The employee needed an interpreter which raises a few questions. Did the employee receive safety training in a language he could understand? What and if did language play a role in this? Was the employee advised of the dangers if a mistake is made?
Now imagine 1M non English speaking/reading aliens driving around on your highways w no clue. I was hit by one then called a racist by their insurance agent for mentioning it. USA is collapsing fast.
@@JakeStewart1343sounds like the lazy citizens don’t want the position. They’d rather go panhandle at their nearest freeway exit with a fake vet sign and a starving dog tied up next to them
i worked at a bank in the 90s that paid me 6 bux an hour i could not even make my car payment working full time there so i quit and got a way better job
During cleaning mode that requires movement of the machine? Oh, gee, your simplistic on/off view has a flaw in it. I could walk you thru these places and you'd be like, oh, it is actually complicated in ways I didn't imagine they could be.
@@whickervision742 you know you can still manually rotate or actuate most of the machine while locked out. Or simply actuate while your limbs aren’t in the machine then lock out again. Takes time but worth keeping your limbs.
Says 29 OSHA violations since 2012 and only mentions two other amputations. I don’t know where that 120 amputations came from but I would bet all the money in my pocket that’s not correct.
@YoMama9021 maybe you haven't seen the manufacturing videos from Pakistan and India. These guys work with molten metal wearing sandals and pajamas basically. Of course blame the evil Americans.
Back in 2016 I got both my feet ran over by a forklift while working at a chain grocery store. I've had 5 surgeries, but luckily no amputation. It just hurts to walk now. Turns out, my employer didn't train their forklift drivers. OSHA came in and told them they needed to start training their forklift drivers. I worked their for 5 more years before i couldn't handle it anymore. They didn't train me, or any of my coworkers still, and we all rode the forklift after the accident. Hell ya i'm suing. They deserve it.
@@writerconsidered hey I’m just sayin if safety is paramount then there ya go. Hell I love driving but I would sacrifice that right for automated driving because of all the lives it would save. That’s the way of the world, son. Evil capitalists at work. Lol
That’s a funny joke. Maybe it feels like it, but it’s not because it’s more common now, it’s because the media covers it more now. Industrial environment are safer now as they have *ever* been. You can never make a workplace like that 100% idiot-proof.
I for one will boycott Rana Foods for both safety and wages!!!! Just because he doesn't speak English is NO EXCUSE TO PAY LOW WAGES IN AN UNSAFE WORKPLACE.
Exactly, California is going to pass a law with $50 per hour being the minimum hourly wage and soon after that the state of Illinois will adopt that too. Finally a living wage for all.
Absolutely! There should be extensive training & power shutoffs (lockout/tag out) before any employee puts his hands in a machine! This company is in violation of OSHA & completely liable $$$
I've been pushing my company to give osha 10 for all laborers/entry positions; or subsidize a class as a prereq to the job. If you start off with new guys being safety-wise, then the culture will grow into a safe one. I'm a humanist, and just don't want people to get hurt, but I had to tell them it is cheaper to make safe employees than deal with the aftermath of unsafe ones. Sad this is our state of industry.
@@snowflakehunter It's educational value bestows the individual with a sense of responsibility via their knowledge. If this is the not the case, the person needs to apply to Ross: Dress for Less.
OSHA 10 should be a requirement for all workers. The violation for amputation should be $1M per incident. The current fines are a joke to these companies.
I used to work in a snack food factory in Franklin WI. It was called Baptistas Bakery but then it got sold to Snyder Lance. The supervisors would yell at the operators to never shut the line down because it'll affect production numbers. An operator got her whole arm ripped off in the packaging machine when she went to unclog it while it was still running. The company didn't even shut down the lines around her after it happened. They roped off her machine and everyone had to keep working around her. It was horrifying. I'm so glad I got laid off from that place.
Lock Out / Tag Out is taught in every factory, it's up to the employees to follow procedures. Maybe it's the language barrier you get from hiring people with no education.
One of the issues with immigration is that the bulk of them legal or not regardless of their origin do not speak or more importantly read english. It's funny when they come into the DMV and play charades to get the person behind the counter to give them an application to drive your kids on a bus or drive a truck.
should be mandatory and when company fails to enforce, fines should not be appealable, this actually will result in cost saving! if one looks beyond the first quarter.
Something tells me he did it while the machine was running. People get a little comfortable around big machinery like this and start taking little risks here and there until something like this happens.
Well then there should be cameras and that would have prove him wrong, but that isn’t the case. All those 120 violations were also people taking “little” risks??
@@greciacastro9020you would be surprised how many people don’t follow osha rules 💀💀💀 they should take some responsibility cuz it was definitely their own actions that caused it, it’s just easier to put blame on everyone else for a dumb decision you could easily avoided
My cousin worked for Ford Glass. They were getting ready for a shutdown for a holiday. It was the last piece of glass before that shutdown. It got shut and she went to dislodge it, she got sucked into the line. They got the machine shut off before it killed her. She was lucky she didn’t lose her arm. She was stuck in that machine for a couple hours while they were trying to tear it apart to get her out. Compression injuries are the worst.
Sounds like they ignored / she ignored safety concerns just to get out sooner and start the holidays rather than spend an extra hour to do things correctly. When it’s an end of day accident like that it tends to be the employee. It’s also sadly why you don’t want your court case to go to jury deliberations on a Friday afternoon. Studies show they come to a conclusion faster to get home and have the weekend off.
