Man Struck, Killed By Falling Tape Measure
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- Опубликовано: 2 ноя 2014
- A freak accident at a construction site on Monday involved a common construction tool, something you probably have in your kitchen. CBS2's Steve Langford reports.
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Imagine being the person who's tape measure fell from their belt and killed the man. The amount of guilt that would be felt is insane.
So true.
Even logically, I would know it's not my fault. But I would always think "if I had only strapped that thing tighter" and "why would this happen to such a person?" forever.
Its just life stuff happens
Id rationalize it down to gravity
@@MikeLaRock88 exactly
Its all part of the plan. God called him home early, so there is no guilt to be had.
In Russia there is a saying that loosely tarnslates to "Every word in the safety handbook is written in human blood". He should have worn the safety hat.
Sad but true.
That's not a Russian saying but rather a global one, which I believe arose out of the American aviation industry.
@@-SUM1- oh yes, American, of course! Proof?
@@smpopov Where was your proof it was Russian?
It's not like such a saying can't independently arise in multiple nations...
@@Airblader If you re-read my post I never claimed the saying originated in Russia, and there alone.
I'm am stating the fact - in Russia there is a saying that I quoted, and it's pretty wide spread.
SUM1 has pointed to the supposed origin, claiming the authorship to be of American origin - hence I wonder, where is the source for this claim?
Imagine living your whole 58 years of life, starting a family, getting a job, and then doing something that you probably do daily, just to get taken out by a fallen tape measure. Life is brutal, RIP.
i can't imagine being almost twice my age and being so inbred and dense that i neglect safety equipment.
especially in favor of a myhtical magical sky daddy....what a joke.
That’s why it’s important to not get complacent.
While uttering the words "God is great."
Yep, a good reminder to follow safety instructions. There's a reason they exist and it helps make life much less brutal.
With a tape measure though was it a big kind or special kind?
A buddy of mine in college was in construction and almost died because a hard hat fell off of a passing truck and bounced on the ground and hit him in the face and sent him to the hospital and nearly killed him. So hard hats themselves can do damage and even kill too.
Ofc a hardhat would if a tape measure did
Talk about irony
Put a tape measure on next time to prevent hard hat from hittin you
How? Unless that truck was doing 200 mph...
@@ThatGuy-zw4le lool
Crazy how it bounced before it struck him and still managed to kill him, can never expect the unexpected. Rip.
Yea but people are assuming it bounced upwards instead of a glancing blow that didn’t take much velocity away
Like something from final destination
I imagine it bouncing actually gave it more speed, things can only fall a certain speed (Terminal Velocity) so if it bounces on the side of something it could cause the item to gain speed instead of lose it.
@@Ingi-Natura-Renovatur-Integra ?
@@Icotheus bruh as something falls its potential energy decreases. Its kinetic energy increases until it hits terminal velocity. The moment it reaches the ground it has no potential energy, only kinetic. And a collision CANT create more energy. And since the mass of the tape measure doesn’t change, and since the earth is effectively still, the tape can’t get any energy from the kinetic energy of the earth. You can look at the equation for kinetic energy (k=0.5*mass*velocity^2) you can see that every method of increasing the velocity, as I
explained above, is not possible.
Its so cruel, I would understand a hammer or a sharp object, but a tape measure makes it that much worse, that plus the fact that it actually bounced before striking the worker.
So has invisible cute little 🦑 corona virus.
@Tony sabroso Small wang damages your spirit
Big wang shatters your body
Jokes are nice, but not this time 😞
Always wear your hard hat!
Some stupid people on this thread
“A construction tool... you probably have in your own kitchen”🤨
What's confusing about that?
I do actually have one in my kitchen drawer
A series of words that make perfect sense, quoted by a person with no comprehension of a simple concept.
For what .? Measuring those sausages ?
