{"id":4131,"date":"2018-10-23T13:40:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T17:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/?p=4131"},"modified":"2018-10-23T13:42:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T17:42:22","slug":"complacency-killed-my-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2018\/10\/23\/complacency-killed-my-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Complacency Killed My Brother!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4134 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/whitmire.jpg\" alt=\"freak\" width=\"667\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/whitmire.jpg 667w, https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/whitmire-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/>A couple of months ago, I wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2018\/08\/09\/freak-accidents\/\">post<\/a> about how &#8220;freak accidents&#8221; are neither &#8220;freak,&#8221; nor &#8220;accidental.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0As I explained then:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">First, the phrase implies that this type of incident hardly ever happens and there is, therefore, not much you can do about it. In fact, the phrase \u201cfreak accident\u201d is a double-whammy. Not only dies the word \u201cfreak\u201d imply \u201crare,\u201d but the word \u201caccident,\u201d defined as \u201can unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally, typically resulting in damage or injury,\u201d implies that the event was unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>One of the examples of an fatality that was labeled a &#8220;freak accident&#8221; was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/coroner-identifies-worker-electrocuted-in-freak-accident\/9262367\">tragic death<\/a> of\u00a0Marty Dale Whitmire in Greenville, South Carolina, in April 2017.\u00a0 Whitmire was working on a paving operation when his truck clipped a live power line, which fell on him &#8212; a tragic, far-too-common &#8212; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/SLTC\/electrical\/hazards.html\">completely preventable<\/a> &#8212; cause of worker death.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Marty Whitmire&#8217;s nephew, Melvin Whitmire,\u00a0 posted a comment on that post which I am reprinting below to give it more attention. I defy you to read it without boiling over, and crying at the same time:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Thank you so much for your article about the \u201cfreak\u201d \u201c\u201daccident\u201d\u201d in Greenville SC involving the electrocution that occurred on a paving job site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">April 11, 2017 is a day my family and I will NEVER forget. Marty was my like a brother to me. He was actually my Uncle (my fathers baby brother) but because he was only 8 years older than me we were very close when I was a child and as I became an adult we grew to be best friends. He used to tell everyone that he and I were brothers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Marty worked on my crew as a Pipefitter for 4+\\- years and the company we were working for layed him off in November of 2016. That\u2019s when he took the job at King Asphalt to keep busy until the layoff ended. He wasn\u2019t experienced and he was a flag man for the first 4 months he worked there. Towards the end of March 2017 he was \u201cpromoted\u201d to the job the position that he was working when he was tragically killed, not accidentally either. This happened in my opinion (I have 22 years in Industrial Pipefitting an OSHA 30, and experience as Site Specific Safety Officer on a Federal Jobsite) due to Marty\u2019s absence of proper training on the machine and lack of training for the foreman in the job. The power lines were\u00a0 lower than required\u00a0 by national code, the pole was not up to national codes, the spotter was out that day and no one filled his position and SCDOT inspector\u00a0 was sitting in his truck onsite because the road being\u00a0paved was a State Road. The road has more overhead lines crossing the road than the average road in that particular area that the incident occurred, and no one notified the power company about safeguarding the power lines before work began. COMPLACENCY killed my \u201cbrother\u201d!!!! This could have been avoided if either the paving or power company or SCDOT would\u00a0 have fulfilled their\u00a0obligations to provide a safe place to work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Another piece of information not reported was&#8230;&#8230;.<br \/>\nThe foreman on the paving crew was Marty\u2019s son. My cousin watched his Daddy as he was being electrocuted for 20+\\- minutes until the power company arrived to shutdown the 7200 volt line that lay across Marty\u2019s body. The power never tripped a fuse or transformer. It stayed live until the power company got onsite. NOT A ACCIDENT. A FAILURE TO PREVENT this from happening is what is so \u201cFREAKY\u201d and unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p>Moral of the story: Most workplace &#8220;accidents&#8221; are not accidents; nor are they &#8220;freak.&#8221;\u00a0 Most workplace fatalities are preventable. There is plenty of information out there if employers don&#8217;t understand how to make their workplaces safe. Melvin is right: it wasn&#8217;t an act of God or &#8220;just one of those things&#8221; that killed his brother; it was the employer&#8217;s complacency and violation of safety standards and the law.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, every worker killed in the workplace is a tragedy and a loss that brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, friends, co-workers, spouses, children and parents can never fully recover from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months ago, I wrote a post about how &#8220;freak accidents&#8221; are neither &#8220;freak,&#8221; nor &#8220;accidental.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0As I explained then: First, the phrase implies that this type of incident hardly ever happens and there is, therefore, not much you can do about it. In fact, the phrase \u201cfreak accident\u201d is a double-whammy. 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