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00:00My name's Mike Rowe, and this is my job.
00:05I explore the country looking for people who aren't afraid to get dirty.
00:10Ah, bad crock. Got me right in a bad place.
00:13Hard-working men and women who earn an honest living
00:15doing the kinds of jobs that make civilized life possible for the rest of us.
00:21Now, get ready to get dirty.
00:26Coming up on this special episode of Dirty Jobs,
00:30Why is my shirt off? Why am I lying on another man who's lying on an alligator?
00:34There's no such thing as perfect safety.
00:36Are you really stuck? I can't move.
00:38And a show called Safe Jobs might as well be called Boring Jobs.
00:42Get up, Mike! Go! Get up!
00:44Get up, Mike!
00:45It's a look back at those times when I had to choose between playing it safe and getting it done.
00:50It's high.
00:51And I said yes.
00:52John, this is crazy high, dude.
00:54And with some scenes never before aired.
00:56I have not seen him operate the train.
00:58There's no way he's going to let me operate that.
01:02It's a dirty, yet delicate balance that can be summed up in two words. Safety Third.
01:06Do I even want to look behind me?
01:08That's incredible.
01:10Oh, God.
01:12Dirty Jobs.
01:13Dirty Jobs.
01:14If no one can see me.
01:16Oh!
01:17Oh!
01:18Oh!
01:19Oh!
01:20Dirty Jobs.
01:20Oh!
01:21Oh!
01:22Oh!
01:23Oh!
01:24Oh!
01:25From the very beginning of Dirty Jobs, my desire to come home in one piece is remain keen,
01:30constant, and unwavering.
01:32Consequently, the expression Safety First always sounded pretty good to me.
01:36Then a funny thing started to happen.
01:38As we traveled from job to job, going across the country to places like this, Safety First
01:44started to pop up around every corner.
01:46It was literally everywhere, to the point where Safety First started to sound like Charlie
01:53Brown's teacher, right?
01:55It's weird because when things start to sound like that, complacency sets in.
01:59And when complacency sets in, accidents start to happen.
02:03So I figured out that if we were going to make it through another season, we were going
02:07to have to say goodbye to Safety First and come up with something that was a little snappier.
02:13So we went with Safety Third.
02:15Look, I'm not trying to pick a fight with my buddies at OSHA.
02:18Believe me, nobody needs that kind of drama.
02:22But after 200-some-odd dirty jobs and visiting just about every state, I'm prepared to weigh
02:29in with a fairly controversial claim.
02:31I'm prepared to tell you right now that Safety, while always in the top ten and usually in the
02:37top five, is never, ever first.
02:41I'll explain as we go.
02:44But first, we begin this program in the same way we start all of our jobs, with a mandatory
02:48safety briefing.
02:49So, pay attention!
02:53The job was inspecting sewers in San Francisco, but before I could go underground, I had to
02:58listen to a very nice man tell me about all the not very nice things that could happen
03:02to me while I was down there.
03:04It's a very wet, hot environment.
03:05You guys are going to be shvitzing like you wouldn't believe.
03:08If we don't have natural ventilation, we will ventilate.
03:11Now, if you've got stuff fermenting and other bacterial action, which occurs naturally in
03:16what's floating around in the sewer.
03:18And there's rats, there's cockroaches and other nasty things in there.
03:21Is that rat pretty much to scale, you reckon?
03:23Do you reckon?
03:24I don't know.
03:25I've not been down there to see.
03:27Risk of engulfment.
03:28You can be engulfed in sewage, raw sewage.
03:31Right.
03:32Okay?
03:33So, if at any point you feel uncomfortable, don't be shy.
03:35No.
03:36Just go ahead and say, this is not my thing.
03:37I need to get out.
03:38I feel uncomfortable now.
03:39You can have a flammable atmosphere.
03:41No smoking in the sewer.
03:42No smoking in the sewer.
03:43Got it.
03:44Correct.
03:45Carbon monoxide.
03:46No cars in the sewer.
03:47No cars.
03:48They are above the sewer.
03:49What happens when you have oxygen deficiency?
03:52Disorientation, confusion, coma and death.
03:55If it's a very low oxygen environment, it doesn't take much to cause death.
03:59So, you just skip over coma altogether?
04:01Yeah.
04:02Go right to death.
04:03You go right to death.
04:04Immediate to death.
04:05Wait.
04:06Four minutes.
04:07Right.
04:08Everybody goes in a confined space, wears a hard hat and coveralls.
04:09A harness for rescue and extraction.
04:11Extraction.
04:12Removal from the system.
04:14Right.
04:15In case there's engulfment.
04:16In case he slips and falls, he passes out, has a heart attack.
04:20It's the engulfment that I keep coming back to.
04:22You like that, huh?
04:23I mean, it's all bad, but it's just an unfortunate term.
04:27Usually, it happens and it does down there.
04:29I imagine.
04:30That mandatory safety briefing put us two hours behind schedule.
04:34Which is another way of saying that mandatory safety briefing was two hours long.
04:40Not that I'm complaining.
04:41The city of San Francisco is required to put anybody through that little crucible before
04:46they go into the sewer.
04:48Now, I'm not saying that they wouldn't have taken the time to properly prepare me for
04:53the sewer had they not been legally compelled to do so.
04:57I'm just suggesting that a hand-drawn, sketched version of a rat can't begin to prepare you
05:03for the real thing.
05:04You smell that?
05:05Yep.
05:06Oh, man.
05:07Oh.
05:08Oh, my God.
05:09Oh, it's raining cockroaches now.
05:10Look at that.
05:11The only part of my whole body not protected is my bare neck.
