Man Struck, Killed By Falling Tape Measure
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- A freak accident at a construction site on Monday involved a common construction tool, something you probably have in your kitchen. CBS2's Steve Langford reports.
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Crazy how it bounced before it struck him and still managed to kill him, can never expect the unexpected. Rip.
Yea but people are assuming it bounced upwards instead of a glancing blow that didn’t take much velocity away
Like something from final destination
I imagine it bouncing actually gave it more speed, things can only fall a certain speed (Terminal Velocity) so if it bounces on the side of something it could cause the item to gain speed instead of lose it.
@I'm ?
@@Icotheus bruh as something falls its potential energy decreases. Its kinetic energy increases until it hits terminal velocity. The moment it reaches the ground it has no potential energy, only kinetic. And a collision CANT create more energy. And since the mass of the tape measure doesn’t change, and since the earth is effectively still, the tape can’t get any energy from the kinetic energy of the earth. You can look at the equation for kinetic energy (k=0.5*mass*velocity^2) you can see that every method of increasing the velocity, as I
explained above, is not possible.
Imagine being the person who's tape measure fell from their belt and killed the man. The amount of guilt that would be felt is insane.
So true.
Even logically, I would know it's not my fault. But I would always think "if I had only strapped that thing tighter" and "why would this happen to such a person?" forever.
Its just life stuff happens
Id rationalize it down to gravity
@@MikeLaRock88 exactly
Its all part of the plan. God called him home early, so there is no guilt to be had.
In Russia there is a saying that loosely tarnslates to "Every word in the safety handbook is written in human blood". He should have worn the safety hat.
Sad but true.
That's not a Russian saying but rather a global one, which I believe arose out of the American aviation industry.
@@-SUM1- oh yes, American, of course! Proof?
@@smpopov Where was your proof it was Russian?
It's not like such a saying can't independently arise in multiple nations...
@@Airblader If you re-read my post I never claimed the saying originated in Russia, and there alone.
I'm am stating the fact - in Russia there is a saying that I quoted, and it's pretty wide spread.
SUM1 has pointed to the supposed origin, claiming the authorship to be of American origin - hence I wonder, where is the source for this claim?
Imagine living your whole 58 years of life, starting a family, getting a job, and then doing something that you probably do daily, just to get taken out by a fallen tape measure. Life is brutal, RIP.
i can't imagine being almost twice my age and being so inbred and dense that i neglect safety equipment.
especially in favor of a myhtical magical sky daddy....what a joke.
While uttering the words "God is great."
Yep, a good reminder to follow safety instructions. There's a reason they exist and it helps make life much less brutal.
With a tape measure though was it a big kind or special kind?
Those “Hard Hat Area” signs are no joke! From 50 floors up almost anything falling could be deadly!
Yes and from that height the helmet wouldn't have saved him the speed it was going.
HEADACHEEEEEEEE!
@@joan-lisa-smith If it bounced, it would have slowed.
I penny probably would have gone through him.
@@Mockduck2020 not enough weight.
Its so cruel, I would understand a hammer or a sharp object, but a tape measure makes it that much worse, that plus the fact that it actually bounced before striking the worker.
So has invisible cute little 🦑 corona virus.
@Tony sabroso Small wang damages your spirit
Big wang shatters your body
Jokes are nice, but not this time 😞
Always wear your hard hat!
Some stupid people on this thread
I’m foreman at a tree cutting company and I can’t stress enough to my guys that a hard hat is the difference from getting a head ache and getting killed
I’m 21 and grew up doing tree cutting also cause of my father’s company and we never worn a helmet once 🤷🏽♂️ we call out our cuts and make sure everyone’s always paying attention looking up. I understand they help but you just gotta be aware at all times. My dads ran that company before I was born and never had an accident
Absolutely. I had a dock leveler fall off of a forklift as I was standing underneath it for maintenance. My hard hat was the difference between a broken and nearly ripped off nose and possibly having my head smashed. Wear your helmets, guys. Mine might’ve saved my life.
Oh cool my dad used do that for a living until one day he fall lucky there were people below and caught him
That's true. Anyone who acts like you can avoid every single accident hasn't been doing it long enough. Crazy stuff happens, I've cut down big old trees and seen pieces of limbs weighing well over a hundred pounds bouncing 30+ feet in the air when the tree hits the ground. And old limbs giving way while your dropping the tree. Any of that hits you without a hard hat you're done. I didn't wear one either when I was young and dumb
From 50 stories up a helmet wouldn't have saved him.
I’d like to think he is in heaven especially since his last words were “God is Good”. It’s got to have earned him some brownie points with the big guy.
Nah he got a sweet blissfull black nothingness. After all if you exist forever inside what you consider is heaven wont it eventually become hell. The show The Good Place captures this well. Anyways his pain is gone and hopefully he had life insurance so his family is taken care of.
Nah, god is actually bad and doesn't want to be called good
...