I have worked there before about 8 years ago. We had to work from 6pm to 6am. 12 hour overnight shifts by like 4am people were falling asleep. It is poorly run and they exploit my people the undocumented or the people down on thier luck and desperate. It was not a surprise when I saw this but I was shocked because this could have happened to me
That's most factory work, it's dangerous. I've done many warehouse jobs over the years and there's 1000 ways to get killed/maimed. Not just the machines, but the other workers could kill you. These type of jobs have A LOT of alcoholics and drug addicts. So that guy driving the forklift or towing equipment has a 50/50 chance of being sober. I've been almost run over many time. Sorry this happen to Oscar.
@@MrE-y7v And yet it's red states removing safety regulations, and changing laws so under age kids can work longer hours. Not to mention they all have right to work laws.
Yes,lock out tag needs to be strict.Otherwise the machine would not have started.Once turn off and lock there is no need for the machine to start on its own.
Looks to me like it needs to run at a crawl speed (jogged) to be thoroughly cleaned. It is too big to hand crank and takes too much time to keep cycling power off and on. That lid looks super dangerous like it could fall down on someone inside, and then start running in automatic.
Lockout tagout only works if you have people in the facility teaching it and enforcing it. Sounds like this facility has a very poor safety culture which is sad
I work in a food processing plant about 200 miles away from there. They put the fear of God in us everyday about wearing PPE and following safety procedures. We get a few ergonomic issues and a laceration every now and then; but an amputation is unheard of- and 120 in five years is ludicrous. Also, $12 an hour is ridiculous. We start off employees making $24 an hour to work on the lines.
@user-rr4fr8pf3j there is no way $12 is acceptable for food processing. You are only getting less than half what you make at a legitimate factory. Our temps get $18 an hour. TEMPS. You get $13 an hour working part-time at McDonald’s. This factory is taking advantage of their workers and cutting corners and safety for profit.
To Rana, their migrant workers are expendable. And US courts agree because they still allow them to keep doing it even with all the safety violations they repeatedly get. My money is that nothing changes. If one of their foreign laborers die, they would probably blame the worker and get off Scot free. The best way to fight this is to boycott Rana products. 😡
Im an arm amputee below the elbow from a fire and i really feel for these people. You would think after the arm is cut off and totally healed it would be ok, but theres so much pain still. Im going on 3 years and theres still days i don't want to get out of bed.
@@Zee-ob1pe it's called phantom pain because I can still "move" and feel every single part of my missing hand right down to the fingernails. Your fingers move from different nerves located high in the shoulder I believe - I feel mine below the elbow. I can move each "finger" separate. That's how I also control my bionic arm. The pain I get is real like a cramp in my hand or feelings of fingers crushing. There is no cure. Just crappy meds
1:38 question when he was cleaning dough off the machine A was the machine plugged in and powered up and running still? B Was the machine locked out and disconnected from the main power?
Question: have you ever worked in a food plant? Do you know what CIP stands for? Do you know that equipment often needs the energy sources connected during cleaning? Do you know this is often done overnight under minimal supervision? Do you know that ease of cleaning is often a forgotten aspect of a design or left mostly as an afterthought?
@@whickervision742 These accidents are prevented with Lock Out Tag Out locks. If you are inside a machine you push one of those big fun red buttons and put your red Lock Out Tag Out lock over it, so it can't be turned on while you are inside. If someone told you that's not how it works you've probably been lied to. If you need the machine running while you clean it, you're most likely cleaning it wrong.
@@whickervision742 Oh and by the way, my source is that i actively, currently work in a food plant. I am on my lunch break right now. You are definitely someone who's cutting corners if you don't even consider lock out tag outs, and i have to imagine wherever you work has a bit of a "repeat" problem just like Rana up there
$12.00 and hour to work on and maintain industrial machine is absolutely insane. Those machines should be serviced by trained people, and are definitely not being paid enough.
Na... i was an osha trained safety manager, and the workers do everything they can to subvert safety measures if it means they get to go home early. A dairy I was auditing their safety policies and found that because the company paid a full day even if they finished hours early lead the workers to subvert/defeat every safety measure the company had. Animals frequently died, one worker got his head smashed and his brain squeezed out... another individual I had to rescue because he defeated the cip process, which led to a deadly noxious gas to overtake him. Even now, you can agree that Osha is disparaged all the time.
@user-ov4wr5yu4r Well, Osha is pretty gae sometimes, but for the most part, I was trying to save lives. The issue is that osha haters always try to defeat safety parameters only to cry foul when they get themselves hurt. What most infuriating is after they hurt THEMSELVES, they want a big payday. Crazy
🤬they don’t give a F & take advantage of them.🤬🤬🤬🤬 120 ppl lost there arm ect working there & 12$ an hour they should be shutdown.!! Shut them down!!!!!!! Smh & they still not gone do nothing about it 🤦♂️🤬
12/hr!!!! Thats the first sign they don't care about their employees. If the business is booming like advertised theh can definitely afford to pay more than 12/hr!! This story just added to my arsenal of proof that low wage jobs do not care about u or your family. They probably tried to offset it by "offering" (forcing) them to work constant overtime
Well, I’ve worked for a plywood plant one time, and I witnessed an employee cleaning underneath the round table and it was running and rotating and he slid his arms through the safety barrier to get a piece of wood out his arm, then got caught in the chain and got tore up as a result yes, he did get the arm amputated it wasn’t a pretty sight. I couldn’t stop the guy because I was way too far away, but I was yelling at him to get his arm out of there before it got tore up. later, I found out he was trying to get an insurance claim on the company. But there were other witnesses so his claim was denied. In court
So the guy was willing to lose an arm for a WC claim? I find it hard to believe someone would do that... unless they owed a gambling dept. Then they'd definitely do that 😂
Lock-Out, Tag-Out goes a very long way. NEVER go near any machinery without safe guards in place while it has power running to it! