More bad news stateside...

[Haironyourchest]

The owner of the company stated that his operation had experienced only one serious injury in something like 26 years of business. If he's telling the truth, sounds like he was running a perfectly tight ship and no blame to him. Im sure the poor kid got the necessary training ("Hey - don't - like, y'know - let your hands or feet get close to those grinding wheels o' death y'hear! Or that machine'll suck you in, chew you up and spit you out....got it?")

 

We can wrap the world in red tape and cotton wool, but people are still gonna take risks. The dude was running a business, making a buck and making work for others. He gave this local kid a job, instead of an illegal immigrant. The kid made a mistake and it cost him his life. How much training do you need to know not to **** around with a wood-chipper?

 

Some people just have more of an instinctive sense of self preservation than others - an awareness of body position and environmental potentials. And some just pull the short straw. I feel for his mother, and the boss and the other guys at the company. But I hope they won't crucify the boss man on account of this.....

[R Mac]

The owner of the company stated that his operation had experienced only one serious injury in something like 26 years of business. If he's telling the truth, sounds like he was running a perfectly tight ship and no blame to him. Im sure the poor kid got the necessary training ("Hey - don't - like, y'know - let your hands or feet get close to those grinding wheels o' death y'hear! Or that machine'll suck you in, chew you up and spit you out....got it?")

 

We can wrap the world in red tape and cotton wool, but people are still gonna take risks. The dude was running a business, making a buck and making work for others. He gave this local kid a job, instead of an illegal immigrant. The kid made a mistake and it cost him his life. How much training do you need to know not to **** around with a wood-chipper?

 

Some people just have more of an instinctive sense of self preservation than others - an awareness of body position and environmental potentials. And some just pull the short straw. I feel for his mother, and the boss and the other guys at the company. But I hope they won't crucify the boss man on account of this.....

 

unless of course he hadn't put the proper procedures in place, a guy with zero experience, not a full time employee, first time on the job, apparently supervised although no one seems to know exactly what happened...

 

Unfortunately for the owner/regular crew even if they're completely free from blame it's something that they'll likely never get over.

 

All in all it's too bad it ended the way it did, I'm sure quite a few of us have taken chances at one time or another but thankfully didn't pay the ultimate price for a split second error of judgement. There's a fine line between near miss and game over.

[Ty Korrigan]

there was another one in the states a while back, even bigger chipper, bloke got pulled right through

 

Man Dies in "Horrifying" Wood Chipper Accident | NBC 6 South Florida

 

'According to OSHA, from 2000 to 2013, there were 11 wood chipper deaths in the United States, none of them in the state of Florida'

 

YURK! See the size of the infeed on that chipper!

(tried to blot out the red stained woodchips...)

Ty

[Mick Dempsey]

Bottom stop bar, end of story.

Very nasty.