My version of the Sad Safety Reminder

[bubblerboy64]

Don, Thanks for sharing that with us. Might just save some ones life.
Many of us seem to be cut from the same cloth in that we are folks
who "work on" stuff. I've told my wife (with no positive results as
yet) that she should "check on me" from time to time when she knows I
am out in the garage or "working on" something. This is a perfect
example of just how fast something can happen. Bad as that looks a
person can bleed to death from an injury like that if the bone breaks
the right way and cuts a major vein or artery. I've fallen doing
similar things but not from as high up and being the graceful person
I am was able to roll with it and escape injury, but kidding aside
there are all manor to things that can happen "around the house". I
am going to show that x ray to my wife and see if I can get her to do
as I have suggested and "check on me". I'll tell you a funny one
along the same lines. I was bolting on my new seats and had a heck
of a tuff spot to get into to tighten down one last bolt. I slid over
the seat (it is slippery) and ended up upside down and under the seat
in the floor well of the bus. I want to tell you I had a H of a time
getting my fat A out of that situation. I am going to show her that x
ray.
John Heckman
central Pa
1073 FC





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