Posted: 7/13/2009 12:29:05 PM EDT
OSHA would not approve....
Construction collapse on the New Delhi metro |
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Those are the engineers that will be building America in a few years.  I'd LOL, but I live in Milwaukee, where this happened: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI-ENqgjQXM Damn conciense, and not wanting to be a hypocrite isn't letting me have fun in this thread... 
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Those are the engineers that will be building America in a few years. I'd LOL, but I live in Milwaukee, where this happened: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI-ENqgjQXM Damn conciense, and not wanting to be a hypocrite isn't letting me have fun in this thread...
That was a Lampson Crane, built in my old hometown. If I recall, the wind was too fast to lift that day, and the operator told them so, but was ordered to do it anyway. |
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Those are the engineers that will be building America in a few years. I'd LOL, but I live in Milwaukee, where this happened: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI-ENqgjQXM Damn conciense, and not wanting to be a hypocrite isn't letting me have fun in this thread...
That was a Lampson Crane, built in my old hometown. If I recall, the wind was too fast to lift that day, and the operator told them so, but was ordered to do it anyway. Sounds about right from what I remember. I was working at Miller Brewing at the time right on the other side of I-94 when it happened. And it was an OSHA crew filming it, and they didn't speak up or say anything about the lift either. 
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I wish that I could go back in time and tell myself to take more pictures when I was living in India.
I grew up helping my step-Dad with minor construction. I had a decent idea of what was safe/unsafe, and I saw a boatload of unsafe construction practices in India. I remember seeing bamboo scaffolding over 6-stories high, with little Indian construction worker dudes all over it. No fall protection was used from what I could see and remember. Now that I have a Civil Engineering degree and a few years of construction QC/QA under my belt, my only question regarding the video is....where can I get one of those bitchin' lavender hard hats???? 
I remember seeing a 3-story apartment building that had sunken up to half of the first storey.
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I am a Construction Science major, and most of our grad students are Indian. Yep. Americans won't take the hard majors. I had a Full Bird pretty much beg my mech engineering class to go to grad school because there are so few American engineers out there. |