re: Huge scaffold collapses outs One Shell Square

Who is the company doing the work?

Is it One Shell Square Building?

Yeah in Texas for certain. In Louisiana it typically was always carpenters out of the union hall which were the carpenters that couldn’t actually read a tape measure so they showed up at the hall daily looking for work. White and black guys and even though the unions are pretty much gone it has just kind of stayed that way. Plus they build a lot of industrial scaffold and not enough of the Hispanics here can get TWIC cards.

Was the scaffolding set up on the One Shell side, or next to the three connected buildings on the other side? Seems like it would be on the opposite side of One Shell since I know there's construction going on there, but the article sort of implies that it was on the One Shell side.

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I remember when Patent Scaffold was the major scaffold player in New Orleans many years ago. Office and yard under the Huey P. Those guys could build a scaffold.

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I worked for them in '95. Office and yard was in Pearl River then.

Worked on a boiler crew in every paper mill in Arkansas and Mississippi it seemed.

And that's why you don't be a tight arse and rent boom lifts

That scaffold cost more per month than a man lift. Not counting the E&D.

Do you know who's label that is?

In 1983 I got a summer job building scaffolds at Waterford 3 nuke plant. I had to join that fricking labor union in NO. Hardest work I ever did.

None of our shite collapsed like that, I guess because we could add fractions and shite.

right on a LEO car. Good luck with your citations.

In other news, liability lawyers cause multiple accidents throughout the city as they rush to the scene.