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> But the cause of worker’s death hadn’t officially been determined
Wait... what?
> V97.33 should not be used for reimbursement purposes as there are multiple codes below it that contain a greater level of detail.
> V97.33XD …… subsequent encounter
Who has a subsequent encounter with a jet engine?
What's the health insurance reimbursement rate for getting sucked into a jet engine a second time? I'm curious why it was only added in 2016.
That video has been around the internet a few times. And while it might feel like watching someone die, as the headline says, the crewman survived without major injuries.
Don't they have code for literally everything imaginable? IIRC, they have separate codes for particular animals biting particular digits (e.g. snakebite, right thumb; dog bite left pinky).
Looks like CYA Mode to me. If this is an accident, then their safety procedures need changing.
At a certain point, the safety personnel can only watch in horror as basic OSHA guidelines are ignored at every step. Of course it may be a case that the safety personnel were incompetent and not training employees, but I say its a 50/50 whether it was their fault or not.
And that is inherently unsafe. You take that risk, and it is your fault alone if you are injured because of it.
> enormous amount of proof
This was a work site, there are cameras everywhere. If the CCTV shows you running down the stairs without use of the hand rail and falling, that is more than sufficient evidence that you broke your own legs.
> why were [stairs] so dangerous
They’re fucking stairs. No amount of padding or landings can successfully mitigate falling in a way that breaks your body. And both come with large downsides. The best I have ever heard for padding is carpet, which requires regular deep cleans and can become smoothed over time, increasing the likelihood of a fall. And landings require far more space than one might think, and only help so much.
The stairs were OSHA compliant and fully safe if one takes them properly. The problem was that individual decided they were above safety and permanently damaged their body as a result.
You didn't say he was running (however, why was he running? did a manager tell him he needed to hurry, did he not have enough time for a bathroom break? etc) and stairs come in all shapes, sizes, steepness, lengths, materials, and hardness of the floors under them. Nothing can 100% prevent injuries, but you can try to avoid the worst scenario. It's a factory, I get it, maybe it's not possible, but I would want to know if there had been any prior similar incidents. In any case, no matters whose fault, it still doesn't seem necessary to tell the guy to "fuck off."
We're not looking to try the case, just pointing out that it's pretty ridiculous to immediately claim a workplace incident is entirely the worker's fault.