[TowerTalk] Sad day - W9ZUC tower accident

[Wayne Kline]

 Not a can you top this  Jim
 
 
 But a Local and Fellow FRC'er  was working alone on his 120' Rohn 55 tower.
He's in his Late  60's   . after working on a lower side mount antenna he climbed to the 90' side mount  hooked up.
As he described   he looked to the SKY and that was IT  He Fainted   collapsed on the tower  face banging his  chin, and far head.    He dose not know for fact how long he was OUT  , But it was long enough he lost all his BODY  functions and  his climb DOWN after  regaining  consciousness was a messy wet one !
  He  went to his DR, and then the a Cardiology Group  and the next  had  two stints   procedure 
 
   Don't  Climb Alone and Stay Hooked  UP
 
 
Wayne W3EA   
 
    

> None of us is Superman, we're all getting older, our bodies fail us. A 
> few years ago, I was standing in my kitchen, felt faint, and collapsed 
> onto the floor. K4XS has described a similar event when he was on a 
> tower. He was hooked up, so he's alive to tell the tail, and I was too 
> close to the floor to get hurt.
> 
> Free climbing is for fools.
> 
> 73, Jim K9YC
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