If You Ever Think About Working In A Bucket Truck...

[BrotherBart]

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http://www.chron.com/news/us/articl...kills-2-on-Cape-Cod-5398050.php#photo-6159016

 

[fossil]

Or on a crane doing repairs on the National Cathedral:

 

[velvetfoot]

Both cases seems the outriggers didn't come into play.
You would think technology would be there that would prevent this.

 

[Fi-Q]

Yup, that sucks !! I've done some man basket work, on wind mills, 200 plus feet in the air. For the company, man basket is the last option !! And the amount of paperwork we need to fill to finally get to the basket is crazy, but it is safe, wich is a good thing. And there is always a 200x200 compacted gravel crane pad from the construction that stay at the bottom of the wind mill even after reclaim. So when we need to do some man basket later on, we know it´s on a well drained compacted pad, wich helps..... I don't mind basket work too much myself, except when it is minus 20.... But if someone would told me that I never have to work in a man basket again, I wouldn't cry either !!

2 poor guys lost there life....

 

[mike van]

I worked out of a bucket for 35 years for the power co. It sure beat using your hooks.

 

[wahoowad]

Scary! I used to work in shorter bucket trucks when I worked on jets. I always worried it would flip. Thankfully I never saw those pictures!

 

[Whitepine2]

This is near me and like stated ground didn't seem to come into play and no wind as well.I will be watching to see just what caused this. The only thing I can see is they were boomed out too far and maby too heavy could be two big guys.I have been up 110 feet on fire truck basket and can tell you when one looks down that truck looks like a tinker toy on ground things look a lot different but up top you gotta ask yourself is this safe.

whitepine2

 

[osagebow]

My brothers climb for a living, painting high steel. I lasted 20 minutes up there. It's a shame these guys couldn't trust today's technology and techniques.

 

[Whitepine2]

I just saw on the news they towed the truck away but no clue as to cause hope they find out before someone else gets injured. One of the men came from Fall River next city from my town very bad young and kids too bad so sad.I have a young friend that climbs the hi line he just loves it God bless him I like the Terra-firma.This last winter things were slow he cut several trees around town until the ice storm and back to the Hi line again God bless

 

[kennyp2339]

Ugh, that reminds me that our once a year "hurt man rescue" course is coming up at the shop.

 

[Kevin*]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2336317/Man-dies-cherry-picker-crane-falls-M25.html

This boom lift had a software glitch that killed this guy in the UK.

 

[WiscWoody]

2 poor guys lost there life....

What two guys? You don't mean the two guys that were in the basket at the Brewers Stadium accident do you? That wasn't too safe!

 

[WiscWoody]

Or on a crane doing repairs on the National Cathedral:

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I hate that when that happens!

 

[Fi-Q]

What two guys? You don't mean the two guys that were in the basket at the Brewers Stadium accident do you? That wasn't too safe!

The ones doing the repair on the national cathedral.

 

[WiscWoody]

The ones doing the repair on the national cathedral.

Oh... That's horrible!

 

[fossil]

Nobody was killed at the National Cathedral crane upset. The operator was in the control cab (at the top of the truck in the pic). Shaken up but unhurt. The reference to two fatalities is from Bart's original post...the guys were in the basket at the top of the boom and rode it to the ground.

 

[Flatbedford]

You gotta wonder what went wrong with all the safety devices on modern equipment. Damn shame. Nobody should die at work.

 

[WiscWoody]

You gotta wonder what went wrong with all the safety devices on modern equipment. Damn shame. Nobody should die at work.

Yes, there should be redundancy in life safety equipment like a bucket limiter for angle and weight.