"lost his life (but just) started (at) work 1.5 months (ago)...."

 

Every time we find or are sent an incident we wonder will the tears fall. Commonly they do. We mention this not for you to feel sorry for us at the APSB. But, for you to be aware that each and every incident rips us up. It just seems it never ends. We pray that the readers take these posts and make their workplaces safer. We acknowledge that many times the information provided in the news articles is not forthcoming. But, still we believe each and every post can make your workplace safer. Or as we told a plant owner last week. We feel the worker’s stories need to be told.

Here is a recent tragedy that we are saddened to post.

The worker who got stuck in the press machine in the aluminum factory in (name omitted) district lost his life. (Worker) (48), who worked as a worker in the aluminum factory in the (name omitted) Industrial Zone, got stuck in the press machine. The medical teams, who came to the scene upon the notice, took the seriously injured worker to (name omitted) State Hospital. The worker could not be saved despite the intervention in the hospital.

The worker’s body was buried (name omitted) cemetery after the funeral performed at (name omitted) Mosque in (name omitted) district. It was learned that the worker who lost his life started work 1.5 months ago.

We offer our sincere condolences to the deceased worker’s family, friends, and coworkers. We pray that overtime their pain will lessen and they will remember their loved one on how he lived and not how he died.

First, we have to talk about his length of service at the aluminum factory of being a month and half. We acknowledge that the following statements are going to be based on assumptions because we do not know what occurred. So, we have to assume the worker had poor training, and poor supervision. The number one observation we tell workplaces when training new machinery operators is that they commonly will use a seasoned operator to train a new operator. That tactic can have deadly consequences because the seasoned operator will unknowingly and unintentionally teach the new operator shortcuts.

Second, we should talk about how he died. Working with extrusion presses is hazardous there are numerous areas where a worker can get caught between moving pieces. If your workplace has extrusion presses the simple question to an operator or an employee who works in the area would be. “How can you get caught in the press?” The answers will be plentiful but true. Now with those answers training and engineering controls need to be enacted to stop a recurrence of this tragedy.

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