We climbed Flare Stackers at Zug Island and you could see the curvature of earth as high as we climbed! Heights are scary !

​@@f1s2hg3I wish flat-earthers could have seen the curvature of the earth.

​@@f1s2hg3 how high did you climb to see that?

God can you guys maybe put the air date in the title? I literally never have a clue if the video posted is new or a decade old and it's annoying as fuck.

its probably still happening all over the world. protest the carriers. subcontracting has ruined labor rights...

Greed is a killer.

Best comment on this entire thread! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍

More and more government agencies no longer accept the lowest bid on a job. They throw out the highest and lowest and then look at performance and ability. My son climbed towers for the military and he said it isn't as easy as it looks; 200 feet up is a long way to climb with all your equipment and safety gear and perform safely. He retired after 22 years and now is an electrician with the state department of transportation. He encounters new sign structures he gets sent to and writes them up because they were not designed according to OSHA standards. He was even sent out on a few acceptance inspections and declined to accept the construction jobs as they were not to standard. There at least now he tells me, more communication between the department and the designers/engineers/draftsmen. They have to work out over highway and freeway traffic on scaffolds plus camera towers (Tripcheck). I am glad he is a bastion of safety.

VOLUME discounts, Dude!!! HUGE companies will charges them much lower unit costs!!!

Salute my man ! I worked as a fiber splicer for a company who also had a "tower crew" so I've been around the business of it You guys deserve not only respect but good pay with good insurance and all the time it takes to do the job safely. The solid craftsmanship you guys provided is chalked up to integrity because the suites do not value the things they should, They're so drunk on fast easy money they can't see much beyond that. As a young man I worked 10 years in building construction and I busted my ass to make sure I did all I could to build things that would stay safe and last. Looking back now I see I could have easily cut corners and taken the easy way out and made just as much money. Quality craftsmanship is real American pride and thank God we still have men who believe in that because our world is hinging on the few who self sacrifice in the name of INTEGRITY.

Yes Siree . You can see why free press is despised by those who stuff to hide. Companies today are amongst the biggest infringers of a citizens right of free press.

Why would people simply not want to wear safety gear when they're up that high?

@@thew9536 for the adrenaline rush

Thanks for the work!

@@infinitecanadian shut

It is we who plowed the prairies; built the cities where they trade; Dug the mines and built the workshops; endless miles of railroad laid. Now we stand outcast and starving, 'midst the wonders we have made; All the world that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone. We have laid the wide foundations; built it skyward stone by stone. It is ours, not to slave in, but to master and to own, They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn, But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.

I see you guys cleaning windows and I dont know how you do it.........

@@planes3333 I saw a video of guys cleaning the windows of building 7 when the first WTC tower was hit. I couldn't even imagine lol

I think about all these comments and get a kick out of these feminists videos on KZfaq they cry they want equal pay and the world doesn't need men etc. Not saying there aren't female tower climbers but there isn't exactly a line going out the door applying either.

I know. I made $9.50 at McDonalds in highschool as sophomore. Absolutely unbeliable

That isn’t true I had a boyfriend that did that job in around 2000 and he made 20$ an hour

​@@AllSmiles06 Still not enough.

ya i make 20 cooking souvlaki ffs

It's true for some of these guys. You could make more money picking up trash for a small town or being the Dog Catcher!

Yea maybe a little more of our freedoms will be taken away because of this piece of journalism.

YO MAMA LIKE THIS?

@@rickybobby7276 Don’t see your ass climbing these towers,…..

@@rickybobby7276 huh

@Ricky Bobby That's what we called workplace negligence . Prohibited by Osha A lawsuit worth millions

in many other countries outside the US the towers are built with easy access elevators all the way up. US towers they just slap some bolt pegs on em and call it good. it encourages climbers to cut corners to get down faster.

@@rileychu4489 Yeah well building an elevator would cost more money, so of course no company wants to do that if they don’t have to. Just climb it the old fashioned way

As a veteran of Canada's military version of the Signal Corps, I've had my personal experience climbing radio and microwave towers. Safety is a way of life in any professional military. Heavy initial training, supervision, review, refresher training, equipment inspection are all vital aspects of safe and efficient operations. There's no room for thrill seaking and performing. In private sector you must have strict and effective regulation of this VITAL INFRASTRUCTURE. Not less or "none" as the political Right pushes. This is where unions should shine by protecting their members.