05:27It's like an open house sign if you're a cockroach.
05:30Oh, God.
05:31You can't kill these things though, can you?
05:33Oh.
05:34Actually, turns out you can.
05:36The only other unprotected area of my protective suit is the very top of my hip boots.
05:41But what are the odds of something falling down there?
05:43Oh!
05:44Damn it!
05:47Even though the two-hour mandatory sewer training would put a glass eye to sleep, at least there
05:51was a certain symmetry to it insofar as it prepared us for an environment that we were
05:55actually going to go into.
05:57But what can you say about a mandatory safety training session that doesn't have anything
06:02to do with the job you want to attempt?
06:05That kind of efficiency can only be explained in one way.
06:09The government.
06:11The NASA Space Shuttle, with the top speed of 3,438 miles per hour, it is the fastest
06:18moving vehicle in the world.
06:20But it's transported to the launch pad by one of the slowest moving vehicles in the world,
06:25moving at a blistering speed of one mile per hour, the NASA Crawler.
06:31The Crawler couldn't exist without the good folks who crawl around on the crawler,
06:35the technicians who keep the vehicle greased up and ready to roll.
06:40I need a little more right here.
06:43Right in here?
06:44Yeah.
06:45Not long ago, I got a chance to help out the Crawler crew.
06:50But first, for some reason, our crew had to get a few tips about confined space safety
07:00from Safety Officer Ed Ryan.
07:02And then put it over your head so that that diffuser is in front of your nose and mouth.
07:06Have you ever seen a case where these don't fit over the person's head?
07:09Now, only when they're trying to wear their hat at the same time they're trying to put it on.
07:13Dave's head is so naturally small, he'll have no problem.
07:16In the confined space, which we never got to see, oxygen could get dangerously low.
07:22But these hoods will give us ten minutes of air and a chance to get the heck out of our tight situation.
07:29Yeah, you have to go ahead and remove them.
07:31Ah, now you're going to remove them.
07:32The hat stayed on.
07:33What is that?
07:34Nailed on or what?
07:35Stapled, basically.
07:36Okay.
07:37Ed tells us that this confined space, which we never got to see, could have other dangers besides lack of oxygen.
07:43Not objects from outside the space falling in on top of you, could also present a problem.
07:48Darkness could be a problem to you that could cause serious injuries.
07:52Uneven footing in the space.
07:55Anything else.
07:56But human fatigue can make any confined space hazard even more dangerous.
08:00Especially when the fatigue occurs in the meeting, where you're supposed to be learning about the hazards.
08:06Might use a hood in there that has an evacuation ventilator or a ventilation ventilator.
08:16Field coordinator Adam Bradley now demonstrates the warning signs of fatigue.
08:21He does such an excellent job with this demonstration.
08:24If I didn't know better, I'd say he was actually tired.
08:28But I know that is not the case.
08:31Like all of our Dirty Jobs crew members, Adam is ever vigilant.
08:35Ready to spring into action at a moment's notice and do whatever is necessary with a smile on his face and a spring in his step.
08:44A shining example of Dirty Jobs excellence.
08:49That meeting was not about safety first.
08:52That meeting was about safety T minus zero and counting backwards.
08:58Personally, I think it's kind of a waste of time to be trained in something you have no intention of doing.
09:04It feels like bad luck.
09:05And if I were a superstitious type of guy, that kind of thing would drive me crazy.
09:10As for Adam, you'll have to cut him some slack.
09:12He's a former Marine who's seen action all over the place and been in many confined spaces.
09:19He nodded off.
09:21It's just ironic that we lost him in a safety meeting.
09:24When we come back, the winds of change blow me and safety out of the top ten.
09:31Then...
09:32It's a body lashing.
09:33Get your tushy on that thing.
09:35A day that starts with my butt in a sling.
09:38Whoa!
09:39And the sling up in the air.
09:41Mike's out of tar.
09:42Easing!
09:44And later...
09:45These are crocodiles and alligators.
09:47Yep.
09:48Getting the job done comes first.
09:50Being entertaining is second.
09:52And safety, a distant third.
09:54You can't really talk about safety without talking about risk.
10:06And the thing about risk is, it's everywhere.
10:09Not just underground in confined spaces or on a factory floor.
10:13Risk is up in the air.
10:14It's in the water.
10:15It's in your bathroom.
10:16It's in your kitchen.
10:17It's in your car.
10:18It's in lightning.
10:19It's in gravity.
10:21Risk is basically Mother Nature's middle name.
10:24You ever try telling Mother Nature that safety is more important than her?
10:29Yeah.
10:30Good luck with that.
10:32I was in Louisiana helping install a giant billboard made of metal during a lightning storm.
10:38Risky?
10:39Now it's like getting in Mother Nature's face and sticking out your tongue.
10:43I don't know why I'm laughing.
10:44I'm surrounded by high tension wires, 30 feet up in the air, holding a piece of welding stuff.
10:50I'll move out of your way.
10:51Woo!
10:52Is that lightning I saw or am I just having a stroke?
10:57There it is right there.
10:59Yeah, you better hurry up.
11:00That's thunder.
11:01All right.
11:02My choice would have been to quit instead of hurry up, but I'm not the foreman.
11:05Woo!
11:06All right.
11:07What the heck was that?
11:08Be quiet with lightning.
11:09Hurry up.
11:10That lightning, if it hits you, we're all dead, man.
11:13Perfect.
11:14I'll see you tomorrow.
11:15Pending death is a deal breaker for me.
11:16But the next day, the weather threw us another curveball.
11:19You know, I'm not a weatherman, but I swear it's getting windier.
