LUCKY WORKMAN
FELL FROM SCAFFOLD NEAR LONDON’S BIG BEN. Edmund Langford, a 29-years-old foreman scaffolder, of Brixton, London, is amqng the lucky folk in this world. While working on a scaffold 120 ft. high on a wing of the Houses of Parliament, close to Big Ben, recently he slipped and fell. As he was plunging down to certain death in the forecourt, liis foot caught on a scaffold board six feet below the spot at which he had been working and jerked him back to safety. His only injury was a sprained ankle. “I must be the luckiest scaffolder in the wofild,” said Mr Langford to a “Daily Mail” reporter. “This io my fourth fall; I really must be more careful or I shall outstay my •welcome with Good Fortune.
“Some months ago I was working on a scaffold 40ft. high when I slippfed, fell about 12ft., bumped into a scaffold board, and was catapulted into an open window of. the buildings which we were erecting. When I landed in that room the workmen were surprised; so was I! “My other two accidents were comparatively simple—in fact, in the first. I only fell three feet before something stopped me. Yes, thinking it over, I must be more careful.”
And Mt Langford hobbled off to bathe his foot.
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Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3467, 17 May 1934, Page 3
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