Was looking for this comment... who keeps a tape measure in the kitchen specifically?... they should of said “...you probably have in your home.” Instead
I’m sure he was a good man with a good heart bless him and his family
What if he wasn't
I’m foreman at a tree cutting company and I can’t stress enough to my guys that a hard hat is the difference from getting a head ache and getting killed
I’m 21 and grew up doing tree cutting also cause of my father’s company and we never worn a helmet once 🤷🏽♂️ we call out our cuts and make sure everyone’s always paying attention looking up. I understand they help but you just gotta be aware at all times. My dads ran that company before I was born and never had an accident
Absolutely. I had a dock leveler fall off of a forklift as I was standing underneath it for maintenance. My hard hat was the difference between a broken and nearly ripped off nose and possibly having my head smashed. Wear your helmets, guys. Mine might’ve saved my life.
Oh cool my dad used do that for a living until one day he fall lucky there were people below and caught him
That's true. Anyone who acts like you can avoid every single accident hasn't been doing it long enough. Crazy stuff happens, I've cut down big old trees and seen pieces of limbs weighing well over a hundred pounds bouncing 30+ feet in the air when the tree hits the ground. And old limbs giving way while your dropping the tree. Any of that hits you without a hard hat you're done. I didn't wear one either when I was young and dumb
From 50 stories up a helmet wouldn't have saved him.
Those “Hard Hat Area” signs are no joke! From 50 floors up almost anything falling could be deadly!
Yes and from that height the helmet wouldn't have saved him the speed it was going.
HEADACHEEEEEEEE!
@@joan-lisa-smith If it bounced, it would have slowed.
I penny probably would have gone through him.
@@lisajohnson6351 not enough weight.
That is insane. As a carpenter I can’t even begging to tell you how common it is for that thing to fall out
Thanks
I’m trying to not laugh
Most dropped tool of all
Between the tape and nail puller idk which ends up on the ground more
I’d like to think he is in heaven especially since his last words were “God is Good”. It’s got to have earned him some brownie points with the big guy.
Nah he got a sweet blissfull black nothingness. After all if you exist forever inside what you consider is heaven wont it eventually become hell. The show The Good Place captures this well. Anyways his pain is gone and hopefully he had life insurance so his family is taken care of.
Nah, god is actually bad and doesn't want to be called good
...
@@thisismyname1701 u sound dumb af
@@thisismyname1701 u become one with all again heavens an illusion but if u think after death u still retain your ego and thoughts or its black like closing your eyes ur just like every other kid mad at their simple minded religious parents and think life is just terrible death is all there is boo hoo
are u plain stupid?
Damn all these people making fun of this man is just heartless he probably had kids and a family and y'all are just laughing imagine if this happened to you or your loved one all while trying to provide for your family. may this man rest in peace 🕊️
people are fucked man
"he probably had a wife and kids." Seriel killers have wife and kids should we cry for them too?
@@koibitothescrublord4977 you are about as dumb as they come.
@@koibitothescrublord4977 karma is a bitch bro is coming to you
@@koibitothescrublord4977 how is that even a relevant comparison?
I was walking out of a jobsite in bigsky Montana. A crew was cutting a hole from the interior to exterior 4 floors up. As I was walking out of the building a hot metal disc fell onto my upper arm creating a deep wide cut. You can be a safe a possible and something, anything can still happen. I had my hard hat on but that didn't help my arm. I'm sure this godly man is in the arms of the lord. God rest his soul.
holy crap
How’s your arm?
U wasn’t to being to damn safe....U walked under it.....you were not paying attn....
The difference is your alive and he's dead. If it would have hit your hard hat, you would probably still be alive.
Rather your arm than your head friend
I remember being scolded as a teen for this exact reason by a worker for walking through a construction site. Dude even offered me a job but I refused. Life really was looking out for me in so many ways but I was too much of an idiot to realize it.
It just goes to show you that your life can end at any given moment and you should live it to the fullest.
Yelp
Let's just he had a good life keep on trucking
My high school was two stories and had an open design, meaning when you went outside a classroom, you were literally outside. The science classes were on the second floor which only had a cement railing with wide horizontal openings to keep you from falling off. Once we were outside doing some experiment with cylinder weights. A five pound weight fell over and started rolling to the edge of the railing just as the lunch bell rung. So the hall below us was starting to fill with kids. I've never seen a teacher move as fast as mine did to catch that weight from falling over the edge just in time. I can't imagine what would've happen had it gone over and struck a kid. Scary.
Bad designed building.
@@thommysides4616 no he’s just built different
@@alexapexgod4643 the building do be built different tho sometimes
Ngl you didnt even have to tell that story unless somebody got hit😅
@@joe.limbus you are sadistic
I’m an arborist, we can’t stress enough helmet protection and falling hazard protection. I had a climbing accident about 2 years ago, was knocked out, got 32 stitches in my leg and my helmet was almost split in half. It saved my life though. The people who over look it have not witnessed it or been part of an accident
Hope you're doing good now, Daniel...
But they said this was very near a pack train station- are they supposed to wear helmets? Seems like a lot of safety errors here. But toy our point- yes the workers need helmets
abortion is murder!!!
@@2prize wait what. That has nothing to do with the comment
@@SubliminalSociety hes an abortionist😡
1:30 that’s what they all say to me after I rock their world
Hahahhaa
Brahh
Wow, man, that is horribly sad..
Construction sites are no joke. Always be safe and don't cut corners.
Construction site lawyers are like : “ he didn’t have his hat on “
They wouldn’t be wrong! Anytime you enter the yard you need your hard hat and PPE
Something called PPE, could save your life
Whelp theres not much more they can say, I mean even the wind could've blown the measure off
Unfortunate event. However, PPE is like a construction site’s Bible. God be with his family
And they would be right and this man would still be on this earth.
6 years later: RUclips “you’re born again”
Shit I'm for sure wearing my hard hat
I won’t type it.
Yeah what the heck?
😏
@Abraham Morrison We are off to a good start 1st comment I read laughed my ass off..
The guilt felt from whoever dropped it must be beyond measure!
There’s no reason for the person to feel guilt. The guy wasn’t wearing a hard hat and this is exactly the reason it’s mandatory - no one to blame but the victim himself.
I have a story about construction helmets: I used to work in construction was at the bottom floor looking up a window through the scaffolds waiting if they needed any more supplies from the bottom, well I guess I poked my head out a bit to much cuz a brick from the 5th story ended up falling on my head and breaking in half. Luckily I had the helmet so I deadass just felt like if someone tapped my helmet
Helmets save lives, literally
When ever some one gets hurt on a contruction site, that person almost always gets the blame mainly because the company does not want to be liable. Also workers working high up near the edge are suppose to wear on each tool a Safety Line Rope Lanyard which would have prevented such things happening.
Stay away from the construction site.
Vee Two I like how you live life
Foreman’s are for the most part cheap and many large building jobs are micromanaged by crappy companies like Clark and Whiting Turner who try to do everything as fast as possible
if it bounced off something and hit him it probably was the side or back of his head , helmet protection only goes to above the ear so whos to say a helmet would have made a difference
You can’t lanyard everything in your tool bags.
Construction tape measures are pretty damn heavy. They're made to withstand a fall like that. What's crazy is it bounced off something and then hit the man. God bless him and his loved ones.🙏🏿
From what you're saying (implying), it may have been his time to go! 😟
@@svasianfilipiname6603 If u go, then it's obviously your time...
It was his Final Destination ☠️
@@Shiro_Sora someone should've intervened and disrupted the order.
There's no tape measure on this planet that's built to survive a 50 story fall
It’s just tragic, really. Only a few years from retirement… He sounds like a good, hard-working man. RIP to this gentleman.
The amount of tragedy is unmeasurable.
The delivery guys NEVER wear PPE. Those dudes show up in shorts and sandals, definitely no hard hats.
True dats, when you tell them they don't comply. Above safety but that's not good for anyone.
@HahThatsWhatSheSaid Even you don't believe that.
@@everythangtexas you think you know. Because in reality those guys many times come out naked.
@HahThatsWhatSheSaid now that’s true faith! I can only aspire to have those be my last words, thanks for the inspiration. Luckily he didn’t believe in some invisible man in the sky who never existed and hopefully didn’t believe that asteroids collided then became a planet with plants, an atmosphere with water and somehow didn’t kill these mystery bacteria that became fish or monkeys that slowly evolved into people cause that’d be foolish. Some would even say that would take an astronomical amount of faith to believe almost like its own religion but I digress because that’s just crazy talk.
