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Just recently I damn near ended up there. I was 100% paralyzed for a little bit including breathing but luckily it all came back. I've been up and down ladders my entire life but this was the one, I don't intend on ever falling from a ladder again.

Gad you're OK.

BTW, No PTSD!!

Ode to Jeff0.

That was my mistake. "I just need to mark this rafter..." Crappy step ladder, too.

Very dangerous. You can be just 4 feet off the ground and if that ladder kicks out something really bad can happen to you.

And yes, 60 year old guys don't bounce as good as teen agers do.

That's great! That stupid fugker deserved every bit of pain he suffered. Musta been a liberal.

Sooner or ladder into each life a little Steve must fall...

Glad you survived.

Take you pride out for a beer. and a side of advil.

Amazing how brave you can get with ladders. Guilty of that. I try to behave myself though as I get older and have more to lose.

started my ladder diving in 1975. stepping off top rung of a 26 foot aluminium. it slid straight out at the bottom. i left claw marks from the top of the wall to where i hit. also took out 3 sets of fireblocks on the way down. broke both ankles and 3 vertebra in my back . the thing that hurt worst was the handle of my framing hammer smacking me up side the head. Dr at that time told me id be in a wheel chairby the time i was 45. haven't believed a Dr since.
the wife won't let me on a ladder anymore. she has a builtin radar so that all i have to do is pick one up hundreds of feet away and she appears with that look on her face.
have some siding needs replaced and she won't let me do it.
was staining the siding one time on the upper floor . standing on the porch roof. 4/12 pitch. easy peasy. stepped on a patch of ice. brand new carhart coveralls. 1 gallon of $50 a gallon stain. Daughter was sitting inside the picture window as i went by. "Mom, dad fell off the roof again" and went back to watching tv.
still have the coveralls, they stand up by themselves, so stiff with stain.

When I was a kid, I had an extension latter leaned up against a tree. I was near the top. The legs lost traction on the grass and slid away from the tree while the top rung slid down the tree right in front of my eyes. I accelerated rapidly in a negative vertical direction. When the ladder hit the grass, I was laid out on top of it. Those rungs bent me into a pretzel. Amazingly, I walked away - after I caught my breath.

Number one cause of death in my industry. We required fall protection whenever one went into the construction site.

I'm a retired electrician and spent 40 plus years on ladders of all shapes and sizes. After being on 6' ladders for a while and then using an 8', I hated it when I stepped off the 8', thinking I was still on a 6', and would step off 1 step too early! It's quite the jar and surprise! The stuff we used to do off ladders! Glad you're okay!

Same here. On commercial jobs we used to 'walk' our ladders running conduit rather than climb down and move it 10'. No spring chicken anymore but I bet I can still walk one!

Some people are nuts. My BIL is an electrician and is fearless. Some years ago, they came for a visit when our cherries were ripe so he volunteered to help pick. I gave him an 8' step ladder. He stood on the top step, the VERY top, and picked. The slightest misstep would have dumped him.

I used to work in a plant with 30' 3-legged wooden ladders finishing laminated beams. OSHA saved a few of us when they discovered them.

I quit using ladders about 10 years ago, and after falling off my back step two weeks ago and breaking my hip I can see handrails in my future.

Be careful where ever you are----flat smooth earth is still safe!

Watched DaninAlaska slide and tumble on a ladder getting off his boat yesterday... sort of slow motion ladder collapse... he bounced right up, but the ladder had to be re-restraightened. Had the camera in my hand and had just stopped videoing the tractor extraction. Missed it by that much!

And you don't heal nearly as fast either! BTDT


Jerry

Spent 15 years on ladders, daily- 16,24,32.


Then....I fell off one at home, a 6ft step ladder. Only knocked the wind outta my lungs. Reminded me of flipping a swing set., haha

I am getting ready for rotator cuff surgery as we speak because of a dreaded ladder.

Gentleman I replaced on the job took a spill in his basement and died. At 82 and had rarely been sick in his life.

Chores on a 6 ft. Werner (and then only 2/3 of the way up) is all I will attempt these days.

I wonder if Jell-O will post about his experience?