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One of the companies I was working for had multiple construction projects, and I used to visit each project once a week to evaluate its progress. In one of the projects, there was a nice worker in the concrete team. Every time I was there, he used to shout, “Hey, welcome back, sir!” with a big smile, and we used to exchange a few pleasantries. He had a family in a city far away, and he was always looking forward to holidays to go back and stay with them for a few days.

One day, shortly after I arrived at the site, I noticed people running toward somewhere. I went there as well, and I was met by the worst scene in my whole life: He had been working on the fourth floor, where there were still no walls, and he had fallen off the edge. He had fallen into a pile of steel bars that were folded for reinforcing the concrete. Just like in a horror movie, the bars had punctured him in multiple places, and his dead body lay in a pool of blood.

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