|
#1
●
07-26-2026, 05:17 PM
| ||||||||
 ✝Mudderator from Hell✝ Poster Rank:11 e-mail Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 95,981
Contributions: 817
Mentioned: 473 Post(s) Quoted: 10244 Post(s)
| ||||||||
|
Industrial Demolition Worker Killed when Lime Kiln Structure Collapses
Mexico. On Wednesday, July 22, at the industrial facilities of Calimsa, Elías H. B, 34, was high up participating in the dismantling of an old, large lime kiln structure when a metal support beam suddenly fractured and collapsed. Because the structure itself broke apart, it gave him no chance to secure himself, dragging him down into a severe fall of roughly 30 to 45 meters. He was rushed to the hospital where he tragically passed away from his injuries hours later. |
|
#2
●
07-26-2026, 05:45 PM
| ||||||||
 Ph-Italian Vulpino Poster Rank:59 Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 25,345
Contributions: 1
Mentioned: 29 Post(s) Quoted: 3518 Post(s)
| ||||||||
|
Re: Industrial Demolition Worker Killed when Lime Kiln Structure Collapses
Those idiots weren't counting on the top of that structure to still be binding to the rest of the shit  |
|
#3
●
07-26-2026, 07:15 PM
| ||||||||
| ♚ Legacy Gold Member ♚ Poster Rank:94 Male Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 16,934 Mentioned: 8 Post(s) Quoted: 4646 Post(s)
| ||||||||
|
Re: Industrial Demolition Worker Killed when Lime Kiln Structure Collapses
Classic "Cutting off the tree branch you are sitting on"! Whoopsie!  |
|
#4
●
07-26-2026, 08:52 PM
| ||||||||
 My Rank: FIRST SERGEANT Poster Rank:421 male Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 2,752 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 375 Post(s)
| ||||||||
|
Re: Industrial Demolition Worker Killed when Lime Kiln Structure Collapses
Wait, there's a guy videoing this who then laughs after the structure falls... something right with that?
|
|
#5
●
07-26-2026, 11:39 PM
| ||||||||
 My Rank: MAJOR Poster Rank:5 Join Date: Dec 2016 Posts: 113,033 Mentioned: 16 Post(s) Quoted: 1284 Post(s)
| ||||||||
|
Re: Industrial Demolition Worker Killed when Lime Kiln Structure Collapses
...the far end, opposite from where they were cutting, is what fell away first. so like the description says, "a metal support beam suddenly fractured and collapsed"...it probably would have still fallen whether the men were up there at that moment cutting, or not.
|
|
#6
●
07-26-2026, 11:40 PM
| ||||||||
| My Rank: MAJOR Poster Rank:5 Join Date: Dec 2016 Posts: 113,033 Mentioned: 16 Post(s) Quoted: 1284 Post(s)
| ||||||||
|
Re: Industrial Demolition Worker Killed when Lime Kiln Structure Collapses
i'm guessing that he thought that was part of the plan, and couldn't see that the worker(s) had gone down with it |
|
#7
●
07-27-2026, 12:21 AM
| ||||||||
| My Rank: SERGEANT MAJOR Poster Rank:300 Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which is why several of us died of tuberculosis Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 4,263 Mentioned: 1 Post(s) Quoted: 1433 Post(s)
| ||||||||
|
Re: Industrial Demolition Worker Killed when Lime Kiln Structure Collapses
that was an evil laugh, i bet with the other hand he was petting a hairless cat.
|
|
#8
●
07-27-2026, 04:55 AM
| ||||||||
 ★ Legacy Member ★ Poster Rank:113 Secret Agent Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 14,063 Mentioned: 6 Post(s) Quoted: 2939 Post(s)
| ||||||||
|
Re: Industrial Demolition Worker Killed when Lime Kiln Structure Collapses
Laughing in the face of death.  Not such a good idea maybe.. ?   |
|
#9
●
07-27-2026, 05:54 AM
| ||||||||
 ♚ Legacy Gold Member ♚ Poster Rank:134 Now look what you made me do. Join Date: May 2017 Posts: 12,300 Mentioned: 42 Post(s) Quoted: 5894 Post(s)
| ||||||||
|
Re: Industrial Demolition Worker Killed when Lime Kiln Structure Collapses
They've already demolished part of that structure, you can see it lying on the ground at the bottom left, part of a conveyor system. The only thing keeping the rest of it together was that anchor point at the top of the tower. That A-frame the slanting girder is pressing against, I'm guessing they planned on it folding outwards once they'd cut the top trusses. But either they didn't realise the cap beneath it, the piece they were standing on, was attached to it in more than one place, or it collapsed before they'd made the final cut. Too rusty and decrepit to safely anticipate how it would behave imo.
|