@@thisismyname1701 u sound dumb af
@@thisismyname1701 u become one with all again heavens an illusion but if u think after death u still retain your ego and thoughts or its black like closing your eyes ur just like every other kid mad at their simple minded religious parents and think life is just terrible death is all there is boo hoo
are u plain stupid?
Damn all these people making fun of this man is just heartless he probably had kids and a family and y'all are just laughing imagine if this happened to you or your loved one all while trying to provide for your family. may this man rest in peace 🕊️
people are fucked man
"he probably had a wife and kids." Seriel killers have wife and kids should we cry for them too?
@@koibitothescrublord4977 you are about as dumb as they come.
@@koibitothescrublord4977 karma is a bitch bro is coming to you
@@koibitothescrublord4977 how is that even a relevant comparison?
I was walking out of a jobsite in bigsky Montana. A crew was cutting a hole from the interior to exterior 4 floors up. As I was walking out of the building a hot metal disc fell onto my upper arm creating a deep wide cut. You can be a safe a possible and something, anything can still happen. I had my hard hat on but that didn't help my arm. I'm sure this godly man is in the arms of the lord. God rest his soul.
holy crap
How’s your arm?
U wasn’t to being to damn safe....U walked under it.....you were not paying attn....
The difference is your alive and he's dead. If it would have hit your hard hat, you would probably still be alive.
Rather your arm than your head friend
6 years later: UA-cam “you’re born again”
Shit I'm for sure wearing my hard hat
I won’t type it.
Yeah what the heck?
😏
@Abraham Morrison We are off to a good start 1st comment I read laughed my ass off..
That is insane. As a carpenter I can’t even begging to tell you how common it is for that thing to fall out
Thanks
I’m trying to not laugh
Most dropped tool of all
Between the tape and nail puller idk which ends up on the ground more
My high school was two stories and had an open design, meaning when you went outside a classroom, you were literally outside. The science classes were on the second floor which only had a cement railing with wide horizontal openings to keep you from falling off. Once we were outside doing some experiment with cylinder weights. A five pound weight fell over and started rolling to the edge of the railing just as the lunch bell rung. So the hall below us was starting to fill with kids. I've never seen a teacher move as fast as mine did to catch that weight from falling over the edge just in time. I can't imagine what would've happen had it gone over and struck a kid. Scary.
Bad designed building.
@@thommysides4616 no he’s just built different
@@alexapexgod4643 the building do be built different tho sometimes
Ngl you didnt even have to tell that story unless somebody got hit😅
@@joe.limbus you are sadistic
Construction site lawyers are like : “ he didn’t have his hat on “
They wouldn’t be wrong! Anytime you enter the yard you need your hard hat and PPE
Something called PPE, could save your life
Whelp theres not much more they can say, I mean even the wind could've blown the measure off
Unfortunate event. However, PPE is like a construction site’s Bible. God be with his family
And they would be right and this man would still be on this earth.
I’m an arborist, we can’t stress enough helmet protection and falling hazard protection. I had a climbing accident about 2 years ago, was knocked out, got 32 stitches in my leg and my helmet was almost split in half. It saved my life though. The people who over look it have not witnessed it or been part of an accident
Hope you're doing good now, Daniel...
But they said this was very near a pack train station- are they supposed to wear helmets? Seems like a lot of safety errors here. But toy our point- yes the workers need helmets
abortion is murder!!!
@@2prize wait what. That has nothing to do with the comment
@@SubliminalSociety hes an abortionist😡
A buddy of mine in college was in construction and almost died because a hard hat fell off of a passing truck and bounced on the ground and hit him in the face and sent him to the hospital and nearly killed him. So hard hats themselves can do damage and even kill too.
Ofc a hardhat would if a tape measure did
Talk about irony
Put a tape measure on next time to prevent hard hat from hittin you
How? Unless that truck was doing 200 mph...
@@ThatGuy-zw4le lool
Side of truck says 'owned by god'
Me: 'Tony don't make that joke'.
I hope people will one day look back at my death, whenever that is, and laugh.
The truck is owned, the driver didn't sell his soul...
Wait...
*wheeze* that tape measure incident is ready to claim more ppl! I laughed so uncontrollably breadcrumbs was heading for my lungs. That truck side print is just.... Its just that joke we shouldn't.
@@Paxmax Satan has a sick sense of humor lol
You should all be ashamed by these jokes. Do yourself a favor and read some Scripture before leaving a bad joke. Here’s a good one that came to mind:
_He who is without sin cast the first tape measure_
Construction tape measures are pretty damn heavy. They're made to withstand a fall like that. What's crazy is it bounced off something and then hit the man. God bless him and his loved ones.🙏🏿
From what you're saying (implying), it may have been his time to go! 😟
@@svasianfilipiname6603 If u go, then it's obviously your time...
It was his Final Destination ☠️
@@Shiro_Sora someone should've intervened and disrupted the order.
There's no tape measure on this planet that's built to survive a 50 story fall
When ever some one gets hurt on a contruction site, that person almost always gets the blame mainly because the company does not want to be liable. Also workers working high up near the edge are suppose to wear on each tool a Safety Line Rope Lanyard which would have prevented such things happening.
