I'm so glad Mr Brammers wasn't more hurt. My father made himself a couple of centimeters shorter by falling of a roof once, before I was born. The doctor said he was very lucky to have landed on his butt, but his hips and back took a beating. He was up there removing snow so the chimneysweeper wouldn't slip and fall...

So ladder and roof safety were very important for him to teach me growing up. Most of it irrelevant for me since a few steps up is the highest anyone can get me on a ladder voluntarily.