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Anyone with a scintilla of sense knows you stand well outside the swing radius of them things!
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As a former power plant technician, I can attest to that fact. There's no room for complacency.Yeah... sub-stations are NOT the place to get slack... at all.
I was running a Hitachi 700 excavator,putting in 72"concrete pipe at night.The city of Seatac had hired an inspector as their guys were busy on other stuff. If you had asked the inspector,he had built every hiway in Alaska...himself
So I'm most interested in the guys in the 20' ditch below me and everyone else needs to watch out for me.I had noticed the inspector standing on the right side(blind side) of my hoe.
Figured I'd tell him later that was a bad spot but I was lowering 2400lbs of concrete in the hole with folks below me
Long story short,I got some pea gravel from behind me and swung around to every eye as big as saucers. The inspector was about 6'2 and was standing on 2" of dirt. My counter weight was about 5'8" off the ground
His hard hat took some dirt off the cat walk as he duct under the thing going around as fast as I could swing it
The '700' designation is for 7 metric tons. And the ditch was about 20'
He left right after that
whenever I am around a moving vehicle, I always make sure I can see that mirror. And if its backing faster than I want to run, I'l step aside and let it run... over whatever is there that's not me.Yeah ,Mark, what amazes me is how a flagger is willing to stand behind your truck,40 some feet away from you,when all you have is a couple of mirrors to see her.
And they wonder why the get run over