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Having worked major projects abroad in oil and gas there is nothing like injuring or losing an employee. Nothing.
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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Sad deal. 3 young daughters too.
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I told my wife about this article this evening while relaxing on the back deck.
She told me a story I'd never heard about my FIL.
My FIL was a major big-wig in the copper industry - top brass for BHP Copper, consulted, designed and built smelters all over the world (all with a HS diploma, BTW.)
One of his employees was showing some foreign investors around the smelter in San Manuel, AZ. There was a steam leak and water discharge (somehow, wife didn't know the details) but the water hit the molten copper and the massive explosion tossed one of the BHP guys right into the vat of molten copper.
My wife said it was the only time in 35 years she remembered Dad coming home from work early. He was extremely shaken up and couldn't talk about it for many years. It happened right in front of him.
The DIPCHIT ADD, after a morning of drinking:
You despair, repeatedly, constantly! daily basis? A despair ninny. Sack up, despire ninny.
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My late uncle worked at the old Bethlehem Steel plant here in Pa 50hrs+/week for 40+years and told me they had a few guys die by falling into melt pots. Hell of a thing to see Id imagine.
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If you work in that setting and don't pay attention for a few seconds it can cost you your life. Yep. Before changing careers, I spent a number of years working in UG coal. My worst day(s) was the accident, and the investigation for a fatality. It was eye opening on multiple levels and started me on the path of leaving that company.
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Very sad for the surviving family, especially those young girls.
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I told my wife about this article this evening while relaxing on the back deck.
She told me a story I'd never heard about my FIL.
My FIL was a major big-wig in the copper industry - top brass for BHP Copper, consulted, designed and built smelters all over the world (all with a HS diploma, BTW.) Did he ever golf with the double ace?
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From the article: Even before the deaths of Dierkes and Adams, the facility has faced serious OSHA violations. In 2020, it was fined $5,750 following a complaint over a fall. In 2019, it faced $4,337 and $17,711 fines following separate violations. Two years prior, it faced a $25,868 penalty after a worker was struck by a crane he believed had faulted. Another Caterpillar worker suffered six broken ribs following a separate 2017 incident when he climbed a chair to reach a part and fell onto a concrete floor, OSHA said. The worksite was fined $5,079.
How's that Union Safety Plan thingie working out?
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To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.-Richard Henry Lee
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Obesity may have claimed another life. I often see fat people having difficulty walking.
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Our division VP used to run a plant. Don’t know the details but one of his guys got killed. Now he (and everyone else) is safety conscious in the extreme. Sometimes I think they almost get a bit annoying with it (they lose their mind over minor scrapes), but I’d much rather that than the other way around.
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