Stay away from the construction site.
Vee Two I like how you live life
Foreman’s are for the most part cheap and many large building jobs are micromanaged by crappy companies like Clark and Whiting Turner who try to do everything as fast as possible
You can’t lanyard everything in your tool bags.
@Hagmire84 It didn't bounce off anything. Measuring tape isn't exactly aerodynamic and doesn't hold on to energy very well. The moment it would've hit anything it would loose a ton of energy and maybe even be destroyed. The tape hit him with full force from a terminal velocity fall on his head. A helmet would've definitely saved his life.
“A construction tool... you probably have in your own kitchen”🤨
What's confusing about that?
I do actually have one in my kitchen drawer
A series of words that make perfect sense, quoted by a person with no comprehension of a simple concept.
For what .? Measuring those sausages ?
Was looking for this comment... who keeps a tape measure in the kitchen specifically?... they should of said “...you probably have in your home.” Instead
The delivery guys NEVER wear PPE. Those dudes show up in shorts and sandals, definitely no hard hats.
True dats, when you tell them they don't comply. Above safety but that's not good for anyone.
@HahThatsWhatSheSaid Even you don't believe that.
@@everythangtexas you think you know. Because in reality those guys many times come out naked.
@HahThatsWhatSheSaid now that’s true faith! I can only aspire to have those be my last words, thanks for the inspiration. Luckily he didn’t believe in some invisible man in the sky who never existed and hopefully didn’t believe that asteroids collided then became a planet with plants, an atmosphere with water and somehow didn’t kill these mystery bacteria that became fish or monkeys that slowly evolved into people cause that’d be foolish. Some would even say that would take an astronomical amount of faith to believe almost like its own religion but I digress because that’s just crazy talk.
@@yoshi450gmail Amen. It would take more than faith to believe in that. By such logic, what need is there of construction crews, when you can simply gather all the building materials and use dynamite to cause a big bang, so that edifices may construct themselves.
Rest In Peace brother. You are definitely a reminder on why we need to wear our PPE at ALL TIMES!
You are also a reminder of why we need The Christ! I’ll see you one day.
@@elvisammo god isn’t real
I don't know they said he mentioned his name and homie showed up
@The Barefoot Kid ikr, some people also think the world is round 🤣 #jesusforlife
@The Barefoot Kid only a fool would believe a fairytale from a book
Bless his soul. We are fragile beings at our simplest.
He was blessed for saying "God is good" in the only way god ever blesses anyone, killing them. Can't blame God, would be annoying hearing that cowardly patronizing crap all the time.
@Nina Tote You've been so steeped in BS indoctrination your mind is pickled. Sad.
@Nina Tote Get a purpose Child. The more you prattle on the more you demonstrate your mindlessness.
@Nina Tote Lol dude wtf just because he doesn't share the same opinion on religion as you does not mean you get to insult him and say a lot of insulting uncalled for things!
If you're indeed a practicing believer then act like it for Christ sakes lol. I'm not (I am agnostic) but everyone has a right to believe what they want to believe is my philosophy! It's called having respect for different people and different values! Anyway bye.
@Nina Tote Nah the person you’re replying to is right. You’re in the wrong for what you said, and from what I understand even though i’m not religious; God is merciful but doesn’t turn a blind eye to arrogance and hatefulness. You’re wrong for how you spoke. Period.
I’m sure he was a good man with a good heart bless him and his family
What if he wasn't
About 35 years ago I read a story about 2 teenage girls that were killed in NYC when a concrete facade fell off an old building. I thought about those 2 going about their lives and bang, they had no idea......Life is short and you never know when you will go. Like they used to say "today is a good day to die"
Here in Boston they finally stopped replacing certain glass panels of the
John Hancock building because they kept falling out.It's a beautiful building,
but when I walk by, I always sort of wonder......
ua-cam.com/video/QDi_DXmN1ss/v-deo.html
@@jvanstyn Wow I cant believe you linked this video from Poland,
I was a kid on Vacation there with my mom and brother and remember this storm. We were visiting the Wieliczka salt mine in Krakow, when we came out of the ground there was a HUGE tree that had been uprooted while we were underground. We were in the salt mine for about 2 hours and had no idea the storm was happening above
I had a auto claim..and one that really sticks out is a father and son in a truck and a tree fell over on its own and killed the passenger...beleive father. Yea you never know when its your last day.
no i dont keep my tape measure in my kitchen
😊
Like who keeps their tape in the kitchen??😂
@@DaBrute I do. In the junk drawer with extension cords, screwdrivers and hammers. It works for me.
@@DaBrute Me all my household tools are in a bottom drawer in my kitchen
i do. i keep one in my junk drawer. not so strange.