I was a tower technician for about 5-6months, working for a company in Temecula CA, as many people are saying in the comment section, cockyness and many companys dont give a flying f*** about you.. my crew had the wrong harnesses and after countless emails/talks with management, nothing. The pay is not worth it, you’re always away, living from one hotel to another, 12-15hr shifts, most of the guys were high off cocaine, crystal meth, pretty much anything to keep you up, I left for countless reason, hats off to any men working in the tower technician field!. To anyone wanting to join, remember this, if you die today, they’d throw your name under a rug and on to the next one..

I said the free climbing was only 50% of the deaths. What are the cause of the other 50%?

I work for a company climbing cell towers. How can I get into that independent big tower work?

@@twomp4560 I started when I was in the Air Force in 1978. After leaving the service, I went to work for a two-way dealer that did tower work for their radio customers. After a couple of years, started my own (one man), tower climbing business as a contractor for tower owners only (I don't do subcontract work). The owners are responsible for supplying ground crews; I climb only.

Respect, bro.

Well you must be doing something right,You should be training people. Respect to you sir.

A 65 year old man is every teenage girls dream man

I feel your pain… I was on a job site, took a fall that was only about 20 feet up. But I went head first into the concrete. And was impaled through my right abdomen by a wood 2x4. That was in 2007. I have had roughly 20 surgeries since. And still have at least 4 more ahead of me. Had a broken back and neck in multiple places… And I am in so much pain every single day of my life, I want to die also. I know exaclty how you feel. And I am just 46. To be fully honest, I hope I don’t live to reach your age. Because the last 16 years have been so painful, it is hard to enjoy anything in life now. I even wrote about it I’m one of my newest songs on my KZfaq channel. Anyway, I have almost lost my ability to walk, write, use my hands properly. All if it. Off just a 20 foot fall…

@@DangerousDevilOfficial I too have almost lost my ability to walk. As far as the pain goes you must learn how to put it out of your head. You have to dissociate the pain. It doesn’t always work but it has helped me greatly in the last 37 years. If you ever want to talk about it I have an open ear.

And funny story, just out of the service and a little messed up I took up free climbing for fun in the Adirondacks. The solitude and physical effort helped but I did eventually fall, some crappy slate broke in my hand and gravity is a bitch. I only fell maybe twenty feet. Turns out that I likely damaged a hip at that time that needed to be replaced forty years later but it did cure me of free climbing. Peace.

Years ago I started as a cable TV installer and I free climbed power poles and I fell 25 feet and was fine at the time but I have back problems now. I landed on my feet.

Thank you and my apologies ❤

Thank you for the work you did. I know that I, personally, would not be alive if not for cell service. I can't understand how these higher ups, who had to climb the ranks in many, if not all cases, cannot understand that it is the safety equipment, and methodical, careful working conditions, that keep their workers, which they see as assets, safe and "usable". Wouldn't they rather do the "cheaper" option and do things safely, rather than have to pay more in their budget later for worker's comp?

He said the operator pulled the wrong lever ? How did that make the tower break ? Sorry I wish they explained that more.

​​@@SarafinaSummers you are talking about people that… if you had their money… you could never spend a quarter of that wealth, starting at age 10 & living 80 yrs! (Maybe you could… but you get my point?) So… the problem that I have with those people is... WHY THE FREAKING RUSH! Sure… people need service. Sure… people are in life & death situations. They should have thought of that before ripping those vulnerable people away from their last dependable service! The next best thing will come around. We should recognize the greed of these people by now. Edit… PLUS… I thought they were rich… for a reason? Don't people always cover for them concerning taxes? How much they should/n't pay? What %?

We have a lot of professional tower workers in the Ham radio community. I've heard a lot close call stories. I appreciate you!

Thank you for your service.

I can't believe how little AT&T and the other big carriers pay a company to install their tower! They could pay 20x, and still make billions! Just think of all of that money that could have gone to that community, not only in the form of higher wages, but proper safety gear, and tax dollars to help build up our towns... We could have declared cell towers a public good. But instead, we decided money in the hands of the very, very few is more important than our fellow Americans' lives and well being... How did we get so lost as a country? (23:40)

William Young, well said. My thoughts exactly.

