There's a guy that I've known for 20 years. I worked with him for probably half of that. On January 8, he fell off of a ladder from about 14 feet up. He's supposed to be getting out of the hospital on Thursday. He'll be in a wheelchair for at least another 6 weeks after he gets out. He and his wife are buying a house and moving from their hobby farm back into town. The hospital will sell them a board (of some type) so that he can slide into and out of the wheelchair, but it's not long enough for him to get into a car. He made a pattern of what he wanted and asked me to make him one out of oak instead. I finished it and took it to his wife tonight. There was a home made wheelchair ramp in the garage of this house. His oldest son built it for another guy who lived there and died of cancer. His brother, who lived in the house with him, cut it apart after he was gone and stuck it in the garage. I helped another guy drag it out, patch it together and put it up so that it can be used again for the new owner. This is 15 miles west of where I live and it's about 2 1/2 blocks from my garage.
WOW! I feel for the guy, hope he didn`t break his back or pelvis etc.... that will be a long recovery for sure. 14ft will sure knock the wind out of you.
last July I was working on reframing the front of my shop for the new 9 X 7 steel roll up door.
I was up on my 6ft ladder and decided to take flying lessons, I just haven`t perfected the landing part.
I had the F-250 backed up to the shop, maybe 6ft back from the ladder. I landed side ways across the rear Bumper, and cracked #10 Rib.
Never had anything hurt so bad, put it right up there with Child Birth....
Took me a while to get up and stagger to the house for sympathy.
Thought I just bruised my self, so next day back at it, but later in the day, knew sumtin waz rong.
Down to ER and showed the cracked Rib.
But with 800MG of Ibuprofin I was Super man and back at...
Had to, door was ordered and coming. got it up just in time, next day we had a ton of rain.
Goat