Worker hurt in 80-ft. fall from NY cell tower

[Mtnrider]

Worker hurt in 80-ft. fall from NY cell tower - WRGB Channel 6 News

 

[K9WG]

Wonder if he had fall protection?
Obviously not using it at the time.

 

[W1KNE]

He was wearing it. WKTV in Utica has a more detailed story about the accident.

Officials: Man who fell from tower was wearing harness, reason for fall under investigation | NBC-WKTV News Channel 2 - Utica News, Weather, Sports - | Local News

 

[n5ims]

There is a difference between wearing and using the climbing safety gear. I know of a station owner that banned a group of riggers from their towers because they insisted on climbing the tower without using their safety gear since it was "faster for them to climb" that way. It was their belief that it was only necessary to hook onto the safety line once they go to the work location on the tower. We later learned that one of the banned riggers fell to their death while climbing another tower while not hooked up.

 

[K9WG]

I don't know how many times I have seen workers wearing a harness that was either incorrectly fitted or using incorrect practices.

As far as "faster for them to climb" it is defiantly faster on the way down.

 

[radioman2001]

The tower climber may have had all his equipment on, but was it on right. I know I have on occasion incorrectly snapped in, and then when testing it before I actually put any weight on the restraint system have it come undone. Pretty scary feeling, hope the worker recovers.