10.08.2012

Death Wish tower

A reader in Hull UK sent us the photo of two men and a mobile scaffold tower working on an electrical job in Hull UK yesterday.

In his own words: “I drove past this job and turned around to get another look, when I looked closer I called the lads down and offered a bit of advice.”

“Within 30 seconds I had spotted braces which were unable to lock onto the frames, wheels which were unsafe as they wouldn’t hold the brake on, cracked welds on the frame, incorrect assembly, missing braces, missing guard rails, missing toeboards, incorrect frames without internal ladders and bent braces.”
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Two men working on a death trap of a mobile tower

“The tower was a death trap but had the added hazards of being pushed up against a spiked palisade fence and the two stabilizers being in the road.”

“I did speak to the company owner – the guys on the tower had recently been on a PASMA course and the sum total of components provided were all being used.”

“The icing on the cake was that the tower was hired from a local hire company who they had been using for years and was provided to them that morning in that condition !!”
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A closer look

This certainly looks like a Death Wish based on the information supplied and if it is as relayed to us is a shocking example of how accidents can occur. You would have hoped that the two men having been trained would have raised the alarm and not waited for a passer-by to question them.