Toledo Jeep employee dies in workplace incident

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https://www.detroitnews.com/story/b...loyee-dies-in-workplace-accident/74893226007/

Toledo news outlets, as well as plant employees posting to an internal message board viewed by The Detroit News, reported that the employee had been crushed on the Gladiator side of the complex, also known as JT.

"Stellantis is aware of an incident involving one of our employees at the Toledo Assembly Complex," said a company statement sent by spokesperson Ann Marie Fortunate. "The Toledo Fire Department has been called for assistance. As this incident is currently under investigation, we cannot provide any further details at this time

Unfortunate to hear 😔
 
michaelluscher said:
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/b...loyee-dies-in-workplace-accident/74893226007/

Toledo news outlets, as well as plant employees posting to an internal message board viewed by The Detroit News, reported that the employee had been crushed on the Gladiator side of the complex, also known as JT.

"Stellantis is aware of an incident involving one of our employees at the Toledo Assembly Complex," said a company statement sent by spokesperson Ann Marie Fortunate. "The Toledo Fire Department has been called for assistance. As this incident is currently under investigation, we cannot provide any further details at this time

Unfortunate to hear 😔
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I lost a friend to an industrial accident. Tragic. To this day I shudder...
 
I've toured several car/truck manufacturing plants while on the fleet side of my career.
A lot of safety protocols in place and a lot of heavy moving parts in these plants.
A big something in the process failed somehow.
Very sad to hear of this happening.
 
Very sad for the worker and their family. 😟

I've worked in a tire factory where two people had been killed by machinery prior to my time there. Both were killed by machinery moving in places the operators were not supposed to be, and the machines were not locked out. Recipe for disaster.

That same tire plant had the scariest piece of machinery I've ever seen. It was a huge table of sorts with hundreds? of spools of steel belting spinning and feeding the belting so fast if you got into the machine it would have sliced you into a million pieces.

I've also worked around huge multi-thousand ton warm-form and cold-form presses that would smash you flatter than a pancake if you got into one.

FIRST RULE: SAFETY FIRST. SECOND RULE: SEE FIRST RULE
 
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wavinwayne said:
Very sad for the worker and their family. 😟

I've worked in a tire factory where two people had been killed by machinery prior to my time there. Both were killed by machinery moving in places the operators were not supposed to be, and the machines were not locked out. Recipe for disaster.

That same tire plant had the scariest piece of machinery I've ever seen. It was a huge table of sorts with hundreds? of spools of steel belting spinning and feeding the belting so fast if you got into the machine it would have sliced you into a million pieces.

I've also worked around huge multi-thousand ton warm-form and cold-form presses that would smash you flatter than a pancake if you got into one.

FIRST RULE: SAFETY FIRST. SECOND RULE: SEE FIRST RULE
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Out of the life saving rules that many industries follow - line of fire continues to be the number 1 problem …
We called it HMI for a while - but the machine tends to win and despite safeguards - it’s going through the Swiss cheese chart.
 
I worked in the safety department in open pit mining and manufacturing. While there are accidental work related injuries due to things breaking unfortunately most are caused by employee error and are preventable. We'll probably never know the cause of this fatality but guaranteed Jeep will be cited for not training properly or lax supervision or violating the OSHA general duty clause no matter the true cause.

Side note I cringe at many online content creators who seem to gleefully disregard basic safety procedures while doing their thing.

Sympathies for the family.
 
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