The rule of thumb for construction workers is that they are supposed to be afraid of only the first couple of stories. After the first 30 feet it doesn’t matter how far you fall. So yes, 11 meters is enough to not care any more.
I read somewhere that if you die in a fall while working construction you get paid for the whole day no matter when it happens, or rather your estate gets paid. Might be urban legend or maybe it’s in some union contracts
But if a premature blast goes off and you’re launched a mile in the air, will your pay be docked for the time you were up in the sky?
It’s not how fast you go, it’s how fast you stop that matters.
My wife is an IRON MAN (full distance) x5 finisher, and pretty tough.
She and a girl friend snuck into a college pool (when a bit younger) and they climbed up to the 10 meter board. Very, very hard step to make. And that was only ~ 33 feet. That could fuck you up. I can’t imagine 172 feet.
The math is interesting and everything, and am surprised others are giving it far better odds at survival than I would. The only figure I need is the 36 feet, and the other two factors, head first onto concrete. If he truly came straight down head first, arms not stretched out, but to his sides, and not veering at any angle, it just doesn’t seem survivable to me at all. Seems like it would break their neck instantly.
A standard drop for hanging of 4-6 feet breaks the neck.
People routinely survive broken necks though. I’d be more concerned about having my brain splattered all over the concrete floor…!
Within the last few days (maybe in a YouTube video), I heard the old anecdote about the guy who jumped off the Empire State Building and said as he passed the 80th floor: “So far, so good!”
I’ve stepped off a 10 meter diving board. It’s a completely unfamiliar situation, that doesn’t match your mental map of the world. That is,
from the top, it looked like the diving pool was so small I might miss it.
I’m someone else but my WAG-self sees a writing assignment: Create a story / report / essay / news bulletin about some falling schlub. For extra credit, describe the trajectories (if any) of flying eyeballs, teeth, grey matter, etc.
I vaguely recall that a free-lance writer obtained owed money by grasping ankles and dangling his publisher from a high window. How far up would suffice to persuade the publisher to pay?
For a nice quibble, Emma didn’t specify that the concrete had cured. If it’s freshly poured, still soggy and soft, the dropped schlub might have a chance of paralysis instead of death. If he doesn’t drown.
An optimist. 
And that is the skull, not the squidgy brain which is having to decelerate in much the same distance. Even if the cranium remained intact it would be like throwing a wedding cake in a box at a wall and hoping it will still look nice at the reception.
Is there, actually, any reliable evidence of anyone surviving an 11 m drop, to a concrete floor, landing on their head?
(If it’s not on Youtube, it didn’t happen!) 
There was this today:
Only if the foreman is Jim McCann.
36 foot drop
HEAD FIRST
onto concrete?
It is almost impossible to not die from that. You would hit the ground at about 50 feet per second. 14,69m/s. 32,8 mph. The concrete would hit your skull about 17 times harder than a heavyweight boxer’s knockout punch.
A not-head-first landing would likely be survivable, but you are likely to wish you had died. Several broken bones are likely.
A really skilled Parkour should be able to land without permanent injury, but will still have a lot of bruises.
For your homework you would need to show where these numbers come from.
Try this link for kinematics calculations, it not only gives the answer but also shows the line of thought needed to get there.
Depends what sort of meter. My electric meter is only 10 or so centimetres across, so 11 of them,even stacked up, a metre or thereabouts - not too dangerous. Water meter is even smaller.
It depends and depends again. A fall doesn’t have to be deadly under 50 feet but 5 feet could be just as well. What you fall onto and what position you’re in matter a great deal more. For example if you fell on grass it could be dry hard ground underneath causing more injuries. If the ground was damp and loamy you could have less injury. If you fell into some bushes with thick foliage and flexible branches it could soften your fall. Hard, solid branches could impale through soft tissue causing lots of damage. If you were talking about landing on concrete I’d say your chances of survival were much lower if you were an overweight adult due to greater rate of velocity. A child tends to fare better as the speed of the fall is decreased as is impact. Head injury is much more likely for children. Landing partially on your right side legs out in a seated position, arms below the chest slightly bent would give the greatest chance of survival. You would break your pelvis, femurs, tibia, ribs, radius, ulna, humerus and possibly fracture your skull. The idea is to sacrifice your arms and legs and preserve the head and upper torso. I think your chance of survival are slightly greater although you might wish you were dead. Instant death is less likely but you could die from internal bleeding within 30 minutes. Every minute that you’re left untreated increases your chance of dying from injuries. So, in effect your chance of dying is greater than 60% if untreated for hours. Your chance of immediate survival are greater unless you receive a massive chest, lower brain stem or spinal cord injury which could kill you instantly.
That’s a lot of factors to weigh. I’d put your overall survival at 50% although you are slightly more likely to survive the fall in the short term…Are you planning on pushing someone off of something that’s 11 metres or jumping it yourself? I suggest doing neither myself but that’s just me.
What grade did you get on your homework, Emma?
As others have pointed out, it’s almost as though many if not most commenters are answering the title, not the post. Emphases mine.
And again yes, you almost certainly will die from landing head first from a 36 foot drop onto concrete. I’m not even sure how or why this would be cited. Same as something like “Would you die if you were teleported to the middle of the Sun?” I mean, yes, you will?