11:22The wind is blowing, and that's indicative to picking a sign up.
11:25The rest of it was just play.
11:27This is serious.
11:28We're about to take a ride on a 16,000-pound wind-tossed kite dangling precariously from a cable.
11:35Should be fun.
11:36Eight tons swinging around there on a little cable.
11:38So this thing looks like it's actually anchored, but it's not.
11:41It's hovering.
11:42All right, buddy.
11:43You up there.
11:44Pull that way, Craig.
11:45So, Jenna, this is a game of millimeters.
11:48Millimeters.
11:49And it can be aggravating when you get it so close and you can't get it picked up.
11:52It's got to swing that way.
11:54Tell Brian and Craig to pull.
11:56All right.
11:57That's good.
11:58This is literally, it's like some kind of crazy-ass carnival game.
12:01Let it down real easy.
12:03Just a little bit.
12:04All right.
12:05You got it?
12:06We got one in.
12:07Come on.
12:08Brian got to pull, man.
12:09How do you muscle 19,000 pounds an extra inch?
12:13Look, stick that spud wrench in that hole, man.
12:15Pry it where you want it.
12:16You're kidding me, right?
12:17Yeah, man.
12:18Look at that.
12:19I just moved 19,000 pounds with a spud wrench.
12:21This thing finally came in handy.
12:25The bolts are in.
12:26Now we have an even tougher job of attaching the nuts.
12:29Down there.
12:30You're kidding.
12:31That's the only way to get to them?
12:34You bad to the bone, brother.
12:36I'm impressed.
12:37I'm impressed.
12:42I'm impressed.
12:44You're impressed?
12:45Baby, there ain't a lot of people that do that.
12:47Shit.
12:48It's crazy.
12:49Did you hear that?
12:50Gino just said his job was crazy.
12:52Even though he's wearing his harness and his steel-toed boots and adhering to all the proper safety gear.
12:57So here's the question.
12:59If your job is crazy by definition and you do it anyway, how can safety possibly be first?
13:05For Gino, it isn't.
13:07For Gino, getting the job done comes first.
13:10He'd have been very comfortable 100 years ago aboard the Star of India, sailing around Cape Horn, back when safety first and good luck pretty much meant the same thing.
13:22Preserving old ships takes old-fashioned methods like tar for the rigging and a tiny trapeze for the guy doing the tarring.
13:29So you just sit.
13:30Am I tied into this somehow?
13:32It's a body lashing.
13:33Get your tushy on that thing.
13:38Doesn't seem like much here, Mike, but it's going to seem like even less while you're up there.
13:41I mean, honestly, this looks just weather-worn and boogerish and, you know.
13:47It's traditional.
13:48We've loved it a lot.
13:49Heave away.
13:50Haul around.
13:56It's high.
13:57It's very high.
13:58John, this is crazy high, dude.
13:59You've only got another 20 feet or so to go.
14:01That's great.
14:02Where is your harness?
14:03You're not even tied in, man.
14:04I got two hands.
14:06Okay.
14:09I'm going to be, with this hand, tarring this area right here.
14:14It's called a hound.
14:15And the hound is attached to, you know, all of this stuff.
14:19And it's all got to get tarred.
14:22You see the tar.
14:24The tar is applied.
14:26Okay.
14:31All right.
14:32I'm now, in the interest of living longer, going to poke this camera away.
14:35I'm going to give this camera to John.
14:37He has no problem whatsoever with heights.
14:39And he's probably a better candidate to hold onto this thing.
14:41You know, we'll make a bosun out of you yet here.
14:45I'd switch with you for a week.
14:47No, that's okay.
14:48I've seen some of the places you put your hands.
14:50I don't know.
14:51Hey, get a shot of Troy, would you?
14:54Oh, yeah.
14:55If you think this is risky for me, the Dirty Jobs crew not only goes where I go,
14:59but they have heavy, awkward equipment to wrangle at the same time.
15:03The lengths we go to get a shot.
15:05Hoist me up in the air just to make a black cable blacker.
15:09That bosun's chair is basically a 2x4 with a piece of rope hanging off of it.
15:13And 100 years ago, it represented state-of-the-art safety technology.
15:17Fact is, the most sophisticated and effective piece of safety gear ever invented or yet to be invented
15:23can never hope to compete with personal responsibility, the willingness to assume risk,
15:27good old-fashioned common sense, and most importantly, the ability to hang on.
15:33Coming up, is there a safe way to move an alligator?
15:39I'll give you a hint.
15:41No.
15:43Then flick around.
15:44If you lose your balance and you do this, the next time it will be like this.
15:47Does a shark-proof suit really work?
15:49There's only one way to find out.
15:55And later, going in head first, feet second, and safety third.
16:01Baseball swing.
16:02I'm looking for a single.
16:04There you go.
16:06OSHA wrote the Bible for all things related to occupational health and safety.
16:17And make no mistake about it, OSHA has saved the lives of lots of employees.
16:22But what if you're not an employee?
16:24What if you're more like an entrepreneur who was driving down the road one day
16:27and saw a sign that said, zoo for sale?
16:29What if you bought the zoo?
16:31And then, what if you realized your first day on the job that you needed to move the alligators
16:35from one pen to the next?
16:38Now, I've looked through the OSHA catalog, and I can't find anything in there
16:43that speaks to the proper technique of moving alligators from place to place.
16:47So what do you do?
16:48Well, you hire a guy like Jared, who for whatever reason,
16:52is perfectly willing to throw himself on the back of a hungry reptile.
16:56Otherwise, you might lose your shirt.
16:59These are crocodiles and alligators.
17:04Yep.