A woman in Boston was just walking by a building and a piece of plywood flew off and killed her. You can even be outside the areas of caution and still get hurt. Crazy 🙏🏻 may he Rest In Peace
You can say the last part again about 2021
@@kimbaldun true lol
That happened in the tunnel to Logan, big piece of concrete ceiling fell on a car
Oh God. That's unfortunate
1:30 that’s what they all say to me after I rock their world
Hahahhaa
Brahh
Life is so fragile :(, being born, learning about the world and years in school, make many experience and memories and this guy had it all ended with a measuring tape, hopefully there is an afterlife
So well put
There is heaven, a throne room, and most importantly all mighty God!!
We’re all one the universe created us just as other beings to observe itself
I hope there's no afterlife, for me at least i would still be depressed
@@tripakastayw6872 according to those afterlifes, youll have happiness that you never thought was possible, :/ who knows
I ALWAYS carried a hard hat in my truck. Thankfully most of the "dangerous" places I went absolutely required hard hats, you didn't get in if you didn't have one!!!
Thats what I was always told. We couldn't step on the edge of the site without a helmet no matter who you were or what you were there for.
everywhere i've worked has had this rule. Even if people are working on the ceiling of a warehouse....if you didn't have a hardhat you stayed 50ft away from the people working overhead. Most sites if you show up without a hardhat they'll tear your ass apart once you cross the line without it on.
Him: "God is good"
God: "You are ready my son"
Think what you want, but realize that means others can as well.
The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length. . - Martin Luther King Jr. -
I’ve both worked and hauled dump loads for construction sites and I always wore my hard hat and high visibility for this reason. Things happen. A small tool falling 30+ stories is missile and everything is constantly moving.
"missile"
Damn I've been keeping my measuring tape in my garage. I had no idea that's supposed to be in the kitchen 🙃 0:06
It's probably more for people who don't have a garage. I live in an apartment and I keep a toolkit under the cabinets in my kitchen and have a few tools in a junk drawer like screwdrivers, pliers, and a tape measure.
You gotta have 3. One in garage . One in house tool box. One in kitchen for the wife 😂
@@Jerekul my family has a garage separate from the house, a shed built off of that, a whole third separate workshop building, and we still have tape measures in the kitchen.
1:30
"That's what she said..."
Sorry, Gary.
You wild. But thankyou lol
R.I.P GARY
Hahahahaha
☹️
Hahahahaha 🤭
Rip Gary
Relatable
Rip Gary
I bet he heard that many times before this happened....
I’m an Asian male😂
Rip his las words was “God is good” he surely is I know u in a better place now, God bless
Isn't that qoute from slum dog millionaire
Wtf
Right
Right
Yes, I do keep a tape measure in my kitchen and egg beater in the garage.
Lol 😆
XD oh lord you sir have won best comment in my books. Lol
I had to watch it again, I missed that. She's reading a teleprompter too, someone actually took time making that comparison.
The newscaster is a liberated woman so she has never been in a kitchen
I keep my tape measure in the junk drawer of my kitchen. Always have even when I had a garage. So do most people I know. Lol.
Woman: I had no idea something so small could do so much damage!
Bullets: Am I a joke to you?
I laughed and now I feel guilty!
...
She's also probably thinking of a 6ft, 1/2" tape, not a 25ft, 1" construction tape.
Covid 19 molecules: hey dont forget about me! I've been hard at work too. PLUS I nearly toppled a world economy and am about to start WW3 with china
Bro people are stupid af
My old boss has this video downloaded on this phone everytime a truck driver or visitor cried about a hardhat he'd show them this just came in my suggestion video and noticed it right away
Good on your boss. I would not be surprised if his insistence has actually saved lives.
If you are entering a hard hat zone area and it's posted PLEASE BE AWARE OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS. STAY SAFE EVERYONE
Right but regardless most of them on the ground don’t wear hard hats steady (depending onna task) Nd nevertheless he probably ain’t foreshadow a fucking tape measure falling 50 sum stories n going into his sht 😂🤦🏼♂️
They said it bounced before it hit him maybe the hardhat wouldn’t of helped
@@MUCKFOOT399 The guy died due to a preventable accident. All construction sites should be very strict on PPE and safety
I worked for Comcast and when we would go to a job sites like this to run cable, I would always put my hard hat on! I’d always be Scared of something like this happening...
Should've had netting around the floors being worked on. OSHA is gonna have a field day.
Happened 6 years ago
Those are new regs. They started that about 5 yrs ago. Hmm, maybe this accident had something to do with it?
Him not wearing a helmet in an area requiring a helmet was one of the factors though.
I have a story about construction helmets: I used to work in construction was at the bottom floor looking up a window through the scaffolds waiting if they needed any more supplies from the bottom, well I guess I poked my head out a bit to much cuz a brick from the 5th story ended up falling on my head and breaking in half. Luckily I had the helmet so I deadass just felt like if someone tapped my helmet
Helmets save lives, literally
May his soul rest in peace !
1:29 i had no idea that something so small could do do much damage.
Bullets: Am i a joke to you?
