"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 Smith was the good for nothing son of Smith and Son Construction.
He was the boss's son and he took advantage of that to avoid having to work, he bothered everyone he worked with by doing things like using the bathroom to read a porn magazine while everyone else needed to use the bathroom for more important matters and he raised his level of laziness to new heights.
Mike had the stupid idea to ask his co-worker, Chuck, to lower the rope for the counterweight system used to transport tools to the top of the building they were constructing, Mike grabbed the rope with his left foot and told Chuck to pull him up, Chuck asked him if he was crazy but Mike told him to pull him up so he could use the counterweight as a personal elevator.
Dr. Vahe Ghazikhanian: According to Newtonian mechanics, basically if you have a pulley and you have two masses hanging from two ends. 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 started to climb the building and as he went up, he and Chuck were having trouble making the stupid plan work, plus, the counterweight wasn't designed to hold a weight like Mike's, Mike complained that he had to do all the hard work, but just as Mike was about to reach the top, his weight combined with the bucket's weight were too much for the tensile strength of the rope and the rope broke, causing the bucket to fall with a noise and that Mike fall from the top of the building, killing him and horrifying Chuck.
Dr. Ramon Cestero: The construction worker probably experienced a number of injuries, as such as er... rib fractures, femur and fibular fractures, fractured pelvis as well, but the lethal injury was most likely due to significant brain hemorrhage.
Sending him to the Hell where he belonged.
Narrator: Mike was the boss' son who never put in an honest day of work in his life. But don't worry... because Mike will never have to lift a finger again.
Transcript[]
(Surreal and Dark Death is playing)
Mike: Hey, Chuck! Lower that rope down.
-Narrator: Mike, was the good for nothing son in Smith and Son Construction.
-Mike: C'mon. Come on, give it to me.
Mike: I got a brilliant idea.
(In the bathroom, the workers bang the door while Mike ignores them and reads his porn magazine, Repeat after me is playing)
Narrator: When he wasn't annoying everyone he worked with,
(Back to the story, Mike holds the rope with his left foot)
Narrator: he was raising his level of laziness to new heights.
Mike: Alright, bring me up.
(Intense Insane Orchestral Chase is playing)
Chuck: Are you nuts?
Narrator: Mike's latest jackoff move:
Mike: Pull me up, Chuck!
(Chuck pulls the bucket down while Mike mounts up)
Narrator: Hijacking the counterweight system used 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.
Chuck: Hurry up!
Mike: I'm tired of doing all the hard work here!
([ ] is playing)
Narrator: But just as Mike was about to reach the top...
-Chuck: Come on, Mike. You're almost there, bud.
-Mike: Come on.
(The rope snaps, the bucket falls making a noise, Mike falls)
Mike: (SCREAMS)
(Mike falls and dies)
Chuck: 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 probably experienced a number of injuries, as such as er... rib fractures, femur and fibular fractures, fractured pelvis as well,
(CGI shows when the human hits the ground, the cervical fractures)
Dr. Ramon Cestero: but the lethal injury was 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.
Chuck: Are you nuts?
(Chuck 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 Smith (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.)
- The actor who played Mike Smith also played Bubba in Weenie Roast.
Foreign Names[]
- Peso Morto (Dead Weight) - Brazilian Portuguese dub
- Trabajo en Picada (Work in Falling) - Latin American Spanish dub
- Accidente Laboral (Work Accident) - European 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)
- Human Elevator
- Dead on the Job
- Falling For The Wrong Career
Goofs[]
- When Mike falls to his death, the resisting actions on him show that the clip is clearly sped up.
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