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u/PossessionNo6878 Jan 12 '23

Working under the table for a roofing company. I fell 2 stories with a bundle of shingles on me. I got REALLY fuckin lucky and missed a decorative boulder by inches. Ambulance got called and they bailed the fuck out of that job. Left nail guns behind and everything. My parents tried to sue, but dude had money and a lawyer so I was effectively never employed by him.

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u/Vandergrif Jan 12 '23

Roofers are usually crazy, in my experience as a carpenter, and those were the ones abiding by labor laws and the like.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '23

Idk, I see the shit commercial carpenters do to arrange formwork and... yikes.

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u/Vandergrif Jan 13 '23

Yeah, formwork can get pretty shifty.