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This is a bit of a touchy subject with me considering that last year another factory in our company lost an employee when said employee touched a press that was being serviced and was electrocuted. As was explained to us, the electric current was so strong that it locked that employee's muscles in place and the plant would have had two fatalities had not someone grabbed the person running to help, and kept them from touching the frying employee.
Anyhow, moving on to present day, when I got to work on Monday there was a notice taped to the timeclock with another employee's picture on it stating that if he was seen on the factory grounds, we were to call 911.
Here's why: Over the weekend, this employee was caught cutting wires to the presses downstairs. Apparently, his logic was that this would throw the presses into alarm and earn him a half-hour (or however long it would take to solve the problem) break every time he did it. He'd been doing it for a while apparently, too.
This time though, something went amiss. For one, a supervisor noticed one of the slashed wires hanging down. He blamed a friend of mine who was working overtime over the weekend. She pointed out that she'd just come back from break, and so the supervisor tried pinning the blame on the worker across from my friend. He denied involvement also.
Then my friend sat down on a low metal table nearby.
You can likely guess what happened. Yes, another slashed wire, this one a live one, was hanging down and touching that table, and so my friend got a good jolt of electricity via her ass.
So this begs the question. If we hadn't gotten lucky and it hadn't been a relatively tame live wire, and if my friend had been electrocuted then and there -- you know, biting through her tongue, and her hair catching fire, and her eyeballs either bursting or popping out of their sockets, the whole nine yards -- would we be dealing with negligent homicide here, or manslaughter? The employee responsible for this surely didn't mean to hurt anyone or kill anyone, but she would have been dead all the same, so I'm thinking manslaughter.
Or, we could have bumped it right up to multiple homicide, because when they did finally track down who did it and marched him out the door that night, he called back and threatened to blow up the building, or, barring that, bring a rifle to the factory and kill as many people as he could shoot.
And that was why we were to call the cops if we saw him on the grounds.
Interesting side note: This particular employee had already made a name for himself at the factory because one shift he worked when nobody would relieve him to allow him to take a bathroom break, he shit his pants and kept right on working as though nothing had happened. This is definitely the kind of person you want working for you, is it not?
Anyhow, moving on to present day, when I got to work on Monday there was a notice taped to the timeclock with another employee's picture on it stating that if he was seen on the factory grounds, we were to call 911.
Here's why: Over the weekend, this employee was caught cutting wires to the presses downstairs. Apparently, his logic was that this would throw the presses into alarm and earn him a half-hour (or however long it would take to solve the problem) break every time he did it. He'd been doing it for a while apparently, too.
This time though, something went amiss. For one, a supervisor noticed one of the slashed wires hanging down. He blamed a friend of mine who was working overtime over the weekend. She pointed out that she'd just come back from break, and so the supervisor tried pinning the blame on the worker across from my friend. He denied involvement also.
Then my friend sat down on a low metal table nearby.
You can likely guess what happened. Yes, another slashed wire, this one a live one, was hanging down and touching that table, and so my friend got a good jolt of electricity via her ass.
So this begs the question. If we hadn't gotten lucky and it hadn't been a relatively tame live wire, and if my friend had been electrocuted then and there -- you know, biting through her tongue, and her hair catching fire, and her eyeballs either bursting or popping out of their sockets, the whole nine yards -- would we be dealing with negligent homicide here, or manslaughter? The employee responsible for this surely didn't mean to hurt anyone or kill anyone, but she would have been dead all the same, so I'm thinking manslaughter.
Or, we could have bumped it right up to multiple homicide, because when they did finally track down who did it and marched him out the door that night, he called back and threatened to blow up the building, or, barring that, bring a rifle to the factory and kill as many people as he could shoot.
And that was why we were to call the cops if we saw him on the grounds.
Interesting side note: This particular employee had already made a name for himself at the factory because one shift he worked when nobody would relieve him to allow him to take a bathroom break, he shit his pants and kept right on working as though nothing had happened. This is definitely the kind of person you want working for you, is it not?
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