Comment 54102

By mrjanitor (registered) | Posted December 30, 2010 at 22:13:33

Train and Blame....

In the steel industry we call it "Bloody Pocket Syndrome". If you so much as cut a finger you are going to be investigated and suspended at US Steel. This has created the Bloody Pocket Syndrome where guys are walking to their lockers with a bloody hand stuck in a pocket to get to their own personal first aid kit they have brought to work on their own... only the supervisors can access company first aid kits or send you to the medical department. Guys are patching themselves (stories of guys stitching themselves) up in the toilet and going back to work.

Another recent incident at Bunge (oilseed crushing plant) around 2008 where I worked for a couple of years had a 46 year old killed from a fall after releasing a jammed seed conveyor that was elevated. Employees had been asking for a platform for over 20 years years at the access door where Curtis fell, however standard practice was to stand on the railing. Guess who Bunge initially tried to blame for the death, Curtis. However Bunge had not provided proper fall protection training and was fined for the death. After some CYA fall arrest training post incident it was now a "Train and Blame" policy on working from heights, no matter how dangerous it was easier and cheaper to blame the worker for not wearing fall protection than to actually come up with an engineered solution.

Sorry for the rants, I have just seen and been involved in too many industrial incidents and this article is bringing up a whole lot of horrible memories.

I am the love child of Karl Marx and Ayn Rand

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