RF here too 💪

Exactly man ...​@@williamyoung9401

So sorry for the loss of your friend. 😢 Thank you for honoring him on this platform.😷

Sorry about the loss of your friend. That's tough....

You have a macabre sense of humor

I did roofing and iron work. I can say without a doubt, that 90% of the injurie's i witnessed were carless and unnecessary risks taken by employees.

Do you use safety harnesses everytime? If not safety is not paramount …

Oof. I once fell from a height of 25 feet. I can walk, but every day is a struggle. Listen to me, kids. That bellay team is human. They can and will drop your ass!

​@@bryanb6931 they did it just for fun or what?

@@justcommenting4981 Mostly workplace bravado in my option, and yes it may have increased productivity. But at the risk of ending up in a wheelchair or death.

I'd love to get an update on the number of fatalities since 2012. Just wait till 6G comes around...

Join a electrician union

Takes lots of guts to even consider that job

Worked in oil & gas exploration for a while and yes... blah blah about security every morning meering but whenever you expose a security risk, it's being reduced to you, the employee, not knowing o4 not having enough training to deal with it. In fact, if ever interviewed for anything, we were told our default response to be "i am not trained on this, i will get my supervisor for you" .. oil & gas has lots to offer in terms of safety problems

Fuck the schedule. It's done when it's done. If they made an impossible schedule, that's their problem.

Don't be afraid to speak up, then. No paycheck is worth your life.

That’s crazy seems highly underpaid

Disgustingly underpaid for such a dangerous job

@@Chellz801 they start 22-25/hour where I live, they recruit out of poor rural communities without a lot of opportunity. Also, they don’t drug test.

There is no way anyone can tell me that a CEO is worth millions of $$$$ never risking their lives while they push subordinates--those who barely survive from one paycheck to another while risking their life every damn day they go to work! This is so wrong! Greed over life.

As a lighting supplier these climbers were my fav customers. They were paid per job.. as old school climber we always had nice chats.. glad to say never lost a man.. either as supplier nor as supvisor cannot imagine would feel who did. Safety first is a way of life not just a motto better2b live chicken than dead pig

That's because they have no ulterior motive. They report news and not bend or stretch the truth to fit their narrative and beliefs. It's called the truth...what a concept. You're absolutely correct, Frontline is good stuff and I can never get enough of the narrators voice.

Where are the women!!!! I demand equality

That's not entirely accurate. Some of their journalists aren't capable of excluding their opinions or dont identify their ideology or . A few of their episodes have been heavily laced with opinions that are purported to be the facts. I don't consider Martin to be in that group. In my opinion he's a true investigative journalist and a man with integrity. Unfortunately for us the same can't be said for all of Frontline's journalist's

​@@ericargo9157 they aren't beyond bias. They have done plenty of broadcasting with motives, and agendas.

@@Number4lead Examples of their bias, motives and agenda please.

That doesn't ring true at all. You sound more like a sycophant revelling in the false feeling of camaraderie you've created for yourself with your comment. Are you sure you're not writing from the perspective of your uncle?

I hope they light that tower up until it looks like daylight. It's really fascinating how we are all the same species, yet some of us are afraid to go up a 6' ladder. Others have no problem climbing a 1,000 tower.

I am so sorry for your loss, After seeing this Frontline Docu. I was ashamed I have AT&T such a cut throat Company, I know there are more but I'm getting rid of them, can you recommend a Michigan Internet Company that takes care of it's workers Please. Thanks Virginia

@@Tattiehoker Noone in this thread suffered any loss, but bless you for your offerings.

@@michaelc3977 You're probably correct. This is thumbs-up [like] bait. Fatalities are rare if the information presented is true. Chris might think 1 is too many. Could be true. Could.

Thanks bro .Good chance I’ve met you lol..been in thousands of hotels all around the country! Haha

They also drink more than they supposed to, and let you make damn decisions next day because you are still dunk.

@stevenbishop3263 live for Jesus bro. Take Jesus with you wherever you go. What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. Mark 8v36-38

@@stevenbishop3263 I know this is an old comment but there's a chance you'll reply. I want to get into tower climbing and I want to be able to travel the country. What company do you work for and where are they based out of?

