In todays Richmond Va paper. First day on the job. Sounds like someone didn’t take time to train him properly.
Published: August 14, 2009
A worker disassembling a boom from a crane Wednesday apparently removed the pins holding it in place in the wrong order, causing the boom to fall and crush him, Chesterfield County police said yesterday.
Ronald R. Well, 46, of the 2700 block of Goolsby Avenue, was killed instantly. It was his first day on the job, said Chesterfield police Capt. Terry Patterson.
The accident occurred shortly after 11 a.m. at Harbor Dredge & Dock, a small marine contractor, barge and crane service company at 1300 Willis Road.
“According to the crane operator, there’s a protocol for disassembling this boom,” Patterson said. The process involves removing a series of pins that must be detached in a certain order.
“And what we found is that he . . . removed the pins that support this boom in the improper order.”
Police are investigating whether there was any criminal conduct involved in the death. The accident is also being investigated for workplace protocols by the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry.
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we'll set you up for training on your 2nd week.
if you live that long!!!!!!!!!!!!
zactly!
wow - that's too bad
I feel sorry for his family
Yes, me too. I feel horrible for his family.
That is unbelievable that a guy would be removing pins from the boom on his first day. Nobody was watching, nobody said anything? Just tragic.
Agreed, they should not call this just an accident, the managers/ supervisors who assigned the task w/o training, should be held liable for negiant homocide, if the facts are as they are presented
Who said that the had no training.There is not one mention in the article about how much training that he has had.Only that it was his first day on THAT JOB..
William the Geezer, the sequel to Billy the Kid - Shoe
Agreed, thats why Isaid IF the facts were as presented.
While I do not work with Cranes, when we hire somone who claimes to have a clue about a job/achine , we partner them up w/ a regular and then get a feel if they have a clue and are safe worker, follow instructions ect.
This would have caught the Overzelous employee, I still cannot imagine someone taking this job on w/o being assigned the task, hence validating skills should have been done .
Dave
before you fry the supervisors of the of the company there's also the factor that it may have been an ever-zealous employee whanting to show how good of a worker he was by gettin-er done, maybe didn't heed warnings to wait for the exp crew, or...
lot's of variables involved all of which center around lack of communications IMHO.