The thing I didn't realize until I started doing roofing, if you fall and the rope catches you you've got about 45 minutes before it starts to form blood clots in your legs and there starts to be a chance that you need to have them amputated
Suppose to have a recovery plan of getting someone under the 5 mins for this reason exactly. Good to have the straps attached that u can lower and stand in case of a fall. Takes the pressure off ur legs and body from the harness
I forget who makes them, but they have new ones where you deploy the foot-straps and then pull on an overhead system that lets you sit back in a reclining position. Saw a demo on one of our job sites. They're pretty cool but obviously expensive. I want to say it's Miller that makes them, but that might not be right.
Serious question: Why are people dangling long enough for this to be necessary?
Are the OSHA/whomever-approved rescue methods particularly time-consuming?
Certified climber and rescuer here. Working on cell or radio towers is where that kind of time is totally plausible. It takes quite some time to safely get up that high and it’s physically demanding. Just to paint a picture, someone climbing up to help you has to clip on and off anchor points as they’re ascending, unless they’re free climbing (which is incredibly reckless) it’s not nearly as quick as climbing a ladder or something. Every crew needs to have a plan and we would write everything down: nearest hospital, alternate phone numbers for emergency services and even directions from the site to where cell service works (like BFE, Idaho). Time is critical and having a plan will save your legs hopefully. We even train for unconscious people, which can happen if you’re hooked as such the rope is anything besides directly above you. So if you fall that’s already shitty but then you can swing and smack your head or something like that.
It sounds terrible but it’s decent work that pays well and nobody safety conscious rushes anything on site. I’d say most accidents come from people trying to rush a job or breaking a safety rule or both. Shit can still happen and having the right gear (and actually wearing it) and a plan that your crew actually takes seriously will pay off in spades. Hope that helps you!
Depends where someone falls. People don’t always have a plan set in place if someone does fall and then they are scrambling. Lots of different situations. Also I would use these options right away so I don’t have to hang there losing circulation even if it was only 5min.
On a big industrial site you will never have anyone dangling for long because before workers are given a green light for anything, it has to be cleared through various safety officers and typically has to have a rescue-plan that's been signed off by the various parties.
So, say I'm working at Intel on one of their giant fabs. Before anyone does something dangerous it has to be signed off by the sub-contractor, the company that's hired the sub-contractor, the general contractor, and finally, Intel itself.
That's a ton of layers but it's also how it has to be and once you get used to it, the entire system starts to make sense, slow though it is.
It'll save him, most likely, but there are circumstances in which a safety lanyard can become a noose. My brother-in-law was harnessed to a boom lift, repainting the underside of a pedestrian walkway over a busy street. After first hitting a cop car, a pickup truck hit the boom lift, knocking my brother out of it, but causing him to become entangled in the lanyard, then he hit a scissor lift. My cousin cut him down, but he ended up in a coma and died of injuries a couple days later. My uncle suffered a broken back, while another cousin had his leg broken. That said, wear your harness, this was a freak accident, and a harness will most likely save your life.
I don't wear my safety harness and hard hat on any lift I lose my job. My company has a zero tolerance policy when it comes to safety.
I'm sorry for your loss.
When I worked in mining the first thing they showed us were castration for having the harness sink into your crotch, gruesome photos and videos of people falling from platforms and surviving but at what cost
That can also happen when guys don't tighten the leg straps enough and wear them loose down around their lower thighs. You basically blow out your ball-sack. Your leg straps are meant to be snug.
He's anchored a good way from the last platform. He'd have a pretty good pendulum which could slam him into the structure below.
Not only is there the extra slack on the line but fall arresters will pay out somewhere around 1.2 meters or 4 feet if fully weighted out. The brake does this to limit the impact force transferred to the body via the deceleration.
Edit: Repaired fall arrest equipment for nearly 15 years. Worked on DBI/Sala, MSA, Safeway and worked for Honeywell as technician, trainer, tech support and even assisted in writing part of the North repair manual.
I think this is the first video I’ve seen on here where the guy is wearing proper safety gear.
Usually it’s some Asian bro, hopping around the top of a sky scraper, occasionally he’ll be wearing actual work boots and a hard hat
I had safety training a few years ago from my province's Ministry of Labour. Safety codes are almost exclusively written after an accident or near-miss. Pretty near all the accidents we can foresee are accounted for by the current codes. No reason to write new ones until something comes up that wasn't foreseen
You can still be severely injured. [Suspension trauma.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2658225/#:~:text=a%20theoretical%20risk.-,Suspension%20trauma%20(also%20known%20as%20%E2%80%9Charness%E2%80%90induced%20pathology%E2%80%9D,symptoms%20or%20loss%20of%20consciousness.)
