Welder Dave
Senior Member
A shop near where I live and owned by people I have worked with before has been been found guilty by OHS on 2 counts. The guy that mostly runs/owns it was a foreman at a shop I worked. The owner there was always yelling and screaming and went through a lot of employee's. The foreman could be a jerk at times. I also worked with someone who had worked for him (the foreman) at his new shop. He said the owner was told to stay out of the shop and let the foreman run it because he used to yell and scream all the time when he came in the shop. Clearly picked that up when he was a foreman at the other shop.
At the time of the explosion I figured it was the result of acetylene accumulating in a room that perhaps wasn't properly vented to the outdoors. Especially bad that it happened at Christmas/New years time. I'm not sure if the families of the deceased and injured have filed lawsuits or not. Seems like they would have better chances now that the shop was found guilty. Don't feel sorry the shop was fined $300,000. Seems way too low for a life lost and permanent disabilities.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4802992/n...atic-injuries/
https://www.thesafetymag.com/ca/topi...plosion/253846
At the time of the explosion I figured it was the result of acetylene accumulating in a room that perhaps wasn't properly vented to the outdoors. Especially bad that it happened at Christmas/New years time. I'm not sure if the families of the deceased and injured have filed lawsuits or not. Seems like they would have better chances now that the shop was found guilty. Don't feel sorry the shop was fined $300,000. Seems way too low for a life lost and permanent disabilities.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4802992/n...atic-injuries/
https://www.thesafetymag.com/ca/topi...plosion/253846