• @[email protected]
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    821 year ago

    Is there a charge for “attempted negligent homicide” or something? You did something so catastrophically stupid that was all but guaranteed to kill someone except you got lucky, but you still should end up getting censured so you don’t roll the dice on someone’s life again

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      No, this is a corporation, so unfortunately the best we can do is some tax cuts maybe a massive bailout.

    • @[email protected]
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      571 year ago

      Reminds me of an story I heard once. Guy working on a job locks and tags out a circuit so he can work on it. Guy goes up on a ladder to do the work.

      Coworker comes along and sees circuit left locked; he decides he needs to activate the circuit. Coworker uses bolt cutters to remove the lock and flips on the circuit.

      Guy on ladder gets literally knocked off the ladder, falls 10-20 feet onto grass. Guy is rushed to the ER.

      Boss investigates, gives coworker two options: either he can quit immediately, or he can keep working and personally explain himself to guy in a month when he gets out of the hospital.

      • @[email protected]
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        191 year ago

        I remember reading something similar, with someone responding that they were always two people for these tasks. One doing the job and one guarding the circuit, making sure this does not happen.

        • @[email protected]
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          131 year ago

          This is why you need 2 people to reactivate the circuit, one with the boltcutters, the other to fight the guard.

      • @[email protected]
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        401 year ago

        Where I live, for that kind of incident the employer would be obligated (as in, $50k worth of fines and likely criminal charges if you don’t) to report it to an independent investigator to determine who was at fault; the person cut the lock would be liable for a fine, and the employer would have to prove that they adequately trained the employee before allowing them to work in a high risk area, or the health and safety officer and company directors could be found criminally liable

        • @[email protected]
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          131 year ago

          Now I understand why you need 20+ supervision and management staff for 2 ppl doing actual work.

        • @[email protected]
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          161 year ago

          In my area, there’s a decent chance the guy with the bolt cutters could be criminally liable, if he was adequately trained. That could easily be negligent homicide.

          You do not cut locks. If your boss asks you to cut a lock, report them so they get immediately fired. We don’t fuck around with LOTO.

      • @[email protected]
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        261 year ago

        I worked briefly at a store where the Store Director was clearly still traumatized about an employee death years prior. Didn’t press for details, but it was preventable and they were hyper-vigilant about safety precautions.

        The world would be better without Captain Bolt Cutter and their kind spreading misery with their weaponized stupidity.

      • Kühlschrank
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        91 year ago

        Option three - lock tag and then send coworker up, leaving original guy behind at the circuit with the bolt cutters to do as he sees fit.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      Hey at first it said “only hit this button if you really hate Phil, it will kill him.” but they thought better and changed it.

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        21 year ago

        If a tool or machine can simply be unplugged, and the worker performing the service remains in control of the plug, then lockout procedures aren’t necessary.

      • Liz
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        101 year ago

        There is always a way to disable a machine. The button has power. At the very least, the power to that button should be locked out. If it has to happen at the breaker, so be it.

          • Liz
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            11 year ago

            Yes yes, sorry I thought my phrasing made that clear, but it wasn’t.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 year ago

          I’m only replying for visibility at this point because of the upvotes and the dangerous scenarios that are being promoted with this advice. Breaker with LOTO would be more acceptable but even then I wouldn’t trust it. People have been killed because something was wired up wrong and circuits were accidentally connected (meaning breakers off but currents still going from a connection down the line to another breaker, it can appear that the circuit is dead until a switch is flipped sending current and happens in home lighting constantly). Also, someone can simply plug the device into another outlet leaving them with a death on their hands.

          I know it’s dramatic and these are just comments, but something like this could save or take a life. I’ve seen too many workplace accidents and refuse to work in unsafe conditions or environments anymore even if it costs me the job. Last unsafe worksite I was in, nearly all of the workers walked out together when we arrived in the morning to start at a new site and saw what the project manager had in store for us (probably helped that the owner was hated and payroll had been getting screwed up for weeks). I’ll never forget that day and still keep in contact with most of them. We are all waiting and scared for the day a mass casualty is reported from the shitty work they were trying to make us do (some did report it to the authorities, but never heard what came of those reports).

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Yes absolutely yes.

            If equipment has a removable power feed, the plug follows the worker into the kill zone or the work doesn’t get done. If the plug doesn’t reach, and LOTO doesn’t happen, the plug gets disassembled and brought into the kill zone until the worker returns it.

            Deaths because lazy are at the feet of management.

  • Phoenixz
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    241 year ago

    When your life is protected by, and depends on a little scribbled piece of paper…

  • @[email protected]
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    211 year ago

    The real question is whether this was put up on April 2 or is a really old sign from Feb 4. ISO 8601 saves lives people, but probably not as many as proper lock out/tag out procedures.

  • Sjmarf
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    171 year ago

    Well, the button says “pull to start” and the sign says “do not push” so we’re good to start it, right?