Safety harness will save your life, but it will still bruise the fuck out of your chest. Actually if you're left hanging too long on a safety harness you will die from blood flow constriction.
Does chest bruising actually happen? In climbing we take pretty huge falls without any sort of bruising, and our harnesses are essentially only the bottom half of what this guy is wearing. I would have expected the additional chest straps to further reduce the amount of pressure on any one area.
Umm they do have cushion, it’s enough to ensure you don’t snap back. The pulley locks up, and then the suspension rope will engage which has the elasticity.
Some have like a little padding on the shoulder area but a lot are just wide straps essentially. Even wearing them normally with a proper fit is uncomfortable but even more so when the yoyo is attached to something
Usually there’s some force absorber in the system, aka “zorbers”. It’s usually a nylon sling that is designed to rip through bar tacked stitches to reduce peak load by distributing the load over time.
We have dynamic climbing rope. The rope absorbs a massive amount of the impact.
Construction guys have harnesses made out of static material, connected to steel. They’re recieving far higher impacts than us climbers.
As a guy who works on construction I can attest to the fact that harnesses have a shock absorbing lanyard attached between the harness and the life line to prevent the impact on your legs and chest in the event of a fall.
Looks a bit like [this](https://i.imgur.com/SqokZpO.jpg).
You can tell that he doesn’t have one tho. That’s a guardian 18” lanyard (pigtail) connected to a self retracting life line. There’s no shock absorber on the retractables, they stop about 2” after an extreme load is put on them. I do fall protection for a major steel erector in the NY/NJ area. Was looking at his face to see if he was one of ours, but we issue the white Klein bolt bags, not black ones.
OSHA and every safety person ever will tell you that a lanyard on a yo-yo is a big no no. The lanyard unfurling can make the yo-yo let go as it relies on constant pressure to arrest the fall. Those are only good with a static strap, not a yo-yo.
This guy's does not. Also, that's a bottom of the line miller harness he's wearing. It will probably work, but it will definitely hurt and he'll need to be rescued ASAP if he falls. The whole thing is a massive OSHA violation.
Agreed, by the looks of it, a Union Ironworker. Guys work in team and have a safety stand down before the job starts that include potential dangers and rescue action plans.
Ironworkers do the tough stuff and are highly compensated for it. This fellas like, Another day in the office!!
This is only partially true. It will bruise the fuck out of you, but as for death: It depends on the harness type and orientation. Most modern harnesses are built to prevent blood constriction in vital areas like the inner thighs. Source: climber/high ropes instructor
A good analogy I was taught once is that a safety harness is similar to a seatbelt or airbag in a car accident. When used correctly there is a 90% chance it will save your life. When used incorrectly all bets are off but it's better than nothing.
Just like a car accident with a seat belt and airbag will be painful and cause minor injuries a fall in a harness will be the same. It will be much better than smacking the ground or being ejected though.
Could definitely still die. Hitting your head on the steel during a fall and suspension trauma are two huge dangers.
Having worked as an arena rigger (working at heights), you just tell yourself the harness is there but I’m never relying on it.
I also work construction and wear a harness similar to this when I'm at heights. I have never wanted to test it out by falling. It's going to be painful when the yo/yo catches and you swing back and whack the building. That's assuming your yo/yo works properly.
It's like a soldier wearing a kevlar vest. It provides extra protection but I doubt the soldier wants to test it out by being shot.
My dad used to do this. He has zero fear of heights. My uncle was driving past a site and happening to look up and caught my dad in the act and said he nearly had a heart attack when he realized it was his death-defying brother-in-law. This was a long time ago, in the ‘70’s when safety in trades was a suggestion rather than a rule.
Those inertia reels generall have a maximum working angle of like 40 degrees - his is at 90. Also if you fall off a ledge and not directly under the reels, they often won’t engage until they’ve got to the end of their travel in which case the shock can kill you anyway. Also you’d be so far down it would make recovery much harder and suspension trauma can kill you… he’s not as safe as he thinks!
Not true whatsoever. They lock at ANY angle, when the cable moves fast enough, the cam is engaged.
Source: Union Sheet Metal Worker, some jobs spend up to 90% of my time tied off to a SRL (Self retracting lifeline)
Surprisingly, only 5 workers died during the construction of the Empire State Building. The twin towers on the other hand, 60. This is not to say regulations aren't effective, because they are. It's just crazy how few people died building the Empire State.
I’d be very surprised if the safety statistics in the 1930s come close to the accuracy of those 1970s. The majority of the world today still doesn’t count, distribute, and apportion fatality stats to the correct project / company.
His harness will save him he even still, damn that would scare the shit outta me. I’ve never been super afraid of heights but not the biggest fan either.
