 Five years experience, fell off the rig for about once off the loadage, but it was 21 feet that he fell and I got to help load him on the ambulance that morning so it didn't kill him, it should have killed him, but it pretty much ended his all field career. I had a guy five years ago go up in the derrick on a winter day, been in the derricks for 30 years. So he goes up, he starts laying out on the board and has heavy gloves on on a cold winter day in a coat. He doesn't attach himself to the to the derrick safety belt. He reaches out for the first stand and falls out of the derrick. It's important to train on it just in case something was to happen. You gotta make sure you do it the right way. That way you can secure yourself and secure the person that you're coming out if you're getting down from the derrick. Coming down, coming down! You gotta watch out for these guys. It's very dangerous what they do. They have a hazardous job and anytime they're above six feet anywhere on the drilling rig they need to be wearing their fall protection at all times. You gotta make sure you put that belt on, you know. That's the main thing when you go up there is make sure you have that belt on you. You definitely need fall protection. Anytime you leave the ground until you get back on the ground. You do need fall protection. It's a simple fact that a gust of wind get off balance, lose your balance, get dizzy, something. You have nothing to catch you except that fall harness. In the derrick and you're pulling tubing or something and you're pulling the stands up and you reach out to miss a stand and you slip your footing slips. Well if you have your SLR on which is a saw your block it is gonna only you're only gonna fall eight inches. There's a good chance of taking a slip while they're climbing the ladder and the way the SRL works they'll fall maybe of just a few inches and then it'll catch them. Of course the derrick is the primary concern that's true but we also have floor sometimes they're two foot high, sometimes eight foot high, sometimes ten so we also have sometimes tanks on locations that may have stairways or ladders that fall protection would be required. We use fall protection on a daily basis out here whether it's just cleaning, riding in a man basket, rigging up rigging down. You know on any of the tanks or anything like that anymore the guys are using they don't use ladders in more but more or less hydraulic lifts and they're still strapped in and when they are climbing ladders are using the climbing devices also. Underneath the substructure we have some walkways that go by the BOP. We have a secondary fall protection where they clip in with their lanyard and it just protects them you know from falling above six feet. Like above the dog house above the parts house the oil house the light house anywhere on top of the rig where we have to run the electrical wires. Now basically all of ours is putting down a derrick and and you know that's a that's another requirement that's a hundred percent tile anything over six foot and if my guys are climbing up and down a tank they need to we furnish a body harness with two hooks that they can they can go up and down a tank with. We always inspect their equipment make sure it's in good working condition. You're going to go all the way around your belt, you have your shoulder straps, you're going to check all your clips make sure they're not damaged or broken once again you're checking the stitches these are adjustable once you put the belt on this one is spring loaded so you're going to make sure all of those are moved and when you lock the belt in you want to make sure that it's going to snap it's not going to come loose when you're in the air okay you're going to go around check all your clips all your buckles they're not broken or loose or damaged turn your belt over look at the back your waist straps aren't broken once again checking stitches any kind of abrasions any damages or anything cuts you go to the bottom this goes under your legs this has to be in place this is what's going to hold you up yeah every every morning I have to you know check my hornet's bell everything is okay you know keep clean check it you're not affected just put it on and go to work you know next step I go and check my SRL you know works put it on and go to work you know try to work safety every time we have tailgate safety meetings every morning this is one thing we talk about is our safety equipment they inspect it every day and if anything is torn, punctured, messed up or whatever that is completely eliminated that day when we bring out a brand new one our safety harnesses and stuff that we have the each the derrick man wears it has to be perfectly fit if it's too big he can slide out of it it's too loose it'll fall off of him if it's too tight he's very uncomfortable check your harness make sure all the tags and everything's still in place you gotta make sure it fits you you gotta make sure it fits around your legs or you're gonna be real sore from your legs if you're gonna put them real if you get them too tight your legs will be real sore when you come down so you gotta make sure you get a little slack on it as far as a new derrick hand before we could have anybody go up there anyways we have to they have to go through an observation and we do a evaluation on every hand whether it be a floorhand or anybody goes up to the derrick's the learning how to communicate verbally and by your motions is very important in putting a crew together that will work together yeah it's all about teamwork i mean when you get a crew that works together so good and you have less chance of anything go wrong we have to do it every day he's watching out for each other and caring about who you work with we watch him as he go up we make sure he's in the right place he's supposed to be and make sure he's tied off like he's supposed to be and we don't move nothing on the ground with any lines unless we make sure he's out of the way so he does not get caught up wrapped up in anything we usually pull on our harnesses like if we're going to move and into a different situation or set a different spot we always makes we always put a put a little tension and pull into that little harness that's in the back so and if i don't do that the guys down at the bottom will always make sure that i double check it and they'll yell at me or they'll if the pipe's up there they'll tap on it and make sure i reach around hang on to it yank on it do whatever i have to and then if i have to switch different positions they'll watch me do it and before they even start anything else it's already done they know that it's done it should start with the driller the driller should he's kind of the lead safety man on a crew because he's he's their boss he hires them he brings them out and but everybody's got to look after one another i mean and that just takes time together whether it's day one you've got to you've got to watch out for the the new hire just like you do that dary can has been with us for 30 years you want to get it done and we're paid to get things done but taking a couple extra minutes you know we'll save it right to the hospital and an ambulance it takes everybody to do a good job and make sure everybody goes home because you know you don't want to have an accident out here and have your friend get killed or something and i mean it takes everybody we'd hate to see an accident we'd have to we'd hate to go to somebody's house and tell me you know your dad didn't make it come on because he wasn't following his procedures for his work 100 toff means that you're going to get to go home at the end of the day one slip and it can be the difference between life and death and we always want to make sure that the young kids at home that dad comes home to them you know if you lose that income you know you don't get that much money for workman's comp by the time you get it going and stuff it'll take a while you know so it's better to do it the right way instead of doing it the wrong way or the easy way you know what i'm saying and i always wanted my fall protection there i mean there wasn't no ifs ands or buts about it i got three boys and a and a wife at home that are counting on me to come home every day wear the right ball protection it can save your life take pride in your job work safe don't risk your job your health your family the ability to take care of them please always wear your fall protection