Television tower tragedy

[@BobbyB910]

I climbed towers for a year I slipped once lucky I had my harness locked on. I quit as soon as my feet hit the ground no matter how well I got paid my life is more important than money

[@Juandinggong]

Idk man how you did it. It’s just too dangerous and what is the pay looks like for tower workers asking that because I always wondered that what sum of money would make one wanna climb towers.

[@octocreepy]

"The sky more than the sea is terribly unforgiving of even the slightest mistake" Airborne Infantry

[@nicodemuswhodak536]

gravity kills - Isaac newton

[@DjAether8]

Dont believe climbing these towers pay you more than a technician climbing 20-30 ft high telephone poles.

[@BobbyB910]

@@Juandinggong I made 55/hr for any tower under 1000 over 1k was 60/hr

[@Johnny53kgb-nsa]

In the late 1970's I use to paint microwave tower's, ( tv/radio), international orange and white, and also high voltage towers and substation steel while energized. Microwave tower's are built to sway quite a bit. I'm sorry for the family's loss.

[@shawnshurtz9147]

No no they don't sway at all. They twist a bit but zero sway.

[@borntoclimb7116]

@@shawnshurtz9147 guyed towers don't sway hard but freestanding tall towers are sway in strong wind. in germany we have a lot of guyed and freestanding towers, im climbing since 17 years on some of those towers

[@rocknraptor3195]

@@shawnshurtz9147 bro they move! Call it what you want. You can see one move from the ground in strong wind.

[@shawnshurtz9147]

@rockn raptor no you can't at all. Really, it's a little twist, and that's it. You can't even hardly see it with a transit when we're plumbing them. My brothers dead because one moved. My former employer as well. Look up kduh Tower Collapse. I've been on all the biggest towers in the country. Guyed towers for all intents and purposes don't move. Free standing, do a bit.

[@redsquirrelftw]

@@rocknraptor3195 Guyed ones should not move, if they did, it would mean it's basically stretching the cables or even pulling them out of the ground. Interestingly I have seen the guy wires themselves bounce a little under tension in super high winds but tower itself does not move at all. I actually have a video of that where I zoomed right into a tower during a wind storm. I was curious myself to see if it had any sway to it.

[@Staxx_OnG]

My deepest condolences to the family. This is my dream job, and I have nothing but respect for the people that risk their lives for the improvement of technology.

[@wingsfan63]

Climb wind turbines. 🤟

[@WorldWrestlingFoundation]

Shouldn’t be a hard job to get. The people who want it are pretty few: you should be one of the guys who changed light bulbs on a tower, the taller the tower the better the pay. Could be 10,000 to 100,000 in one day.

[@apersonyoudontknow3346]

It’s a easy job and fast openings lol

[@zayylewi9832]

Yeah this is my file of work, shits no joke. Why we're always told no matter how many years you do this job, never get to comfortable! ALWAYS pay ATTENTION!!

[@samwyatt5285]

@@apersonyoudontknow3346 O_O

[@juliustegon3896]

Came here after watching The Fall

[@Realaylamarie]

Same 😢

[@thefuturepresident2597]

@@Realaylamarie me too

[@misterclownface]

What is "The Fall"? It's too common a name to look up. I get shows including a documentary that doesn't have anything to do with tower climbing.

[@nareyakireina]

@@misterclownface Take out the "The". It should just be 'Fall'. Not sure why they said 'The Fall'....

[@ABOULBARAHEM]

Same 😮

[@kksilvestri5007]

Whatever the reason, how heartbreaking. Prayers for his family. 🙏

[@jade4921]

Rest in peace to that gentleman

[@morrisschwarts4826]

Thats more than 1/4 mile up. Those men have balls of steel. Very sorry to hear of life lost.

[@broman7271]

Hell yeah they remind me of the roughnecks from the 30s

[@borntoclimb7116]

@@broman7271 in india million workers work without protection on different jobs and many thousand workers died per year

[@FemboiMars]

@@borntoclimb7116 are… are you bragging about that statistic?