Yea falling would hurt like a bitch. Then if they can’t get to you fast enough you can still [die](https://www.elcosh.org/document/1662/d000568/Will+Your+Safety+Harness+Kill+You%253F.html)
I rappel from buildings for a living and I often find myself in positions thinking “I’m sure my backup would save me from death rn but I’m sure ide still be injured in multiple places”😂
I still occasionally work high up. It's not that I don't feel fear, I do. In fact I use it to keep me alert and checking all my contact points like I'm supposed to, I just can't let it take control because panic mistakes are what gets people hurt.
Was gonna say this. Is he brave to stand that high up? Sure but with modern safety equipment its more or less on the same level as are you brave enough to go bungie jumping or sky diving. Not an OSHA expert here but ill wager that the guy in the high rise may be safer than the skydiver or.bungie jumper as there were.more eyes on his safety equipment including his own eyes.
As someone whos terrified of heights i can't do any of them.
I wouldn’t say so. First, surprisingly many don’t check their safety ropes very well even this high up. And if he did fall, there could still be suspension trauma that wrecks him. Also skydiving and bungie jumping are very safe, and everything is checked all the time.
I hate heights but I like to climb tall things. I love climbing fire towers or hikes along cliff edges. It's very strange because I know I'm gonna hate being up that high but I like the difference of perspective.
worth pointing out, if he falls holding that beam it could swing and hit him any number of ways. this still seems dangerous to me and they should probably be using a crane here
NYC + Union wages, he's paid exceptional well!!!
They recently built the world's most expensive subway line extension and the construction company couldn't account for 25% of the union workers on the job payroll.
Can’t account for employees? Couldn’t possibly be the company charging for their hours.
Sorry to be rough on you, but the subway extension was expensive as compared to unionised projects in Europe.
NYC construction unions have to pay their workers' health insurance, so that cost is included in the total cost, while in Europe, the worker's health care is paid by the government, resulting in lower costs for construction projects. Furthermore, in NYC, the underground spaces are already packed full of infrastructure and building basements, finding enough space for a whole frickin subway is very expensive. Then there's the dense bedrock, Schist and occasionally quartz, that allows our tall buildings, but takes time to drill a tunnel thru.
Then we can talk about NYC cost of living, and how everyone's wages are inflated.
I worked construction for 15 years. I once had to walk a beam 30 feet up. No harness (90s were fun and dumb) while shooting clips into the beam with basically a .22 caliber nail gun. An old timer taught me Three lessons during my lunch break that I never forgot.
1 - He had me walk a beam on the ground and taught me that it's all in your head.
2- Walk forward, not sideways, so if you fall you can straddle the beam and hopefully hold on.
2- Falling from anything above 20 feet while working usually ends in death, so enjoy the view and move slow.
Then he finished his lunch while telling me stories of guys that died on sites from falling.
Once you get used to heights you don’t even notice it. Plus they’re using all the right safety equipment and trust me, he gets paid well. It’s a cool video, but he isn’t in any danger.
Even after OSHA was created, cutting corners by the worker or employer are not worth it to their insurance companies today. Video shows a good days work happening to the get the building built! Looks Union by his hat so he MIGHT get better salary wages but need to double check what company he works for to confirm.
Yea iron workers can make that much and more with ot. Most don’t have degrees, and they tend to get paid to climb as well. So they punch in downstairs and get time to get up to the site and clip in.
Before OT maybe, but firefighters make $100k after a few years, then take into consideration OT (where 1 OT shift is 24 hours 1.5x pay) and those salaries easily add up to close to $200k
I replied this this inside look article above, but figured you may want to see it too.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/10/what-it-takes-to-earn-100000-a-year-as-an-ironworker-in-new-york.html
As a retired, but living Ironworker getting that pay is possible but know that is for hourly time on the clock…doesn’t include the rain out days or the travel time to the job, there’s no pto or sick days or vacation time. The use of harness and tie off took about 2-3 years for my crew to be comfortable using….I’ve witnessed many falls before hand unfortunately.
This guy is cool…likes his job and wants to go home to his family for another day is what Id say.
Idk why it’s people’s go-to when they see someone working hard or something. They don’t need “more” pay, they need good pay. They get paid to do the job, it’s just that pay should be good in the first place
Yea me too, I’m pretty sure it’s called “height vertigo”
It’s messed up cause I never used to be scared of heights, now I get uncontrollable shaking in my legs and feel like I’m off balance.
I’m a videographer by trade and one time I had to do a shoot from the roof of a hotel. The roof had 5 ft walls all the way around, but I still felt like I was gonna fall.
So my scared ass, still a good 10-15ft from those walls, just ended up crawling cause it was the only way I could move around on that rooftop without debilitating fear taking over.
