Re: Re. Worst Handiman Accidents

On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:23:18 -0400, with neither quill nor qualm, Wes
<clutch@xxxxxxxxx> quickly quoth:

"Gary Owens" <gowens1@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

A week after Hurricane Charlie, getting ready for the next one, I was
trimming broken branches off the large Oak next to the house. I had 1 foot
on the branch and 1 on an old 8ft step ladder. just finished the branch,
straighten up, when the ladder broke.


http://wess.freeshell.org/ladder/LadderFailure.html

It looks to me as if the ladder went up onto one leg and folded from
the weight at that angle. Are you sporting a Class I body on a Class
III ladder, boy? (Hmm, no, I see that you were on a Class I.) Had the
lower step been placed on something which deformed it before you went
up?


Luckily for me, I didn't break anything though I'm sure something snapped
back in place once I moved my arm. It was weeks before I could stretch my
arm straight out and about 1/2 a year before things felt normal again.

I'm thankful I ended up in one piece after my jump from the top.
Rather than fall, I had the presence of mind to jump and was able to
control the angle at which I impacted. It was grass, too, so I'm
thankful for that as well.

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