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Saw a rigger drop a 12 inch spool piece at the Piney Point job, and I quit walking under loads that day
Three months back I was on a turnaround at the Piney Point plant near Tampa, doing a platform job on a tower about 90 feet up. A rigger up top lost his grip on a 12 inch carbon spool and it came down flat, missed a fitter by maybe 4 feet and buried itself in the mud. Nobody got hurt but I stood there shaking for a bit, then I looked around and counted 6 guys still standing right under another pick like nothing happened. Since then I do one thing no matter who gives me grief: I stop, look straight up, and walk around. Foreman gave me crap the first month, said I was slowing the crew down. Five years in the trade before that day and I never thought twice about walking under a load, now it is automatic, feet just carry me around. Last month a guy on our crew caught a wrench on his hard hat from 60 feet up and it split the shell right open, would have been his skull if he had not turned his head. So my question is for the guys on big jobs, what is your hard rule that started from one bad moment you saw with your own eyes?
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