My version of the Sad Safety Reminder

[David Brady]

Get well soon Don, and please everyone, be careful out there.

We don't want any more stories.



David Brady

'02 LXi, NC



Don Bradner wrote:

On 6/10/2008 at 7:15 PM jim riordan wrote:



>Better falling then fallen on!

>jim riordan



True, but better does not necessarily mean good! On Sunday, before
there had been any discussion here of the cause of Jim's death, I took
an ambulance trip due to a 'Bird maintenance fall, and just got out of
the hospital a couple of hours ago. I'll describe the stupid thing I
was doing, but not so much in the vein of "don't do this" but rather
consider that there are a lot of ways to hurt yourself when working
around a 20+ton vehicle that is nearly 12 feet high. Common sense would
have prevented my injury, and I consider myself to have fairly good
common sense; just easy to let it lapse.



First the injury pictures:



http://www.arcatapet.net/xray/before.jpg

http://www.arcatapet.net/xray/after1.jpg

http://www.arcatapet.net/xray/after2.jpg



What I was doing: replacing the drip line around the top of the bus
after re-caulking. I was on a tall step ladder, positioned parallel to
the bus, and on a stubborn screw I pushed hard with the power
screwdriver to get it to turn. Had the predictable effect of pushing
the ladder right out from under me



The reason that it took them three days to release me is that it was a
compound fracture, with about 4 inches of bone out of the skin. Makes
infection a high risk, so they wanted to keep me pumped full of
antibiotics.

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