Corona virus; 🔴 hold my pinya colada 🍹
We had a similar accident at Holmes Hospital when there was an annex being built. A construction worker dropped a wrench and yelled, "Lookout below!" A man, with his helmet on, looked up to see what was falling and the wrench hit him on the forehead, killing him. It was only a 4 story building to the roof. Happened in the early 70s.
Wow
So looking up killed him?
@@jimwerther No. The construction worker who yelled, "Look out below!" killed him, or at least caused his death. If he would have kept his mouth shut when he dropped the wrench, the hard-hat wearing man down on the ground wouldn't have looked up and the wrench would have hit his hard hat or shoulder instead of hitting his forehead. If the wrench had hit his shoulder, he would have been injured but not dead.
Then again, if the man on the ground would have run for cover and not looked up, he would have been uninjured. If man on the ground had been hit on the shoulder because the construction worker on the forth floor roof of that building because there was no alarm called out. Like, "Look out below!" he would have probably been pissed and the construction site foreman would have probably fired him.
Who knows. Knowing this, will you call out, "Look out below!" if you drop a wrench off a 4 story building? Will you have your wrench tied off to your tool belt to make it virtually impossible to drop if you find yourself high up in the air with a wrench or a hammer?
They should change the wording to "look below" so they keep their heads down and helmets up.
@@ARedMotorcycle Maybe if said, "Run!!"
Steve Langford is a national treasure!!!!
Man: one cannot measure the power of god.
God: measure this
Ouch
That's fucked dude
😂
"tape measure in the kitchen"
Ah, yes , when the recipe asks for a 1/2 cup of milk , let me get tape measure to measure it.
You don't have a drawer with tools?
@@auroragoncalves5080 we have tool boxes for that..
Lmao I thought the same thing
I think she thinks it's those tape measures you use while sewing. The ones used in construction are very sturdy and heavy.
I have a tape measure in my junk drawer
Hope the worker that lost the tape is doing ok. Rest in peace
I think people forget how heavy those industrial tape measures can be.
His earthly toil was ended and his Redeemer called him home. ✝️
What a bullshit statement to claim this has anything to do with your god. You have no idea who this man was or what his family will go through, and all the things lost.
@@quorthonsinferno5119 "was a very religious man" are you fucking deaf
@@quorthonsinferno5119 kek, did your feelings get hurt?
@@quorthonsinferno5119 I'm sorry you feel that way. I wish you all the best.
@@quorthonsinferno5119 dude how could that be a coincidence. He was telling a story about God and then BAM! Instantly killed. I think his Time here on here was up. And now I’m most sure he is in Heaven with the Lord.
"something you probably have in your own kitchen, a tape measure"
Nope I don't keep my tools in the kitchen
probably should have said household or home
I actually do have a tape measure, scissors, and a few screw drivers in my kitchen. I also have that stuff in a toolbox in my garage, which is down stairs as I live on the second floor.
Mine is in my kitchen in my junk drawer
Women have their tape measure in the kitchen because that's her garage. She feeds all you fucks in there since the dawn of time.
@@patmickrotch1796 What the fuck does this even mean. It’s just phrased so poorly and lacks any relation to the conversation of where people keep a tape measure...
I don’t know how many times we have to yell at truck drivers delivery drivers to put on their hardhat when delivering a load even if it is just a few minutes
Inspectors also
@@PG-sg2oo truth
It just goes to show you that your life can end at any given moment and you should live it to the fullest.
Yelp
Let's just he had a good life keep on trucking
Everywhere in my city, there's construction sites. I ALWAYS walk across the street or take a longer route. Never walk underneath scaffolding as they are known to collapse.
U must feel like ur living in "final destination"!?
Scaffolding is not known to collapse wtf. It would only fail if it was installed improperly, which is pretty hard to do.
@@bobsinger7127 .... I didn't say every damn scaffolding collapses.
Of course, when it's not installed properly it would collapse and you wouldn't know until it happens. 🤬.
@@6100GG known to collapse means often, know english?
@@ryana8022 you would be surprised how many scaffold accidents happen in construction.
Christian: God loves me
God: You still need to wear a hard hat tho
Imagine if a sledge hammer fell from that height.
@@girishmahajan3646 It would have been like a Gallagher show.
😂
@@girishmahajan3646 i think the guy would still have died ... 🤔
Is nobody going to talk about how the news reporter literally said Inc instead of LLC?
Simply ill informed of the difference.
I saw it as well also they say the truck driver said God is good the Arabic translation to that is allahu Akbar. Just pointing that out because this subthread is pointing out possible perceived abnormalities that were previously not seen in this 6 year old video. So keep it on topic
Also sheetrock is believed by many to be a subpar building material
When I saw the title and thumbnail, for some reason, I expected the man in the thumbnail to get struck by a falling tape measure, mid interview.
Whoever let him into the site should've made sure he had a helmet on. Most likely a semi driver wouldn't have had one with him, so the construction company may be liable. And when you're working that high up, your tools should be tethered so they can't fall and kill someone.
