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Man plunges 1,000 feet to his death in Newton


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... will likely be imminent. Sounds like either a harness failure or failure to wear a harness.

Very sad for all involved, either way.

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scary stuff. The narrator even mentions that OSHA allows for some free climbing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTY8yeTy6L4

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I could barely watch that video, can't imagine actually being up there on that ladder.

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I gladly admit that job takes more balls than I've got.

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

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I work right around the corner from that tower. See it when I go outside for a smoke or whatever. I was outside around 12:45, as a matter of fact. Glad I wasn't looking over there at 1:00.

That could not have been too pretty. Not to be unnecessarily graphic, but since the tower spreads out the lower you get towards the base, there may have been a hard hit off another part of it as he fell. Yikes.

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

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... but the one at 1165 Chestnut Street, used by WBUR, WBZ-FM, WJMN, and, unless they have moved to the Pru already, WODS. It is a guyed tower, unlike Channel 7's, which is free-standing.

I know this tower well, having visited it (but never climbed it) many times during my time at WCRB, which used to broadcast from it.

That tower used to have an elevator. In 2006, when WCRB was sold (and moved from 102.5 and this tower to 99.5 and a tower in Andover), I heard that American Tower was removing the elevator, which meant future tower workers would have to climb 100+ stories to work on the antennas near the top.

On behalf of all in the broadcasting community, I offer my deepest condolences to the family of the men who fell. This is a very sad day.

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Um, 500 feet.

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n/t

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