@@yoshi450gmail Amen. It would take more than faith to believe in that. By such logic, what need is there of construction crews, when you can simply gather all the building materials and use dynamite to cause a big bang, so that edifices may construct themselves.
A woman in Boston was just walking by a building and a piece of plywood flew off and killed her. You can even be outside the areas of caution and still get hurt. Crazy 🙏🏻 may he Rest In Peace
You can say the last part again about 2021
@@kimbaldun true lol
That happened in the tunnel to Logan, big piece of concrete ceiling fell on a car
Oh God. That's unfortunate
Rip his las words was “God is good” he surely is I know u in a better place now, God bless
Isn't that qoute from slum dog millionaire
The most concerning thing I heard in this video is that someone thinks it's normal to keep a tape measure In The kitchen 🤣🤣🤣
She's a woman. She probably thinking of a sewing tape measure. Totally different.
@J exactly, it’s more common than not to have a utility drawer in the kitchen.
Side of truck says 'owned by god'
Me: 'Tony don't make that joke'.
I hope people will one day look back at my death, whenever that is, and laugh.
The truck is owned, the driver didn't sell his soul...
Wait...
*wheeze* that tape measure incident is ready to claim more ppl! I laughed so uncontrollably breadcrumbs was heading for my lungs. That truck side print is just.... Its just that joke we shouldn't.
@@Paxmax Satan has a sick sense of humor lol
You should all be ashamed by these jokes. Do yourself a favor and read some Scripture before leaving a bad joke. Here’s a good one that came to mind:
_He who is without sin cast the first tape measure_
Bless his soul. We are fragile beings at our simplest.
He was blessed for saying "God is good" in the only way god ever blesses anyone, killing them. Can't blame God, would be annoying hearing that cowardly patronizing crap all the time.
@Nina Tote You've been so steeped in BS indoctrination your mind is pickled. Sad.
@Nina Tote Get a purpose Child. The more you prattle on the more you demonstrate your mindlessness.
@Nina Tote Lol dude wtf just because he doesn't share the same opinion on religion as you does not mean you get to insult him and say a lot of insulting uncalled for things!
If you're indeed a practicing believer then act like it for Christ sakes lol. I'm not (I am agnostic) but everyone has a right to believe what they want to believe is my philosophy! It's called having respect for different people and different values! Anyway bye.
@Nina Tote Nah the person you’re replying to is right. You’re in the wrong for what you said, and from what I understand even though i’m not religious; God is merciful but doesn’t turn a blind eye to arrogance and hatefulness. You’re wrong for how you spoke. Period.
Gary was my neighbor his wife and family were a blessing to be neighbors with I wish he was still here with us God takes the young & good first.
My old boss has this video downloaded on this phone everytime a truck driver or visitor cried about a hardhat he'd show them this just came in my suggestion video and noticed it right away
Good on your boss. I would not be surprised if his insistence has actually saved lives.
About 35 years ago I read a story about 2 teenage girls that were killed in NYC when a concrete facade fell off an old building. I thought about those 2 going about their lives and bang, they had no idea......Life is short and you never know when you will go. Like they used to say "today is a good day to die"
Here in Boston they finally stopped replacing certain glass panels of the
John Hancock building because they kept falling out.It's a beautiful building,
but when I walk by, I always sort of wonder......
ruclips.net/video/QDi_DXmN1ss/видео.html
@@jvanstyn Wow I cant believe you linked this video from Poland,
I was a kid on Vacation there with my mom and brother and remember this storm. We were visiting the Wieliczka salt mine in Krakow, when we came out of the ground there was a HUGE tree that had been uprooted while we were underground. We were in the salt mine for about 2 hours and had no idea the storm was happening above
I had a auto claim..and one that really sticks out is a father and son in a truck and a tree fell over on its own and killed the passenger...beleive father. Yea you never know when its your last day.
no i dont keep my tape measure in my kitchen
😊
Like who keeps their tape in the kitchen??😂
@@DaBrute I do. In the junk drawer with extension cords, screwdrivers and hammers. It works for me.