Unfortunately that’s not how it works. Truck drivers who make these deliveries do usually have hard hats in their cabs. And no, the general contractor(GC) might not necessarily be liable. As long as signs are posted, it is every individual’s responsibility to wear the proper PPE while they are on site. Even if the person at the gate did say something about a hard hat, how are they going to make sure everyone keeps it on? Typically, if you’re in the truck you don’t even have to put it on until you step out. GC’s are required to have safety personnel on site who can remove people from the site, issue citations, etc. But even then, they can’t be everywhere 100% of the time. Therefore, when you are on a construction site, everyone including you is considered “the safety guy”. A lot of projects(big ones like this, not usually the small ones) even require you to go through their safety training before you can step foot on site. Even if you’re just making a delivery and will only be there for 5 minutes.
So as tragic and really horrible as this story is, it’s not really the GC’s fault unless there’s a specific rule about tethering equipment at that height that was violated. Which by the way, is an excellent point. My last jobsite did require tethered equipment, but only for workers who were doing work on the outside or within 6ft of the edge of the building. There was no tethering requirement if you were doing work 6ft or further from the edge. So in this case, if a worker was 10 ft from the edge and dropped a tape measure which then slid or was accidentally kicked off, no rules were broken but that doesn’t mean it’s not dangerous. When you’re on a job site it’s not enough to assume everything will go great and that nothing will happen. You always step foot on site as if tools are falling from the top floor.
I didn’t read through shoemaker’s dissertation but I’m guessing the summary is it’s not someone else’s fault. It was an accident that could have ended without death if he followed standard safety rules. God is good, but he will kill you in a second. And, you can’t tether all your tools to yourself, that’s just insane.
Absolutely right. Company are getting used to by pass the rules to blame the.victim then. Disgusting
@@DJDisalwaysright I've actually worked security for a large foundry, and you had to have safety equipment before you were allowed in. Same when I used to deliver to a lot of manufacturing companies. If someone can sue because they spilled hot coffee in their lap from the drive through, they can sue and win for this...
@@Ponderosa303 Just because you have signs up, that doesn't make you immune from being sued. Every place that I've visited that required hard hats won't let you go in until you have one on. Foundries, quarries, manufacturing plants etc.
The man's job on Earth was done.. he's home now
Earth and home are kinda the same thing so this only works metaphorically I guess? Like his consciousness not existing before is what he has returned to.
This is the way life works.
It's delicate and there are no promises about your time here.
Exactly. The promise of a better afterlife if you believe enough (and fill the coffers) is baloney. No one has ever proven an afterlife. All we know for sure is this life, this world. Make the best of it and preserve the world for future generations.
@@Mote78 No one has proven otherwise either.
@@mgreg8134
No one has proven there’s no Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus either so what’s your point?
@@Mote78 But we know who Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy are so there is no need to disprove them.
@@mgreg8134
I went to sleep with my tooth under my pillow and woke up to a quarter in its place! I wanted a fire truck and low and behold, I got a fire truck for Christmas! I believe in miracles.
Okaaaay.... 😂😂
His last words were a going home message." God is good." R.I.P.
Imagine seeing someone saying "God is good", then they get struck dead by a falling tape measure!
God's love is immeasurable I guess.
@@_SamDoesStuff_ 👌
God is good. We all are going to die someday, God is using this incident to call people to Himself. The man who died is in heaven and is grateful that his story is being used by God to glorify Himself. Where will you be when you die? Only way to heaven is through Jesus. John 14:6, Romans 10:9-13.
Sright to heaven
I bet your ass whoever was listening to him had strong disbeliefs about god after that
He's resting in a better place and will still be doing what he loves when Christ returns. Death is not the end it's the beginning if you've a accepted Christ.
He's resting in the dirt, where all living things rest you tragically comical caveman lol 😆. Please immediately discontinue using literally all the technology around you created by men who actually cared about the progress and wellbeing of their brothers and sisters -it is for civilized beings. Wonderful, thanks ☺👍
@@inventgineerEither way we both believe that he is at peace so what offended you exactly?
Do you believe anyone who wasn't "saved" deserves to spend eternity in unimaginable pain and suffering? If so, that is truly barbaric. If not, you're more moral than your god.
@@falcoperegrinus82 can you further explain?
Christ is only saving his people from Israel. Whatever you are go look for your God. The Bible also says that all slaves will not be allowed to be saved and neither will their kids because they are owned by the enemy. So good luck if you are black. The Bible is so stupid and contradicts it's self so much that it's hard for me to understand how people are so stupid.
God wanted him his job was done on Earth. He loved Jesus sounds like so he is just fine.
"God" is a dick for assassinating the man with a tape measure to the head.
There are a lot of easier ways to go, but of course this is what a "benevolent" omnipotent entity would choose.
Sending condolences to this incredible God fearing man’s family, May he Rest In Peace ❤️
I think I would like to go while praising god.I don't want to go in sin!
@@movingforward. lol 🤣
Me too
He apparently didn't fear enough
@@devins7457 Yeah
He said God was good right before he got hit in the head and died. So much for religion.
