The Aluminium Plant Safety Blog has posted incidents involving
maintenance personnel in the past. Maintenance personnel jobs are so unique
that it is commonplace that they will be exposed to numerous hazards during the
course of an average day. Each and every hazard that a maintenance personnel
incur has the possibility of injuring or killing them. That is why the APSB editors
always ask for the opportunity to speak to the maintenance department on our
site visits. Depending on how the work shifts are organized we will come at the
end of one shift and speak to the workers. Then we will give the presentation
to the next shift. All our presentations that we give no matter the hazard nor
the job position involve the importance of following your training and not to
skip steps. In general our industry does not value skipping steps while
performing an operation. Why? Because skipping steps, making assumptions can
result in an incident that could injury the worker or their coworker. The
information in the following story is short in details. But the Occupational
Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) lists the preliminary description of
the incident as "worker struck and killed by hose". That information
combined with the following story allows the APSB to make some assumptions. As
always it is our goal not to place blame on the company nor the deceased
worker in the following story. We hope, we pray that this story will make
some worker a little more cautious when performing their job. Here is the
story:
A worker was killed in an industrial accident in the
Southeast United States late night during the week of July 12, 2015. The worker
was killed while working on a machine at an aluminum die casting company, the
company president said.
According to the company president, the worker's death is still
under investigation.
Additional information was not released.
The Aluminium Plant Safety Blog offers our sincere condolences to
the deceased worker's family, friends, and coworkers.
It is the APSB intention not to allude, suggest or in anyway blame
the worker for the incident that took his life. We simply do not know what
occurred. Then why post it ? We chose to post this incident because we have
been with so many maintenance personnel that we hope this incident will
reinforce the importance of following their training and never to take
shortcuts.
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