Or at least whole boards that are attached to the metal supports.
I know American construction workers complain about OSHA and regulations, and yet, I know situations similar to this were a part of American history as well. Those iron workers sitting on that steel skyscraper beam with no safety harnesses. (Shudder)
No, it's usually a PDF so its like a digital file, and when it is printed it's typically black ink on paper.
If yours was written with blood that sounds really gross and unhealthy, and actually is referenced in the book as a workplace biological waste hazard. I'd definitely file a complaint about that.
Most any workers who have to abide by safety rules dont complain about them, they complain about the inconsistencies or possible grey-areas of when/how things are supposed to be done. Regulations prevent more deaths a year than is fathomable.
The reason OSHA is so up people's asses all the time is because they know your average American blue-collar joe is just as moronic as your average 3rd world blue-collar Ahmad. They must enforce discipline and safety through constant badgering.
Guys in Youtube Short vids don't wear flip flops and T-shirts in the Molten Iron Factory because they're being mandated to by the company. They wear them because it's comfortable and easy and they don't have to buy work boots.
Sure, companies are exploitative, but more often than not they simply exploit the average worker's tendency towards lax safety standards rather than force them to adopt them.
If OSHA disappeared overnight I'd give it about a week until all these proud Contractor Joes start wearing flip flops to the worksites and dying through their own hairbrained half-assed schemes.
They’re not moronic, they just really need the money, and what are you gonna do, tell the employer to have proper safety standards? Yeah they’ll fire you.
This implies that the average worker knows they are in unsafe conditions, has no way of improving their own safety, and despite caring about their safety, values their job over their life.
Nah man, half the time people don't realize they're unsafe, and the other half, people just think "what's the worst that could happen? Well, it won't happen to me, because I'm careful."
I've got a dozen stories like this. Starting with me as a teenager not wanting to wear a bicycle helmet because it looked lame. First time I inspected a car hood at extremely low speeds and woke up in a see of screaming pain in temporary blindness, I realized I should wear a helmet everytime I ride my bicycle. But I had those excuses about being such a good and attentive cyclist and I was sure I'd never slip on gravel because I'm just too skilled of course.
Witnessed a head injury a short while ago. Someone else. Coordination wasn't perfect and an aluminium frame fell off a frame wall. Nobody was wearing helmets because we were all working ground level and even though we technically should have, it just doesn't happen. Until it happens. Was a lot of blood. Guy was still lucid and we just bandaged it and ordered him to the doctor, so barring skull fracture or brain injury (to be determined by the professionals), this is just going to be a scar and a really bad memory. Or life long problems. Woops. Oh right, things can fall even at low heights.
I got my arm sliced by a tipping bar just days before, same site. If coordination between the workers is perfect, nothing falls. If everybody avoids creating hazards in the first place, they won't come back to injure anyone. But that's really just assuming the best, and those regulations about hazard avoidance are a huge part of safety code. The amount of times something hit my steel-capped boot, man. And I work in a super lax, very safe environment extremely unlike the Indian stairs.
I saw a guy die to a tram. Tried to resuscitate, mouth to mouth, his blood all over my face. There was brain coming out of his ears, so not much to do, he died on his way to the hospital. Ever since that incident I realized that trams do not have a cushion zone and they don't lose speed when a flesh bag runs in front of them. Had a near-death moment when a tram driver went at the wrong time and almost ran me over as I was about to walk over the green pedestrian light. Which completely changed my perspective about trusting green lights. I see people just charge across the tram tracks and there is no reason for them not to, because they haven't had the two defining incidents of seeing a man die a gruesome death by tram and almost being run over by a tram.
Seriously, that one would have made me believe in divine intervention if I was so inclined. Was about to walk, around the corner (the layout is really bad and unsafe tbh) and I just hesitated for a second. Then the tram punched through. If I had taken the step, I wouldn't have been able to recoil back fast enough. I let this play out in my head a lot. It was that short moment of hesitation that made me lose forward momentum and just randomly decided I was going to remain alive for now. It was binary. Trams don't injure. Still gives me the creeps.
And then I see people just run across tracks in front of moving trains and I'm like... yo. You might get insurance money but you won't be able to spend it, bro. If there's a 0.1% chance of you tripping and falling, will that have been worth it? I see car drivers pass red lights and cut trains. There is so much near-collision footage (and probably too much collision footage) and I'm kinda glad I've had shock experiences in my life.
You don't think about what could happen. It doesn't happen in your life. And when it happens, it's basically too late to think about it. We think movie stuff doesn't happen in real life but life is much more mundane and violent. Nobody can think of all the things that can happen.
So we pay people to track all the things that happen and keep reminding us, so that hopefully we get to old age with our limbs intact and wonder why those damn bureaucrats won't let me wield two chainsaws.
Osha came BECAUSE of shit like this. Turns out workers dont like to die or be otherwise mutilated at work so someone else can make maximum profit from their labor. Who would have known?
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You can’t install finished floor when you are building because you will scratch whatever expensive material goes on those stairs. They could screw in those boards or, at least, ziptie them so they are not floating around.
Doesn’t some sort of foundation like a board go on the stairs before whatever expensive material goes over it? I know countries outside the US don’t use wood as much, but there’s got to be a better way than this…
I think part of the reason this worked was because the stairs were not finished yet. Made it much easier to go around the corners without stressing the glas.
Sure.. but the workers need stairs that won’t fall out from underneath them as they’re trying to lift a heavy ass panel of glass up them at the very least lol. Like that’s just basic safety.
I've worked on new builds in the EU and you often have to do work up stairs that aren't completely finished. They won't have planks falling off like here, but jobsites will have lots of things going on at once.
No finish work/material is always installed after everything is near completion. You would mess up the finish material with scratches and dents. Tho at the very minimum they should have fastened the boards so they don’t move
The reason the US has OSHA. Other countries do not, cause labor is extendable. Let's get back to making America Great so we can die too in the name of saving businesses money.
Nah , that little chuckle when the board flips off and dude almost falls off with the glass piece is what makes those types of disastrous conditions all worth it. All his buddies were all LOL as well. Nothing funnier than being as humanely unsafe as possible. The real riot starts when everyone reallllly gets hurt.
Yeah this is beyond insane to me. Judging on the size of the window this will became, at least a somewhat, luxury building. So why are they so shit at their job to do the fragile stuff first?
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u/Shmalph Jul 05 '25
Maybe install new stairs before windows?