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No OSHA here
Posted by jonathan50 on June 8, 2021 at 12:55 amI guess OSHA wasn’t a thing back then. Those steps are an impaling hazard waiting to happen.
NotSoMuch replied 2 years, 10 months ago 11 Members · 14 Replies- 14 Replies
Could be pre 72, and, reasonable exceptions. And again, with that out fit, looks to be a fed employee, therefore immune from OSHA, esp in it’s infancy.
Hoisting that beast must have been fun or punishment for the rod man.
forget about hoisting, someone had to carry it to that location that seems to have no roads.
These guys didn’t need OSHA! They. Had cahones!
Nate
I slipped and then there was one.
- Posted by: @jonathan50
I guess OSHA wasn’t a thing back then. Those steps are an impaling hazard waiting to happen.
So THAT’S where Javad got his design from!
- Posted by: @jonathan50
I guess OSHA wasn’t a thing back then. Those steps are an impaling hazard waiting to happen.
What, no guardrails? No fall protection harness. No yo-yo? Oh… the horror… No hard hat, no hi-vis vest…
@norman-oklahoma
That vest was probably Safety Orange — the high-viz of the day.
Jeff D.My first survey vest (c.1982) was olive drab with some 1″ wide orange stripes.
Tell me you weren??t raised by a helicopter mom without telling you weren??t raised by a helicopter mom??.
For more non-OSHA fun, look at photos and movies of USC&GS’s Bilby tower work. The crew members would climb up the outside of a tower (routinely 100+ feet tall) to get to the observing platform, and then would go back out to climb up the outside to the signal light platform. I’ve seen a movie clip of a USC&GS guy standing on one foot atop the pinnacle of a Bilby tower, dancing a precursor of “The Twist.” Erecting and dismantling the towers also provided opportunities for thrills.
I loved the Huey too. It was the crazy Nam pilots that were scary.
I jumped out of a swing and broke my collar bone…
I hope everyone has a great day; I know I will!@norman-oklahoma
Mine was the opposite: safety orange with 1″ wide olive drab woven fabric stripes. Circa 1978. Still have it — it’s quite faded.
Jeff D.
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