[NLRS] Never, ever commit this error of smarts ....

[Zack Widup]

Was it a crank-up telescoping tower? I thought the idea behind those was
you crank them all the way down to work on your antennas, then crank them
up to use them. I would never even climb on one that was cranked up. It's a
wonder he didn't lose his feet, too.

73, Zack W9SZ


On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:15 PM, <W0WOI at aol.com> wrote:

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> Ham  radio operator looses hand and fingers in tower accident.
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> A 52-year-old ham radio operator in Athol lost several fingers and one of
> his hands Thursday when his amateur radio antenna tower collapsed on him
> while  he was working on it.
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> Multiple agencies responded to Bearpaw Galindo's home on Caravelle Road
> after his wife, Gail Perry, phoned 911 and informed a dispatcher the man
> was
> hanging 20 feet in the air with his right arm pinned within a
> telescoping-type  tower.
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> Perry said Galindo was repairing a portion of the 40-foot-tall  telescoping
> tower, when a cable holding it up snapped and caused the top  portions of
> the tower to collapse on his hands.
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> "I saw his fingers fly off of his right hand," Perry told The Press.  "I
> never want to see something like that again."
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> According to the Timberlake Fire Protection District, crews were
> dispatched to the scene at 11:58 a.m., and proceeded to raise the tower in
> an  effort
> to free Galindo's arm. After 20 minutes, the man was extricated and
> lowered to the ground.  Galindo was trapped for a total of 45  minutes.
>  "I can't
> say anything better about them," Perry said of the  emergency responders.
> "They were awesome."
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> Galindo was then transported by Life Flight to Kootenai Health.   Doctors
> told Perry her husband was in critical condition early Thursday  evening.
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> 3 p.m., Galindo was taken into surgery, where doctors performed a  partial
> amputation on his left hand and a full amputation on the right.
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