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Weekly Reports of Fatalities, Catastrophes, and Other Events
Joe
Weekly Reports of Fatalities, Catastrophes, and Other Events
Joe
I use a fall arrest harness a couple times a month to service our revolutions which are over our house. I know if I fell and was arrested by the harness I would not be happy and most likely injured. Out of curiosity has anyone here fallen in a harness and could talk about this experience?
A hard hat is not needed if you are the top of the heap. I prefer guys that are 50 to 100 ft above me not drop hardhats at me. Having a crane above you does not make you top of the heap. Think of it in terms of construction. If you are on a roof puttig down hot melt then you don't need hardhats. Now the HVAC guys show up and start setting units ahead of you with a crane, now you need a hardhat.Yes, as well as spending many hours studying the subject from the rescue side as well.
I was doing a focus, grabbed onto a energized can with a bad porcelian and got a good buzz. Enough to make me loose my bearings just long enough to topple. This is why we wear shock lanyards. Instead of a sharp stop that can cause trauma on several levels, its a "slow" stop.
Long story short, I was able to self resuce and had nothing but a tingle in my hand, and a bruised ego. If you are wearing proper PPE and wearing it correctlythen that is all you should experience.
However, all this recent talk about suspension trauma, it can happen. But not so much in our setting. Is that to say not to be prepared to combat it? No. Essientially, suspension trauma is the same concept as having a tournaquet on an appendage. You deprive your cells of oxygen, then go into a anaerobic state in which they start consuming themselves to survive. Also, the lactic acids and other wastes cant leave due to the lack of blood flow to the area. Once you release that pressure and allow blood to flow, you surge the affected area causeing weakened cells to burst as well as you overwhelm your body with a sudden rush of waste. This in turn, to put in simply, puts your body into a type of shock.
But all of this can be avoided!
Learn proper self rescue techniques.
Wear correct PPE correctly.
As to another post about upriggers wearing hard hats, and the lack of need..
I disagree.
I have had several instances rigging where your steel gets tensioned in a weird way and it comes back to bite you. Or those low beams in arenas? They hurt. Outdoors massive stadium show? Almost every safty code you can find says anyone working in the direct area of a crane needs a hard hat on.
Just my two cents!
I use a Petzl Vertex when climbing as a roof tech.
So much better than my traditional hats for at height work.
I would really like to know if he was using the outriggers or not. :-/
I know from several sessions at USITT that there is a lot of debate going on in the industry concerning if a fall arrest harness is needed in a Genie, and where to clip it to. Genie says to clip it to the basket, but apparently that makes a lot of people very uncomfortable.
https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=INTERPRETATIONS&p_id=24191Question 4: When employees move from job site to job site, must employers retrain employees on how to operate a lift prior to each job?
Answer: Section 1926.454 states that employers "shall have each employee who performs work while on a scaffold trained by a person qualified in the subject matter to recognize the hazards associated with the type of scaffold being used and to understand the procedures to control or minimize those hazards...." If there are hazards associated with the operation of the equipment on the new job site for which the employee has not been trained, then additional training would be required. For example, there may be electrical hazards, falling object hazards, and hazards associated with the terrain on the new job site that were not present at the previous site. Training addressing those new hazards would be required.
Many venues will only allow specific people to drive motorized equipment in their facilities. This way the building staff can be assured that the operator is aware of specific policies and potential dangers at their venue. Someone who may be a more experienced driver could potentially come into a venue and cause an accident if they are unaware of the load rating of a particular section of the floor, for instance. IIRC, there is a standard for aerial work platforms and personnel lifts which recommend that the operator receives individualized training at each worksite in order to establish that they recognize hazards present, not just an insurance thing.
I wouldn't say most if you include hotels with ballrooms. Most of them say do you know how to drive a lift? ok cool its over there.
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