Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1920 — PAINTERS FALL FROM LADDER [ARTICLE]

PAINTERS FALL FROM LADDER

What might have been a very serious accident occurred Monday forenoon when a rope scaffold broke on the east side of the new bank building, letting Earl Osborne and Amos Deere, who were painting the brick, fall to the cement sidewalk, a distance of perhaps 18 to 20 feet. Neither of the men were O seriously injured although badly shaken up, and the Deere lad received several cuts about the head and face, but Mr. Osborne broke the force of his fall by catching hold of a rope as he started to falj and was therefore not The accident was caused from a • rotten rope. Although a new one, It was made of such poor material that it was absolutely worthless.