[@zmethod7294]

@@FemboiMars no he is just saying that media is more active here in America and sometimes jobs and events get more coverage and hype then they deserve. A lot of tragedies go uncovered in many other countries because they are not so money hungry and need to cover every little tragedy or event. He is also just mentioning the fact that people like this ( the ones that climb towers and risk their lives ect ect) are very very common in other less fortunate places in our world. There are even places where kids die in mines digging for sulfur or whatever it may be. Media never talks about it for some reason. Why is it not being addressed? You literally have to search and dig for it on the internet for it to come up.

[@youthofmc]

Wdym thats 1/4 a mile up its 2000ft?

[@iamkushroom]

This is the tower that inspired the movie The Fall. Just goes to show how dangerous it is even for professionals.

[@TEM1]

No it wasn’t.

[@weldinggirl]

My deepest condolences to his family, so sorry this happened....

[@Dogappel]

why t f u sorry. you didn't do anything!

[@anderlexcellente403]

@@Dogappel "Sorry" is also a word used to express sympathy, not just guilt. It's actually the first definition that came up for me when searching.

[@Vertical-sandwiches]

Doubt they will be reading this!! idiot.

[@Acrocrystalis]

@@Dogappel there’s always someone like you

[@JeffgeigerGeiger]

Bro he got bounced

[@nickynick3527]

I get scared of just getting up on the 12 foot roof of my house imagine 1700 feet, these workers should be getting paid 100 dollars an hour for doing this kind of work

[@s209_3]

Firefighters don’t even get paid that much

[@thesisypheanjournal1271]

Waiting for feminists to complain about the workplace death gap, where a woman has to work 13 times longer to die on the job than a man.

[@normfreilinger5655]

The get more than that

[@bilalsimstyler2396]

@@thesisypheanjournal1271 Women climb towers too what's your point?

[@borntoclimb7116]

@@bilalsimstyler2396 thats right, climbers work hard to but the feminists ignore the true problems and create their own problems.

[@mashimotographics9813]

Reminds me of the movie Fall : tower b67

[@mientjexxxxx]

It's actually the same tower and that's actually terrible

[@nareyakireina]

@@mientjexxxxx It actually is not. The B67 tower was based off of the KXTV/KOVR Tower in California. The movie is not based off of real life events.

[@GregAkers]

The KTVO 2000 ft. tower collapsed in the mid 1900's when workers were making adjustments at the 500 ft. level ! The impact drove the workers 15 ft. Into the ground !

[@MUSICMATRIX2011]

Wow

[@mikejones9961]

baloney

[@GregAkers]

@@mikejones9961You should have looked it up...before you showed your ignorance !

[@mikejones9961]

@@GregAkers you should provide a link, stupid

[@sweettina2]

@@mikejones9961 Why do people like you think that when someone makes a comment it should come complete with everything you want to know? Try doing your own homework! If you want to challenge someone based on what you think, you better do your own homework. Probably a lazy dumbed down millinial. smh

[@victorjeffers1993]

God Bless that persons family in this terrible time ! Our sincere condolences to each of you ! Our prayers are with you !

[@GrandTime-17]

Prayers to his family. Glad the other 2 were ok.

[@madrx2]

Clip on Before Clip off! Sometimes when you're doing it thousands and thousands of times a day it's easy to make one mistake especially if your mind is wandering.

[@NihongoGuy]

A very dangerous way to make $15 an hour. No, I'm not kidding - Iv'e worked with multiple "tower companies" that started climbers at $15 an hour, $12 an hour if not experienced. Personally, I'd tell them to go to hell for anything under $50 an hour.

[@ShainAndrews]

Lacks context.

[@tihspidtherekciltilc5469]

Bullshit.

[@renland2934]

They pay like 30,000$ per climb lol

[@patricks.7951]

@@renland2934 that's a damn lie, just go on indeed and look tower climbing jobs, they all pay like $15-$30 per hour

[@NihongoGuy]

@@renland2934 My invoices are for between $1800 and $2400 for a one day visit with a three man tower crew. I have a choice of two contractors in that price range -matters not what work I have for them, price is the same and its not $30,000. 40 years in LMR here, how many tower crew invoices have you approved?

