Watched a crew in Baton Rouge speed through a pick setup last month and it was terrifying

I was walking past a job site near the interstate and saw this operator swinging a load with no tagline and barely any signal from the ground guy. The load was twisting like crazy maybe 15 feet up. Nobody yelled stop or anything. Has anyone else seen corners being cut like this lately or am I just getting old and paranoid?

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lisa83921d ago

Saw the same thing a few weeks back in Mobile. Operator was swinging a bundle of rebar over a trench box with no tagline and the ground guy was standing right under it. That load could have snapped loose at any second. Nobody said a word because the foreman was pushing for time. Scary how fast that stuff gets normalized on a job site.

fiona_scott4421d ago

That reminds me of something I saw about ten years back when they were pouring a foundation for a new school. The concrete trucks were lined up and one of the drivers tried to wash out his chute into a storm drain instead of the washout pit. @lisa839, you'd have thought the foreman would have been on that, but he just shrugged it off. Nobody wants to be the one to slow things down when everyone's watching the clock. It's amazing how much gets swept under the rug just to keep the job moving.

william91721d ago

Yeah @lisa839 it's like everyone just looks the other way until something actually happens. I mean it's not just construction either. You see the same thing at restaurants when a cook drops something on the floor and just serves it anyway because the tickets are backed up. Or at a store when somebody notices a pallet stacked wrong and nobody says nothing because the truck needs to leave on time. Idk maybe it's just me but it feels like we're all kind of trained to not make waves. Then when something does go wrong everyone acts surprised.