^^^^^^Back in 1991 when I first started on the ambulance, I was making $5.75 and we got to go down inside cofferdam on the bridge that was being built to pull out injured employee (had to do this twice). Yet, I was young and dumb, thought it was cool at the time. The older I got, the more I realized just how dangerous things can be.
Young, fearless and invincible on the nozzle inside a burning mobile home protecting the search team. All made it out !Back in 1991 when I first started on the ambulance, I was making $5.75 and we got to go down inside cofferdam on the bridge that was being built to pull out injured employee (had to do this twice). Yet, I was young and dumb, thought it was cool at the time. The older I got, the more I realized just how dangerous things can be.
I see a green grounding wire so it must be safe.Not sure which one has the most dangerous job. The plumber or the electrician. Lol!!
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Looks like one of the two has little respect for electricity. I suspect both were installed by someone that sort of knew how, but not really.Not sure which one has the most dangerous job. The plumber or the electrician. Lol!!
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Things are a bit safer now, but early in my career cofferdams did fail on occasion. Usually with the bottom coming up into the cell and flooding it. So a life vest and NOT being tied to something were the key to being around to fixing it after the fact.Back in 1991 when I first started on the ambulance, I was making $5.75 and we got to go down inside cofferdam on the bridge that was being built to pull out injured employee (had to do this twice). Yet, I was young and dumb, thought it was cool at the time. The older I got, the more I realized just how dangerous things can be.
Probably installed by the pressure washer contractorLooks like one of the two has little respect for electricity. I suspect both were installed by someone that sort of knew how, but not really.
Not sure which one has the most dangerous job. The plumber or the electrician. Lol!!
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I was giving the benefit of the doubt that there is a GFCI elsewhere in the circuit. Maybe. Lol!Everyone knows that should be a 'Ground Fault' plug. Well....maybe not 'everyone'.
I've worked inside cofferdams in a previous career as a diver/welder working in the construction industry. We often had the job of cutting the sheet pile to grade once the work inside the dam was completed. Not a particularly dangerous job unless the crane or rigging gave out when most of the sheet pile had been cut.
I used to have photos of my F550 service truck parked next to the crawler that moved the shuttle out to the launch pad at Canaveral.In the early days of the Space Shuttle Program, our offices were located in the third floor of the low bay of the Vehicle Assembly Building, the smaller white box section below the NASA meatball. Our office had no windows but it a had a permanently shut door with a small window facing the transfer bay (large open door). There was a about a 50 foot step down from that door that during that Apollo time led to some access platforms, no longer existing. The contractors had it worse since some of their "office space" was right in the high bays, where the Space Shuttle was stacked. They would have an "I" beam crossing at 45 degrees in front of their desks.
We use to have regular fire drills and every time there was some kind of new "enhancement" to the evacuation process which was always a mess and slow with the crowd going downstairs to clear out.
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It turned out that the concern was with the solid rocket motors getting ignited inside the building with a static electricity discharge. We eventually were moved out to trailers because even if the solid motor did not blow up if ignited, the solid propellant burn rate would fill the building with poisonous fumes in six seconds. No matter how much we practiced in the fire drills, nobody would make it out alive.
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Wait a minute…. I thought it was a Tundra that towed the space shuttle.I still have my pictures and the truck on my last work day. Fortunately for me, both Atlantis and Endeavour where at the pads and fully visible at the time. View attachment 108189 View attachment 108190 View attachment 108193 View attachment 108196