Wearing some sore of head protection is critically important working on
a tower. The new helmets designed for that work are required for most
tower climbers. Bumping in hard to a steel extension above can knock
someone who is unprotected unconscious. Also a falling bolt or hardware
from above can have the same effect. This can always happen when you
least expect it. Two of my sons are Comtrain certified tower climbing
instructors. One of the working on a 300 foot tower in St. John had a
co worker starting his climb with my son below preparing to go up next.
The site owner require them to use the safety cable that runs to the
top. At 100 feet my son's co worker took a short rest and then bang the
cable snapped (at the top connection) just as he was trying to hook on.
The co-worker fell over 100' and only survived by a microwave dish at
50' breaking his fall. The entire length of steel cable fell on both of
them on the ground. The co-worker had many broken ribs and other
bones....but the safety helmets spared both of them. The news got
around fast and while in the hospital a few hours after surgery there
were no less than four attorney's wanting to take the case. I think the
settlement was for $650,000 from the tower company since they only
allowed you on the tower via that safety cable. (Ironically this very
tower had been totally inspected by a stateside company)
Herb, KV4FZ
On 2/28/2017 9:28 AM, Jim Thomson wrote:
I never used a hard hat on a tower.
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