"Dangerous Dave" of "Advanced Window Cleaning" from Seattle sent me these pictures of Logan building at 500 Union Street. Some guys were installing phone equipment on top of a 10 story building in downtown Seattle. Dave says "We are talking here about absolute recklessness, and these guys don't even seem to be nervous!" Click pictures to enlarge. More info' & discussion can be found at WCR.
Dave continues, "I was cleaning the windows in the building across the street (pictured left) from this building and I saw these guy working off two fiber glass ladders that were tied together by a rope to make one ladder!" "If you notice the yellow ladders - these guys have tied on another red ladder to the top of it with a rope." "No one is at the base holding it, and the base is about 4 to 5 feet from the roofs edge!" "I was up on the 14th or 12th floor (there is no 13th floor), over on the right corner of the building in what they call the tower, which is above the bottom 10 floors which is the larger part when I took the pictures!" "They didn't use ladder stoppers and they were working on a gravel roof about 4 to 6 feet from the edge!" "Neither were the ladders tied off in anyway."
"There was a time before this that I saw another phone worker putting up the transmitter, he was using a boatswain chair and repelling device, tied into a safety line!" Dave adds, "Ladder safety is a key element in our industry and application is so very necessary for life and limb!"
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