[@daryldaryl5923]

Who else ended up here because of "Fall"?

[@cranbrookchessclub]

meee

[@Ashtondaboi918]

yep

[@apiix9519]

Same here

[@ivycodm2]

Meee

[@Reportedyourcomment]

Me

[@JacobTorres]

Imagine being the other workers watching him fall to his death...

[@claudermiller]

I saw a video of one of these collapsing killing about 4 or 5 workers. Dangerous job. So sad.

It's the most or one of the most dangerous jobs.

[@dbx1233]

Rescuing someone from this height is a mighty tall order.

[@slappybassflipflapflippity6955]

It was the height of the firemen's career.

[@lukeslover984]

Is this the incident that inspired fall

[@JermaIncr]

Yea

[@nareyakireina]

No it isn't based off of real life events. They thought of the idea for the movie while they were filming 'Final Score' (starring Dave Bautista). They got inspiration from the documentary 'Free Solo'.

[@nareyakireina]

@@JermaIncr No it's not.

[@confirmhandle]

Somehow calling him a contractor right off the bat seems to make it feel less bad... Let's just call him a tower technician

[@rickenterkin4720]

Lord I pray that you comfort this family & these friends during this tragic loss. Condolences to this family.

[@stevenlawson9460]

Amen

[@fredericktaylor2891]

Years ago we had an ice storm come through, more intense than what we usually get. The local TV station had three towers east of town, two for TV and one for the radio station. The towers were stabilized by huge thick cables attached to large concrete bases buried deep in the ground. The cables and the towers became covered with a thick layer of ice which caused the cables to sag a bit. The next morning as the sun rose the cables on the east side began to thaw and lose the ice as did the tower, this caused the tower to be pulled to the west and set up an oscillation. The swaying stretched the cables to the point of failing and the tower came crashing down heavily damaging the transmitter building, fortunately no one was injured.

[@kensleyyyp]

And this is how the movie ‘Fall’ was made.

[@Ashtondaboi918]

it happend after the movie so maybe some sorta curse

[@surroundedbyjaggoffs]

There's not enough $$$$ in the universe to make me climb those towers!!! Condolences to all involved!!!

[@alphacentauri7381]

No-one purposed you $$$ just enjoy your soft sofa on the ground

[@1594simonsays]

@@alphacentauri7381 what?

[@rosecali3597]

Which state or city? Didn't mention.

[@BethanyJoyWilson]

Baldwin County, Robertsdale, AL

[@mikewoodson6930]

This may very well be in the South Central part of the State of Alabama. They mentioned Escambia County. Like you I’m not sure.

[@LOL2YOU]

Loxley, AL over there close to Mobile.

[@spqa2004]

Loxley in Baldwin County, Alabama - The lady mentioned Baldwin County at 00:05. Then when they showed the reporter who is/was at the scene, the title below his window was "Robertsdale", which is likely the city. I searched for "Fox10 Robertsdale Baldwin County" and i found the Fox10 website. On the front page, there was an article about this incident but the opening line mentioned "Loxley, Alabama".

[@DaughteroftheKing4ever]

Loxley and Robertsdale are very close to each other. I am from Loxley. It could have been right on the line in between.

[@coryanderson8990]

What type of equipment? Why were the men not secured as protocol. Is this experimental equipment? Answers please?

[@Sodiumreactor]

They could have been "secured as protocol" and still fell a short distance and hit their head on a hard part of that tower. No it is not experimental. This is a dangerous job. People die, even when they follow regulations. This is why construction workers get paid so well.

[@shawnshurtz9147]

My brother died on a tower collapse. KDUH Hemmingsford mast Nebraska. 2k foot tower.

[@timthehippy9478]

No one should die for their job, that poor guy and his family have needlessly lost a loved one, tragic news for all who knew him.

[@sammyday3341]

Maybe he enjoyed his work. Many tower techs do.

[@dewmontain123]

Someone has to do it.

[@calgar42k]

Well you love your TV and radio if you want those men have to climb...

