My version of the Sad Safety Reminder

[mbulriss]

Good grief Don, that hurts just to look at it. Glad it was not worse
and that you are on the mend.

Everyone please be careful out there around these big toys. It should
by now be self-evident that they'll bite you quickly in many different
ways.

Mike Bulriss - not wanting to build any more "In Memoriam" front pages
1991 WB40 "Texas Minivan"
San Antonio, TX




-- 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.
>