Thursday, July 12, 2007

Accident at First Avenue House

The good news is, thankfully, nobody was hurt. This is the first time anything like this has ever happened, but it just goes to show how quickly a significant accident can happen at the job site. A good reminder that we all have to be vigilant anytime we're on the job site.


What happened is that when the boom truck was lifting the pallet of shingles to the roof to be off loaded by volunteers, the pallet began to swing and the operator tried to move the boom to steady it when the entire pallet slipped off the forks. The full pallet of 33 bundles fell onto the roof, through the roof, through the floor and into the crawlspace.


Here are some pictures.





2 comments:

Anonymous said...

WOW!! Fixing to use a boom truck for the first time, this will be our 12th house, and thank you for sharing your experience. This is something that we had not even thought about

Anonymous said...

Thank you for posting pictures for the ones who couldn't get there top see it.