Haven't bee around for a while but I just found this posted on Reddit and thought I'd share.

Hope you're all doing well.

Is this the first time this person has worn shorts in his/her entire life, or was this two different people?

Who took the photo? The homeowner for insurance purposes before offering assistance? Or the co-worker who needed something worth posting in his hourly FB status update? Or it is a hoax. I did nearly that once. Remodel in demo stage so no biggie. No one got a photo though. :)

LMAO thanks for sharing :)

Thankfully I have never done that, but man, I lost my balance a little a couple weekends ago while working. I caught myself on the ceiling joist in the attic. Had it not been for that, I would be the one in that photo.

I was 19 years old when I came as close to possibly dying on a jobsite as you can come without actually dying on a jobsite.  

I was, shall we say "dumb" in an attic, walking across some handy dandy planks the electricians had hammered to the trusses so they could run their wire neatly.  Feeling my way with my feet because of the blown in insulation.

I put my weight on the plank and it snapped.  Not a, "oh that things about to break"...It was immediatly GONE!  

Went through the ceiling, hanging onto the trusses like actors do on a ledge in a movie.  The only thing that got me back into that attic was terror and adrenaline.   I was about 35' in the air, about to fall onto some dudes very expensive marble and completely destroy his white carpet with my blood. (It was the 80's)

Why was I up there?  To mount an alarm siren. We prewired, placed our wire near the access hole for easy installation.  After pre-wire, they moved the access hole.  Had to go all the way across the house.

My dad was my boss.....I can still hear that phone call in my head.  Luckily there were no cell phones back then, so I got to wait until I got home.  

It did not go well.  Had to bring in scoffolding yada yada yada.  

That was the first and last time.

Instead of a Hasbeen you were almost a never were

Client wanted me to improve the entry speakers. Two story entry. One speaker would have required scaffolding. Client said no. Six years later he has the same speakers.

When you need scaffolding, you need scaffolding. The client won't lose out if you kill yourself. You will.


I did a similar thing re walking on joists. Home was being remodeled and I walked across two rooms in a huge attic. At one point a piece of insulation fell out from between the joists. I looked down and saw that it was not one story, but two, to the floor. Walking carefully is a life-saver.

Had a clumsy tech, the kind that could have built a TV from scratch, but would likely kill himself trying to carry one. He didn't look, fell from a ladder. Tried to break his fall by grabbing the only thing above him on the wall -- the glass letters of a neon sign. It was on. Fortunately, it was just bruised egos, despite the possibilities!

Hey, that was me about 3 months ago. 
I posted it here somewhere.

Ha!

Any back-story for us Mario??

I was in a house being remodeled a while ago...... saw a note on a door and said something to the effect of "Sorry, we'll fix it". Opened the bedroom door and saw the after math of someone who fell/broke through the ceiling. I should have taken a picture, but had a good laugh!

Years ago I was working my way into an attic hatch when I heard some buzzing. It was so consistent I thought it was electrical. Then after shining my light I could see a few bees flying around. So I shut the hatch and ask the home owner to call to have the bees removed before I would come back.

Sure enough, a few days later, while the home owners were at work, the bees nest, or whatever you would call it, broke the drwall and fell into the master bed! Bees everywhere! And there was a lot!

We never returned to run the cable. Pretty sure the Comcast guy finished that one.

I was working on a job and one of our guys were running some wires through the attic and decided to stand on the fire break (plywood) around the corner fireplace. They never really cut them to size and never nail them down. Needless to say, our guy fell through trapping him in the corner with his arms raised above his head.

We heard him yelling and the drywall guys busted him out and fixed the drywall within 5 min. No harm and the homeowner didn't find out what happened but I still laugh to this day about it.

About five years ago I was installing a TV in a master bedroom of a house. The wall had a plaster coating or something if I remember correctly. We were trying to figure out where the stud was as our stud finder was of no use. We had cut the hole for wires in the middle of where we measured the plate to go for the tv mount. I stuck a glow rod in the wall to figure out where the stud was and measure. Unfortunately, my glow rod ended up in the family room of a nice large bees nest. They were not happy about it. They came flying out as both my help and me ran out of the room. We both guy stung twice. We did not finish that day.

New guy's first day. We go to an old customer's house to see about moving a TV outlet across the room. We have to go up into the attic to see if the wires are up there etc.. New guy says "I'll get it" and goes up. Next thing we see is his leg. He had stepped on a solid 2x4, but it had some romexes on top of it, and he rolled right off the side. Luckily, my boss, the customer and I had a good laugh about it. He was going to be ripping it down anyway in a few weeks as part of the reno we were there to look at. And that new guy ended up being our best installer for years and years.