18th February 2011, 01:18 PM
This should be a much needed wake-up call for all archaeologists at every level across the industry. The fact is, if a trench collapses and covers you at any point above the waist, circulation to the legs and abdomen can be lost resulting in anything from crush injuries, through loss of limbs and up to death. As a previous poster stated, we have all done things which are absurd in the course of our jobs in this industry and many of us will pale at the thought of the possible outcomes when we actually stop and think about them. Perhaps we wouldn't do them again, or perhaps adrenalin will lure us into that false security.
But it isn't just personal common sense and paper which will effect a necessary change in our practises, its for those of us who now know better to turn around to someone just out of uni or our mate who's been pulling off the same risky manouvers around machine buckets for all his/her career, and telling them to stop and why.
But it isn't just personal common sense and paper which will effect a necessary change in our practises, its for those of us who now know better to turn around to someone just out of uni or our mate who's been pulling off the same risky manouvers around machine buckets for all his/her career, and telling them to stop and why.