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Overcoming Workplace Accident and Recovery

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at 21 he's landing $100,000 landscaping job after landscaping job

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Joseph shares a severe accident where a skid steer rolled back on him while loading a trailer, causing a safety bar to go through his wrist, shattering bones, and pinning his head to the ground. Luckily, an employee was present and helped him. He recovered full mobility after surgery and physical therapy. This experience highlights the physical demands and potential dangers of the job.

Goal: Relate a personal challenge and successful recovery.

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forestry work, utilities, that sort of stuff. So, you said with six You did about 650 grand last year? Correct. Yeah. And uh, you wanted to do a million, but you broke your hand. Hold your hand up. I was loading my trailer up with some brush, and I was pushing it as far as I could trying to get the most capacity out of the trailer. Walk-behind skid steer, I guess you could call it, rolled back on me, and uh, I had grapple on there, and one of the safety bars landed and went through my wrist and shattered all the bones, and then one of the bars on the grapple itself actually hit my head and pinned my head to the ground. Is your head okay? Yeah. Yeah, one of my employees was there working along with me, luckily, and uh, he ran up, and he grabbed the the Dingo itself, flipped it off, and uh, he drove me to the hospital. And I had a little brain bleed or whatever, but it fixed itself. I'm glad you're okay. And you Can you move your hand now? Yeah. Full mobility. Full mobility. Wow. You had to get surgery and pins and everything. Yeah, they got physical therapists as well. So, how are you marketing? How are you getting these jobs? The government work that I do is all it's all public bid. So, you go on the public website, and you just start bidding on it? Yeah, there's there's websites there. You can You can email engineers. Um, you can go around to that. All right, you guys, there's a lot of resources to get involved in these big projects if that's something that you want to pursue. The first thing that you can do is literally just go to the offices of general contractors. The bigger the general contractor, the more they typically are hurting for subcontractors. You guys, subcontractors like you, like me, we are in high demand. Contractors just need to

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