04/29/21
Dave Trumble
After driving past a car crash, we all slow down for the next little while. This is similar to how we respond in the aftermath of a workplace fatality. We often slow down for a bit before the behaviors and habits of the years creep back in. Some organizations refuse to let complacency return and make foundational changes that alter the
Throughout most of the 20th century, generating and distributing electricity in Ontario and sharing these resources with bordering states was in the hands of Ontario Hydro. The “Hydro,” as it was often called, stood as one of the biggest players in the electricity market in North America for decades. Ontario Hydro established enviable safety programs and records, as did the various companies that spawned from its dissolution due to deregulation, or so we thought until the early 1990s. Due to its size and the diversity of work from construction to operation and maintenance, Ontario Hydro had experienced some tragic loss and
Amazon worker at Las Vegas warehouse dies in possible suicide
According to
NBC News, the North Las Vegas Police Department (NLVPD) said the worker either “fell or jumped,” and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Many details have not been confirmed by Amazon as of this writing, including the name of the individual, but an investigation is underway. Alexander Cuevas, a spokesman for the NLVPD, stated, “Detectives were called out, and cause and manner of death will be revealed by the coroner.”
An Amazon fulfillment center (Wikimedia Commons)
Many workers at the facility believe their fellow worker may have committed suicide. “So apparently someone committed suicide at my Amazon LAS7. They said he jumped from the 4th floor,” an Amazon worker posted on a Facebook group. When asked about what happened, she wrote, “They [managers] watched the camera and others said he jumped too.”