"Worker struck and killed by hose...."

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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