Dangling Tower Worker In Gwinnett Left Unconscious Until Help Could Arrive - Just Like Our Taxpayers Are Left Dangling by the DeKalb School System, Waiting For Answers

From the AJC:

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga — A worker suffered a shoulder injury after a partial fall from a cell tower on Norcross Parkway Monday night.    (GTCO-ATL comment:  partial fall?  No, it was a real fall.  He was just fortune to have been wearing the proper safety equipment to prevent him from hitting the ground.)

Firefighters responded to the call and upon arrival, they said the man reportedly lost his grip on a climbing peg approximately 125 feet up the tower. He fell approximately 15-20 feet, hit the tower and was knocked unconscious. Witnesses say he eventually regained consciousness and was able to lower himself a short distance to an elevated platform on the tower.   (GTCO-ATL:  How long did it take for 911 to arrive and how much longer till they could reach him?)

A worker suffered a shoulder injury after nearly falling a
100 ft. from a cell tower on Norcross Parkway Monday night.

Officials say the man was part of a contract crew that was doing maintenance work on the tower. Two other workers on the ground called 911.

When firefighters arrived they were able to lower the victim to the ground with a harness. The man was transported to Gwinnett Medical Center for further evaluation of non-life-threatening injuries. The identity of the victim has not been released due to federal patient privacy law.  

(Is there a law that is preventing the family and co-workers as well as the worker from being able to tell the media about the dangers involved in this industry?  Is this type of emergency, potentially traumatizing to onlookers, not just to the worker, something young children should be exposed to by their own school simply because of a small amount of funding it might provide to an undisclosed fund back at the school board's main administrative office?  Contracts that could last for as many as 30  years, with the only out-clause being for the actual tower company and not the school system, are STILL in play with the DeKalb County School Board.  Even though it was two school boards ago and after a major upheaval in the system with the Governor having to remove the sitting board at the time, there are elementary and high schools in DeKalb County that STILL have no clue about their future because a loophole written into ONE contract could be forcing them to wait and worry without any answers.)

If you are concerned that YOUR neighborhood or YOUR child's school may be on a list being kept confidentially by the current school board and administration, please contact your current board member, or email the entire school board along with the Superintendent to inquire.   (EMAILS ARE BELOW.)  Copy us as sayno2celltowers@yahoo.com so that we can help track and consolidate the responses.  We will never make your name or email address public unless you give us specific permission to publish your email.  Our children and our taxpayers who support these schools deserve to know what is really going on.  It  has been nearly THREE YEARS since the original contracts are signed.  

Why can't we have answers about whether or not cell tower contracts with T-mobile, which has stated publically that it is no longer in the tower business at all, will ever be put into full effect?

Don't your friends and neighbors deserve to know whether there is any further legal merit by which to keep them dangling, just like the worker was left on his own in this story until help could arrive?

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