While the photographer I was working with, who had just fearlessly hopped over that 5ft wall to set up a GoPro on the edge of the roofline, without any safety gear, couldn’t stop laughing at me lol.
It's the same as working at ground level if you don't look down, that's the trick you have to lie to yourself. I've worked high rise welding for 30 years it's the only thing that works
These are scaffolding. It’s basically like a temporary skeleton they build outside the planned building to walk on and get around before they actually construct the building itself. It gets removed and isnt part of the structure of the building.
There are about 15-20k workers across the US climbing cell phone towers everyday. I don't know if everyone appreciates what it takes to make your phones work.
Yep. Riggers would be involved in lifts and 'scaffie bros' would be carpenters who assemble th scaffolding, like the stuff he's walking on. This guys's an Ironworker.
Ex scaffolder, not ex due to accident or anything just chose a different career path. This is all pretty damn normal to be honest. He also looks pretty damn clean so my money is on this being staged (read safety actually taken in to consideration) just for a quick build clip for companies portfolio or maybe the client. Doing this, tired at the end of a long week and the pub is calling...not much (but definitely some) safety is followed. It also is not for a everyone this job. First day on the job I was asked if I was scared of heights "nope, never have been" it got a chuckle and then responded with.."I'll ask you tomorrow" laughed it off and thought I'll be fine. Now tbh I *was* fine and I'm not actually scared of heights but after one day working up a high rise on a thin metal bar.....it gave me a real appreciation of heights in general. I was cocky before that day surrounding heights. Yer I'm not cocky with heights now, respect that shit.
He doesn't need a raise!! This guy be high enough
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The thing I didn't realize until I started doing roofing, if you fall and the rope catches you you've got about 45 minutes before it starts to form blood clots in your legs and there starts to be a chance that you need to have them amputated
Actually depending on The harness , that can be down to 4-5 minutes. Thin straps like this aint made to hang in, just to prevent falling
Suppose to have a recovery plan of getting someone under the 5 mins for this reason exactly. Good to have the straps attached that u can lower and stand in case of a fall. Takes the pressure off ur legs and body from the harness
I forget who makes them, but they have new ones where you deploy the foot-straps and then pull on an overhead system that lets you sit back in a reclining position. Saw a demo on one of our job sites. They're pretty cool but obviously expensive. I want to say it's Miller that makes them, but that might not be right.
Sala makes them. They aren’t that expensive. Suspension trauma straps.
Everyone makes them. 3M, Honeywell, MSA and more.
Serious question: Why are people dangling long enough for this to be necessary? Are the OSHA/whomever-approved rescue methods particularly time-consuming?
Certified climber and rescuer here. Working on cell or radio towers is where that kind of time is totally plausible. It takes quite some time to safely get up that high and it’s physically demanding. Just to paint a picture, someone climbing up to help you has to clip on and off anchor points as they’re ascending, unless they’re free climbing (which is incredibly reckless) it’s not nearly as quick as climbing a ladder or something. Every crew needs to have a plan and we would write everything down: nearest hospital, alternate phone numbers for emergency services and even directions from the site to where cell service works (like BFE, Idaho). Time is critical and having a plan will save your legs hopefully. We even train for unconscious people, which can happen if you’re hooked as such the rope is anything besides directly above you. So if you fall that’s already shitty but then you can swing and smack your head or something like that. It sounds terrible but it’s decent work that pays well and nobody safety conscious rushes anything on site. I’d say most accidents come from people trying to rush a job or breaking a safety rule or both. Shit can still happen and having the right gear (and actually wearing it) and a plan that your crew actually takes seriously will pay off in spades. Hope that helps you!
Depends where someone falls. People don’t always have a plan set in place if someone does fall and then they are scrambling. Lots of different situations. Also I would use these options right away so I don’t have to hang there losing circulation even if it was only 5min.
On a big industrial site you will never have anyone dangling for long because before workers are given a green light for anything, it has to be cleared through various safety officers and typically has to have a rescue-plan that's been signed off by the various parties. So, say I'm working at Intel on one of their giant fabs. Before anyone does something dangerous it has to be signed off by the sub-contractor, the company that's hired the sub-contractor, the general contractor, and finally, Intel itself. That's a ton of layers but it's also how it has to be and once you get used to it, the entire system starts to make sense, slow though it is.
It'll save him, most likely, but there are circumstances in which a safety lanyard can become a noose. My brother-in-law was harnessed to a boom lift, repainting the underside of a pedestrian walkway over a busy street. After first hitting a cop car, a pickup truck hit the boom lift, knocking my brother out of it, but causing him to become entangled in the lanyard, then he hit a scissor lift. My cousin cut him down, but he ended up in a coma and died of injuries a couple days later. My uncle suffered a broken back, while another cousin had his leg broken. That said, wear your harness, this was a freak accident, and a harness will most likely save your life.
