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Post by kevinharrell on Nov 6, 2017 19:44:11 GMT -5
Who is more macho? Coal Miner  Ironworker  |
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Post by flyangler on Nov 6, 2017 20:13:40 GMT -5
I'm going Ironworker , I know cave ins black lung , I'm still going with ironworker.  |
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Post by SylvreKat on Nov 6, 2017 22:04:24 GMT -5
Going coal miner. Iron worker just falls and death. Coal miner has black lung and collapsed mines and slow miserable deaths. Plus explosions.
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Post by oldchopperguy on Nov 6, 2017 23:27:24 GMT -5
Close, but I'll go with the coal miner... Same reasons as Kat, and of course I'm a big fan of Loretta Lynn... You know, "Daddy worked all night in the Van Lear coal mine, and all day long in the fields a hoin' corn..." Gosh, reminds me of my grade-school days... 10 below zero, had to walk 5 miles to school, uphill both ways... LOL!
Leo (if ya' see that canary keel over, run fer' yer' life!) in Texas
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Post by lostforawhile on Nov 7, 2017 7:18:48 GMT -5
Going coal miner. Iron worker just falls and death. Coal miner has black lung and collapsed mines and slow miserable deaths. Plus explosions. but you forget falling 20 or 30 stories onto exposed rebar, gruesome, but it happens,OSHA or not, also these tower guys, it's not "technically" Iron work, but what else would you call building 1000 foot transmission towers? hanging off of them on a carbiner? and a LOT of those guys get killed, far more then in building construction. These carriers subcontract out the jobs, so they can show a perfect safety record,when in fact it's more then 100 dead since 2001. www.propublica.org/article/cell-tower-fatalities |
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Post by SylvreKat on Nov 7, 2017 8:34:13 GMT -5
I didn't mean to imply that ironworkers' deaths aren't horrible. It's just that I suppose their deaths tend to be fairly quick. Whereas coal miners tend to linger on and on.... Even a collapse, they can just be trapped and slowly die. That's why I feel miners are more macho--they go in knowing they might end up in a slow death. Although I can't really envision why anyone would willingly do either job--"Hm. I climb really high up and one wrong misstep and there's no open casket" vs "Hm. I go really deep in and one wrong misstep or bad breath and I wish I was dead already." God bless both professions!
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Post by lostforawhile on Nov 7, 2017 8:43:33 GMT -5
oh yea, it takes a lot to do both, being a miner,one mistake and you are permanently buried, with your body unrecoverable
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Post by wheelbender6 on Nov 7, 2017 20:40:05 GMT -5
"You move 16 tons and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt!"
Me and Tennessee Ernie Ford vote for the coal miner.
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