God calls upon the most worthy of us
@mrpateta1 I’ve worked for a church since I was 15. It is what it is.
I love the fact that he was talkin about our Lord Jesus Christ when he died
So does the Devil
Wouldn't you love the fact more if he didn't die?
@Tony Montana 🤔 carma from what ? Maybe from his previous life🧐?
God called him home, Believers arent afraid to die because they know there is life after death. It is only sad for those left behind💖🙏
@@nikkigoode5410 no. He got hit in the head with a tape measure. That wasn't God calling anyone. That was physics. Gravity and impact.
Dude preached so hard Satan was like STFU!!
Dead man - "God is good"
God - "and I took that personally"
LOL!
Ever read the bible? I'd say this was a nice way to go, wasn't at all gruesome. How much did he suffer, how long??? We all definitely have our date set. _How_ is the question. This man's death may sound strange to us the how and when... maybe why... Only bcz we don't know God's plan. But if you look at the ppl who dishonored Him in the bible, He made their deaths a macabre of all deaths.
May be his passing through purgatory was shorter because him without thinking of his own death precisely that day had God in his lips me he rest in peace.
@@MariaRodriguez-xq4bk live, laugh, love, right?
Something about this doesn’t measure up
He was inches away from danger
Ba dum
*_TSSSSSSSsssss_* sssss
🤣😂😂😂😂
Bruhhhh 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm going to hell 😒
I had a tool fall on me when I was walking down a sidewalk in Spokane WA. It barely touched me and I picked up that tool and carried it into my attorneys office across the street who happened to see the incident occur. He suggested we sue but since the crew happened to drink at the same bar I hung out at I just used that tool to get free drinks for the next week. The kid that dropped it never lived it down but the most important thing that happened here was after the incident the sidewalk was barricaded. Bud Kerr, a water tank painter was the foreman who made the kid buy me drinks for a week. Me and Bud used to paint tanks together.
Well that lawyer just showed again the gold diggers they are mostly
I remember being scolded as a teen for this exact reason by a worker for walking through a construction site. Dude even offered me a job but I refused. Life really was looking out for me in so many ways but I was too much of an idiot to realize it.
Truck driver ~ “ god is good “
2 seconds later he drops dead. Wow
God out here trolling
@Kof Latu you're so gay...
@Kof Latu why dont the teleevangelists repent?? Tell them they are not worthy and the wrath and the fire and brimstone...
@Kof Latu Look it's fine to make jokes, I'm religious myself
Rey Puma - No it’s not “fine” to mock God.
May this man be in the arms of Jesus and his family lifted up and encouraged by his faith. May his family's loss and hurt be healed and helped by the love of others.
God left him
Got to have your hard hat on. He would still be alive. Hopefully he did find salvation.
The sign “owned by god” appeared only after the man died
You're so lucky I was going to say it but good job though
God bless him. He was praising his Father in heaven one second and the next he was face to face with Him. Death comes to us all. This young man was ready.
Amen sweet sister!
Maybe god liked what he said and wanted to thank him personally 🤷♂️
Bless him how?He died.
@@azieldaly2965 lol it’s ironic how he said gif is good then dies
Shame the god didnt exist and help him out
Sounds like he died sharing the gospel, no better way to die.
god took him into heaven it was his time
stevey626 look at stuff dropped from heights onto a safety helmet and see how badly they damage it
His faith was strong.. im sure it was if he was bold to bring God to the workforce, we lack that in the field... R.I.P GOOD SIR I PRAY ONE EAR HEARD YOU BEFORE YOU PASSED ..GOD IS GOOD !!!
God
If he called in sick or had a helmet on it wouldn't have been his time.
@@amessina6691 dont live your life with "what if"
I didn't watch the video. Is it caught on camera? I'm too scared to watch it.
Truck driver: “God is good”
God: yea I think this guy measures up...
is it okay to say thats funny? good one!
Isaiah 57:1 "The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.(2) He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness."
Perhaps he had fulfilled the work which the Lord purposed for him to do; so that the Lord saw fit then to allow him to rest, and to escape these evil times in which we're now living, which are getting worse by the day.
Revelation 14:13 "And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them."
1 Thessalonians 4:16 "For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:(17) Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord."
Fuck i couldn't not laugh
@@loyevangelists I laughed! I like to think Jesus has a sense of humor. Maybe that's why he used a tape measure!
Having faith in God doesn't mean you have to ignore safety rules.
The worker who had the tape measure should've had it tethered to his belt.
@Steve Austin why are people who don't believe always so rude?
doinksondeck .. he’s not just rude. He’s lost.
@@elvisammo He also thinks he's edgy and clever. Anyone who believes in God has just as much of a chance converting him, as he does converting a Christian with a comment like that. Wish him well and leave him and others like him be.
I have worked high rise construction and they guys always tell you never to write your name on your hand tools in case you drop something. Even if it doesn’t hit anyone you could still be fired.
