Don't think one makes a choice if they are going to die at work or not.
If your self employed then its your responsibility to insure yourself to what level you like for what happens at work.
If you are staff however, then its not unreasonable to expect the employer to make the work place reasonably safe.
And though it often isn't one generally doesn't call up and say they are not coming in today because......
That goes for no hand rails around a smelter or pissing down rain on a highway, one tends to do whats required.
You would think however if the employer has been fined already, than something has been neglected.
Caterpillar fined $145k after worker 'immediately incinerated' by molten iron
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I work in the metal industry not far from there. At a brass mill plant. It is up to the employer to provide a SAFE working environment. Simple as that. I speak from experience, I was recently severely injured at work got crushed and burned on 19% of my body. This happened because part of the safety stuff that should of been there wasn't. Not from lack of us operators complaining about it. The company jist didn't want to spend the money to do it, they worry about the bottom line.
Now the place I work at make brass and metal for the US Mint, Winchester ammo, and car industry. It's been around for 100+ years. Sure, I have a choice to work there or not, and yep we have a Union as well. And before anyone say change you line of work, why? I have 2 degrees however, I also have a family that I need to provide for. It good honest work, it pays well. Accident do happen, but usually not because the operator did something wrong. When working with this kind of stuff, you pay VERY good attention to what you are doing. Not like ya just doing stupid crap! The job is dangerous simple as that.
Now here is the problem for the family, it will get tied up in litigation for years, CAT will pay the family 500k right away because of how IL work comp laws are written. They will also cover the funeral expanses, and insurance will pay out the ADD and life insurance as well. What does suck is this kid was only on the job for 9 days! Training alone take way longer than that when you are working the furnaces and smelters. One thing people don't take into account is this. The floors are slick, no matter how good your work boots are. He could of just slipped. It sucks and it is sad. That is for certain. Cat is and should be 100% liable for what happened, but as for a sue tye companyentality, well that's just dumb. Wrongful death suit will come out of it, but it won't be MILLIONS. But what do I know, I am just a survivor of a serious work place accident that by all rights I should of died from.LilRedRidingHood, Grouch, Cat sdp and 4 others Thank this. -
To quote the article:
OSHA sent investigators to the Mapleton, Illinois foundry on June 2 after the incident. Investigators found that the facility was lacking legally required guardrails and restraint systems to protect workers from falling into dangerous equipment.
The release also said the company "routinely exposed employees to unprotected fall hazards as they worked within four feet of deep ceramic containers of super-heated molten iron."
The guy was just finishing his second week at the place, in an extremely dangerous work environment “lacking legally required guardrails and restraint systems”. He didn’t have enough experience to make an informed decision on whether it was safe to work there.
I hope his family gets millions from CAT.
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I bet they had guardrails with the wrong osha color or the safety tape got rubbed off..
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Heard on another site that the worker failed to connect his harness to the restraint system. Just internet heresay at this point. Wonder what the investigation will turn up.
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Its possible the alleged harness may be a painful restrictive bit of kit to work in so perhaps co workers don't use it. So young trainiee follows suit and has the worst possible outcome. In my days on construction often safety gear used in the correct manner makes work a fair bit more difficult and a lot slower, so inevitably it doesn't get used or if so in a manner its basically useless anyway.
The irony was once the safety people had ticked that box they were not that interested in making it work better, and workers are not focused on being compliant if it's annoying and restrictive.
Its was a given though back in the office of safety, anyone can use the urn without training or suiting up, let alone walk around the office willy nilly with a hot cuppa in one hand juggling pen and papers in the other, or even worse distracted by the phone. Of course down at the coal face was a very different set of perimeters.
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