[@NDBanarchy]

So In my home state (Mississippi) (I know we’re horrible I wish we were better) over in Raymond there was a 2000 ft transmit tower that fell with workers on it So yeah all 3 workers died. If you wanna know the tower name it’s called WLBT-TV tower

[@Rickylee12gauge]

Tower rescue classes are very important. There's ways of strapping people to you and securely lower them down.

[@favourefe3973]

Its very related zu fall in 2022 the movie fall. Wow i'm sorry for the loss, rest in peace

[@BSB1of3]

Prayers Go Out For the Families Involved. 🙏

[@edsddsdsds4719]

Why is this basically the movie "fall"

[@edsddsdsds4719]

@@MoruteX everybody gangsta till someone falls 2000 feet

[@cranbrookchessclub]

@@edsddsdsds4719 bruh

[@3beltwesty]

This is a few miles east of Mobile Alabama

[@DemonicusoneOne]

Years ago I was riding a pill up a crane truck on tv tower that was rigged the day before when the top shackle slipped about a foot or so. That small drop on the line at about a 45 degree angle made me question my life's choices

[@fwir711u2]

Anyone else get sent to this video after watching someone climb a giant ass tower

[@czechmate6916]

I saw a guy fall to his death a hundred feet up on one of these towers. I will never forget that scream and sight from him as he was falling. 🙏🙏✝️✝️

[@MikeBrown-ex9nh]

OSHA is going to be all over this one, and should be. Safety is the first priority.

[@frostyjim2633]

OSHA will write a ticket if the guy didn't get the jab

[@justintyme2764]

They can pay me to go as high as possible working on these towers as long as I can keep one foot on the ground!

[@jdubyuh3250]

Few things are more dangerous than television.

[@sweettina2]

On so many levels.

[@user-dd1bb4tw4r]

Driving on the highway being one of them

[@jerrycrone3813]

Prayers going out to all involved I used to work those

[@SonicNoahcool]

That looks exactly like the tower from the movies fall

[@timkahn2813]

i use to put them up when i was young. there is a % of death and injury . like high steal and well its a thing that is on your mind. my last job was for a cable corp. and i was older then most new techs .my boss asked me why getting up on a 28 ft ladder did not bother me at all. i replied i can jump that far .

[@gotham61]

"could have been even worse" I'm sure the family of the man who died doesn't think so.

[@DrLauraRPalmer]

And just think, they can’t even use a helicopter.

[@Ena48145]

I'm so sorry to his loved ones. Absolutely devastating

[@alarmfannh]

Don’t know about tower workers but sitting or standing on the rails on a scissor lift is a big no. From the vid two guys are not standing on the platform.

[@aubz0231]

Heart breakering but uhh he’s hunter from fall 🙂

[@Ashtondaboi918]

it happened after the movie was made

[@heavysighs]

Hopefully whoever he worked for will do the right thing by his family.. 94% of all job related deaths are men. : (

[@victorsaenz9452]

I worked on towers for three years and I’m not talking about cell phone towers. I’m talking about big broadcast towers like the one in this video there ain’t nothing a firefighter can do to help us up there. The best thing a firefighter can do is just have the ambulance ready for us on the ground don’t bother coming up there to try to help us. We can climb faster and we’re much better and we’ve been doing it a lot longer than any firefighter. Thanks for the help though and also it sounds terrible what happened to the crew. I couldn’t be happier than I’m no longer climbing towers when I was doing the work when I was doing the work I enjoyed it and I got paid well and at the moment I felt like I could do this job forever because the money was so good but eventually, I just got burnt out and I couldn’t climb to Hours anymore. I don’t know how people continue to do it. You’re on the road 24 seven and at the drop of a hat a company can go out of business and now you have to relocate and find a new job where you’ll also be traveling nonstop at working on to Hours is essentially getting paid more money than anyone you know in your life so you can be homeless.

[@MissionaryForMexico]

He did not have his arresting safety gear on! That is a major safety violation!

[@DavidBrown-zs1ic]

So sad I pray for their family I hope their friends and family come together cuz they're all going to need comfort

[@SkinnyCow.]

Man dies at work. Men risk it all for family.

