Lock out. Tag out.
It’s not just a good idea.
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Only $1.5 million. You would have thought they would have at least thrown in a lifetime supply of tuna.
This was the first item that caught my attention. OK, where did the other $4.5 million go?
Bumble Bee will also be required to spend $3 million to replace the outdated tuna ovens
OK, understandable.
The company will also pay $750,000 in fees, penalties and court costs
Do these court costs include paying the family's lawyers or does their pay come out of the family's $1.5 million share of the settlement?
The DA’s Environmental Enforcement Fund will get $750,000 for the investigation and prosecution of Occupational Safety and Health Administration criminal cases and for improving enforcement related rules.
Huh? Wouldn't this be part of the $750,000 in fees and penalties already assessed?
At least his name wasn’t Charlie.
Lock out, tag out is a standard practice in the food industry. What else is Bumble Bee skipping in their processes? Hiring illegal workers?
What a horrible way to go.
It’s like something out of Elysium.
Saul Florez, guilty of violating safty rules, must pay $19,000.00. Where is he going to get that kind of money?
I guess Florez will be paying for the rest of his life, with interest accrued on the balance, most likely compounded quarterly.
Words escape me. The poor man.
At least he was dolphin free.
“His family will get $1.5 million of the $6 million settlement payout. “
Who gets the rest?
I remember that this used to happen in the steel industry. I remember one in particular at American Bridge Steel in Ambridge, PA where a worker who was perpetually drunk on the job fell into a furnace or some other super-heated piece of equipment. Nothing is left — not even bones.
“”that won’t require workers to set inside.””
Can’t trust anything you read these days. What does that mean? Is it supposed to read “won’t require workers to SIT inside” or “won’t require workers to GET inside?”
Also it would be helpful if those familiar with the “lock out, tag out” explained it to the rest of us or is it privileged knowledge?
Decades ago, a Supervisor at an Ontario coal-fired electrical plant, at the end of a plant turnaround, decided to look inside the furnace of a boiler. He hasn’t told anyone, he hadn’t LOTOed the opening he went into and he had no radio. The furnace was sealed shut and the operator was about to start firing with NG to warm the boiler. People started to ask about this Supervisor because he was nowhere around. Shortly, it was discovered that he had expressed interest in seeing the interior of the boiler.
Since he was not found, it was decided to open the furnace to ensure he wasn’t inside. He was discovered and rescued. That boiler heats steam to over 700°F and burns a train car load of coal each hour. If he had not been missed, he would never have been found. There would have been nothing but ash. After he got out of the furnace, he was given his walking papers.