“Do or do not. There is no try” -Yoda

I did my tower after the 3 day course. Zipped up and down a 400 self supporter, felt good! Told I did a great job, always clipped in. That weekend I had night terrors of falling for the whole weekend and walked into work on Monday and told my foreman that my subconscious will not let me do this job. I feel mad at myself because if you asked me to climb today I would be so down, but the panic attacks come at night when you get to relax your mind. Mad respect for all climbers

@@brunovanhoose6854 ya it's not for everyone.

​@@brunovanhoose6854 Don't feel mad at yourself. We all have different talents & strengths. You're very wise for listening to your body. I wish you well❤

As someone who has climbed many buildings and a few towers like this (sober) with no equipment, just 'planning' and a desire to take fun pictures, it hasn't really occurred to me before that there are 'professions' that do this as well... People who may not have an actual interest I'm being up there, and like the guy who got $600 and a plane ticket to go climb something, no real (I'm presuming) experience in the gym, doing this.... wild

Funny how we change as we age. I know exactly what you mean

Lose your...................What???

Bit of Valium and you will last 20 more years.

Used to do scaffolding, industrial painting, stage building, all of it was free climbing. I never liked the heights but for some reason i have a head that can operate in tremendous stress and can override fear. Now i'm 49 and i get vertigo past 3 meters/10ft..

Me too, last week I had to install a lighting fixture in the ceiling and I couldn't handle a four foot ladder.

That's astounding. I have one word: no union. Mariners are union. Even for a consulting engineer who has to climb a mast (me) even though I am not union, the shipowner and my own firm is not going to go rogue and put a different set of demands. These climbers need a union.

21 hours. You better have had 14hrs overrm time. Double TIME! Glad you were harnessed off brother. Im a commercial painter and it get oretty hairy what i consider high. 40 feet and you fall you're probably dead. Orvbroken bones with weeks in the hospital or paralyzed. And who knows what might still give you problems later. I understand we have a deadline, but thats impossible at the beginning of a 1yr or 2yr job.

@I'm Going Supersonic they throw money at urgent jobs. I can't remember if it was all double or triple time plus 3 days of perdiem, but it definitely was where money is made. If I recall correctly, it was a Sprint site and they wanted it done by Monday. We did it all, hung and tuned antennas, ran and hung the coax and finished up to the shack in that time. There was 3 of us and I was the guy on the tower. We had one on winch and one rigging. We would also sleep between sections when constructing towers. Looking back, all sorts of stupid things that I wouldn't do now.

That's fucking crazy, glad you're alive. Risked your life for some shareholder's dividends

There is a special place in Hell for anyone who would pay a man only $14 per hour for that kind of work, even back then.

I know someone that used to paint bridges. Dude made killer money but it was grueling, dangerous work. Many injuries and now he's always in pain nowadays, obese and popping prescription Hydrocodones.

I did hit and Miss Red and white painting with a glove on my right hand in 70’s I was desperate for money!

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Safety should be more dependent on other things besides luck, Chooch but I hear what you're saying. You were smart to get out when you could.

I did comms towers for 3 1/2 years. It’s fun, exhilarating, and rewarding. But every single time I climbed that steel, I kept in my mind just how sketchy what I was doing was. So glad I’m out of it now

I am very sorry hope GOD keeps him safe.

I can't even imagine the thoughts racing thru his mind in 13 seconds... My brother used to climb radio/TV towers back in the 70s and 80s to inspect/change the beacon bulbs and other repairs... He did it without incident, but had plenty to tell... RIP to your friend Kevin...

RIP !!

Wow, that is brutal and like you said, a long time especially when you know what’s coming

It's actually about 8 seconds but still an awful way to die.

Best gear, full instruction including safety encompassing on the job consumption of any drug legal or otherwise, seasoned lead would be our best thanks . Not everyone is about the bottom line. Lives matter

:3 😮^_^

​@@dawnreneegmail besides what I just left in the comments. Hehe

:D :3 If we had Nikola Tesla in control like what could have been, the world would have wireless electricity. Instead, we have a bunch of disgusting looking, dangerous, way too high up, power cords around America and the world. Those wires can be right on top of the ground or under, with shielding around the cables, for safety, easier maintenance, and no worries of electric storms hitting them. America's electric grid look is the work of fraud and laziness. In some ways, I feel bad for the people who fall from these towers, but I know some are Neo-Nazis and KKK because that's prevalent in America, so not so much. Plus, if America wasn't so greedy, and had the Nikola Tesla system, we wouldn't have towers so high and people needing to work on mediocre cables. They chose that career though. I didn't ask them to. So, that's their fault, and they didn't even harness correctly. It's like people going mountain climbing, and trusting gear, trusting the rocks they put the spikes in, etc.

