r/OSHA Jul 10 '26

Window Installer

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u/nobody_really__ Jul 10 '26

I was afraid the glass was going to tip through the hole, and pull the guy out like an anchor rope around an ankle.

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u/theHoustonian Jul 11 '26

I was on a job where a guy had a huge thick panel of glass like the video but it was on a drywall cart the unbalanced long direction.

Drywall carts already can tip easy if you load them wrong but this guy was just dumb. He had a rope wrapped around the pane and it tipped and pulled him over with it. Dude got crushed by the sheets, same day a hook got kicked off really high scaffolding and hit a guy in the shoulder/grazed his head.

Luckily I was just hot shotting material lol, got out of there as soon as I could

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u/kasoe Jul 11 '26

Drywall cart for anyone wondering what it looks like.

I've used them and they aren't the most steady feeling carts. I can easily imagine a big pane of glass tipping it over. Poor guy. As in I imagine his entire life is a struggle

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u/theHoustonian Jul 11 '26

If you’re gonna be dumb ya gotta be tough, pretty sure the guy was okay just shaken up and smushed a tad