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3 Simple Steps to Reduce the Risk of Falling Objects on Your Construction Site

July 29, 2016 Shane Hedmond
Photo by Tim Green, CC BY 2.0

Photo by Tim Green, CC BY 2.0

Remember that day in school when the lesson was about the acceleration of free falling objects. The science teacher asked an interesting question. If you dropped a feather and a hammer out the window at the same time, which would hit the ground first? According to Galileo, all things should fall at the same rate, regardless of their weight, right? That’s a valid theory and it was actually illustrated at the end of the Apollo 15 moon walk. In 1971 astronaut, David Scott, performed the experiment and had both items land simultaneously.

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In Safety, Project Management Tags construction, construction safety, falling objects, how to avoid getting hit by falling objects, falling objects job hazard, fatalities caused by falling objects, amount of deaths caused by falling objects in a year
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