It may have seemed cute at the time, but today, having construction workers pose as butlers balancing lunch trays 20 stories above ground on a girder for a photo-op wouldn’t fly.
Aggregation website i09 collects pictures from the 1920s and 1930s, depicting the period’s low safety standards for high-rise construction workers.
“And this is why we need OHSA. I'm getting queasy just looking at these,” one reader commented.
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