Thursday, December 16, 2010

Milwaukee Tragedy

In the midst of an apartment renovation project, a 33-year-old man lost his life.  This is one of those freak accidents that is hard to believe. 
The crew working on the fourth floor needed to remove an old refrigerator from the building.  They decided the most efficient way to get the refrigerator out was to throw it off the fourth floor porch.  They yelled down to the ground to make sure the coast was clear and they did not hear a response.  So the refrigerator goes off the ledge.  At the same instant one of their co-workers stepped into the path of the falling appliance.  The man died at the scene of the accident.

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating, as they do with all fatalities.   They will most likely determine that this accident was preventable, but that would have required some extra effort.  The man's name had not been released, but he was described as "a family man with a warm heart and a zest for life."


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