IndustrialWorker has a section of scaffolding fall on him

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[–]oozinator1 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Anyone else play "Guess which worker gets it" for this clip?

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yep. Hard not to with these type of videos.

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I don't know one bit about construction.

But I assume a scaffolding is not supposed to be pushed but deconstructed and build up in another place?

[–]yetanotherone_sigh 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You can have scaffolding that is especially designed with locking wheels, but not really used when set up this tall.

As you say, it would be best to take it apart and move it.

If they meant for that other piece to stay put, it should have been tied off or secured so that it wouldn't tip. And if they were smart, they'd have had a safety spotter to look for stuff like this before it became deadly.

Industrial "accidents" are not one thing. They are a string of little things. In this case, nobody cared because Chinese workers are disposable and they don't have an effective safety organization such as OSHA.

[–]dwrdclrk 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's Chinese workers for you, their bosses don't give a fuck and the workers are too afraid to speak up.

They do all this crap elsewhere too, partner worked for a chinese company in a western country to install solar panels on roofs, and neither of them were wearing any safety equipment. At all. Eventually one of them fell down, because they were working even when it was raining. The guy survived, but luckily for him it happened on a single story roof. Then the owners freaked out, because they had no insurance... Horrible.