Plant Supervisor Killed At Alladin Plastics In Surgoinsville
From News Channel 11’s Dave McAvoy:
State investigators with the Tennessee Department of Occupational Safety and Health Administration are in Surgoinsville, Tennessee today after the death of a worker at Alladin Plastics, 140 Industrial Drive.
The accident happened around 8:50 p.m. Tuesday. The name of the employee has not been released.
Alladin executive vice president Bob Hickman said the victim was a supervisor who’d worked at the plant for more than 30 years. Hickman said the accident happened when the supervisor tried to help another employee fix a machine.
It’s the first workplace death for the company in its 60 year history, Hickman said.
The plant is shut down and probably will be for the rest of the week.
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WOW! I guess no matter how long anyone has had experience in safety on the job things can still happen.This man worked there for more than 30 years and probably knew more about safety then anyone, how sad that this happened. My prayers are with the friends and the family. Some things are just hard to understand like this.
My brother was killed in Abingdon va almost 3 years ago.My question is why are employees working on the machinary instead of trained mechanics?My brother was also working on eguipment that should have been done by the person they paid to do it the first time but instead he was the one to put it back together for this company after they had paid an outside company to work on it and leave it apart.I know what this family has to endure it is a terrible loss to the family.My heart breaks for this family.God bless them.
God be with his family.
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