A couple of months ago my company had a pretty bad accident in Wichita. Long story short, crew had broken cross arm, JM was unpinning the neutral in his leathers, cross arm broke and phase landed on his back. They have put a committee together made up of both management and BU guys to talk/implement cradle to cradle. We have never had it before. All I know is at face value you can't do anything without gloves and sleeves on. I'm sure this is not correct. My question is on my crew, our rule is whenever your going up with the intent to work primary or work in the MAD, or you can reach, extend, or fall into the primary MAD, you have your shit on. I'm sure some is up to how the company interprets it also. Just wanted to hear you alls thoughts/ what your companies do. Thanks

52 TIMES THE TRADE BLED IN 2024 — AND WHAT THE DATA IS REALLY TELLING US We’ve got a habit in this industry of treating “data” like it’s holy scripture — TCIR, LTIR, DART, color-coded charts that let executives pretend the house isn’t on fire. But buried under all that corporate confetti are the only numbers that matter: how many people didn’t go home the same, or didn’t go home at all. And this is exactly why I stay loud, raw, and unapologetic about the ET&D Best Practices and the organizations inside this Partnership — because they’re the ones handing over real numbers, real SIF data, real fatality breakdowns, real patterns of what’s actually killing and maiming our people. They open their books. They show the ugly parts. They let their failures become fuel for the entire industry to get better. That is rare. That is brave. That is necessary. But don’t get it twisted — the gap is massive. Thousands of independent contractors, storm chasers, two-truck outfits, and regional utilities aren’t in this Partnership. We don’t get their numbers. We don’t see their SIFs, their near-misses, their midnight phone calls, or their quiet funerals. So when I beat the drum about Best Practices loud enough to piss off half of LinkedIn, it’s because I know the rules only work when the whole damn trade plays by them. Right now? Too many people are still working in the dark while the rest of us try like hell to drag the truth into the light. This isn’t just a report. It’s a reckoning. Stop Lying to Ourselves With Averages We love to pat ourselves on the back with “Our TCIR is down” or “Our DART rate looks good,” like that means anything to the family staring at an empty kitchen chair. Meanwhile, in the real world, 52 people in this Partnership had a day in 2024 that changed their life forever. That’s what this report is actually about: Not metrics.Not graphs.Not dashboards. Fifty-two times flesh and bone took the hit so paperwork could be updated after the fact.