It only relatively recently things have improved in this country,ive been on a couple of collapsing scaffolds the one put four men in hospital,ive had a gas bottle blow up and put me in the burns unit, I was on site building a school when a lift brake failed and killed a guy,
I was on a crew reroofing a factory over
the top of big uncovered acid tanks ,at the time it was do the job or starve ,I even remember in the early 70s changing a window on the tenth floor of a council block by kneeling on the draining board in the kitchen with someone holding my belt to stop me falling out,no risk assessment no scaffold and that was a council job,
I might write a book about it one day I've got plenty of material,