:p They're showing how these companies have methods of hiding from major scrutiny. I'm pretty sure these people who run the companies love to scrutinize in general, but cover their own tracks. China covers up too. Just different forms of corrupt government, an illusion of democracy and choice (which "republic" is only mentioned in the Pledge Of Allegiance, and it's clear as day the majority vote doesn't automatically change a law, hence a republic, and the Founding Fathers fought against political parties existing to not have so much divide and corruption), as even Mao said.

Same

I hear you man. When I was 18 or 20, if I could have met myself at my age today (35), I’d probably have kicked my own old ass. Lol. I am also lucky to be alive, several times over. Took me a long time to grow up a little, but fortunately it did happen. I’ve come to realize it’s actually a beautiful thing, maturing. Stay safe man and let’s make it to old age, what do ya say?

I live in rural Nebraska. Good jobs are scarce out here. I see these help-wanted ads for these cell phone maintenance companies posted on rural highways all around here.

Worked on water towers from 77-2021 in the coating industry. The installation of cell phone antennae on water tanks made the dangerous job even more dangerous. From changes in rigging to the changing of the structures engineered designs. It's surprising that more accidents don't happen. Your video at the beginning even shows a climber climbing incorrectly, not using 3 points of contact.

Well said

Some clearly nothing has changed and due to these places not paying for higher quality worker because they wanna save money

I got out of the industry when people started working for cheap due to companies like Bechtel taking all of the work and all of the profits!

Came to the comments to see if anyone knew if the situation has been resolved. Sadly, it appears the answer is "no".

Pride and Ego are the most dangerous thing on that tower that prevent you from properly protecting yourself.

I wouldn't climb them for $30 an hour even with a harness.

💔

Sorry for your loss bub

Sorry for your loss, may your dad RIP!

I'm so sorry for your loss.❤‍🩹💌

Hope tgst crappy company paid your family millions

The men who consider us 'goys' think; money first. And there is no second.

Same shit seems to happen in all industries, I used to drive buses in SE London as I was always careful when there was a defdct in the bus, making sure engineer would sign it off etc, they'd often ask us to drive unsafe buses in route, I always refused, and they would always make threats abiut disciplinaries, and they old "XYZ driver done it earlieror whatever

good call Murray

we need more people like you

It's because there's pressure to continue making money for the company. Funnier yet is that the people actually doing the work don't get a penny more from doing 40x the work with the same number of people.

@@dansamarco1610 you are quite right. That job I was talking about they had to abort 3 times and every time they did it was £8000 down the drain. Most of the time the people in the office don’t have a clue and they were the ones organising the job. The guys on the ground turn up with everything stacked against them. Another time we were in Liverpool and there were 6 guys on site from 8am. They’d already travelled 100 miles. 10.30 rolls round and I ask them what time their delivery was arriving, he said head office had arranged it. So he called them only to find out it was still about 200 miles away and would arrive at 4.30pm when it would already be dark. Numpty’s.

You climbed towers on a trucker's diet?!!? Kudos & thanks for your dedication!

How much was the pay?

It’s always that one key word: “was”

Yep, these are some of the areas where automation would be beneficial

@@josephsimmons9241exactly

Are bridge workers the same as iron workers?

​@@lildannefantom6195 Yes. Bridgemen are usually union iron workers.

It crossed my mind right away!! Hope they will do it!

I hope your dad is doing ok now.

woah! sorry to hear that, hope you are doing better now

It happened around 2003/2004. I was really little but I remember visiting him in the hospital. He was in a wheelchair for a long time but these days he’s walking again. I think the worst part was the pain medication’s long term effects of you know what I mean…it’s been hard, not to be too personal. But I’m glad he survived because I wouldn’t be who I am if I didn’t have him showing me what it meant to survive and be tough.

Man. The double whammy. First the catastrophic accident. Then it’s at the height of doctors overprescribing dangerous opioids.😢

@@mattkaustickomments right? You aren’t kidding 😅 The system is so rigged that’s all I can really say about it!