OSHA has straps with a tether that wraps around your wrist or belt for small tools like tapes. But not many guys use them because they’re really awkward to work with. This is a tragedy, I feel for him and his family
I'll never look at tape measures the same way again
Some stupid guy in the comment says:
At that height and that speed, hard hat wouldn't have saved him. It's kinda useless
Bruh you wanna see your god sooner or later???
Well preferably right now but I’m not the one to decide that lol
You better wear that hard hat when you in the construction area even me as a solid waste driver for 20 years when I get in construction site and get out the truck to go used the restroom I'll put my hard hat on
“ never knew something so small can do so much damage” 😶have you ever heard of a bullet. Come on lady
Girl tell me this in bed
The most concerning thing I heard in this video is that someone thinks it's normal to keep a tape measure In The kitchen 🤣🤣🤣
She's a woman. She probably thinking of a sewing tape measure. Totally different.
@J exactly, it’s more common than not to have a utility drawer in the kitchen.
Ah yes, things I have in my kitchen: plates, cutlery, microwave, toaster, and tape measure.
Guy be like: "Who doesn't put a tape measure in the kitchen?"
I would brobably find a box of gold (5.56 or 9mm) in one of the drawers.
I actually have one lmao, kitchen has multipurpose drawers
@@ice_wolf76 I think that's brass lol
@@adamofblastworks1517 I know but the price of ammo can be really high so thats why I say"box of gold"
Dude:- "God is Good"
Satan:- "and I took that personally".
God; Watch this! Got him!!
@Shaheen Jackson "God" can take care of itself. It doesn't need help from a mere human.
It’s crazy how freak accidents find the perfect opportunity to hurt or kill someone so sad 😔
God called him Home right after he said God is good....there are no coincidences. A true blessing for him.
Me six years later- That's why I said to my dad after my roof fall. I ain't gonna work to die on the job cus I got lucky many times and that made me not work for others anymore.
If you work to live why do you work till you die.
Then do something that you can be in peace with
Worker: I don't need a helmet. Jesus Christ will protect me!
Tape measure:
You ever heard of everlasting life? This world is owned by satan .
Tape Mesure: I’m about to end this mans whole career
@@galaxiax3284 Yes, the tape measure gave the person everlasting life. Sadly, the tape measure never got me, so I have to live in this world.
@@narata1541 idiots always think they are smart in fact Jesus Christ is everlasting life but of course the indignant thinks a measuring tape is what we are talking about, continue your self righteous life it’s yours to live and allow others to live theirs.
@@galaxiax3284 I agree. The tape measure and Jesus can give everlasting life. Even my puppy as well as everyone is happy with her! Yup! She's adorable!
The LORD was calling him home.
"Good people pass away; the godly often die before their time. But no one seems to care or wonder why. No one seems to understand that God is protecting them from the evil to come."
Isaiah 57:1 NLT
Praying for comfort and peace for his family.
That's right. The man fulfilled his commandment from Jesus on what he was to do with / in his life and once that was completed He called him home. Because of the shock of it, whomever he was speaking with, and told, "God is good," may turn his or her life over to Christ. We all have a purpose, Jesus has a plan for each of us. And it is perfect.
@@ah8129 I know if I saw a guy say “God is good” immediately before getting pegged in the head by a falling object...I would totally be a believer 🤣
This just screams irony
The irony you are seeing is meant to get your attention by God. Doubt has kept many ppl from stepping into faith but I tell you God is real without a doubt! Beyond the scriptures I am sure you might have heard I have experienced real things and encounters that are not something I think is God but with proof and without a doubt know it is. Ask Him. Just pray and ask God to show you He is real and to help you understand who He is. Say in Jesus name Amen and see what happens.
“ Something you have in the kitchen “ who has tape measures in their kitchen ?
I pray that his soul continues to rest in heavenly peace.
Biblical god is an egomaniacal bloodthirsty monster. If you're gullible enough to believe a book created to control weak minded fools thousands of years ago should stop cherry picking the less than 200 nice verses and actually read all thirty two thousand plus verses.
@@davidscott1340 I don't necessarily disagree but arguing about religion on this particular video's comment isn't exactly the most appropriate place for it. The Christian will say "I pray that his soul continues to rest in heavenly peace." the Buddhist will say "I hope he will have better luck in the next life" and the atheist will say "I hope he didn't suffer too much". But in the end, they all mean to say the same thing. They just want to extend their compassion to a fellow human who died. Meanwhile your comment is just uncalled for here.
@@tabushka292 anywhere religion is pushed it needs to be pushed back. It's 2021 and the age of make believe are long gone. Stop making excuses for bullshit to be spread.
He already dead. Praying for a dead man doesn't do anything but condemn yourself. Pray correctly for the living not for those whose destiny has been sealed. Catholic Church nonsense is making many people perish, don't perish like them follow Jesus get understanding.
@@emmanuelsoto2476 Lmao that's funny because your gid is an all knowing god who sees and knows everything. Why pray? Your prayers would only challenge said god because you think you know better than them.