Workers find drugs and ammunition during demolition of old jail.
The differences between the UK and the US demolition industries has been a constant theme here on DemolitionNews ever since we first opened our online doors. Over here, demolition contractors have almost univeraally embraced high reach excavators while in America, the wrecking ball is still a common sight. US contractors are in constant danger of falling foul of OSHA while UK contractors are ever-watchful for the HSE. And don’t even get us started on recycling rates.
But we have just found a story that, perhaps better than any, highlights a fundamental difference between these two great nations.
Workers in Nashville (that’s the one in Indiana) have uncovered a stash of seized drugs and ammunition during the demolition of a former country jail. Nothing unusual in that, I hear you say; UK demolition workers are uncovering unexpected stuff all the time.
True enough. But, having uncovered a stash of drugs including a tub containing around 10kg of marijuana, I am not sure that many demolition workers would have been quite so honest about their discovery. In fact, experience suggests that the first a UK employer would know about such a discovery would be their workers’ glazed expressions, the sound of Bob Marley songs wafting gently across the site, or a serious case of the site canteen munchies.
