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Originally Posted by bugstrider
A large set of plumbs were required back then.......
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True. But it doesn't mean that people today would not do the same things if asked. I remember the days of "Get up there or go home and we'll find somebody else that will"
Up until recent years, a certain amount of deaths were figured into each project and the contractors would buy insurance based on the estimated payout on the estimated number of fatalities, dismemberments, paralysis, etc.
Then someone got the idea just to make work safer. Safety goes a bit overboard sometimes but I think it's a better system, overall.