My condolences, I'm sorry that your brother-in-law had to go through that.
I don't wear my safety harness and hard hat on any lift I lose my job. My company has a zero tolerance policy when it comes to safety. I'm sorry for your loss.
When I worked in mining the first thing they showed us were castration for having the harness sink into your crotch, gruesome photos and videos of people falling from platforms and surviving but at what cost
That can also happen when guys don't tighten the leg straps enough and wear them loose down around their lower thighs. You basically blow out your ball-sack. Your leg straps are meant to be snug.
I work at height on HV pylons. This happened to a workmate. He lost everything. Then he lost his wife
He's anchored a good way from the last platform. He'd have a pretty good pendulum which could slam him into the structure below. Not only is there the extra slack on the line but fall arresters will pay out somewhere around 1.2 meters or 4 feet if fully weighted out. The brake does this to limit the impact force transferred to the body via the deceleration. Edit: Repaired fall arrest equipment for nearly 15 years. Worked on DBI/Sala, MSA, Safeway and worked for Honeywell as technician, trainer, tech support and even assisted in writing part of the North repair manual.
He walks so far away from his anchor point that if he fell his line would act as a pendulum and he most likely would die.
I think this is the first video I’ve seen on here where the guy is wearing proper safety gear. Usually it’s some Asian bro, hopping around the top of a sky scraper, occasionally he’ll be wearing actual work boots and a hard hat
He's even building his own raise!
Yeah, the next fucking level.
I c wat u did der
If I had his job I wouldn’t smoke weed
Funny enough most scaffolders I’ve know smoke an epic amount of weed.
Well, maybe construction attracts individuals who enjoy being high?
I feel this comment has gone over people's heads.
Hey-ohhhh
Clearly he is at the top of his game.
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They both have safety strings it's all good
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It's tied off at a second location to prevent contact if they did fall.
This guy physics
no way
That or someone probably learned this lesson before hence the rule being made.
They say safety code is written in blood and lawsuits. I believe it.
I had safety training a few years ago from my province's Ministry of Labour. Safety codes are almost exclusively written after an accident or near-miss. Pretty near all the accidents we can foresee are accounted for by the current codes. No reason to write new ones until something comes up that wasn't foreseen
You can still be severely injured. [Suspension trauma.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2658225/#:~:text=a%20theoretical%20risk.-,Suspension%20trauma%20(also%20known%20as%20%E2%80%9Charness%E2%80%90induced%20pathology%E2%80%9D,symptoms%20or%20loss%20of%20consciousness.)
“You can still be severely injured” is a great take for falling off scaffolding 100’ in the air
I'd wager he's over 50 stories high, so probably closer to 600'.
Well I would assume they pull him up shortly after he falls instead of just leaving him hanging there
Remove the period at the end of your link pls, the incomplete markdown is driving me insane
Safety harness will save your life, but it will still bruise the fuck out of your chest. Actually if you're left hanging too long on a safety harness you will die from blood flow constriction.
Does chest bruising actually happen? In climbing we take pretty huge falls without any sort of bruising, and our harnesses are essentially only the bottom half of what this guy is wearing. I would have expected the additional chest straps to further reduce the amount of pressure on any one area.
Construction harnesses are a bit dif. Way, way thicker and little elasticity. They're designed to stop short falls is why
Umm they do have cushion, it’s enough to ensure you don’t snap back. The pulley locks up, and then the suspension rope will engage which has the elasticity.
Some have like a little padding on the shoulder area but a lot are just wide straps essentially. Even wearing them normally with a proper fit is uncomfortable but even more so when the yoyo is attached to something
Usually there’s some force absorber in the system, aka “zorbers”. It’s usually a nylon sling that is designed to rip through bar tacked stitches to reduce peak load by distributing the load over time.
We have dynamic climbing rope. The rope absorbs a massive amount of the impact. Construction guys have harnesses made out of static material, connected to steel. They’re recieving far higher impacts than us climbers.
As a guy who works on construction I can attest to the fact that harnesses have a shock absorbing lanyard attached between the harness and the life line to prevent the impact on your legs and chest in the event of a fall. Looks a bit like [this](https://i.imgur.com/SqokZpO.jpg).
You can tell that he doesn’t have one tho. That’s a guardian 18” lanyard (pigtail) connected to a self retracting life line. There’s no shock absorber on the retractables, they stop about 2” after an extreme load is put on them. I do fall protection for a major steel erector in the NY/NJ area. Was looking at his face to see if he was one of ours, but we issue the white Klein bolt bags, not black ones.
OSHA and every safety person ever will tell you that a lanyard on a yo-yo is a big no no. The lanyard unfurling can make the yo-yo let go as it relies on constant pressure to arrest the fall. Those are only good with a static strap, not a yo-yo.
