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Reply To: Man Cage death

I have to agree 100% and I admire your work ethic. A good few years ago while on a tunnel / underground station construction project, permission was gained to use a basket adapted and fitted to the front bucket of a C@t track shovel. The steepness and angle of the tunnel made it virtually impossible to use the cherry picker baskets we had been using. Everything was ok until the operator got bored and thought he could be doing something constructive rather than sitting there watching 2 men in the basket. As he went to exit the cab he caught his hi-vis on the bucket lever and 1/2 dumped the bucket. Luckily the basket was secured and so were the men. It could all so easily have been a very different scenario.