Dear Sir,

    I am writing in response to your request for additional information. In block 3 of your request for additional information. In block 3 of your accident report form. I put trying-to-do-the-job-alone, as the cause of my accident.

    You said in your letter I should explain more fully and I suggest that the following details that the following details will be sufficient. I am brick layer by trade.

    On the day of the accident, I was working alone on the roof of a new six story building.  When I had completed my work I discovered I had about 500 pounds of bricks left over.  Rater than carry the bricks down by hand, I decided to lower them in a barrel, by using a pulley that fortunately was attached at the side of the building of the sixth floor.

    Securing the ropes at the ground level, I went to the roof, swung the barrel out and loaded the bricks into it.  Then I went back to the ground level and untied the rope, holding it tightly to assure a slow descent of the 500 pounds of brick.

    You will not that in block number 2 of the accident report claim that I weigh 135 pounds.  Due to my surprise at being jerked off the ground so suddenly, I lost my presence of mind and forgot to let go of the rope, needless to say, I proceeded at a rather rapid rate up the side of the building.

    In the vicinity of the third floor I met the barrel coming down.  This explains the fractured skull and broken collar bone.  Slowed only slightly, I continued my rapid ascent, not stopping until the fingers of my right hand were two knuckles deep into the pulley.

    Fortunately, by this time, I had regained my presence of mind and was able to hold tightly to the rope in spite of my pain.  At approximately the same time, however, the barrel of bricks hit the ground and the bottom fell out of the barrel.

    Devoid of the weight of bricks, the barrel now weighing approximately 50 pounds.  I refer you again to my weight in block number 2.  As you might imagine, I began a rather rapid descent down the side of the building.  In the vicinity of the third floor, I again met the barrel coming up.  This accounted for the two fractured ankles and lacerations of my legs and lower body.

    The encounter with the barrel slowed me enough to lesson my injuries when I fell onto a pile of bricks.  Fortunately only three vertebrae were cracked.  I'm sorry to report, however, I lay on the bricks in pain, unable to stand and watching the empty barrel six stories above me, I again lost my presence of mind and let go of the rope.  The empty barrel weighs more than the rope, so it came back down and broke both my legs.  I hope I have furnished the information as to how the accident occurred because I was trying to do the job alone.