Company Fined After Security Killed in Workplace Accident

[1stWatch]

Grand Rapids, MI:
The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration is fining the managing company of a facility where James Avink, 26, of Wyoming was killed by a falling garage door while working security at the location for the amount of $2,500. The accident supposedly happened on December 17, 2005.

http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4475955&nav=0Rce

($2,500. Wow. Big consolation. )

[N. A. Corbier]

Grand Rapids, MI:
The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration is fining the managing company of a facility where James Avink, 26, of Wyoming was killed by a falling garage door while working security at the location for the amount of $2,500. The accident supposedly happened on December 17, 2005.

http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4475955&nav=0Rce

($2,500. Wow. Big consolation. )

Incredible. Especially since OSHA will fine you an exorbarant amount of money, shut the job site down, and post an inspector on a port-a-potty if it runs out of TP and is reported.

My brother-in-law loved to do that. He had OSHA on speed dial. He was a subcontractor by trade, a drywaller. If the GC was a jerk, he'd call OSHA and watch the facility be ground to a halt.

[1stWatch]

$2,500 is less coverage than an AD&D insurance claim for a severed pinkie fingertip, which is somewhere around the tune of $7,800. That amount is worth less than a fingertip, much less a life.