17:05We've got a part-way empty pond, the sludge that's left over, croc and alligator manure
17:10that's settled to the bottom.
17:12You need to pressure wash it, get it cleaned up.
17:14It's very important you don't walk up on the side of one.
17:16They can swipe you with their tail, knock you down to their level,
17:19and that's when they can take you out.
17:26Whew!
17:27That's that 3,000 pounds per square inch I was talking about.
17:29It's cute the way their eyes roll back in their head, too, when they do that.
17:32Yeah.
17:37We're losing our ground.
17:38Look, I'm really not sure what to do.
17:41I'm certain that this is the part where all the teeth are.
17:44Eventually, this should annoy him enough to where he walks up on his own.
17:48Or it just eats us.
17:49That's right.
17:51There's one behind you there, just so you know.
17:53All right, this one's not cooperating.
17:55We've got to jump on them, tape their mouth up, and move them onto the bank ourselves.
18:00Maybe it's the wind or maybe it's the noise from the interstate,
18:02but it sounded like you said you need to jump them and tape their mouth shut.
18:07Yes.
18:09All right, that's what we're going to do.
18:10Yeah, yeah, yeah.
18:11I'm going to jump first.
18:12You be right behind me.
18:15Ah!
18:17So rude!
18:18I need your shirt.
18:19My shirt?
18:20Just do it.
18:21Why does it have to be my shirt?
18:23Because I'm busy.
18:27All right, you got it?
18:28All right.
18:29You can't wait.
18:30The minute I hit him, you need to be on top of me, all right?
18:33You ready?
18:34Yeah, yeah, yeah.
18:37All right, hold on.
18:38Put your mouth down.
18:39Why is my shirt off, and why am I lying on another man who's lying on an alligator?
18:45I'm not liking it any more than you are, I promise.
18:55He's kicking me in the testicles.
18:57Is that bad?
18:58Great.
18:59Good, good.
19:00That's good.
19:01That's great.
19:02All right, you ready?
19:03Yeah.
19:04And down.
19:05Though his mouth's taped, his tail still can whip him pretty hard.
19:06Uh-huh.
19:07So we've got to be careful when we get up.
19:08So we're ready?
19:09Right.
19:10One, two, three.
19:11Can I have my shirt back?
19:12The truth is, some jobs are just plain nuts, and no amount of corporate governance is going
19:28to make them any saner.
19:30So the question really becomes, what do you do as an employer to protect yourself against
19:36the lunacy of your own business?
19:39Take Jeremiah Sullivan, for instance.
19:42Jeremiah is an inventor who created a stainless steel suit that keeps people safe from shark
19:49bites.
19:50But what if the suit doesn't work on somebody?
19:54Then what?
19:55What if the lawyers come calling?
19:57Those sharks are really scary.
19:59So Jeremiah protects himself with something far stronger than stainless steel.
20:03He uses a ballpoint pen and a piece of paper.
20:07I've signed a lot of these, but this is a good one.
20:09Consider the use of your net tunic shark suit a last line of defense.
20:14Under no circumstances should anyone ever attempt to encourage or solicit a shark to bite them.
20:19That's what we're going to do, right?
20:20Right.
20:21Good.
20:22Equipment may fail.
20:23In fact, it probably will.
20:24The causes of injury, shark bite, loss of body parts, drowning in death, and or is stupidity
20:31a medical condition?
20:32Come on, Mike.
20:33Just sign it, please.
20:34Discovery?
20:35Am I insured?
20:37After signing my life away, we headed out into shallow waters for a little training dive.
20:44Anything that you flick around, if you lose your balance and you do this, the next time
20:48it will be like this.
20:49Because they're going to probably pick up your hand thinking it's a piece of fish.
20:52During the test dive, the sharks are not encouraged to bite.
21:03But of course, the decision to bite or not to bite is pretty much up to the sharks.
21:11During the dive, the communication system worked just fine.
21:14The air supply?
21:15Not so good.
21:16I was out of air.
21:17I did.
21:18I didn't breathe from the bottom up.
21:2245 feet down.
21:23Out of breath of air.
21:25It went.
21:26Everything locked up.
21:29I couldn't believe it went that fast.
21:31And thank God for Leon.
21:32He ran over.
21:33He looked at my gauge.
21:34He was like, now.
21:35Oh, jeez.
21:36And I'm like, yeah, now.
21:39The next day, after a remarkably shaky safety training dive, Jeremiah felt completely confident
21:45throwing me in with some really hungry, nasty sharks protected only by his fancy chain mail
21:50shark suit, which he said would be just fine.
21:54Of course, he said that about the air system, too.
21:58A
22:05They just
22:08A
22:08Not everywhere.
22:09They're absolutely in the middle of serogenda.
22:12I'm feeling francy.
22:28Jeremiah, don't get out.
22:30Just hold the weight of us.
22:31Jeremiah Sullivan is the epitome of Safety 3rd.
22:45Think about the man's life.
22:47Think about the irony, the dichotomy.
22:50He owns a company that makes safety gear,
22:52but his job is to test the safety gear
22:54by getting bitten by sharks on purpose to keep you safe.
22:58Jeremiah Sullivan is an entrepreneurial crash test dummy,
23:04and he is not on OSHA's Christmas list.
23:06However, I do know somebody who is.
23:09Arthur.
23:10Coming up, meet Arthur Smith,
23:13the man who changed the course of dirty jobs.
23:15You're the first safety guy
23:17that forced us to reconsider our plans.
23:22And later.
23:23I'm looking over there.
23:24I don't see any railing at all.
23:25No, we're up 150 feet.
23:28Yes, in the air.