@@DaBrute Me all my household tools are in a bottom drawer in my kitchen
i do. i keep one in my junk drawer. not so strange.
The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length. . - Martin Luther King Jr. -
I’ve seen close calls on building sites many times that could have ended in fatalities. I guess every now and again they do.
Maybe God lets some people live a little longer so they will open their minds and look for Him.
Life is so fragile :(, being born, learning about the world and years in school, make many experience and memories and this guy had it all ended with a measuring tape, hopefully there is an afterlife
So well put
There is heaven, a throne room, and most importantly all mighty God!!
We’re all one the universe created us just as other beings to observe itself
I hope there's no afterlife, for me at least i would still be depressed
@@tripakastayw6872 according to those afterlifes, youll have happiness that you never thought was possible, :/ who knows
Rest In Peace brother. You are definitely a reminder on why we need to wear our PPE at ALL TIMES!
You are also a reminder of why we need The Christ! I’ll see you one day.
@@elvisammo god isn’t real
I don't know they said he mentioned his name and homie showed up
@The Barefoot Kid ikr, some people also think the world is round 🤣 #jesusforlife
@The Barefoot Kid only a fool would believe a fairytale from a book
Me six years later- That's why I said to my dad after my roof fall. I ain't gonna work to die on the job cus I got lucky many times and that made me not work for others anymore.
If you work to live why do you work till you die.
Then do something that you can be in peace with
So sad, my prayers go out to his family.
1:30
"That's what she said..."
Sorry, Gary.
You wild. But thankyou lol
R.I.P GARY
Hahahahaha
☹️
Hahahahaha 🤭
Rip Gary
Relatable
Rip Gary
I bet he heard that many times before this happened....
I’m an Asian male😂
This is the way life works.
It's delicate and there are no promises about your time here.
Exactly. The promise of a better afterlife if you believe enough (and fill the coffers) is baloney. No one has ever proven an afterlife. All we know for sure is this life, this world. Make the best of it and preserve the world for future generations.
@@DonaldDump2024 No one has proven otherwise either.
@@mgreg8134
No one has proven there’s no Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus either so what’s your point?
@@DonaldDump2024 But we know who Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy are so there is no need to disprove them.
@@mgreg8134
I went to sleep with my tooth under my pillow and woke up to a quarter in its place! I wanted a fire truck and low and behold, I got a fire truck for Christmas! I believe in miracles.
Okaaaay.... 😂😂
That’s so sad😢 God bless his family 🙏♥️
"I never knew something so small could do so much damage?"
Me: "That's what she said..... Oh, wait."
I’ve both worked and hauled dump loads for construction sites and I always wore my hard hat and high visibility for this reason. Things happen. A small tool falling 30+ stories is missile and everything is constantly moving.
"missile"
Damn I've been keeping my measuring tape in my garage. I had no idea that's supposed to be in the kitchen 🙃 0:06
It's probably more for people who don't have a garage. I live in an apartment and I keep a toolkit under the cabinets in my kitchen and have a few tools in a junk drawer like screwdrivers, pliers, and a tape measure.
You gotta have 3. One in garage . One in house tool box. One in kitchen for the wife 😂
@@Jerekul my family has a garage separate from the house, a shed built off of that, a whole third separate workshop building, and we still have tape measures in the kitchen.
My wife tells me that all the time, “How something so small can cause Damage.”
Tell her a small brain can destroy and damage our relationship. Lol
An extremely shocking story to hear..poor guy..as awkward as it might be to wear a hard had for 12 hours straight, it definately is an essential item when working on building sites. Ive had a few bad ones with walking into low scaffold poles and sometimes been hit by pieces of stone,brick or blockwork. Hard hat has definitely saved me a few trips to the hospital.
I ALWAYS carried a hard hat in my truck. Thankfully most of the "dangerous" places I went absolutely required hard hats, you didn't get in if you didn't have one!!!
