Fire crews rescue workers stuck in cherry picker
(CNS): The police, fire officers and emergency services were dispatched to Fort Street in George Town around 6pm Saturday after reports that two people working at the location were trapped in a cherry picker lift. Using one of the workers’ extended ladders, they were able to rescue them. The RCIPS said that as the fire service attempted to rescue the workers, police officers cleared the area of pedestrians and motorists.
Emergency medical services remained on standby to assist where needed. The two people were removed from the lift without injury.
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A certain Minister has plenty experience, could have helped but not dark enough.
Comments by people who know. Did these particular workers know what not to do or how to undo? Obviously not!
$6 per hour wages biting the public again!
Could have been worse, glad it wasn’t.
Were these workers checked to see if they had valid work permits for the work they were performing?
Who is their employer?
The one sure thing is that their employer is a Caymanian
“Caymanian”
I am truly curious. I have seen in many posts you put Caymanian in quotes. Why? Your response adds nothing to the discussion, but must have significance to you. Please share what you want to convey. Thanks for your response.
None of your dam business as they are doing work that locals won’t do. Praises to them. More busy buddies sticking their nose where it does not belong
“as they are doing work that locals won’t do for unlivable wages” FTFY
Doing it, but qualified to do it?
Everbody’s ‘dam’ or ‘damn’ business, in a public place, perhaps you were lucky nothing worse happened, ‘buddie’.
Bit hot under your own collar ‘buddie’, are they as qualified as you!
Are you paying for the fire rescue service Mr Bossman! Public service, our business without the ‘dam’.
Alternative headline: People Do Their Jobs, are compensated as such.
shut up as we need these cheap workers to keep prices down.
Must have been a big cherry tree. Glad they made it down alright. Well done to the emergency services.
Should have left them for a while. Overextended the boom…
That was a disgusting response – shame!
Of course opening the pressure relief valve would have worked but no let’s do it the hard way
You cannot fully control the hydraulics, even opening slowly; you risk sudden and catastrophic failure. I’m fairly sure that was what they did after the workers were rescued. It might have even lowered easily, however it isn’t worth the risk.
Do you really think anyone qualified was operating this piece of machinery? Most likely threw away the manual too.
So the workers should have had a knowledgeable coworker on the ground for safety.
Why to drive up costs?