I had a good friend who was standing on a ladder in his garage putting some things on a high wall shelf. He slipped, fell, bashed his head on the concrete floor and died of a fractured skull and terminal brain damage three days later. Never regained consciousness.

Ladders can kill you.

L.W.

"Always go straight forward, and if you meet the devil, cut him in two and go between the pieces." (William Sturgis, clipper ship captain, 1830s.)