[@KarinaTheDreama]

Terrible loss. Very tragic but at least the family will be taken care of for his work.

[@brettbanta2100]

Damn, that is just awful. Poor guy trying to make a living, goes to work and doesn't come back

[@trthemaverick981]

The safety is not well. They must have a cable attached to the top which holds the climber permanently from the beginning.

[@Talkingaboutfeetpersecond]

If you fall a distance and hit your head or vital body parts that's not gonna save you.

[@dalethelander3781]

Anybody else see that commercial for Emirates Airlines with a flight attendant on top of the spire of the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, while a 747 flys by behind her? (Telephoto lens.)

[@Ashe1827]

AirBus A380-800 (Emirates)

[@rickymane.314]

"But it could have been even worse " man they really dont know how to hide how much they dont care about that worker that died..even the tittle ...worker killed nearly 2000 feet up " but it was a 1700 ft fall why does the news want to present this as if its something amazing by dramatizing the facts of someone's death .

[@michaelsaunders8060]

Yes it is a tragedy .I spent 13 years erecting tv and radio masts and towers it is a dangerous job .till I went to Australia and got a work as a interstate truck driver on the Hume high way in the 70s it was virtually a weekly.tragedy

[@ZLwh1ne]

Here to tell you that the firefighters most likely did the least compared to coworkers of the deceased. No man left behind is the unsaid truth among us.

[@isoasuper2327]

prayers to the family indeed......

[@thekosster94]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but was that the workers body on the tower when they reached close to the top?

[@kevinsellsit5584]

At 0:52 I believe you are correct.

[@issacladl4617]

is it movie fall?

[@nareyakireina]

No

[@ThisManTriggeredMe]

"We have to make sure our first responders go home" Way to try to make it about yourself, those first responders must have been in a lot of danger picking up the guy's body off the ground

[@theadventurelore]

The guy died but it could have been worse?

[@ShainAndrews]

Yeah... like causing enough damage on the way down to compromise the antenna taking everybody and the antenna out.

[@ib1ray]

I would have to wear my parachute if I was going that high!

[@dhyde9207]

So would I. Maybe someone who knows can tell us why they don't. At that point, you're basically a base jumper.

[@trex2092]

@@dhyde9207 This is a guyed tower, think cables to get all hung up in and collapse the chute.

[@borntoclimb7116]

@@trex2092 The BASE Jump from this towers is possible but its to dangerous in a uncontrolled situation close to the guywires jumping.

[@PadmaWanasinghe]

"fall isnt based on a true story" ... You sureee😊

[@gary36535]

Prayers for his family.

[@KevMac58]

Good friend of mine fell 220 feet to his death. Sadly

[@JS-zb1vv]

It’s a high risk high reward job ! Terrible that he died !! Had to make a mistake not following safety protocols! Most of these guys are very good!

[@douglasskaalrud6865]

You don’t know what this person did or didn’t do! There may have been something that happened we don’t know about! Maybe God decided it was their time to come home! Maybe the safety equipment broke! It could have been anything!

[@JS-zb1vv]

@@douglasskaalrud6865 he either made a mistake or died of a medical problem!! That’s only 2 things that can happen!! Geez

[@CARDAMELO]

Could have been windy bro

[@JS-zb1vv]

@@CARDAMELO absolutely could have!! But even so. He wasn’t attached to his safety rope ! So he either made a mistake or had a medical issue! These guys are very good at rope work!! I’ve trained with lots of them!! A bunch die every year !!

[@SR71GIRL]

Could have been worse...seriously I get that more people could have died, but for the family that lost their loved one, I don't think it gets any worse.

[@Dudein2024]

Omg real fall moves

[@cranbrookchessclub]

fax

[@ocsrc]

Tower work is extremely dangerous and physically exhausting. They are not paid enough to do the job.

[@cherynjwi]

Was that the b67 tower?

[@cranbrookchessclub]

no

[@fim...]

