I have done something similar when no one else was willing.
Can't say it was right! Yet it was that or starve!
That is wrong! No matter what year!!!
Is a life really worth it? What about hundreds or thousands? Especially when the well off would refuse to do so!
Try installing insulation while hanging outside of an industrial scissor lift at the third floor without a lanyard by yourself without anyone around because your half starved!
It puts that image to shame! Yet that's Texas for you in 2003! OSHA has no effect on so called "Right to work states"!
@DeWayfarer I had an IBEW friend that was a beam walker. Folks would ask, why do you do that? He'd say, "because that's where the money is."
In retrospect, I'd rather have been a judge. The problem with the trades is that when you are too old and ill and sick and stupid to do the job properly, you have to go. The very opposite applies to judges.
I am glad of it, because I know I couldn't do what I did back then.
Physical abilities are no match for past experiences. Especially if you actually learn from those experiences rather than abuse them for your own purposes.
@DeWayfarer The ST Louis arch was built in, I believe, the 70's. I think they lost seven guys during construction. If you look at the costs. Loss of life. Insurance. Loss of expertise. Cost of workers comp. Higher wages to compensate for danger. On and on. If we need equipment or an extra man to do the job safely, we can afford that. We can't afford to keep doing it as we once did.
There are serious problems with the right to work States and ignoring federal OSHA rules is the biggest!
Something like what I experienced in Texas just isn't possible in California! Union or not! I never was apart of a union in any state ever. And worked on highrise bleachers in California.
Once again, no lanyard! And anyone that didn't just didn't work!
"We don't need you today"!!! And they never ask you back!
There must have been over a dozen guys on that job when it started. I was the last person there that finished it, without a lanyard!
