Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 08:52:30 -0600
From: "Doug Renwick" <ve5ra@sasktel.net>
To: "Tower Talk" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: [TowerTalk] Tower Safety and Deaths
Couple of interesting reads:
The building of the CN tower in Toronto without proper worker fall
protection resulted in zero fall deaths.
http://wirelessestimator.com/articles/2016/tower-workers-compensated-for-hei
ghts-and-dangers-while-building-the-cn-tower/
No conclusions.
http://wirelessestimator.com/articles/2016/state-by-state-industry-deaths-an
alysis-provides-a-linch-pin-for-continuing-dialogue/
Doug
## Those 116 ‘fatality incidents’ are not the total number of deaths.
Multiple fatalities at one site is treated as one incident. Total deaths is
actually
a heck of a lot more than that. And all were preventable.
## iron workers are on a different planet. I saw a load of em working on a
new
building downtown years ago, that was constructed of steel girders and I beams
etc,
instead of the usual concrete and rebar format. Here they were, walking along
I beams,
with no safety gear on..except a hard hat. My dad who was born in 1913, told
me stories
when I was a kid, of iron workers who froze up while out on a I /H beam.
The boss
would smack their fingers with a rubber hammer to snap em out of it. He
also told me that
a lot of algonquin native indians were iron workers. They seemed to have a
knack for the
job. I see all these old pix of guys sitting on a beam.....eating their
lunch.
## the part I never figured out was how high did the winds get up to ??
One would think the
winds would be howling when up 200-1000 feet. Esp in places like Chicago and
NYC... or
anywhere near the water. Winds and gusts would freak me out on a job like
that....never mind
if it started pouring rain.
Jim VE7RF
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