This has been my experience as well working for GC's

Yes, that's right. I'm a tower crane operator, and all these labors and Forman try to work fast, and I tell them I'm not gonna rush anything. Safety is first for me, and I'm also looking out for you. They don't understand the dangers, and every pick we do can be catastrophic.

NAVY dont skip on safety, Been aloft on mast at sea on numerous platforms spanning over a quarter century. Safety is paramount not just for falling, but for rotating and radiating antennae and radars and to include weather/seastate conditions with numerous checklist to meet, never once seen or ever heard of any casualties, even the harnesses have to be pre inspected prior to. going aloft.

:D :3 If we had Nikola Tesla in control like what could have been, the world would have wireless electricity. Instead, we have a bunch of disgusting looking, dangerous, way too high up, power cords around America and the world. Those wires can be right on top of the ground or under, with shielding around the cables, for safety, easier maintenance, and no worries of electric storms hitting them. America's electric grid look is the work of fraud and laziness. In some ways, I feel bad for the people who fall from these towers, but I know some are Neo-Nazis and KKK because that's prevalent in America, so not so much. Plus, if America wasn't so greedy, and had the Nikola Tesla system, we wouldn't have towers so high and people needing to work on mediocre cables. They chose that career though. I didn't ask them to. So, that's their fault, and they didn't even harness correctly. It's like people going mountain climbing, and trusting gear, trusting the rocks they put the spikes in, etc.

😮^_^

😳 oh man‼️When I viewed this documentary upon first release I caught on to how important to get down before dark. Wow to you sir👍🏻

That is slightly insane.

try drinking a bottle of vodka before you go to steady your hands.

@@scorch4299 the roofers breakfast of champions

@@scorch4299 Better to take a valium. As long as it doesn't make you dizzy. Alcohol is far worse. Better yet, go up sober.

And $10 hr 🤬🤬

Honestly, not much at all. The only thing that's changed is the cost of equipment, insurance, etc due to inflation.

Did fiber for 15 years . Terminal and regenerator sites . Complete shit show also . But not dangerous. Only in the power bays

I hope you’re at peace today brother!

I worked the transition from analog to digital (both cell as well as broadcasting). I fell while stripping a tower of dishes for Disney due to high winds. My fall arrest saved my life but the dish I was holding at the time of the fall destroyed my back (I couldn't let it go or it would have potentially snapped a guy wire and/or hit someone on the ground). Longest time I spent on a tower was 21 hours, I first touched the tower Saturday morning and didn't touch the ground until Sunday morning. That was a record at the time. I too have had a healthy fear of heights both before and definitely since working towers. I still have one of my safety harnesses that reminds me of that life as well as a Fisker and some other fall arrest systems. This episode brought a lot of that life back.

Was that call in Tucson on the east side? A friend of mine disappeared years ago and we looked and looked but could never find him. Two years later, a technician from TEP went down a manhole and found my friend, yup, on his knees bent over a bunch of copper wires with the bolt cutters still in his hands. He had completely mummified in an instant cutting the wrong wire and there he was intact. It was very sad. He was 52...a super smart, sweet guy who had lost his way after losing his entire family to freak accidents within the three years prior. Little did he know, he would be next. He shouldn't have been down there obviously. It turns out the guys who dropped him off at the manhole at night came back an hour later, lifted the cover and knew exactly what happened from the smell and drove off. I remember speaking to these dudes when we were looking for my friend and they acted like they had no clue, hadn't seen him. Then one day, almost two and a half years later, a Tucson Electric Power worker went down the hole on a service call and found him mummified with his clothes on in an kneeling upright position and his license in his pocket. Very scary and sad. After that, I learned that others would pull the copper wiring up from the base of the radio tours, risking their lives as well for a few dollars. I had no clue.

Crazy

Thats right

That’s right. I’m in the same industry. And I think when you start getting comfortable and cocky that’s when accidents happen.

That's right. If you don't respect the height, it will crush you.

I winced when they said the dude got paid $10 hr to break ice off a tower 200 feet up

😢😢😢😢😢🎉😢🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

I'm sure the internet words from the exact people that forced the rapid expansion of towers just solved all their problems. Are you actively working to improve conditions for these workers? If not your words are hollow and you just want to make yourself feel better for your phone addiction.

