Almost got hurt today. PSA

Nothing like a good old zap to ruin ones day. I worked at a check printer. Dayshift guy had a habit of foil wrapping the fuses on things. Don't remember the details but thanks to him one of the fuses fried in the box...24' off the floor. All we had was this rickety old step ladder. Just glad I was still young and healthy back then...seems Charlie had to swap the fuse out that same day and when he shut the box he bent the crap out of things. I reached up to turn it off...and the ladder broke. So there I was, hanging off of all the electrical feed equipment, 24' in the air...waiting for the fire department to show up. Luckily they were only right at the edge of our complex. Needless to say OSHA showed up the next day...that whole fiasco cost the company quite a bit of $$...

We had a rental telescopic manlift on site at the rock farm and I had some elevated work to do and time to do it so off I went. In the usual company $ policy they decided my side of the plant was a one man operation so I never had help unless I could plan it ahead of time and it fit in with the rockhead's desires. Up I go. Get the manlift in the extended position and something goes awry in the controls in the basket. Try as I might, that basket was not moving. Closest co-worker is 200 yds away. Luckily the communal rest room was next to my plant. One of them finally had to make a restroom break. The rockhead thought I was just waving my hard hat at him just to be cordial :rofl: