{"id":916,"date":"2017-05-10T12:51:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T16:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/?p=916"},"modified":"2018-08-09T15:00:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T19:00:55","slug":"workplace-freak-accident-preventable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2017\/05\/10\/workplace-freak-accident-preventable\/","title":{"rendered":"Workplace Death: Freak Accident or Preventable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-918\" src=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lynnway.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lynnway.jpg 960w, https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lynnway-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lynnway-768x485.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lynnway-800x505.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Sometimes, when you&#8217;re reading about the tragedies in the <a href=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/category\/weekly-toll\/\">Weekly Toll<\/a>, there are a few that you think, &#8220;Well, that&#8217;s too bad, but what are you going to do&#8230;.?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Like\u00a0this one in this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2017\/05\/08\/weekly-toll-3\/\">Weekly Toll<\/a>:<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Two Rhode Island residents ID\u2019d in Billerica auction crash<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Billerica, MA \u2014 Two Rhode Island residents were among the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/local_coverage\/2017\/05\/two_rhode_island_residents_id_d_in_billerica_auction_crash\"> three people killed <\/a>Wednesday when an elderly employee at a Billerica auto auction plowed an SUV into a crowd of people, injuring nine others, authorities said Brenda Lopez, 48, and Pantaleon Santos, 49, both of Rhode Island, were pronounced dead at Lynnway Auto Auction, said Middlesex District Attorney Marian T. Ryan and Billerica Police Chief Daniel Rosa. <strong>Leezandra Aponte<\/strong>, 36 \u2014 a Lowell mother of three who was only hours into her first day on the job at the auto auction \u2014 was rushed to Lahey Hospital, where she later was pronounced dead, authorities said.\u00a0The president of Lynn\u00adway, Jim Lamb, said in a statement yesterday that safety barriers will be installed to keep vehicles from leaving their designated lanes during auctions.<\/p>\n<p>An elderly employee crashes a car into a crowd of people, killing three, including an employee. \u00a0We&#8217;ve seen these stories before. Old people and three tons of moving steel don&#8217;t always mix. Shake your head, say a prayer and move on. Right?<\/p>\n<p>Not so fast. \u00a0It turns out that not only is the Lynnway Auto Auction going to now take some precautions &#8212; setting up safety barriers to protect crowds &#8212; but they had been<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox25boston.com\/news\/former-employee-says-she-voiced-safety-concerns-before-deadly-auto-auction-accident\/520599453\"> warned before<\/a>. And had ignored the warnings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Boston 25 News has learned a former driver asked about safety changes years before the accident.<br \/>\nThat driver worked at the auction for three years in a part time job, driving cars through the auction lanes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The woman, who asked to be identified only as Anne, spent three years driving cars through the crowds inside the Lynnway auto auction. She said her safety concerns were ignored.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cIt\u2019s just a matter of time before something like this would happen,\u201d Anne said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cI wasn&#8217;t surprised because I was like, \u2018one of these days, someone is going to get killed,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/masscosh.org\/\">MASSCOSH<\/a>, the COSH Group in Massachusetts is on the case, noting that that worker killed &#8212; and Ann, who warned of the hazard &#8212; are temporary workers:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">MassCOSH, a non-profit that monitors worker safety, is calling for more precautions at Lynnway; particularly for temporary workers like Anne, or Leezandra Aponte &#8212; one of the victims of last weeks&#8217; crash.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cTemp workers are seen sadly as disposable, they&#8217;re treated like second class employees,\u201d MassCOSH\u2019s Jeff Newton told Boston 25. \u201cWe will be following the OSHA investigation to see if the company took any shortcuts that put anyone in needless danger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lynnway plan to install bollards &#8220;as soon as possible, and Jersey barriers in the meantime.<\/p>\n<p>And in the &#8220;no good deed goes unpunished&#8221; department, Lynnway also commented that<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">[Anne] was not a Lynnway employee, she worked for Labor Ready. [Anne] had an uncooperative attitude and Labor Ready was asked not to send her any more. During the time she worked as an auction day driver, she was required to attend the safety meeting and handed a copy of the safety instructions every single time she came on Wednesdays to work as a driver.<\/p>\n<p>OK. Uncooperative attitude, but somehow worked there for three years&#8230;..<\/p>\n<h3>Lessons<\/h3>\n<p>The lessons here are that there are that even if it&#8217;s not initially evident, there are almost always ways that injuries and fatalities could have been prevented\u00a0. There is almost no such thing as a &#8220;freak accident&#8221; \u00a0that someone couldn&#8217;t have done something to prevent.<\/p>\n<p>The second lesson is that despite the fact that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whistleblowers.gov\/complaint_page.html\"> Section 11(c) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act <\/a>prohibits employers from retaliating against employees for exercising their health and safety rights, it happens anyway. And your rights are even harder to defend if you work for a temporary agency that decides they don&#8217;t want you back because of your &#8220;uncooperative attitude.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> In April 2018, OSHA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/business\/2018\/04\/09\/billerica-auto-auction-company-firm-pay-fine-over-crash-that-left-people-dead\/8NCiHrOIGo7h10cd9VHHYK\/story.html\">cited<\/a>\u00a0Lynnway Auto Auction and the staffing firm\u00a0TrueBlue Inc., doing business as PeopleReady. TrueBlue was fined\u00a0$12,675 and Lynnway agreed to pay OSHA $200,000 after the\u00a0original $267,081 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/pls\/imis\/establishment.inspection_detail?id=1229973.015\">fine<\/a>\u00a0was reduced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, when you&#8217;re reading about the tragedies in the Weekly Toll, there are a few that you think, &#8220;Well, that&#8217;s too bad, but what are you going to do&#8230;.?&#8221; Like\u00a0this one in this week&#8217;s Weekly Toll: Two Rhode Island residents ID\u2019d in Billerica auction crash Billerica, MA \u2014 Two Rhode Island residents were among the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,173,144],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosh","category-freak-accident","category-weekly-toll","tag-massachusetts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Workplace Death: Freak Accident or Preventable? - Confined Space<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There are almost always ways that injuries and fatalities could have been prevented . 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