23:29Some see this show as managed risk.
23:32I prefer to look at it as Safety 3rd.
23:34This looks like every bad movie I've ever seen.
23:36When the rope is on the jagged edge of the rock,
23:38and you're wondering if it's going to hold.
23:45Welcome back to Safety 3rd,
23:47the first dirty job special ever
23:49to celebrate those happy moments of providence
23:52and preparation that come together every now and then
23:56and allow us to do the work at hand
23:58and return to fight another day.
24:01In spite of the title of the special,
24:03safety really is of paramount importance
24:04to myself and my crew,
24:06and that's the truth.
24:07In fact, the United States Army contacted us
24:09a couple of years ago
24:10and asked if we would produce some safety videos
24:12for the troops overseas.
24:14Naturally, we said sure.
24:16And the one I'm going to show you right now
24:17might seem kind of familiar
24:19because we shot it on the same day
24:21we were shooting our 130 job
24:23down at Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina.
24:26Steel toes, coveralls, protective eyewear,
24:29protective earwear, gloves.
24:31There you can see me talking about the importance
24:34of personal protective equipment.
24:37Hey, I'm Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs,
24:38and you know the question.
24:39What can take me or my buddy out of the fight?
24:42Today's answer, an 800-pound tire.
24:46I wanted you to see that
24:48because not two minutes
24:50after we were filming that safety video,
24:53we went back to shooting Dirty Jobs.
24:56And this happened.
24:58I'm going to roll it towards you.
25:00Oh, jeez.
25:07You don't mess that.
25:09Watch out, watch out.
25:12Holy s***.
25:17Wow.
25:19Where the hell did that come from?
25:21It's been two years since the tire fell on you.
25:24And to my knowledge,
25:24you are the only person to ever be injured
25:27in the course of making a safety video.
25:29It's quite a legacy.
25:31I'll be known for something, I guess.
25:32What happened exactly?
25:34You know, Mike,
25:35I just couldn't see it coming.
25:37He couldn't see it coming?
25:39You know why?
25:39Because Troy's job is to hold a camera
25:42on the side of his face.
25:44And he's got one of his eyes shut half the time.
25:46He couldn't have seen it coming.
25:48We should have had his back.
25:50We didn't own the edge that day.
25:52I'll tell you something else
25:53that's just as true, though.
25:55The only way to be completely safe on the job,
25:57to be 100% sure
25:59that you're not going to get hurt,
26:00is to not do the work.
26:02And the entire history of Dirty Jobs,
26:04that's only happened one time.
26:06So without any further ado,
26:07I want to introduce you to the gentleman,
26:10the only guy I've ever met
26:11who truly put safety before everything else.
26:15The result?
26:16No job.
26:17No shoot.
26:18No show.
26:20The job aboard this ship
26:21is to clean the debris out of the waterways.
26:24Our plan was for me
26:26to slip behind the wheel
26:27of this large and powerful crane,
26:29see if I could do that job
26:30without killing anybody.
26:32One person on board, though,
26:33was not too crazy about the idea.
26:36Barski right now is chatting
26:38with the safety,
26:40the safety officer.
26:42Nice fellow.
26:43His name is Arthur Smith.
26:47Arthur's job is to make sure
26:49that none of us perish.
26:52Dave's job is to make sure
26:53we get the most entertaining show possible,
26:55which unfortunately involves me
26:58being in situations of grave danger.
27:01It's always fun to watch a guy
27:04who's dedicated to saving your life
27:06converse with a guy
27:07who's more or less dedicated to ending it.
27:10The person has to be qualified
27:12to operate the crane
27:13because the person that's not qualified
27:15to operate the crane
27:16can hit the wrong thing and drop the...
27:18So Mike's not qualified enough
27:19to operate the crane,
27:20so he can't do it.
27:21Yeah.
27:22I don't know his qualifications.
27:23Oh.
27:24I don't know Mike's qualifications.
27:25Mike has operated a lot
27:27of those type of machines
27:27in past episodes.
27:29Okay.
27:29Have you seen the show?
27:30I have seen the show.
27:31You've never seen him operate?
27:32I have not seen him operate the crane.
27:36There's no way he's going
27:37to let me operate that.
27:41On a million years.
27:42He could have been trained
27:43while we were getting here.
27:44But it was not coordinated.
27:46So it's my fault?
27:47No, it's not your fault.
27:48I wouldn't say that.
27:49I wouldn't blame you for nothing, man.
27:50As a safety professional,
27:53it is my job to ensure
27:54that the personnel
27:55on this type of vessel
27:56is qualified to operate the equipment.
27:58I got you.
27:59I got you.
27:59That's the rules.
28:00I would have,
28:00if I'd known that,
28:01I would have had them in there
28:02and you could have trained them
28:03or whoever could have trained them.
28:04Yes.
28:05That was...
28:06Yes, we took them.
28:07We could have done that.
28:09I don't mean to interrupt,
28:10but a couple of fellas
28:11just fell off the back of the boat
28:12and they weren't wearing vests
28:15and I've lost sight of them.
28:16Am I okay to look through these?
28:18I think there's an issue here.
28:20I don't know
28:21that I've been certified
28:22to look through.
28:22I think there's an issue here.
28:23I'm just going to look through
28:24the white part of them.
28:26I just wanted to know
28:27what the general extra concerns
28:29are on the water.
28:31The general extra concerns...
28:32Let me just hop in real quick
28:33and I'll tell you something.
28:35Yes, sir.
28:35I've done 152 of these jobs
28:37and this is the first time
28:39that anybody has cared enough
28:41about my safety for real
28:44to actually step in
28:45and say,
28:46no, it's not safe.
