔
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No, these were seasoned iron workers. They tried to take a shortcut and lift a beam with a beam clamp (pictured).
Beam clamps are designed to be put on a horizontal beam of an already existing structure as an attachment point to lift other things. They were using it the wrong way around, attaching it to a lose beam and pulling up on it, which is not what it was designed to do.
What can (and did) happen is if you don't put some sort of stop on either side of the clamp, that can support the weight of the load, use it opposite the way it was intended to be used, and the load shifts, that beam can turn up and slide right out.
Wasn't a small beam either. I'd estimate it was an 18" I beam about 20' long, and about 40' in the air when it shifted and fell.
Not only that, but one of the first things you learn when working commercial construction is "NEVER, for any reason, stand under a suspended load". That was mistake number two.
I felt really bad for the guy, but He was the general foreman, he had been doing this for years. He knew better.
I thought that the iron worker you were referring to was someone who melts iron and turns it to steel in a furnace. 😮
Thanks for putting a lot of details about how the accident exactly happened. Maybe @ahmadmangazap would like you read your comment too. 🤔
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LOL, yea, that is kinda what it sounds like, but no, they're the guys that build the frame of the building.
As long as you guys are interested in hearing about it, I'm happy to talk about it. Commercial construction is mostly what I've done for the past 5 years. It gets wild sometimes, but it's super interesting, I think. People geek out over the engineering, which is cool, but the real story really gets told by the tradesmen building the thing.
Here's a video that shows kind of what I was talking about. If you look the first few seconds of this video, you can see how the beams are hanging vertically instead of horizontally. They most likely slid right out of the wire rope they were using. Luckily, I don't think anybody got hurt.
Thanks for responding to @savvytester's comments. 🤗 It looks like they are out of words to say regarding your stories about construction. 🤯 Perhaps @ahmadmangazap would like to continue the conversation. 😏
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