20.10.2008
Death Wish 35
Today’s example of poor and dangerous working practice comes from a construction site at a steel works in Barsinghausen, Germany.
The incident was caught on camera last week, as the sites sign and fencing was being erected.
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Excavator as a crane and a bucket for a platform
An excavator was equipped with a set of chains to do the lifting, while a Manitou MRT 360 degree telehandler equipped with a shovel bucket, serves as a work platform. The man unhooking the chains – the slinger – kneels in the bucket probably because it feels safer? Or maybe he is praying that he will get down safely?
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Can you see the kneeling mans foot?
Two short cuts in one
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