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Texas airport worker dies after being sucked into Delta plane engine

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Re: Texas airport worker dies after being sucked into Delta plane engine

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All the union busting efforts are showing their consequences in worker safety.

From the linked article:

«Officials have not yet named the employee of Unifi Aviation, which Delta Air Lines contracts for ground crew operations.»

«"From our initial investigation, this incident was unrelated to Unifi's operational processes, safety procedures and policies," the company said.»

Re: Texas airport worker dies after being sucked into Delta plane engine

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post #3
post #2

All the union busting efforts are showing their consequences in worker safety.

From the linked article: «Officials have not yet named the employee of Unifi Aviation, which Delta Air Lines contracts for ground crew operations.» «"From our initial investigation, this incident was unrelated to Unifi's operational processes, safety procedures and policies," the company said.»

Pleased to know they exonerated themselves.

Re: Texas airport worker dies after being sucked into Delta plane engine

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"The worker's employers say an initial investigation shows the incident was unrelated to safety procedures, but it is not yet clear how it happened."

This seems plainly related to safety procedures: either they weren't followed, and they were able to be not followed in a way that led to death, or they had a gap in said procedures that led to "correct" actions leading to death.

The alternative is it was intentional, which while possible generally results in articles saying something like "It is unclear what happened.Hotline numbers if you need to talk to someone are ..."

Re: Texas airport worker dies after being sucked into Delta plane engine

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In the intervening time between last Friday and today, it was ruled a suicide: https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/new-update-on-worker-...

Pretty shit way to do it. Cleaning human remains out of a jet engine seems fairly traumatizing.

Re: Texas airport worker dies after being sucked into Delta plane engine

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"The worker's employers say an initial investigation shows the incident was unrelated to safety procedures, but it is not yet clear how it happened." This seems plainly related to safety procedures: either they weren't followed, and they were able to be not followed in a way that led to death, or they had a gap in said procedures that led to "correct" actions leading to death. The alternative is it was intentional, w…

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