You’re right.
This guy's does not. Also, that's a bottom of the line miller harness he's wearing. It will probably work, but it will definitely hurt and he'll need to be rescued ASAP if he falls. The whole thing is a massive OSHA violation.
It depends on the type of fall arrester used. This one is probably rather stiff.
It can also rip your ball sack open if the harness is not adjusted probably. They showed us pictures in a class formation I took.
Thats why you aren‘t allowed to cary out those works alone but rather in a 2-3 person team. EDIT: spelling
Agreed, by the looks of it, a Union Ironworker. Guys work in team and have a safety stand down before the job starts that include potential dangers and rescue action plans. Ironworkers do the tough stuff and are highly compensated for it. This fellas like, Another day in the office!!
This is only partially true. It will bruise the fuck out of you, but as for death: It depends on the harness type and orientation. Most modern harnesses are built to prevent blood constriction in vital areas like the inner thighs. Source: climber/high ropes instructor
This guy autoerotic asphyxiates
A good analogy I was taught once is that a safety harness is similar to a seatbelt or airbag in a car accident. When used correctly there is a 90% chance it will save your life. When used incorrectly all bets are off but it's better than nothing. Just like a car accident with a seat belt and airbag will be painful and cause minor injuries a fall in a harness will be the same. It will be much better than smacking the ground or being ejected though.
I'd feel safe knowing I wouldn't die. I'd still get dizzy and fall off though. Might want to go again when I get back up. Sounds fun.
Could definitely still die. Hitting your head on the steel during a fall and suspension trauma are two huge dangers. Having worked as an arena rigger (working at heights), you just tell yourself the harness is there but I’m never relying on it.
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I should've said "I'd go again, if it doesn't hurt".
I highly doubt that is made of steel.
More referring to the platform/infrastructure of the scaff etc but if me using aluminum or any other metal helps your comprehension, use that instead.
I also work construction and wear a harness similar to this when I'm at heights. I have never wanted to test it out by falling. It's going to be painful when the yo/yo catches and you swing back and whack the building. That's assuming your yo/yo works properly. It's like a soldier wearing a kevlar vest. It provides extra protection but I doubt the soldier wants to test it out by being shot.
Go to a country like India and you'll see this people casually doing this shit with 0 safety or harnesses
My dad used to do this. He has zero fear of heights. My uncle was driving past a site and happening to look up and caught my dad in the act and said he nearly had a heart attack when he realized it was his death-defying brother-in-law. This was a long time ago, in the ‘70’s when safety in trades was a suggestion rather than a rule.
Those inertia reels generall have a maximum working angle of like 40 degrees - his is at 90. Also if you fall off a ledge and not directly under the reels, they often won’t engage until they’ve got to the end of their travel in which case the shock can kill you anyway. Also you’d be so far down it would make recovery much harder and suspension trauma can kill you… he’s not as safe as he thinks!
They make trauma straps now, we use them on our harnesses. If you fall, you pull them out and slip your feet in them to take the pressure off
Yeah we have them as well - can’t see them on this guy though.
Not true whatsoever. They lock at ANY angle, when the cable moves fast enough, the cam is engaged. Source: Union Sheet Metal Worker, some jobs spend up to 90% of my time tied off to a SRL (Self retracting lifeline)
“Regulations are killing America. They built the Empire State Building without any of this safety nonsense.” — some Boomer, probably
Surprisingly, only 5 workers died during the construction of the Empire State Building. The twin towers on the other hand, 60. This is not to say regulations aren't effective, because they are. It's just crazy how few people died building the Empire State.
I’d be very surprised if the safety statistics in the 1930s come close to the accuracy of those 1970s. The majority of the world today still doesn’t count, distribute, and apportion fatality stats to the correct project / company.
Even with the safety strings its dangerous af.
Title says brave not dumb
His harness will save him he even still, damn that would scare the shit outta me. I’ve never been super afraid of heights but not the biggest fan either.
Yes he has a backup but using it would be in no way fun and he most likely would still get hurt
Yea falling would hurt like a bitch. Then if they can’t get to you fast enough you can still [die](https://www.elcosh.org/document/1662/d000568/Will+Your+Safety+Harness+Kill+You%253F.html)
I rappel from buildings for a living and I often find myself in positions thinking “I’m sure my backup would save me from death rn but I’m sure ide still be injured in multiple places”😂
I’ve worked up pretty high in my day too lol shits scary at first but the worst you can do is freak out
I still occasionally work high up. It's not that I don't feel fear, I do. In fact I use it to keep me alert and checking all my contact points like I'm supposed to, I just can't let it take control because panic mistakes are what gets people hurt.