28:49We're not going to let you do it.
28:50I've had people toss me the keys
28:52to front-end loaders,
28:53back-end loaders,
28:55multi-million dollar machines,
28:56all at his urging.
28:58I love him like a brother.
29:00That's my job.
29:00It's his job.
29:01You're the first safety guy
29:03to do the safety job
29:06in a way that forced us
29:07to reconsider our plans
29:09and I want to thank you for that.
29:10Absolutely.
29:10You're very welcome, sir.
29:11I have the utmost respect for you
29:13and I appreciate that.
29:14And I have the utmost respect for you.
29:15I'm going to go give that crane a spin.
29:17You guys continue.
29:19Look, I got no beef with Arthur Smith.
29:21The man was just doing his job.
29:23He just did it so well,
29:24we couldn't do ours.
29:26You see the point, right?
29:28If you're really committed
29:29to safety first,
29:30then you really will make everybody safe.
29:32But there are going to be
29:33some consequences of doing that.
29:35Maybe some unintended consequences.
29:37Teddy Roosevelt wrote
29:39in a letter to his son,
29:41the greatest threats to America
29:42are prosperity at any price,
29:45peace at any price,
29:47and the idea of safety first
29:49instead of duty first.
29:52Something to think about.
29:54When we come back,
29:55safety slides a little further
29:56down the list of priorities.
29:59And the only duty
30:00is in my pants.
30:05Ben, yeah, this could go wrong
30:06in like a thousand different ways here, Jared.
30:08Yeah, yeah, this could be
30:09your final episode.
30:11Oh, sorry.
30:12Whoa.
30:13And your wipeout in a dark hole
30:15can leave you with some serious skid marks.
30:17I don't know.
30:18Can I get any on me?
30:19Slide it down.
30:19And later.
30:20Well, see, it doesn't work every time.
30:22No, Dan, I can see that.
30:23Safety may not be this show's
30:25number one priority,
30:26but middle of the top five isn't bad.
30:28Don't look down.
30:29People ask me all the time,
30:37Mike, what's the most dangerous job
30:38you've ever done?
30:39And the truth is,
30:40I really don't have one answer,
30:41but here's the one
30:42I'm going to use right now.
30:44Imagine you're up on the roof
30:45on one of those skyscrapers
30:47in Manhattan
30:48with a bunch of acrobats
30:50who are actually carpenters.
30:52And the job is to replace
30:53one of those giant wooden water tanks.
30:56What makes the work
30:57so incredibly dangerous
30:58is that the job
30:59has to be completed by 5 p.m.
31:01Why?
31:02Because a building without water
31:04is a public health hazard.
31:06And the Department of Health
31:08and Human Services
31:08says that every citizen
31:10has a legal and God-given right
31:11to flush their toilet
31:12around dinner time.
31:14So we have a situation
31:15where the health and safety
31:17of the men up on the roof
31:18appears to be in direct conflict
31:20with the health and safety
31:21of the people
31:22who want to use their toilet.
31:24Said another way,
31:25what's more important?
31:27Occupational health and safety
31:28or occupant health and safety?
31:34Think about it.
31:36Oh, God.
31:37Where do we begin, CJ?
31:39Okay, well,
31:39we're going to cut it into a tub.
31:40The reason why we have
31:41to cut it into a tub
31:42is it's kind of breezy
31:43so we can't take it
31:44in one piece, you know?
31:46I'm looking over there.
31:47I don't see any railing at all.
31:48No, stick around.
31:49It's going to be rough.
31:50It's going to be rough.
31:50No railing.
31:51We're up, what, 150 feet?
31:52Yes, in the air.
31:53This is dangerous, man.
31:56It certainly is.
31:57No, I mean,
31:57this is a very dangerous job.
32:00Let me show you
32:01how to cave it in.
32:02Is this really the best place
32:04for me to be standing?
32:05See?
32:06Come up.
32:07Lock your leg in, Mike.
32:08This one right here,
32:08the one on the top.
32:09What about?
32:10No, no, no.
32:11Not good.
32:13I'm here.
32:13I see it.
32:14Look at me.
32:15Top, bottom.
32:18Top, baseball swing.
32:20I'm looking for a single.
32:23There you go.
32:26Good.
32:27You could do a lot of things
32:29with your footlock like that.
32:30Yes.
32:31I do believe this is
32:32the most hazardous thing
32:33I've done all day.
32:34No, it gets worse.
32:35It gets worse.
32:36The next part of the job
32:37requires moving close
32:38to the edge of the roof.
32:40Way too close.
32:42Spread it apart.
32:43Yeah.
32:44Pop it out and pass it down.
32:46You're on the edge right here.
32:47That's why you've got to
32:48be careful on this side.
32:49Good.
32:49Oh, yeah, that would be
32:50the dangerous side.
32:51Right.
32:51All right, stand here.
32:52Yes, don't put too much
32:53pressure.
32:54Get up, Mike.
32:55There you go, yes.
32:56Turn around.
32:57Get up, Mike.
32:58There you go.
32:58Very good.
32:59Very good.
33:00Watch that camera.
33:02Camera's shmammering.
33:03They're a dime a dozen.
33:04Yes.
33:04That's right.
33:06This is very dangerous.
33:08Why?
33:08Because as we're putting
33:09these staves up,
33:10if the wind catches us
33:11and it takes off,
33:12there's no way in the world
33:13you're going to hold us up.
33:14Right.
33:15Never fall.
33:15One time I fell about 30 foot
33:17with a 10 foot section of ladder.
33:19Another time I was working on a job,
33:21we were moving some steel
33:22and I fell about 18 feet.
