Billy Malbrough, a Brice Building Company, Inc. employee, climbs a series of ladders each day and evening to take his perch in the glass-enclosed cab of his crane high above the City of New Orleans. He sits in this small booth over 180 feet above the ground. Once up, he is there for the day until the long climb down when the work day is over.
Although air conditioned and protected from the weather, the compartment moves and sways with the wind and can lean forward as much as 10 feet when a load is lifted from the end of the jib. Like the new glass floor recently introduced at the Sears Tower in Chicago, Billy’s crane has a glass floor that provides an unobstructed view of the work site below.