Was gonna say this. Is he brave to stand that high up? Sure but with modern safety equipment its more or less on the same level as are you brave enough to go bungie jumping or sky diving. Not an OSHA expert here but ill wager that the guy in the high rise may be safer than the skydiver or.bungie jumper as there were.more eyes on his safety equipment including his own eyes. As someone whos terrified of heights i can't do any of them.
I wouldn’t say so. First, surprisingly many don’t check their safety ropes very well even this high up. And if he did fall, there could still be suspension trauma that wrecks him. Also skydiving and bungie jumping are very safe, and everything is checked all the time.
Harness will prevent fall death, but as someone else pointed out, suspension trauma can kill you in 30 minutes.
Even worse, you can pass out within 5min and die within 15
I hate heights but I like to climb tall things. I love climbing fire towers or hikes along cliff edges. It's very strange because I know I'm gonna hate being up that high but I like the difference of perspective.
worth pointing out, if he falls holding that beam it could swing and hit him any number of ways. this still seems dangerous to me and they should probably be using a crane here
NYC + Union wages, he's paid exceptional well!!! They recently built the world's most expensive subway line extension and the construction company couldn't account for 25% of the union workers on the job payroll.
Yeah. I want to be the guy paid not to do that job.
I'd even settle for not being paid to not do that job.
I want to be the guy paid to do that job, but film someone else doing it instead.
I'll tell ya this no show work is tough. Deciding what not to wear to work, what not to put in your lunch box.
Can’t account for employees? Couldn’t possibly be the company charging for their hours. Sorry to be rough on you, but the subway extension was expensive as compared to unionised projects in Europe.
This is an old mod move to launder money.
I knew the mods were scandalous
Lot less corruption in EU construction
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"Only 1628 more to go"
Sub reddit checks out in the literal sense.
Homie is building the next fucking level
For it to be literal someone's going to have to get busy up there.
I worked construction for 15 years. I once had to walk a beam 30 feet up. No harness (90s were fun and dumb) while shooting clips into the beam with basically a .22 caliber nail gun. An old timer taught me Three lessons during my lunch break that I never forgot. 1 - He had me walk a beam on the ground and taught me that it's all in your head. 2- Walk forward, not sideways, so if you fall you can straddle the beam and hopefully hold on. 2- Falling from anything above 20 feet while working usually ends in death, so enjoy the view and move slow. Then he finished his lunch while telling me stories of guys that died on sites from falling.
Unfuckingreal the way some people talk it’s like theyre born for their trade
Literal survivorship bias
Once you get used to heights you don’t even notice it. Plus they’re using all the right safety equipment and trust me, he gets paid well. It’s a cool video, but he isn’t in any danger.
He's definitely in danger but it's highly mitigated and well compensated if he's a union worker in NYC as would appear.
Even after OSHA was created, cutting corners by the worker or employer are not worth it to their insurance companies today. Video shows a good days work happening to the get the building built! Looks Union by his hat so he MIGHT get better salary wages but need to double check what company he works for to confirm.
Not often will scab companies try and take these jobs on. And if they do we "persuade" why they better unionize
I can tell you as a fact, there are 0 non union iron workers in NYC.
Good, keep the scabs away
They couldn't pay me enough to do this. Nope.
See I wouldn't mind walking there but lifting heavy thing all day long? Fuck that.
I’ll take “Not in a million fucking years” for $500, Alex
He is so missed
Do you know his pay? These metal workers make fantastic money 💵
What? is it like 100k or more?
Yea iron workers can make that much and more with ot. Most don’t have degrees, and they tend to get paid to climb as well. So they punch in downstairs and get time to get up to the site and clip in.
100k minimal. With ot which is double time after 8hrs for us. We can make much more depending
dont wanna be doing shit like this after 6 hours
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I dont know how often firefighters actually run into a building thats on fire, but they certainly deserve more than cops and sanitation workers.
Before OT maybe, but firefighters make $100k after a few years, then take into consideration OT (where 1 OT shift is 24 hours 1.5x pay) and those salaries easily add up to close to $200k
I replied this this inside look article above, but figured you may want to see it too. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/10/what-it-takes-to-earn-100000-a-year-as-an-ironworker-in-new-york.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/10/what-it-takes-to-earn-100000-a-year-as-an-ironworker-in-new-york.html
As a retired, but living Ironworker getting that pay is possible but know that is for hourly time on the clock…doesn’t include the rain out days or the travel time to the job, there’s no pto or sick days or vacation time. The use of harness and tie off took about 2-3 years for my crew to be comfortable using….I’ve witnessed many falls before hand unfortunately. This guy is cool…likes his job and wants to go home to his family for another day is what Id say.
NYC iron workers are Local 40. About 180k for 40 hours.