Even more disgusting you would be sacked if you complain

Yeah thanks for helping to irradiated everyone !! Nor.

I can totally understand that

As someone who has done a bit of height work (not tower) once you go over 20 ft you have to be very careful with handling tools, as you can really hurt someone with a simple dropped tool. It changes they way you work

Same as most fatal auto accidents happen within short distance from home after travelling for hundreds of miles.

@@MikeBarbarossa I didn't even think about the issue of dropping tools from hundreds of feet up but you could not be more spot on. My wife and I, while driving, will often look at tall towers and challenge each other.....either she or I will ask, "would you climb to the top if a million dollars awaited?" MY answer is always, "not a chance in hell!"

@@sbh344 Isn't the statistic like a half-mile from one's home? I work at a high school with a closed campus. When my students complain about not being able to leave campus for lunch, I show them the news report from last year where 5 high school students climbed into one vehicle and in their rush to go out and get their lunch at a local fast food place, the driver failed to accurately insure that traffic was clear enough to make a turn and t-boned by a semi.....all 5 kids were killed. The answer I get back is, "that won't happen to us...." At 16, 17, 18.....I, too, felt indestructible!

I did the same, got out in 07 did Helmets to Hardhats and joined a IBEW Union Data company. I guess it was an easy transition coming out of military and pay was good. Eventually it got unsafe, equipment wasn't being replaced on time and just starting getting sketchy so I decided to stop climbing. We did mostly prevailing wage work so we got Hazard pay which added to our pay. Overall it got to rich keeping up with all the saftey so the company eventually moved a bit away from the wireless.

Nothing is free, we are all a marketing pon

It's not free jack wagon. You are paying via ads, or for ad free subscription and also paying taxes which pays PBS. The general public so blind and willfully unintelligent.

I want to a tower climber and I was wondering how much you travel. Do you stay mostly within your state, a few surrounding states, or go anywhere they need you?

OSHA has many rules that utilities as public companies have to adhere to. Part of the reason this documentary is so chilling is the big cell phone companies figured out how to hide their liability thru subcontractors.

100+ deaths in 20 years - what are the chances Frontline will do a documentary on 100s of 1000s of "vaxzeen" deaths in the last 2 years? Major funding of Frontline by the maker of vaxzeens.

That's the problem. If ATT had their own people doing this work it would be different. The safety protocol and enforcement (and pay!) for a union employee 18' up on a pole and a sub of a sub of a sub 200' up on a tower is night and day. You spend a week or two learning to climb poles safely, and safety is enforced on site by people who work for ATT. On the towers? Some of these guys can leave McDonald's, get a 3 day course for a Comtrain card, and be up on a tower that week. The turf vendor has a bunch of subs running around- no one from ATT is under a tower, let alone on a tower watching these get built.

" If a company fires you for refusing to work in unsafe conditions, thank them for saving your life." There needs to be a federal law requiring all the telecom companies to have all climbers read and sign a paper with that statement on it before starting work.

PAVE PAWS the early warning radar at Otis ANG base on Cape cod was frequently needing repair the workmens would get on the array and be told it was safe. Their tools began to glow from the heat they got off. The DoD is another one that lies and lies to workers about safety of the situation.

You nailed it....! Good ole fashioned corruption!

It seems the cell phone companies care more about their bottom line(how much money they can make) than worker safety. "Cell towers could be built with more safety features in place."

The US was founded by the rich to exploit the poor...even rebelled against their country to make even more $ and not have taxes. The entire "American dream" is propaganda designed to bring as many poor immigrants to the US to exploit to death for profits. They used racism and lack of education with misinformation to jeep workers from uniting as well as the army to murder en masse striking workers on several occasions as "rioters" and still to this day use police to abuse protests claiming they are "riots"when most often the only violence is conducted by the govts against the Citizens. The whole idea of "upward mobility" is also misinformation as the US is at the very last of the list of western countries for that... We CAN fix it if we transition more to social democracy and eliminate corporations bribing politicians ...the right wing side of govt is fighting in the other direction wanting to eliminate democracy and regulations...which they had to destroy their education system in the States that elect those pplkt8cans to get them to agree with their orwellian policies

demonic conspiracy.

Capitalism always equals corruption. The two are synonymous.