33:25Dislocated three fingers
33:26and caved in a couple of ribs.
33:28What happened to your hand there?
33:29We were cutting some threaded rod
33:31and it spun in my hand.
33:32I ripped my hand off.
33:33Any head wounds?
33:34Oh, I got a head wound once.
33:36I got hit with a four-inch check valve.
33:38There was pressure behind it
33:39and the check valve
33:40clocked me in the head,
33:42knocked me down on the ground
33:44and I wound up with 28 stitches.
33:48One of the things I've learned
33:50in my role as a perpetual apprentice
33:51is that all the training in the world
33:53is no substitute
33:54for actually being in the moment.
33:56whether you're 200 feet up in the air
33:58or half a mile underground.
34:02All right, are you ready to go?
34:03I guess.
34:04Okay.
34:05You know, we get a lot of letters
34:06all the time from fans
34:08who are worried
34:08that we don't always take
34:09the proper safety precautions.
34:11The truth is,
34:12we always do.
34:13We just don't have time
34:14to always show you.
34:16If you knock anything over,
34:18you yell, rock.
34:19We've been here for hours now
34:21and we're not going to shoot this segment
34:22until everybody in the crew,
34:23including Dave,
34:24has a reasonable, thorough,
34:28profound understanding
34:29of gravity.
34:31All right.
34:31Lean backwards like that.
34:33Gotta give the boy credit.
34:34He hates heights.
34:35There you go.
34:35Scared to death of them.
34:36Now lean out more
34:37before you let it slip.
34:37Our safety teacher here
34:38is Thor.
34:40Thor told me
34:41that if you let go of the rope,
34:42you'll fall 80 feet
34:43onto a pile of rocks.
34:44So I really do hope
34:45Dave is paying attention.
34:47No, no, no, no.
34:48Do not let go of that.
34:50Probably a bad sign.
34:51Just pull your hand
34:52a little bit farther down.
34:53You'll have better control
34:55with a little bit farther down
34:56like that.
34:59You're right here, man.
35:00We'll go fast.
35:03Going back up the rope.
35:05You sure this is all right?
35:06More difficult.
35:07But you're not as scared
35:08because by this time,
35:09you're just too tired
35:10to worry about falling.
35:11Thor, this looks like
35:12every bad movie
35:13I've ever seen
35:13where the rope
35:15is on the jagged edge
35:16of the rock
35:16and you're wondering
35:17if it's going to hold.
35:19Get me out of this thing.
35:20Woo-hoo!
35:22Good job.
35:23That was ugly.
35:26Then suddenly,
35:27the training session was over
35:28and we were descending
35:29into the bowels
35:30of a hidden cave.
35:32Yeah, this could go wrong
35:33like a thousand
35:34different ways here, Jer.
35:35Yeah, yeah.
35:36This could be your
35:37final episode
35:38without too much difficulty.
35:43Oh, sorry.
35:44Whoa.
35:45How are you doing?
35:46Whoa.
35:46Whoa.
35:47Oh.
35:47I'm really not racing.
35:50I just actually fell.
35:54And, uh,
35:55I don't know.
35:56Can I get any on me?
35:58Thinking back,
35:59it might have been good
36:00to use ropes
36:01for the steep descent.
36:02You know,
36:03kind of like
36:03what we were trained for.
36:04As we move deeper
36:08into the cave,
36:09things aren't getting
36:09any steeper,
36:11just narrower
36:11and muddier.
36:12What is this?
36:19Some kind of infeeder.
36:23I'd hate to set a station
36:24right here
36:25if we didn't have to.
36:26I think, uh,
36:27you should go down there
36:28and see if it goes.
36:30It goes where?
36:32Anywhere other than here.
36:34Squeezing into
36:35the narrowing passage,
36:36I had no idea
36:37if a sheer drop-off
36:38was ahead
36:38or any number
36:39of other hazards.
36:40Just another situation
36:42where a safety line
36:43might have been good,
36:44you know,
36:45like we were trained for.
36:46I feel tight back here.
36:49Oh, crap.
36:51I have one really,
36:52really unpleasant thought
36:54to share with you
36:54right now.
36:56Earthquake.
36:57I'd be more worried
36:57about a flash flood here.
37:00I think I'm stuck.
37:03Are you really stuck?
37:05I can't move.
37:07Wow, you are kind of stuck.
37:08Yes, I'm stuck.
37:10Note to self.
37:11Oh, crap.
37:12Suggest safety training
37:13for when you get stuck.
37:15All right.
37:17A lot of fun, isn't it?
37:20I was going to go
37:21with 30 job,
37:22but either way.
37:26Jerry and Thor
37:27weren't just crawling
37:28through the mud.
37:29They were mapping
37:30a massive underground
37:32series of barely connected
37:34tunnels and passageways,
37:36boldly crawling,
37:37crawling where no caver
37:39had dared crawl before.
37:41OSHA?
37:42MSHA?
37:43I don't know who's
37:44keeping tabs on these guys,
37:45and frankly,
37:45I'm not sure it matters
37:46because Jerry and Thor
37:47aren't employees.
37:49They're explorers.
37:50I mean,
37:50what would a safety officer
37:51say to Christopher Columbus
37:53as he sailed off
37:54in search of the new world
37:55not knowing whether
37:56he'd find it
37:56or fall off the edge
37:57of the earth?
37:58I know what I'd say.
38:00Safety third.
38:02When we come back,
38:03a bridge to somewhere,
38:05a stroll to nowhere,
38:06and some safety training
38:07that actually comes in handy.
38:18Nothing worthwhile
38:19is ever simple or easy.