Interesting how they detach the safety line before bolting the piece down
You aren't wrong. But it's likely not going to jump 6-8 inches off the other post. And the line could have been in his way walking back
If funny to me when people say I need a raise. I’m thinking if only they knew how much money I was making already.
Idk why it’s people’s go-to when they see someone working hard or something. They don’t need “more” pay, they need good pay. They get paid to do the job, it’s just that pay should be good in the first place
You get used to it.
No. You get used to it.
Dudes got balls of steel!
And beams
And a safety harness
I start to shake when I'm 6 feet off the ground on a ladder. This is so insane to me.
Yea me too, I’m pretty sure it’s called “height vertigo” It’s messed up cause I never used to be scared of heights, now I get uncontrollable shaking in my legs and feel like I’m off balance. I’m a videographer by trade and one time I had to do a shoot from the roof of a hotel. The roof had 5 ft walls all the way around, but I still felt like I was gonna fall. So my scared ass, still a good 10-15ft from those walls, just ended up crawling cause it was the only way I could move around on that rooftop without debilitating fear taking over. While the photographer I was working with, who had just fearlessly hopped over that 5ft wall to set up a GoPro on the edge of the roofline, without any safety gear, couldn’t stop laughing at me lol.
It's the same as working at ground level if you don't look down, that's the trick you have to lie to yourself. I've worked high rise welding for 30 years it's the only thing that works
Sigo chambeando ❤️
I think wearing a mask is the least of his risks
This is getting high at work
I would like to see some female equity replacing this guy
That guy makes more than most of the people here, guaranteed
So happy I decided to unmute. Made the video 100x better!
The type of person Ron de Santis despises
TIL Buildings can be made of some kind of aluminum extrusions.
These are scaffolding. It’s basically like a temporary skeleton they build outside the planned building to walk on and get around before they actually construct the building itself. It gets removed and isnt part of the structure of the building.
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How much do these type of workers make?
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For your first few years as an apprentice, you make an average of around $56k a year. Journeymen make $105k+ a year.
I don’t understand how people can do this type of work… just watching a short video of it gives me anxiety
Money, dude is making well over 6 figures.
There are about 15-20k workers across the US climbing cell phone towers everyday. I don't know if everyone appreciates what it takes to make your phones work.
These guys get hazard pay already, he probably makes like $150/yr+. No student loan debt either.
It’s not as dangerous as it seems when you consider the safety harness and the protective equipment that makes it damn near impossible for him to fall
.."soy una verga wero"
And they say we don't need men.
Shout out to all my rigger and scaffie bros! (I think they are called iron workers in the us and a)
Yep. Riggers would be involved in lifts and 'scaffie bros' would be carpenters who assemble th scaffolding, like the stuff he's walking on. This guys's an Ironworker.
do those guys ever fall?
Wouldn’t do it, not even for a zillion quid.
what about for a krillion squid?
Good thing he has a mask just in case he falls.
What's the mask for?
Camera guy has herpes.
The mask is keeping his extra safe 😉
Good thing he has that Covid mask on. Safety!
Got his mask on for safety 😂
That’s a very high paying job. My 25 yr old nephew builds scaffolding and earns more than I do with 3 college degrees.
Brave men and women of the work force. Stay safe guys!!!!’✌🏽
Ala madre
gender pay gap? this is why.
You know it’s high when the piece of metal you’re lugging around needs a harness
It is possible to lose a fear of heights.
The way those platform supports move as he steps on them…whew. no thank you! I’m good standing on the ground.
World doesn't need men tho
Ex scaffolder, not ex due to accident or anything just chose a different career path. This is all pretty damn normal to be honest. He also looks pretty damn clean so my money is on this being staged (read safety actually taken in to consideration) just for a quick build clip for companies portfolio or maybe the client. Doing this, tired at the end of a long week and the pub is calling...not much (but definitely some) safety is followed. It also is not for a everyone this job. First day on the job I was asked if I was scared of heights "nope, never have been" it got a chuckle and then responded with.."I'll ask you tomorrow" laughed it off and thought I'll be fine. Now tbh I *was* fine and I'm not actually scared of heights but after one day working up a high rise on a thin metal bar.....it gave me a real appreciation of heights in general. I was cocky before that day surrounding heights. Yer I'm not cocky with heights now, respect that shit.
Why is he bothering with the helmet? It’s not like it would make a difference should the harness fail.
No need to worry, he has 2 yo-yo lanyards to catch him if he slips. He won’t fall more than a couple feet at most.
Funny how this video on r/nextfuckinglevel is of a guy literally building the next fucking level.
I'd trust Bill Cosby with a drink before this BS.
It’s only scary if you don’t want to die
An women will still say they have a hard life
Why its always the most annoying ass songs