
Over the past few months, a lot of cases on construction site deaths have been reported. Recently there were construction deaths at the job site in Miami, Las Vegas and New York City. Edgar Malloy, an employee from Las Vegas was found bleeding from the fan blades of a rooftop cooling tower as work went out at the Henderson offices.
It was reported that Malloy went up to the roof to check a problem with one of the cooling towers used for air-condition, Investigators believe he accidentally reactivated the cooling tower in course of resetting the unit's vibration sensor. On actually engaging the sensor, the fan started up, and his jacket and right arm became entangled. The spinning blades crushed his right elbow and fractured his skull.
Malloy's fatal mistake came when he climbed inside the tower without shutting off power to the unit, a procedure known as "lock out, tag out." For people who work on such electric-powered equipment, they should be made aware about the importance of a powering down equipment before working on it.
The traumatic death of Malloy has given an insight on the importance of workplace safety. A tragedy that could have been avoided with safety modules containing proper Lockout Tagout procedures.
One of the main causes of the death was the lack of adequate equipment and safety procedures for work inside the cooling towers used to air-condition the City Hall.
During the investigations of Malloy's death, one Henderson it was confirmed that the firm had "no safety system in place."
At a workplace, there is always a need of a OSHA certified safety training module. A Lockout Tagout kit was missing at the job site, which could have protected against unintentional startup of the equipment.
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The kit offered by AffordableSafetyTraining.com contains Lockout Tagout presentations, Lockout Tagout Training Outline, Participant Worksheet and a Quiz and Answer Key.
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