Having enough rest is the key to all jobs especially dangerous ones

Where are the women!!!! I demand equality

Your welcome 🤝

That means that your employer is accepting "stupid deadlines". Hopefully they don't encourage sketchy safety practices.

Be honest with them and tell them NO, I will NOT risk my life and health for a deadline. I will get the job done safely and as quick as possible. I will go home safe to my family and you get to keep your business without an OSHA investigation and fine. If they don't like that find another job and quit as soon as possible, they don't give a crap about your skills and safety.

And you should be the number one in your own safety. If you take short cuts it is on you.

There is a reason that almost all Cellular Companies have SOLD their Towers, and Farmed Out the repair work on existing towers with their equipment on them to other companies or sub-contractors.

@@Snapper314 What in your opinion is that reason?

I live with an injury myself (from other things). When that first gentleman teared up from viewing the footage from his accident I wanted to hug him so bad. 😢

me 2 I only worked for two months and left..i was so scared and 2slow that I started to forget safety protocols, I saw that it was not for me and I quit

:3 :3 If we had Nikola Tesla in control like what could have been, the world would have wireless electricity. Instead, we have a bunch of disgusting looking, dangerous, way too high up, power cords around America and the world. Those wires can be right on top of the ground or under, with shielding around the cables, for safety, easier maintenance, and no worries of electric storms hitting them. America's electric grid look is the work of fraud and laziness. In some ways, I feel bad for the people who fall from these towers, but I know some are Neo-Nazis and KKK because that's prevalent in America, so not so much. Plus, if America wasn't so greedy, and had the Nikola Tesla system, we wouldn't have towers so high and people needing to work on mediocre cables. They chose that career though. I didn't ask them to. So, that's their fault, and they didn't even harness correctly. It's like people going mountain climbing, and trusting gear, trusting the rocks they put the spikes in, etc.

:o They're showing how these companies have methods of hiding from major scrutiny. I'm pretty sure these people who run the companies love to scrutinize in general, but cover their own tracks. China covers up too. Just different forms of corrupt government, an illusion of democracy and choice (which "republic" is only mentioned in the Pledge Of Allegiance, and it's clear as day the majority vote doesn't automatically change a law, hence a republic, and the Founding Fathers fought against political parties existing to not have so much divide and corruption), as even Mao said.

@@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked How many times are you going to post the same thing?

Thank you for sharing your story. Im a Class A-Lineman ( High Voltage & Substations) up in Baltimore and can confirm this career is a calling. Once it gets in you, you hope your body allows you to do it for many years to come. Im sure your husband misses every moment not being out there. But family is important ! If things begin to cause you to lose focus, that moment may very well be your last. I hope he and your family are doing well. And tell him we’ll continue to walk the line for guys like him 👍.

@@christophersnyder5812 that is so nice of you to say. My name is in the cement on one tower. And he would very much appreciate your thoughts. He passed in 2017. You guys are doing a great job in my book. It took him a while to realize he wasn't 20 anymore. 😊 It takes real passion for the work to do what you do. I haven't cried about him in awhile. But your comment brought tears to my eyes. A flood of great memories came back to me. Thank you so much for your kind words. RIP my dear Dan. And you be careful. Much, much love 💕

OH, almost forgot: our safety straps were leather and were 14 years old. The Army didn't care about our safety.

@@kenhamasaka2524 sure you did ken

@@kenhamasaka2524 I have no doubt you are telling the truth. What military truly cares about its troops? The whole point is training young people to die and the attitude when they do die is, "There's more where that came from."

I was a lineman for 20 years pulling strand out over mountains, and we only free climbed poles and laughed at people that hitch hiked( climbing with safety around pole) we worked in all weather snow and ice in winter and the harder the storms the longer and harder we worked (and the more money we got)

@@kenhamasaka2524 yeah I was getting out of it by the time all the regulations were starting to get bad, we were sub contractors getting paid by the foot, started drilling poles with bracing bit cause a didn't want to carry gas drill and gas jug , Right before I quit I was using 20 volt DeWalt drill to drill poles when I had to climb

@Zen Generally MEI will do that if it's an unexpected death. Medic generally arrives and confirms DOA, then the body is TOT (turned over to) law enforcement for scene investigation, then TOT medical examiner for their investigation and transport. Medic will usually only transport the body if it's an expected death, such as with a hospice patient etc.

Unfortunately that's true