Fell off the roof today...

[arcas]

Extension ladder slid out from beneath me as I was preparing to climb down. Fell about 10 feet. Spent the rest of day at the hospital. Luckily I escaped with only minor cuts and wounds and a badly sprained ankle (I figured it and my right forearm were broken). Hospital personnel said that given the height of the fall and the way I fell/landed, my injuries should have been far worse. If there are a such thing as guardian angels looking out for us, mine scored an A+ today...

 

[Azraele]

Ouch, glad you're ok.

 

[Keego]

Glad to hear you're OK.

 

[Swanny]

That sounds like it hurt. Good thing you didn't break anything though!

 

[aphex]

If everyone else is gonna be nice, im gonna be mean.


DAMNIT!!!! WHY DIDNT YOU BREAK SOMETHING?!?!? GAH!!!!!

 

[Tominator]

Fall on your head next time...works for me!

Glad to hear you will recover. Got some good drugs I'll bet...

 

[MrPhelps]

Ladder companies have the largests amount of lawsuits. Just a tidbit.

Glad you are ok

 

[Cyberian]

Man, I am really glad to hear that you are (mostly) OK!

My son fell off a ladder at work over 5 years ago, and he is still not even close to being better.
Shattered both heels and was in a wheelchair for quite a while. Then crutches. He still has to wear special shoes and he walks like he is tiptoeing all the time. Painkillers up the yinyang and he still has bad days if it's damp out.

 

[Codewiz]

Glad to hear you are ok!!!!

My grandfather fell off a ladder at age 72. It was the start of his decline in health. A year later his kidneys went into failure. He lived for about 4 more years on dialysis. However you spell it. He made it a lot longer than the docters ever thought possible.

I have never liked ladders since then. I happened to see him fall off. I have no problems with heights. I just don't like getting there on a ladder.

 

[ElFenix]

my grandfather designed a mechanism for an extension ladder, but his is the only i've seen using that. ah well.

 

[Geekbabe]

ouch,geeks and ladders don't mix well !

Glad you're relatively ok though !

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Lawsuit!

 

[Sundog]

Glad to hear you are OK....hope the hospital bills aren't too much.

 

[Farmall]

Originally posted by: arcas
Extension ladder slid out from beneath me as I was preparing to climb down. Fell about 10 feet. Spent the rest of day at the hospital.

That much is the same for me but the end result was a broken wrist. Going on week 4 of a full arm cast, can tell you that they really suck bigtime. Get to have this one removed on the 4th of Nov. and then another 4 weeks with the half arm cast.

Makes it a bit difficult typing when you can't bend your elbow.

Good luck on the recovery.

Farmall

 

[Fritzo]

Did you make an imprint of your body in the ground when you fell?

I fell from a second story ladder once, but luckily the ground was on an incline and I was able to roll to absorb the impact. I was fine UNTIL THE FRICKIN' LADDER FELL ON ME. Gave me a gash on the head that required 17 stitches My friends still laugh at me on that one heheheheh

 

[Ornery]

• OUCH! :Q

Really sorry to hear that! Sorry to hear about your son too, Cyberian. I'm not really comfortable at the top of ladders myself. Any heights take some getting used to, and I was in the building trade for quite a few years. Actually, I never did get used to it. I'll keep this in mind, next time I'm on the roof, and maybe be a little more careful. I'm certain something would break on me if I took a dive. I'm tight as a drum and probably brittle too!

 

[fluxquantum]

man that sucks. hope everything is okay. what were you doing up there? installing a satellite dish?

 

[hamburglar]

Originally posted by: Keego
Glad to hear you're OK.

 

[geno]

heh

j/k, I hope you're feeling better man! Next time be careful with that ladder and make sure it's secure!

 

[NetworkDad]

Pics ????


j/k - glad you're doing ok.

 

[arcas]

man that sucks. hope everything is okay. what were you doing up there? installing a satellite dish?

I'm able to hobble around with the help of my hiking staff and the wound on my leg finally stopped bleeding (still not sure of what caused it...I have no memory of the actual impact). I've noticed my neck has grown kinda stiff in the last few hours. Nurse said that might happen...kind of a whiplash thing. Hopefully it's temporary.

I'd been trying to scrub some of the dirt and grime off the skylights (which, BTW, doesn't appear to have worked). The ladder really did seem secure. The swivelling "feet" were making good contact with the ground and I'd already been up and down the ladder twice. Third time was definitely not charm. I think a future project will be to increase the size of the feet for more friction and maybe drill some holes so that I can stake the ladder base securely to the ground

I go hiking alot and have done some freestyle rock climbing from time to time so I've had a few close calls. One time I even thought . o O (welp, this is it. this is how you're going to die) but I can't remember the last time I felt as helpless as I did when I looked down as the latter fell and realized that there's not a damn thing I could do to keep from falling too.

 

[crab]

I met a guy in the hospital who fell off the roof, hit the main power line going into his house electrocuting him, bounced off the porch roof, landed on his head breaking his neck, and during this had a heart attack.

I thought I was hospitalized for too long, untill I met him.

 

[Storm]

Glad you didnt break anything

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: arcas
The swivelling "feet" were making good contact with the ground and I'd already been up and down the ladder twice.

That sucks man. Glad it wasn't to bad.

FWIW, I only use those swiveling "feet" with the rubber pads on hard surfaces like concrete or asphalt. On ground or grass, I swivel them out of the way and let the ends of the ladder dig in a bit.

As for the a$$hole screaming lawsuit. You know next to nothing about what happened, and what you do know doesn't sound like a manufacturing defect or design flaw. So I hope you're just joking. Makes me sick when the first thing somebody says is "lawsuit" when they hear about some misfortune. Not slamming arcas here, but sometimes it's just your own damn fault.

 

[thomsbrain]

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oops. um, i mean. sorry to hear about that. glad it wasn't worse than it was.