Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2021-01-29 10:26 a.m., Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On 1/29/2021 10:05 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>>> One foreman was an asshole.Â* He wanted me to go down into as
>>> tunnel and shovel up all the material that had fallen off the
>>> conveyor belt. It was a dirty job, but I was summer help and on
>>> the cleanup crew in that furnace room.Â* When the conveyor
>>> started up I climbed out.Â* The foreman came back and told me to
>>> go back down. It was against the safety rules. He insisted. I
>>> refused to be down there with the belt running. Bear in mind the
>>> reason there was a mess down there was because the chunks of ore
>>> were falling off the belt.
>>
>> People complain about government regulations but people like that
>> are why OSHA exists.
>
> It's a shame that anyone should have to call in OSHA to enforce
> existing regulations or company safety rules.* It's not like
> inspectors will be there immediately, or that they can complain
> without fear of repercussions.
>
> A number of years ago there was an accident at my neighbour's
> place. He was having his driveway repaved. The owner of the company
> was trying to clear dirt out of the box of a dump truck.* The dump
> box was up, tail gate open, and he was poking around with a
> shovel..... while the back hoe tried to loosen the dirt.
>
> I was mowing my lawn and spotted it and was shocked at the accident
> waiting to happen... and it did. The book hit the tailgate and it
> squeezed the guy's head. I did the first aid on the guy. Ambulance,
> police showed up.* Police called the Ministry of Labour and they
> sent an inspector out. All of a sudden all the workers were wearing
> hard hats.
>
> MoL did their investigation and left. As soon as the inspector's
> car left the hard hats came off.

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