My version of the Sad Safety Reminder

[Gregory OConnor]

Don, thanks for the reminder, you and the Scoggins family are in our
prayers.

I worked with some sheetmetal stud framinging for a gunite form over
a cliff.The contractor used a batteryoperated impact screw gun.
wonder if it would help with future repairs of the sort???

GregoryO'Connor
94ptRomolandCa

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Fred Hulse"
wrote:
>
> Don
> We are sorry to hear about your fall,
> We hope it heals quickly.
>
> Guess you get to slow down a bit.
>
> Fred & Jeanne Hulse
> Morristown Arizona
> 1997 Wanderlodge WLWB41
>

[Don Bradner]

A change in tools might have been good, but a change in ladders was the real
issue. A properly tilted/anchored straight extension ladder would have given me
much more leverage.

I was shortcutting. With a step ladder I could do a significantly longer piece
of the dripline without going down/up the ladder.

On 6/12/2008 at 3:41 AM Gregory OConnor wrote:

>Don, thanks for the reminder, you and the Scoggins family are in our
>prayers.
>
>I worked with some sheetmetal stud framinging for a gunite form over
>a cliff.The contractor used a batteryoperated impact screw gun.
>wonder if it would help with future repairs of the sort???
>
>GregoryO'Connor
>94ptRomolandCa
>
> --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Fred Hulse"
>wrote:
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>> Don
>> We are sorry to hear about your fall,
>> We hope it heals quickly.
>>
>> Guess you get to slow down a bit.
>>
>> Fred & Jeanne Hulse
>> Morristown Arizona
>> 1997 Wanderlodge WLWB41
>>
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[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:
>
> 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.
>

[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.
>