More than a dozen hurt in industrial blast outside Cleveland

[Wicked Blue]

Source: NBC News

More than a dozen people were injured, at least one critically, in an industrial plant explosion outside Cleveland on Monday, NBC affiliate WKYC of Cleveland reported.

The late-morning blast at the I Schumann & Co. metal alloy manufacturer in Oakwood Village southeast of Cleveland was described by a captain with the Oakwood Fire Department as a "large explosion."

The official said at least one person was flown by helicopter to a hospital. The subsequent fire was under control Monday afternoon, but crews were still working on hot spots, the captain said.

The blast sent debris across the street, produced a crater in a building, and created a smoke plume that could be seen for miles, according to social media video reviewed by NBC News and as seen in affiliate footage from the scene.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dozen-injured-industrial-blast-cleveland-rcna71518

[judesedit]

1. More deregulation?

[former9thward]

10. Industrial accidents have been happening since the beginning of industry.

Not everything is terrorism...

[judesedit]

19. I said "deregulation"???? Non-existant OSHA???

We should know eventually

[elleng]

16. Capitalism cannot thrive without regulation.

[2naSalit]

2. Ohio again.

Hmmm.

[Wicked Blue]

3. This was about 70 miles northwest from the train derailment

[Traildogbob]

5. Gym Jordon will

Demand hearings into Biden destroying his state for revenge because of the attempted coup.

[Deuxcents]

6. Is this Biden's fault, too ? 🤪

[Ford_Prefect]

7. Give MTG time and it will be.

[ZonkerHarris]

8. Capitalism attack.

[Igel]

14. Because capitalists like

hurt workers, lawsuits, investigations, manufacturing downtime and lost productivity, not to mention repairs to equipment.

Now, idiot capitalists might, but that's on the idiots qua idiots.

[ZonkerHarris]

15. like the crash in Ohio capitalists attack workers and citizens with shoddy workplaces and

equipment that fails causing harm to humans and the environment.
Because they take profits over re-investment, improvements, and safety.
The fat cats who caused these accidents really appreciate your defending their actions though.
there won't be anything extra in your paycheck for it though because they are
capitalists.

[ancianita]

9. It has a past of OSHA and EPA violations...

19 Investigates looked into the company’s safety and environmental records over the years, and found several past violations.

We searched for complaints made to OSHA.

They’re in charge of safety enforcement in the workplace.

Over the last 20 years, we found three complaints and one referral made to OSHA for I. Schumann & Co.

Two health complaints from 2022 are still open regarding I. Schumann & Co., one from March and one from October.

Since they’re currently under investigation, there aren’t too many details about these cases.

But the company faced a final penalty of about $3,500 in the March case.

We found three citations for that complaint.

OSHA labeled one of them a “serious violation” regarding the control of hazardous energy.

Another complaint dating back to 2019 stemmed from an incident where an employee was hospitalized after suffering third degree burns.

According to OSHA, that March while an employee was getting a sample from a pot of molten metal, it splashed on his coveralls and he didn’t realize his clothing had caught fire.

This employee was not wearing fire resistant clothing.

OSHA found five violations and handed down a penalty of more than $12,000 for that incident.

In July of last year, the Ohio EPA sent the company a notice for 11 environmental violations, including unlawful storage and disposal of hazardous waste.

https://www.cleveland19.com/2023/02/20/health-environmental-violations-found-metal-plant-prior-explosion/

[intelpug]

17. Safety violations

I have worked in several industrial settings since 1983,, currently in an underground mine. I can tell you that this must be a pretty darn well run plant if these are all the citations they have had in 20 years. The honest To God truth is there isn't a plant, factory or mine in the whole country that dos not get cited for something every time inspectors visit, the larger the operation the more likely to find problems. I'M not kidding here, Federal inspectors usually take regulations very literally, a wrench left lying on a catwalk can be a serious violation because it becomes a "tripping hazard", an empty light socket even out of reach is an "electrical hazard" because some one could theoretically stick their finger in it and get a shock . Note, you can have a burned out bulb in the socket the socket just cannot be empty. Most of the time inspectors will give the company time to remediate the violations and will withdraw them , usually while they are still actually there, sometimes they will come back a day or week later if not too bad to confirm that the problem is fixed before the nullifying the citation,, but,, I can assure you no matter how well run any work area is inspectors WILL ALWAYS FIND SOMETHING AMISS EVERY VISIT no matter how small. That is just the way it is I am not knocking the inspectors or the rules however these things can get too sensationalist in a story when most violations are really pretty mundane things

[judesedit]

20. You are right and maybe it was just an accident or maybe the inspector was paid

to ignore some things. Truly, hope that's not the case for those poor people who worked there.

[The Jungle 1]

23. The one company I worked for started a walking initiative.

We all laughed. But it turned out tripping was the number one cause of injuries. Yo those high heels are bad stuff.
It was a multi national company who tracked safety closely. You had to hold the hand rail on stairs etc.
The only place I worked that was more strict was the nuclear plants.

[former9thward]

12. I worked at a steel mill for 14 years.

Furnace crews. This sounds like molten metal being splashed or accidently poured on a wet area. We shall see.

[Wicked Blue]

22. One of the stories said molten metal pieces rained down

and burned people

[JohnnyRingo]

18. Train wreck 30 miles south of me. Plant explosion 40 miles north

Had a boiler explode at the Cleveland Cliffs plant here in town yesterday.
I should have gone with Biden.

[The Jungle 1]

21. Big Branch mine

CEO and coal baron Don Blankenship ignored safety regulations in his mines because it was cheaper to pay the fines.
29 miners died because of this mans lust for money.
He was convicted and did spend ONE year in jail. 29 died because of his greed, he got ONE year.

Corporate America does not care about us. Repukes will continue to run around and scream we need less regulation.
The fatal work injury rate was 3.6 fatalities per 100,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) workers, up from 3.4 per 100,000 FTE in 2020 and up from the 2019 pre-pandemic rate of 3.5. These data are from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI).
The share of Black or African American workers fatally injured on the job reached an all-time high in 2021, increasing from 11.4 percent of total fatalities in 2020 to 12.6 percent of total fatalities in 2021. Deaths for this group climbed to 653 in 2021 from 541 in 2020, a 20.7-percent increase. The fatality rate for this group increased from 3.5 in 2020 to 4.0 per 100,000 FTE workers in 2021. CFOI.
Corporate America does not care.
UNION NOW!