Thats what I was always told. We couldn't step on the edge of the site without a helmet no matter who you were or what you were there for.
everywhere i've worked has had this rule. Even if people are working on the ceiling of a warehouse....if you didn't have a hardhat you stayed 50ft away from the people working overhead. Most sites if you show up without a hardhat they'll tear your ass apart once you cross the line without it on.
Should've had netting around the floors being worked on. OSHA is gonna have a field day.
Happened 6 years ago
Those are new regs. They started that about 5 yrs ago. Hmm, maybe this accident had something to do with it?
Him not wearing a helmet in an area requiring a helmet was one of the factors though.
A whole new meaning to "owned by god"
What kind of tape mesaure you guys use? Sad to hear the outcome but still, wow.
If you are entering a hard hat zone area and it's posted PLEASE BE AWARE OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS. STAY SAFE EVERYONE
Right but regardless most of them on the ground don’t wear hard hats steady (depending onna task) Nd nevertheless he probably ain’t foreshadow a fucking tape measure falling 50 sum stories n going into his sht 😂🤦🏼♂️
They said it bounced before it hit him maybe the hardhat wouldn’t of helped
@@muckfoot-4093 The guy died due to a preventable accident. All construction sites should be very strict on PPE and safety
Woman: I had no idea something so small could do so much damage!
Bullets: Am I a joke to you?
I laughed and now I feel guilty!
...
She's also probably thinking of a 6ft, 1/2" tape, not a 25ft, 1" construction tape.
Covid 19 molecules: hey dont forget about me! I've been hard at work too. PLUS I nearly toppled a world economy and am about to start WW3 with china
Bro people are stupid af
This is why you always where a Hard Hat on site! I used to hate wearing a Hard Hat as a young worker but I am glade my Foreman was vigilant about it, Rest In Peace to this poor bloke.
@@Raka.x what's your argument? On any job site where work is above, a hard hat is nesscesary. I know a bloke that had a piece of steel hit him from above, split the hard hat and knocked him down but he survived. He wouldn't be alive if it weren't for his Hard Hat.
@@Raka.x it definitely wasn't, when i worked in construction full time, that was 2012. The incident with my mate was prior to that.
The only difference being I'm in Australia, other country's and job site's may not have been as strict.
@@newrockerofficial294 E
@@Raka.x did you delete your comments...?
“I didnt know something so small could do so much damage.” This lady apparently has never held a measuring tape before
She was probably thinking of a tailor's measuring tape..
May his soul rest in peace !
I had a tool fall on me when I was walking down a sidewalk in Spokane WA. It barely touched me and I picked up that tool and carried it into my attorneys office across the street who happened to see the incident occur. He suggested we sue but since the crew happened to drink at the same bar I hung out at I just used that tool to get free drinks for the next week. The kid that dropped it never lived it down but the most important thing that happened here was after the incident the sidewalk was barricaded. Bud Kerr, a water tank painter was the foreman who made the kid buy me drinks for a week. Me and Bud used to paint tanks together.
Well that lawyer just showed again the gold diggers they are mostly
RIP my dude 🙏😪... always wear proper protection on site always
I work construction and I always worry about getting hurt. It’s kinda scary tbh.
I worked for Comcast and when we would go to a job sites like this to run cable, I would always put my hard hat on! I’d always be Scared of something like this happening...
We had a similar accident at Holmes Hospital when there was an annex being built. A construction worker dropped a wrench and yelled, "Lookout below!" A man, with his helmet on, looked up to see what was falling and the wrench hit him on the forehead, killing him. It was only a 4 story building to the roof. Happened in the early 70s.
Wow
So looking up killed him?
@@jimwerther No. The construction worker who yelled, "Look out below!" killed him, or at least caused his death. If he would have kept his mouth shut when he dropped the wrench, the hard-hat wearing man down on the ground wouldn't have looked up and the wrench would have hit his hard hat or shoulder instead of hitting his forehead. If the wrench had hit his shoulder, he would have been injured but not dead.
