22 Photos of People Working So High Off the Ground We Have to Go Lie Down
Skyscrapers are very high off the ground, and unfortunately for the construction workers who build them, that means they have to get pretty high off the ground too. For a normal person, it's enough to make your eyes water and your feet go wobbly. But to these workers laying steel with their sacks of steel, it's no big deal.
The iconic photo ‘Lunch Atop a Skyscraper’ shows a group of workers sitting on a beam during the construction of the RCA building in 1932. The workers are not strapped in for the photo, and although it was an intentional publicity stunt, conditions for workers back then weren't always safe. Nowadays, most workers are strapped in tightly when faced with a fall of thirty stories, but that doesn't mean the views are any less spectacular.
Check out these vertigo-inducing pics of workers that make us want to go lie down.
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Workers building a high-rise industrial structure with the Astrakhan gas refinery in the background. -
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A construction worker is hauled up to his place of work on a 30 story skyscraper on New York's waterfront, 1890. -
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Workers pose atop Wilshire Grand. -
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“Cowboy of the sky” James Pizzuto, is a structural ironworker in New York City. -
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Tel Aviv skyscraper crew. -
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Chinese workers. -
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“Mauricio Lara helps to move a panel into place while working on the 62nd floor of Salesforce Tower.” - Guy Wathen, The Chronicle. -
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Los Angeles crew. -
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