I am bored.  Anyone have any interesting accidents on the job?   Last week with my FatMAx i nearly sliced my finger to the bone when retracting it and not paying attention.

On several occasions while on a roof, my tape measure has fallen off of my pants, bounced off of the roof,  and almost smashed a window out of an insd's car.  I have got lucky so far and have never actually hit anything.   Anyone ever hit a car with their tape measure??

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Manahmanah!

Doo doo de-doo doo.

Manahmanah!

Doom doo-doo doo.

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Doo doo de-doo doo,
De-doo doo,
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A little of topic ..... were can I find that song.  The only place I've heard it was the Muppets.

Thanks for the help.

1982, I think,  I was working on Spectrum Center Tower, Addison, TX..  The Crane lights had stopped working and Addison Airport was not happy.  Nobody wanted to climb the crane.  I was nobody....so the job fell to me!     Hand over hand I went to the top, but just as I stepped through the cramped opening of the boom my tape caught the frame and down she went..

It took only a minute to make my way to the end of the crane,--swaying  as cranes do, fix the problem, but forever to climb back down.  There at the bottom of the ladder waited a bunch of angry  men, each with a piece of my tape measure in his hand.

Normally, it was, "No habla englis", but today they had no problema communicating. 

"Yours, no?" they  demanded.

"No!" I readily agreed!

Sometimes it's prudent to deny a claim.

Randy Cox

Certainly since 04 here have been a lot of accidental adjusters.

The insured had a non standard 7 foot ceiling add on room in the rear with roof damage and had set up a very light aluminum ladder on a metal gutter. Going up with him was fine. I was the first coming down and did not step in the middle of the rung, the ladder turned up 90  degree and I was black and blue on my right side from scraping the gutter going down feet first while holding onto the gutter. I have always used mine since then.