Then again, if the man on the ground would have run for cover and not looked up, he would have been uninjured. If man on the ground had been hit on the shoulder because the construction worker on the forth floor roof of that building because there was no alarm called out. Like, "Look out below!" he would have probably been pissed and the construction site foreman would have probably fired him.
Who knows. Knowing this, will you call out, "Look out below!" if you drop a wrench off a 4 story building? Will you have your wrench tied off to your tool belt to make it virtually impossible to drop if you find yourself high up in the air with a wrench or a hammer?
They should change the wording to "look below" so they keep their heads down and helmets up.
@@ARedMotorcycle Maybe if said, "Run!!"
The sign “owned by god” appeared only after the man died
You're so lucky I was going to say it but good job though
I used to work as a bricklayer for a company that would mainly repair and rebuild chimneys. I was taught to never wear a tape measure on my belt while on the roof for this exact reason. (and we weren't working fifty stories up either!)
Yes, I do keep a tape measure in my kitchen and egg beater in the garage.
Lol 😆
XD oh lord you sir have won best comment in my books. Lol
I had to watch it again, I missed that. She's reading a teleprompter too, someone actually took time making that comparison.
The newscaster is a liberated woman so she has never been in a kitchen
I keep my tape measure in the junk drawer of my kitchen. Always have even when I had a garage. So do most people I know. Lol.
Whoever let him into the site should've made sure he had a helmet on. Most likely a semi driver wouldn't have had one with him, so the construction company may be liable. And when you're working that high up, your tools should be tethered so they can't fall and kill someone.
Unfortunately that’s not how it works. Truck drivers who make these deliveries do usually have hard hats in their cabs. And no, the general contractor(GC) might not necessarily be liable. As long as signs are posted, it is every individual’s responsibility to wear the proper PPE while they are on site. Even if the person at the gate did say something about a hard hat, how are they going to make sure everyone keeps it on? Typically, if you’re in the truck you don’t even have to put it on until you step out. GC’s are required to have safety personnel on site who can remove people from the site, issue citations, etc. But even then, they can’t be everywhere 100% of the time. Therefore, when you are on a construction site, everyone including you is considered “the safety guy”. A lot of projects(big ones like this, not usually the small ones) even require you to go through their safety training before you can step foot on site. Even if you’re just making a delivery and will only be there for 5 minutes.
So as tragic and really horrible as this story is, it’s not really the GC’s fault unless there’s a specific rule about tethering equipment at that height that was violated. Which by the way, is an excellent point. My last jobsite did require tethered equipment, but only for workers who were doing work on the outside or within 6ft of the edge of the building. There was no tethering requirement if you were doing work 6ft or further from the edge. So in this case, if a worker was 10 ft from the edge and dropped a tape measure which then slid or was accidentally kicked off, no rules were broken but that doesn’t mean it’s not dangerous. When you’re on a job site it’s not enough to assume everything will go great and that nothing will happen. You always step foot on site as if tools are falling from the top floor.
I didn’t read through shoemaker’s dissertation but I’m guessing the summary is it’s not someone else’s fault. It was an accident that could have ended without death if he followed standard safety rules. God is good, but he will kill you in a second. And, you can’t tether all your tools to yourself, that’s just insane.
Absolutely right. Company are getting used to by pass the rules to blame the.victim then. Disgusting
@@DJDisalwaysright I've actually worked security for a large foundry, and you had to have safety equipment before you were allowed in. Same when I used to deliver to a lot of manufacturing companies. If someone can sue because they spilled hot coffee in their lap from the drive through, they can sue and win for this...
@@Ponderosa303 Just because you have signs up, that doesn't make you immune from being sued. Every place that I've visited that required hard hats won't let you go in until you have one on. Foundries, quarries, manufacturing plants etc.
Those are the best words he could of muttered right before he died.
Incredible!
Sending condolences to this incredible God fearing man’s family, May he Rest In Peace ❤️
I think I would like to go while praising god.I don't want to go in sin!
