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Published: 2011-08-08 13:34:55
Updated: 2011-08-08 13:34:55

Posted: August 8, 2011

State investigates death at Youngsville plant

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Youngsville, N.C. — The state Department of Labor is investigating a Friday death at a Youngsville glass plant, authorities said Monday.

An electrician with Act Electric in Wake Forest was working on a lift inside Arch Aluminum & Glass when a crane moving a pane of glass collided with the lift, DOL spokesman Neal O'Briant said. The electrician, whose name hasn't been released, fell to the plant floor about 25 feet below and died.

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@mprice1003... Depends; under OSHA 1926 regs for regular construction 6', under OSHA 1910 for general industry 4', those are the thresholds. However there are always exceptions.
Rolling Along
August 9, 2011 5:53 p.m.
Accidents happen yet also there are safety devices that this subject should have been wearing, shoulda, coulda , woulda
josborne77
August 8, 2011 5:41 p.m.
That was my impression too mprice.

Airspace, I never thought of it being called airspace before.
Click to view my profile Fuquay Resident
August 8, 2011 4:39 p.m.
I WAS THANKING THAT OSHA'S MADE ALL COMPANY'S HAVE WORKERS TIE OFF IF YOU GET UP OVER 7 FEET IS THAT WRONG OR NOT,,OUR PRAYERS GO OUT TO THE FAMILY AND MY GOD BLESS THIS MAN.....
mprice1003
August 8, 2011 4:18 p.m.
Scissors lift may or may not require tie off to the lift. An aerial lift with an articulating boom you have to tie off to the anchor point in the basket.

I work in an industrial environment. We either have to lock out cranes or have some sort of incursion permit to allow a crane and aerial lift to operate in the same air space. In most cases cranes and aerial lifts are not allowed to operate in the same airspace. Sounds like mistakes were made.
Rolling Along
August 8, 2011 4:05 p.m.
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