Several years ago, Randy Reid, a 34 year-old welder~ was working near the top of a newly constructed water tower outside Chicago when he slipped and fell 110 feet. Barely missing rocks and debris, Reid landed in a six-foot pile of soft sand near the base of the tower. Coworkers called 911, and within minutes the rescue crew was on the scene. Miraculously, a bruised lung was the only injury the construction worker sustained. Ironically, while being carried to the ambulance on a stretcher, he looked into the faces of the paramedics and nervously pleaded~ “Please don’t drop me!”

-Henry Wells, in a letter