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  1. Oct 25, 2020, 01:34 PM #1
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    Highway Bridge workers. St. Charles, Missouri. 1904.

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    looks like it's for train to me..... and modern day builders laying around waiting for the free payday......
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    Workers building new Boston post office wear WWI helmets to protect them from fatal rivets, November 1931.
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    so shouldent they stop using fatal rivets??
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    That is the most staged photo yet...
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    Yes, like the dude in the tie would have even gotten his hands dirty there.
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    defiantly not a Model T transmission. Don´t understand the defiance.
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    The worker leaning against the girder on the right, looks like he could slip right off.
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    A certain stage rigging guy like to start inspections by walking on the stage and yelling HEADS! Then count the number of hardhats that hit the floor as most people look up.

    minus two.

    Hard hat not secure
    You looked up right at a potentially falling object
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    flock of birds in the sky, why do you poop in my eye....
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