"Falling Down On The Job", Way to Die #63, is the sixth death to be featured in "Sudden Death", which aired on December 22, 2010.
Plot[]
Mike, who is a lazy construction worker, needs to climb up the building. His technique is to use a counterweight as the "human elevator" to hoist himself up. However, the rope snaps when Mike is almost at the top and Mike falls to his death because the counterweight wasn't designed to carry a load like Mike. He dies from multiple fractures and hemorrhaging.
Transcript[]
(Surreal and Dark Death is playing)
Mike: Hey, Jock! Lower that rope down.
-Narrator: Mike, was the good benefic son in Smith and son construction.
-Mike: C'mon. Come on, give it to me.
Mike: I got a brilliant idea.
(In bathroom, other workers bang the door because Mike didn't finish reading his magazine book yet, Repeat after me is playing)
Narrator: When he wasn't annoying everyone he worked with,
(Back to the story, Mike puts his left foot on the rope)
Narrator: he was raising his level of laziness to new height.
Mike: Alright, bring me up.
(Intense Insane Orchestral Chase is playing)
Jock: Are you nut?
Narrator: Mike's latest jackoff move:
Mike: Pull me up, Jock!
(Jock pulls the bucket down while Mike mounts up)
Narrator: Hijacking the counterweight system use to hoist tools, and using it for his own personal elevator.
([ ] is playing)
Dr. Vahe Ghazikhanian: According to Newtonian mechanics, basically if you have a pulley and you have two masses hanging from two ends.
(CGI shows the weight inside of the bucket (V= πr2h) and the human weight (2 ingots of 50 LBS and an ingot of 90 LBS (Total: 190 LBS)))
Dr. Vahe Ghazikhanian: As the person starts moving up, the some of the forces is no longer zero. And that means the other side of the pulley is exerting force, so it's going down.
Mike: Come on.
Jock: Hurry up!
Mike: I'm tiring do all the hardwork here.
([ ] is playing)
Narrator: But just as Mike was about to reach the top...
-Jock: Come on, Mike. You're almost there, bud.
-Mike: Come on.
(The rope snaps, the bucket lands loudly, Mike falls)
Mike: (SCREAMS)
(Mike falls and dies)
Jock: OH! God! Oh!
(Replay of the rope physic, [ ] is playing)
Narrator: The counterweight wasn't designed to carry a load like Mike. Mike's weight + the weight of the bucket, was too much for the tensile strength of the rope.
(The rope snapped, Future Heartbeats is playing, the bucket lands loudly, Mike falls and dies)
Dr. Ramon Cestero: The construction worker pro experienced the number of injuries, as such as er... rib fractures, femur and fibular fractures, fracture pelvis as well,
(CGI shows when the human hits the ground, the cervical fractures)
Dr. Ramon Cestero: but the Le Fort injure most likely due to significant brain hemorrhage.
(Recap of Mike in the bathroom, Death by Bells is playing)
Narrator: Mike was the boss' son who never put in an honest day of work in his life.
(Other workers knock the door)
Mike: Little busy, here. Working.
(Mike puts his left foot on the rope)
Narrator: But don't worry...
Mike: Alright, bring me up.
Jock: Are you nut?
(Jock pulls the bucket down while Mike mounts up, the rope snaps, Mike falls)
-Narrator: because Mike will never have to lift a finger...again...
-Mike: (SCREAMS)
(Mike dies)
Segment Description[]
Description as seen on the Spike TV website
- "A lazy construction worker devises a faulty pulley system to get him to the roof. Unfortunately, it gets him to the top and then breaks sending him plummeting to his death."
Cast & Interviewees[]
- Matt Allmen - Mike (Lead: Intended victim)
- Vahe Ghazikhanian - Nuclear Physicist
- Ramone Cestero - Trauma Surgeon
Trivia[]
- In the German version (1000 Wege ins Gras zu Beissen), the death is set five years ahead of 1993 (this was probably a mistake done by the editors).
- Also known as "Destruction Worker" on the Spike TV website.
- It is based on the death of a 37-year-old window washer.
- Mike's death is similar to that of Lumpy's injury before death in Happy Tree Friends TV series episode, "Concrete Solution" and Mime's death in Happy Tree Friends TV series episode, "Home is Where the Hurt Is".
- This is the last death interviewed by Dr. Ramon Cestero, and last death interviewed by someone under profession name "Trauma Surgeon".
- This is similar to what happened to Paddy in the Irish song "The Sick Note," except Paddy's accident had to do with carrying a load of bricks.
- Ironically the next three deaths (by number) all involve falling. (Habeas Corpse, Somewhere Over The Railing, and Guitar Zeros.)
Foreign names[]
- Engenheiro de desconstrução (Desconstrution Engineer) - Brazilian Portuguese dub
- Trabajo en Picada (Work in Falling) - Latin American Spanish dub
- Accidente Laboral (Work Accident) - Spanish dub
- Falscher Fahrstuhl (Wrong Elevator) - German dub
- Aksidente ka Trabajo: Kanit Halanas (Work Accident: Fall in Your Death) - Lazoran dub
Segment Nicknames[]
- Destruction Worker (Spike TV)
Goofs[]
- When Mike falls to his death, the resisting actions on him show that the clip is clearly sped up.
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