38:21That's a fact.
38:23And safety,
38:23though never first,
38:25is always worthwhile.
38:27And yet it remains
38:28a great mystery
38:29that why,
38:30after 225 dirty jobs,
38:34I still can't get
38:35my harness on right.
38:37We don't, uh,
38:39I was going to say
38:40we don't do anything stupid
38:40on this show.
38:41We do some stupid things,
38:42but we do, in fact,
38:43take as many precautions
38:44as we can
38:45to avoid disaster.
38:48Everyone that works out
38:49on the bridge
38:50has issued one of these.
38:51One of these hooks
38:52has to be hooked
38:52on something at all times.
38:54So if you were going
38:55to go from there
38:56over to there,
38:57before you unhook that one,
38:58you would hook this one
38:59to something else.
39:01I throw my arms in here
39:03like this.
39:04Right.
39:04and then I throw it
39:06over my shoulder
39:07like this.
39:11And you make sure
39:12you don't get hung up
39:13or nothing.
39:14And you slide it down.
39:16Well, see,
39:17it doesn't work every time.
39:18No, Dan,
39:19I can see that.
39:19Yeah, Mike,
39:20you're going to have
39:21trouble with this one.
39:23And like that.
39:26Okay.
39:27You think I can do that?
39:28I think I can do
39:29what you did, yes.
39:31It was like that.
39:32Being a respectful,
39:33observant student,
39:34I followed Dan Johnson's
39:35instructions to the tee
39:36and got pretty much
39:37the same result.
39:38Cramp.
39:39Straight into there.
39:40Oh, okay.
39:40There you go.
39:41That's got to be in.
39:42Oddly,
39:43when the session was over,
39:44I didn't feel much safer.
39:46You got her.
39:47Okay.
39:47Would it be simpler
39:48to just not fall?
39:49That'd be much simpler.
39:53The guys at the
39:53Mackinac Bridge Authority
39:54told me that they wanted
39:55me to experience
39:56on that day
39:57everything that they
39:58experience all of the time.
40:00Well, everybody tells me that,
40:02but by the end of the day,
40:03they always say no to something.
40:05So,
40:06when I jokingly suggested
40:08that it might be fun
40:10for me to hop over the railing
40:12and then walk out
40:13across a girder
40:14and then hop over
40:15another railing
40:16and get on that
40:17big suspension cable
40:18that goes 600 feet
40:19above the Straits of Mackinac
40:20for the purpose
40:21of changing some light bulbs,
40:23I waited for them
40:24to give me
40:24the obvious bad news.
40:26They did.
40:28They said,
40:28sure.
40:33Don't look down.
40:35A girl scout
40:35with a monkey merit badge
40:37could do this.
40:38There's more
40:39to it
40:40than just climbing.
40:41You got to focus
40:42on every hook
40:43and unhook
40:44and...
40:44You got to think, man.
40:45You got to think,
40:46think, think.
40:47It's easy to not...
40:49Yeah.
40:50...stay focused on it.
40:51There are 96 of these cable lights
40:55on the bridge.
40:56In addition to being decorative,
40:58they help aircraft pilots
40:59flying near the bridge
41:00avoid the hazardous cables.
41:02You're doing really good.
41:04Thanks.
41:05Stay focused.
41:07Think about what you're doing,
41:08not how.
41:08What, not how.
41:09Do I even want to look behind me?
41:14That's incredible.
41:15Total workout.
41:17Legs are kind of cramped,
41:18but unless something
41:19goes horribly wrong,
41:21I think I'm going to make it.
41:22We are on.
41:30I think throws off some heat.
41:32Now,
41:33I guess we have to go back down.
41:36Well, we could take the elevator.
41:39They didn't tell you
41:40about the elevator?
41:43When we were putting
41:44this special together,
41:45I came across
41:45an interesting quote
41:46by a guy named
41:47Charles M. Hayes.
41:49Charles Hayes
41:49was a railroad tycoon
41:51about 100 years ago.
41:52He was responsible
41:53for building a big part
41:54of North America's
41:55infrastructure,
41:56and he was known
41:57for his commitment to safety.
42:00Here's what he said.
42:01He said,
42:02safety first
42:03is safety always.
42:06Now,
42:07had I read that
42:08a long time ago,
42:09I might not have had
42:10such a beef
42:11with safety first
42:12because safety always
42:14makes me think
42:15that safety
42:16doesn't always
42:17have to be first.
42:19It just always
42:20has to be present.
42:22And that seems
42:23to make good sense
42:24for people
42:24who have a job to do.
42:27Anyway,
42:28in the end,
42:29I guess it's all semantics.
42:31There are no guarantees.
42:32All we can really do
42:33is hedge our bets
42:35and hope for the best.
42:38Charles Hayes
42:38incidentally died
42:39when he was 55.
42:40The boat he was on
42:41headed to New York
42:42slammed into an iceberg
42:44in 1912.
42:45and Charles M. Hayes
42:47and his life jacket
42:48went down
42:49with the SS Titanic,
42:51the safest ship
42:52ever built.
42:54Safety third.
42:58Oh,
42:59shoot,
42:59ow.
43:00Nah.
43:01Yeah,
43:02screw that.
43:02I'm just going over.
43:04I don't need that, man.
43:05That's no way to end.
43:07That's no way
43:07to end a perfectly
43:08average career.
43:09There might be a spider
43:09in them gloves.
43:10You might want
43:11to beat them out.
43:12Why?
43:12Why would there be
43:12a spider in the glove?
43:13They've been in the barn.
43:15We just picked them up
43:16when we come over here.
43:27How you doing?
43:28How you doing?
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