Posted on 11/15/2022 10:42:58 AM PST by Red Badger
A man was killed when he fell into a vat of molten iron at his job site.
The worker was reportedly moving a sample of iron from a furnace when he fell into a melting pot of molten iron that was heated to more than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The 39-year-old was "immediately incinerated," according to a press release by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. It was just his ninth day on the job.
OSHA sent investigators to the Mapleton, Illinois foundry on June 2 after the incident. Investigators found that the facility was lacking legally required guardrails and restraint systems to protect workers from falling into dangerous equipment.
The release also said the company "routinely exposed employees to unprotected fall hazards as they worked within four feet of deep ceramic containers of super-heated molten iron."
OSHA cited and fined Caterpillar $145,027.
"Caterpillar's failure to meet its legal responsibilities to ensure the safety and health of workers leaves this worker's family, friends and co-workers to grieve needlessly," said OSHA Area Director Christine Zortman in Peoria. "We implore employers to review the agency specific regulations to protect workers from falls into equipment in industrial settings."
Caterpillar has 15 business days from receipt of the citations and penalties to comply, request an informal conference with OSHA's area director, or contest the findings before the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission.
Ow!
Was it supposed to take longer?
Rookie mistake.
If my math is correct, I’m sure that .0003% of their annual revenue fine will reallly teach ‘am a lesson.
Poor man. RIP
Its difficult to believe the explanation is this simple. I certainly don't trust any media, particularly the low IQ clowns who work in local TV news, to give an accurate reporting of events. I wonder what facts they are not reporting?
too little and too late......
so no open casket ?
Caterpillar fined $146,000. Net assets in 2021 $83 Billion. You do the math.
No time for Ow.
He was instantly dead and incinerated.
This facility is probably built in the 50’s and to an earlier standard. Usually, unless an accident on site happens, they won’t see any health and safety inspectors.
I’m guessing that is what happened. 60 years of no incidents until now. Now the government is inspecting the facility.
It will cost millions to bring the facility up until code.
Big Metal will hurt your @ss.
That’s no way to die. I want to get caught in the gears of a combine or get my nuts cutoff by a laplander.....
If the facility manager is not up on OSHA, yeah, I could see that happening as described.
When I started at one property, I insisted on installing a fall prevention device on a shipman’s ladder.
Why? So no one fell to their death.
Name the mavie?
Mavie = movie
Immediately incinerated? As in “no time to feel pain?”. I’m calling BS on that.
Poor guy. I hope his family gets millions.
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