Posted by gregCO on November 18, 2016 at 20:04:13 from (72.168.177.189):
Reading the post below got me to thinking about safety in general and how hard it is to control actions of people. I realize most times they are trying to be fast and efficient, but things can go bad in a hurry if corners are cut unintentionally by a short lapse of not thinking things through. I am very sorry for the family involved and the gal that lost her life. Very sad.
I had to fire a guy at work today for not paying attention to his work and putting himself and others at rick. I have talked to him multiple times about working safe and for him it does not soak in. Yesterday was the last straw when he ran one of our bridge cranes into the stops at the end of the rail so hard that it broke the stops off and pushed them through the wall of the building, bent the catwalk so bad that it cannot be used, and crushed the access ladder to the point it is not safe to climb. Now the crane is tagged out of service until repairs can be made. This is a remote operated crane. He was not watching his load and had his back to it while it was traveling assuming the bridge was fallowing him, instead it was traveling in the opposite direction at full speed. He stopped when he and the rest of the shop heard the crash. Then he failed to report the accident and tried to cover it up.
He ignores Lock Out Tag Out procedures, walks under loads, and has been caught riding a load on a crane. All stuff we train on and he chooses to not do properly. After doing write-ups and a couple of suspensions I had no choice but to send him on his way. He was hot under the collar saying all of this safety stuff just slows things down and is not necessary. After letting him vent I told him I had to let him go, that I would rather send him home mad than send him home hurt or dead or seeing him hurt or kill one of his fellow employees.
The work we do is heavy fabrication and the products we make can weigh up to 30 tons. They are not forgiving to not being safe. Had that crane been loaded it likely would have gone through the wall without even slowing down and took the the end of the building with it along with the crane rail and the other crane that runs on the same rail.
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