It doesn't exist

[@jahh69420]

@@fim... it does the movie is inspired by the KXTV/KOVR radio tower

[@jahh69420]

It’s 2000ft tall like in the movie

[@handlesaretoopersonal]

Did this guy just say that they had a call to 911 where someone reported seeing a man falling from the tower.... and they said that's not true he had a harness and fell a certain distance and died..... like thats a different thing

[@warefairsoda]

0:09 unlike the subject of the story...

[@eden20111]

It’s despicable how the movie FALL was based off of this tragedy…. Shame on those movie producers

[@iamacockroach6218]

it was NOT

[@nareyakireina]

Where did you get your information? Fall was not based off of real life events...shame on you for spreading lies and misinformation. The producers got the idea while filming a different movie and they drew inspiration from a documentary called 'Free Solo'.

[@tazpupper7828]

This kind of doesn't make any sense was he killed because of an accident on the Tower or did he pass away while he was on the tower working?.

[@dondoyle8474]

A smart Chief looking out for his brothers in a difficult rescue 👍👍

[@labellav1103]

You can see the man stuck in there at 0:48

[@Frostytravels]

Seriously ....it could have been worse????? What is worse than DEATH???? Think before you talk man.

[@jodybanks5344]

The trash television is showing today it’s not surprising that it’s killing all who watch it and sadly those who have the dangerous job of keeping it running and ruining lives

[@kenwesaw1944]

I'm always scared for the workers that have to do jobs way up in the sky

[@rhambrick320]

The movie fall is playing in the background. That’s why I’m here.

[@lyrankzinti1711]

No one could pay me enough to change a lightbulb on top of a tower.

[@Mastertech6969]

Untrained. Uneducated. OSHA WILL HANDLE THIS

[@Rustyfork_25]

Bro wth found this on someone's Playlist called "Songs to sample"

[@michaelmerck7576]

The thing people don't figure on in working that high up is the wind factor

[@Lifehappens1]

Soo was it the guy we saw climbing this in the other vid that died ?????

[@Oliviafaith67]

I'm climbing this when I'm older anyone joining?😂

[@scarter9447]

What voltages are these towers supplying to the load at the top?

[@dsmreloader7552]

Typically none. The RF voltage/current is inside the coaxial cable so not accessible to the workers with the outside of the coax at ground potential. RF energy coming off of the antennas is a risk so shutdowns are normal during any work near the antenna itself. AM towers however are "hot" and typically shutdown altogether when work is being done on the tower.

[@Birkleej]

That just sucks he had like 30 seconds before he died from falling 😢

[@papichulo8442]

As tower climbers never give the fire department control of the situation always tell them you want them there for back up only and for medical treatment once you get your man or men on the ground. At my company we stress that all the time. That's life or death situation. From a 400 ft tower guaranteed The guys at my company could have someone on the ground in 20 minutes or less. The fire department will take minimum 5 hours. nothing against fire fighter but there not trained to rescue people at these hieghts like a trained tower climber is or should be. We go through a week or 2 of training ever year doing rescue training. 2000 ft is high but still

[@richardransom7391]

Praying for his family 🙏

[@michaelbarker3749]

“They said he fell from the tower. That is not true. He fell a certain distance and died” Uh? WTF? What part wasn’t true?

[@CannonFodder873]

...it means he didn't fall to the ground and ended up hanging in his fall protection harness while shock set in, leading to unconciousness and death. If you're NOT rescued within 15 minutes or so, there's a very REAL chance of dying while hanging suspended due to shock and compromised blood flow to the lower extremities. Ask any high-angle rescue personnel or firefighters that perform these types of rescue. The industrial work I do requires me to have this training and I've actually FELT what it's like to drop with a fall arrest system on, albeit with my feet barely 2 feet off the ground while hanging suspended. After 2-3 minutes of that, you're QUITE ready to get lowered because it becomes painful.

[@boataxe4605]

Interesting that they don’t say what station broadcasts from that tower.

[@1L6E6VHF]

It was KTVO, Kirksville, Missouri. The closest community to the tower was Colony, MO.

[@irsyadaminuddin1638]

Fall film

[@daveblevins3322]

🙏 for his family and friends. OSHA doesn't need to be involved. I'm sure the company knows how this happened.