@@movingforward. lol 🤣
Me too
He apparently didn't fear enough
@@devins7457 Yeah
Him: "God is good"
God: "You are ready my son"
Think what you want, but realize that means others can as well.
this is so sad, poor guy, idiots need to be more careful, especially that high up, not like dropping it from a 3 story building
That way of death is even more sad than the actual death
The man's job on Earth was done.. he's home now
Earth and home are kinda the same thing so this only works metaphorically I guess? Like his consciousness not existing before is what he has returned to.
Something about this doesn’t measure up
He was inches away from danger
Ba dum
*_TSSSSSSSsssss_* sssss
🤣😂😂😂😂
Bruhhhh 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm going to hell 😒
I was working onsite 200mtrs up when the scaffolding that my safety harness was supposed to hook onto gave way because of improper fittings, I got very lucky and was caught by a secondary safety rope that I was told was unnecessary. Quit heights and stay grounded now.
I think people forget how heavy those industrial tape measures can be.
I have worked high rise construction and they guys always tell you never to write your name on your hand tools in case you drop something. Even if it doesn’t hit anyone you could still be fired.
OSHA has straps with a tether that wraps around your wrist or belt for small tools like tapes. But not many guys use them because they’re really awkward to work with. This is a tragedy, I feel for him and his family
When its your day, it's your day. Can't avoid that.
Uh yes you can. Wear a hard hat... a seat belt.... get vaccinated.
This is horrible and tragic...
Rest in Peace.
Man: "God is Good"
God: "Bet"
Lmao 😂
Imagine seeing someone saying "God is good", then they get struck dead by a falling tape measure!
God's love is immeasurable I guess.
@@_SamDoesStuff_ 👌
God is good. We all are going to die someday, God is using this incident to call people to Himself. The man who died is in heaven and is grateful that his story is being used by God to glorify Himself. Where will you be when you die? Only way to heaven is through Jesus. John 14:6, Romans 10:9-13.
Sright to heaven
I bet your ass whoever was listening to him had strong disbeliefs about god after that
Wow what a bizarre way to go
If it is your dad to go then it is your day to go. RIP Gary
I used to work for a sound installation and service company and I had a hard hat because the law was when you enter an area where hard hats are required, you MUST wear one. It actually saved me one day when I was moving a ten foot step ladder that someone (me) had left a 4 pound hammer on the top step. It bounced directly off my hard hat. No injury.
Wow congratulations on being alive
I've done the same. I've seen it happen to other people.
Everywhere in my city, there's construction sites. I ALWAYS walk across the street or take a longer route. Never walk underneath scaffolding as they are known to collapse.
U must feel like ur living in "final destination"!?
Scaffolding is not known to collapse wtf. It would only fail if it was installed improperly, which is pretty hard to do.
@@bobsinger7127 .... I didn't say every damn scaffolding collapses.
Of course, when it's not installed properly it would collapse and you wouldn't know until it happens. 🤬.
@@6100GG known to collapse means often, know english?
@@ryana8022 you would be surprised how many scaffold accidents happen in construction.
Why would I have a tape measured in my kitchen? To measure pizzas???
it’s interesting that RUclips recommended me this 6 years later when I never knew about it
I don’t know how many times we have to yell at truck drivers delivery drivers to put on their hardhat when delivering a load even if it is just a few minutes
Inspectors also
@@PG-sg2oo truth
Dead man - "God is good"
God - "and I took that personally"
LOL!
Ever read the bible? I'd say this was a nice way to go, wasn't at all gruesome. How much did he suffer, how long??? We all definitely have our date set. _How_ is the question. This man's death may sound strange to us the how and when... maybe why... Only bcz we don't know God's plan. But if you look at the ppl who dishonored Him in the bible, He made their deaths a macabre of all deaths.
May be his passing through purgatory was shorter because him without thinking of his own death precisely that day had God in his lips me he rest in peace.
@@MariaRodriguez-xq4bk live, laugh, love, right?
Something so small can do so much damage? Those tape measures are heavy as well
Immeasurably sad.
1:29 i had no idea that something so small could do do much damage.
Bullets: Am i a joke to you?
Corona virus; 🔴 hold my pinya colada 🍹
Wtf
Right
Right
I'll never look at tape measures the same way again
Condolence. :(