This is a prime example of the very best use of KZfaq. This video deserves major awards, for its message, safety training and artistic accomplishment. It also showcases some great moments in early Hollywood history. This is nothing short of FABULOUS. Thank you very much!

It's what caused the fall of the Roman Empire . . . unsafe use of ladders.

KZfaq is a wonderful thing. One minute your watching Opera and the next you're watching videos on ladder safety.

I hate extension ladders, you have two rungs together but where the upper section ends you suddenly have ONE rung

Tie it off Most deaths or paralysis occur getting 6' step ladders as the break point is between the second and third vertebrae where the average neck line contacts the ground If you're going to fall, jump of vertically they say, then you land in your feet, hit your knees then with elbows protecting your head you roll into a ball then roll and turn impact force into kinetic rolling energy, but better off being tied off on a life line, it simple anchor bracket and rope, takes 5 minutes, Say you have a roof tie down anchor 25' from where you're working at a roof edge, it's 65' from the ground, 70' from the bottom of the elevator shaft, hook your rope around a roof truss right where you're working, so maybe an 8' straight fall would occur if you fell off a wall, however, if you didn't wrap your rope around a close framing member you might be in for a 20 foot fall at the point of drop in only to swing 15' back into a block wall and then your 6' lanyard, so, a 170 lb guy falls, he's at the end of his rope perspective to his fall location, but the anchor point is 25 feet back, he falls for 20 feet in a swing and smashes full velocity 15 feet away into a cmu wall, nominally, but the lanyard or rope with a built in lanyard system (which should then be only connected to your harness D ring and not your 6 foot lanyard) unleashes, so then a 20' swing drop becomes 26 feet of properly connected, or, if improperly connected becomes 6' on the rope with built in fall arrest plus the 20' of rope plus the additional 6' lanyard you're talking s 15' lateral positional fall at the drop point away from Anchorage, and a 32' drop to take you smashing into a concrete stair it elevator shaft, this needs to be reintegrated in OSHA cottages around the globe. It's sometimes impractical to move an anchor every ten minutes, but wrapping your rope around a close framing member plumb up from where you're working might be in order

I stepped off the the third rung of a ladder once, My ankle is painful fourty something years on.

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7:46 Be sure to use a granny knot to tie the top of the ladder into place.

Essential info abt ladder this video make awareness people,worker

Is this really the full length video? If so, I don't understand why it hasn't climbed up in popularity, as it is clearly a step above...

this is a little out of date,,No more wooding ladders or aluminum allowed on job-sites in Florida,,except the access ladder made by hand,,which they did do that part well

6:38 I have no idea what the "front end of a ladder" is. I'm sitting here thinking hard, I can see the video, and still I truly don't even have a guess.

Still sounds great with 1.5 speed. The man talks so slowly haha.

awesome video we showen it in a tailgate meeting employer and employees had their viewports on it but it worked we have gotten new ladder after that. we talked about who is responsible for the ladder on the work site to as a employee we need to take care of them for the employer. most employer will buy new ladders if we look after them. would like to see more of the ladder could have a place we can paint or mark on the ladders some of the jobs the ladder was painted with the company color or we marked them with the name the job site had refuse the ladder's that we painted or marked. we had new ladders stolen they cut the locks off.or we get some ladder back it was not our own ladder we had put name tag with a cable on them too it lasted couple of day how can we mark them to be able take them on to a site

nice pun

But why did the boy take a long ladder with him to class?

Who builds there on ladders?

They told me about ladders