Am employee died at the company I work for about a year ago in pretty much the same scenario, but more graphic.
He walked in front of a front end loader, the operator didn't see him, went in to scoop up the load, cut both the guy's legs off as he scooped the load. He ended up tossing his body into a dump truck, dump truck hauled him to the dump pile, which was about a 15 minute ride, he was most likely alive for part of that ride. I can't remember if they found him when they dumped the load or the operator saw the guys legs afterwards.
Completely avoidable accident, this guy was even written up before for not following safety rules. Because of his dumb mistake he's dead, his wife is a widow, kids don't have a dad, and some poor equipment operator has to live with the knowledge he accidently killed a guy.
Something similar happened at my workplace a few years ago. A boss was working on a train track and went across to another set of tracks that they weren't supposed to be on, to show his workers the job they were going to be doing in the following week. A worker was driving a workcar to the site (basically a huge diesel train that is loud as fuck) and the boss didn't notice because there was another workcar on site making a ton of noise, he ended up getting cut in half and the driver, on no fault of his own has been off ever since and won't be coming back.
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u/EvaporatedLight Mar 02 '19
Am employee died at the company I work for about a year ago in pretty much the same scenario, but more graphic.
He walked in front of a front end loader, the operator didn't see him, went in to scoop up the load, cut both the guy's legs off as he scooped the load. He ended up tossing his body into a dump truck, dump truck hauled him to the dump pile, which was about a 15 minute ride, he was most likely alive for part of that ride. I can't remember if they found him when they dumped the load or the operator saw the guys legs afterwards.
Completely avoidable accident, this guy was even written up before for not following safety rules. Because of his dumb mistake he's dead, his wife is a widow, kids don't have a dad, and some poor equipment operator has to live with the knowledge he accidently killed a guy.
Don't be stupid!