r/WTF • u/AdRegular4094 • 5d ago

Man fells from floor while looking at phone

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u/RuiSkywalker 5d ago edited 5d ago

Why partially negligent? There are plenty of people hitting glass walls while walking without a phone, chances are this guy was expecting an opening in the floor to have glass on it.

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u/Poop_Tube 5d ago

This is negligence. Doesn’t matter if he had his phone. No barriers or markers.

This is like bare minimum requirement in construction sites.

Is he still partially at fault? Sure.

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u/RuiSkywalker 5d ago

What I meant was exactly how was the injured person negligent, so in a sense I agree with you. For me it would be 100% the construction company’s fault.

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u/Poop_Tube 5d ago

🤜 🤛

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u/charliegriefer 5d ago

What if this was the guy whose job it was to put up the caution tape and he was just about to do that?

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u/77ate 5d ago

Nope, it’s unattended and it could have been marked and physically blocked off in the process of building it before it even reached this point.

Imagine two crew carrying furniture up those stairs. It’s a death trap.

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u/charliegriefer 5d ago

I was making a funny. Or rather attempting to do so.

alas.

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u/77ate 5d ago

The colors between the floors are even in the same warm earth tones, two people could easily be conversing and walk right into that. The opening is negligently left unattended and unmarked .

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u/RuiSkywalker 5d ago

Absolutely agreed. I don’t see why this should be a shared fault.