An Oldie but a Goodie
 

From 1932. I get puckered everytime I study this photo. How about you?

That looks like a photo from the building of the Empire State Building in NY. Am I right? It's about the right date.

They built that building in about a year. Amazing. It was finished in 1930 so if the pic is really from 1932 it may be another building.

The Bank of Manhattan Building and Chryslers Building were done a year before that. If it was '32 they were mighty happy to be working. :)

The RCA Building at the Rockefeller Center

I'm terrified of heights, I'd like to have that casual about them... although I suppose I'd have to wish for a better sense of balance to go with it.

No. Way.

I only know it from the posters they sell over here, but its a great photo in a great time!

I suppose OSHA is really a good thing. We have a lot fewer workplace deaths now. But I miss the cool shit they did back then. You never get to see a guy riding on a girder up to be placed at the top of a 50 story building.

Strange thing about that, glatt, is that if you looked at a graph of workplace deaths and workplace accidents over time, you would see a general downward trend and you would not be able to figure out where OSHA began.

The mentality that created OSHA had to build up before OSHA was actually created.

And the mentality is what actually keeps people safer, not federal bureaucracies.

Right. But the beaurocracy provides guidelines and relief from bad actors.

Exactly,....OSHA is a valuable tool for workers, kinda like a big brother you can count on when the bullies are after you.
Unfortunately, when OSHA goes out on it's own without being asked, it generates more stupid blunders and stories that make your eyes roll back in your head, than anything else. Everything seems to point to justify the budget at all costs. :headshake