Honestly, after the first car slid off the road, he should have been worried for his own safety. I can’t believe he’s so stubborn he doesn’t see that the person most at risk there was himself. And then he’s rigging up to go up in the cherry picker. Good thing you got your harness, there, bud.

This. A million times this. I’m not a lineman, but I’m an IBEW electrician out of NYC. I personally wouldn’t be comfortable in a bucket or boom with those conditions without a flag man, let alone proper cordoning off of a hot roadway. Not to mention the DoT or the DoB would shut you down real quick after the first…

30mph on a blind hill in icy conditions is not a reasonable speed. Period.

Did that too putting out his own cones and closing the road.

Do we want to place bets that this was not a Union state?

In most states, if you have to block a striped rd, then signalers are needed the distance does not matter.

How would this be any different if someone was on the --->side<--- of the road with hazards on?

Although it’s really more about overall safety - this job should have been rescheduled for not in icy weather, or had a traffic assistant/flagperson added. Not so much about their ‘by the book’ cone placement. The ‘cone placement rule’ the driver was stuck on MUST have some variation for inclement weather or dangerous…

I really don’t think the fault lies at all with the first Comcast guy. They were fixing a line literally where a car had gone off the road and damaged the pole, so why would he stand there repairing it without his truck protecting him?

Fair enough.... but even I (even though I am miserable cynical sarcastic prick) would go and warn the incoming traffic before someone got hurt. Geeez man just go on the hill and wave a broom or your underwear!

^^This.

If you go on the linked Reddit thread, some people have dug up the DOT and OSHA rules and to block a road like that, you need multiple lane closure signs way far in advance (before the crest of the hill), the cones need to be spread out much more, etc. Basically the Comcast guys disobeyed every protocol in the book.

There were tons of protocol the Comcast guys ignored. Like you can’t just close a lane of traffic without lane closure signs far in advance (before the hill so people wouldn’t be coming over a blind hill into a sudden stopped truck), the cones barely made a difference because they were placed so close to the truck and…

He did, but the cops didn’t show up until it was all over.

OK, instead of filming maybe... CALL THE POLICE! And perhaps stand on the hill and warn people if you care so dam much?

So what does the law say about blocking a lane of traffic like this, when that one lane is half of the road? If it’s a company owned vehicle and they have business to do nearby, are they allowed to take up half the lanes?

Clearly, you’re more of an optimist than I am.

Looks like they had plenty of extra cones, they just need their workers to not be such huge dickheads and maybe sprinkle some common sense onto them.

I hope the news gets a hold of this and makes some poor schmuck from corporate do the “I’m sorry dance” and all the field tech get to sit through a shitty powerpoint about cone placement.

Me prior to video: “Impossible.”