It's not often these days that we risk our lives in the workplace. With some exceptions, coal mining being the most obvious, diligent enforcement and application of safe work habits and conditions have vastly improved since OSHA's inception in 1971.

A former painter of ours, Joe Voigts, left us last summer to begin travelling through China and the Far East and he has e-regaled us with his adventures ever since. Below his photograph of Tibetan workplace scaffolding:

And here, conveniently located adjacent to the staging, a high voltage wire....

I wonder what their w.comp rate is.