“At the top of a six story building when working alone as a bricklayer I discovered at the end of the day that I had over 500 pounds of bricks left over. To avoid carrying them down the six storeys by hand I decided I would lower them down using the barrel and pulley attached to the roof.

Once the ropes were secured at ground level I returned to the roof and began to fill up the barrel. I then returned to the ground to free the rope and because the bricks weighed almost 5 times more than I did, I made sure I had a firm grip of the rope before releasing it. As you would imagine I was launched off the ground quite quickly and did not have the common sense to let go of the rope.

Proceeding at a rapid rate up the side of the building I was around the height of the third floor when I collided with the barrel causing the fractured skull and broken collarbone. Continuing my rapid accent I was stopped only by my fingers getting dragged into the pulley system.

Fortunately I had the foresight at this point to retain my tight grip of the rope despite missing half my hand. However at about the same time the barrel crashed to the ground subsequently spilling its entire contents. Now weighing double my opposite load, we began to swiftly change places which accounts for my two fractured ankles and lacerations to my legs and lower body.

Thankfully the collision was enough to make the remaining three storeys fall less fatal. Unfortunately as I lay on the pile of bricks with three broken vertebrae and the formerly mentioned injuries, I did not have the common sense to continue holding on to the rope…

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