Roof Safety and Preventing Falls
The last couple of days, I've been cleaning and waxing the FW. One of the jobs is to clean and coat the rubber roof. Since the roof on a fiver is about 10-12 feet to the ground, a fall could be cata...
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bucky wrote:
Extending the ladder well past the roof edge helps greatly in getting back down. My Jayco has an edge that the ladder rests against, so no damage. I don't really trust the installed ladder, if I need to go up in that area I still use an extension ladder.
We had gentleman doing just that in our park this last week. He was on the roof, transferring to the ladder, slipped and fell. His leg got caught in the ladder about 6' off the ground on the way down. He hung there for about 20 minutes until F&R could cut him out of the ladder. Compound fracture and broken wrist..... not worth it, hire a professional, they have to make a living too.
