Phillips 66 worker falls into coolant tower!

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Worker falls into coolant tower at oil refinery! Took 3 days to shut down Phillips 66 refinery to recover Jerome Matthews body. Poor guy!

RIP!


Respectfully,

Pajero!
 
Should have been using full body fall protection harness. Contractors are subject to the same safety procedures as the company that hired them.That contractor should be blacklisted from ever doing work there again. OSHA will most likely levy a very big fine on both of them.And you can be sure a plethora of wrongful death attorneys have already contacted his family. Deep pockets and big $$$.
 
But wait, wait....regulations are bad! They choke off industry. If we let incidents like this happen, it's better for America!

And before any buffoons get all upset, that was sarcasm.

Condolences to family and friends.
 
At a GNB battery plant they had two supervisors fall through the top of a caustic soda 20' tank.
 
Originally Posted By: Kira
But wait, wait....regulations are bad! They choke off industry. If we let incidents like this happen, it's better for America!

And before any buffoons get all upset, that was sarcasm.

Condolences to family and friends.



Fine line Regulations can get stupid. Sometime in the 70-80's my dad put a ton of money into this machine https://www.walmart.com/ip/Fuze-Bike-Bubbler-Bike-Accessory/35285303 that left a trail of bubbles behind a bicycle. The injection mold machine...make 100's of thousands..filmed tv commercials... then Jimmy Carters Consumer Product Safety Commission said the children will be looking at the bubbles and crash. They stopped him from selling.


He lost a ton of money. Now I see it in Walmart and he's dead. No idea if he bought the patent of just funded the inventor
 
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Originally Posted By: Kira
But wait, wait....regulations are bad! They choke off industry. If we let incidents like this happen, it's better for America!

And before any buffoons get all upset, that was sarcasm.


And that happened WITH extensive regulations. We could eliminate all accidents by just eliminating the industry and going back to hunting/gathering. How good would that be for the country, considering half of it doesn't even know how to gather, but instead relies on someone else to bring it to them?

That was sarcasm, too!
 
OMG..I hope, even though I have to hunt and gather, I don't have to lose my air conditioning.
 
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"He was working the night shift. There were three of us. It was very slippery and nasty on top of the tower where we were working, and he was grabbing the hose and he slipped and fell into the coolant tower," Young said.

Matthews left behind a wife and two children. He had only worked a few months for HydroChemPSC but had several years of experience.


Quote:
One slip and down the hole we fall.
It seems to take no time at all.
A momentary lapse of reason
that binds a life to a life.
A small regret, you won't forget,
There'll be no sleep in here tonight



Very sad indeed for his wife & children.
 
Originally Posted By: Kira
But wait, wait....regulations are bad! They choke off industry. If we let incidents like this happen, it's better for America!

And before any buffoons get all upset, that was sarcasm.

Condolences to family and friends.


There are regulations on the books and enforced to prevent this from happening. Yet stopping pure stupidity and lack of care of ones own life can not be regulated.
 
As someone that lost a school mate in a car wreck, no seat belts on the old car, and steering wheel impaled him. He did not suffer long, if at all. Regulations are way more good than bad. They mostly affect the owners obscene profits. After they finish "Tort reform" you will not be able to sue.

Now the air bag burns you and it is like the end of the world.

Rod
 
Originally Posted By: ragtoplvr
As someone that lost a school mate in a car wreck, no seat belts on the old car, and steering wheel impaled him. He did not suffer long, if at all. Regulations are way more good than bad. They mostly affect the owners obscene profits. After they finish "Tort reform" you will not be able to sue.

Now the air bag burns you and it is like the end of the world.

Rod



Sounds like a lack of understanding of business economics. Anything that costs the business more, costs consumers. When costs are driven up, sales go down. Business hurts, they can't employ as many people, stockholders make less, and so on.

SOME regulation is good. OVER regulation is bad.
 
Originally Posted By: Kira
But wait, wait....regulations are bad! They choke off industry. If we let incidents like this happen, it's better for America!

And before any buffoons get all upset, that was sarcasm.

Condolences to family and friends.


You picked an absolutely despicable time to be petty and to insert your politics. You should be ashamed.
 
Originally Posted By: dave1251
Originally Posted By: Kira
But wait, wait....regulations are bad! They choke off industry. If we let incidents like this happen, it's better for America!

And before any buffoons get all upset, that was sarcasm.

Condolences to family and friends.


There are regulations on the books and enforced to prevent this from happening. Yet stopping pure stupidity and lack of care of ones own life can not be regulated.


^ This! Imagine working every day near this stuff..


 
That is how my great grandpa Felton died. In his 80's and still Farming. Threshing, belt flew off and tossed him into something sharp collapsed lung. Newspaper announcement. Fred Felton was injured in a threshing machine accident, The Dr was able to repair the damage, if Sepsis does not set in he is expected to make a full recover. Next day, Sepsis had set in. 3ed day, funeral announcement. 5th day. Funeral was well attended. Such is life before antibiotics.

Rod
 
Originally Posted By: ragtoplvr
That is how my great grandpa Felton died. In his 80's and still Farming. Threshing, belt flew off and tossed him into something sharp collapsed lung. Newspaper announcement. Fred Felton was injured in a threshing machine accident, The Dr was able to repair the damage, if Sepsis does not set in he is expected to make a full recover. Next day, Sepsis had set in. 3ed day, funeral announcement. 5th day. Funeral was well attended. Such is life before antibiotics.

Rod

Things are certainly better today, but even with modern medicines Sepsis still claims too many lives today.
 
Originally Posted By: IndyFan
Sounds like a lack of understanding of business economics. Anything that costs the business more, costs consumers. When costs are driven up, sales go down. Business hurts, they can't employ as many people, stockholders make less, and so on.

SOME regulation is good. OVER regulation is bad.


No...no one should be employed anywhere that their ability to return home to the family is effectively a roll of the dice.

If businesses can't see that, and elect to make their employees safety a dice roll, then they need the regulation to make them see sense...or fine them/sue them jail them out of existence if they DO elect to put profit over employee safety.

New business slogans...
"We can employ more of you buy it means fewer of you (statistically) get to go home every night."
"Only one employee is killed every 150,000 widgets that you buy"
 
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