My version of the Sad Safety Reminder

[ronmarabito2002]

Glad you are still with us. I sure hope we don't get any more bad
news. Heal fast.

R.E. (Ron) Marabito, Dallas, TX 92WB40

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "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.
>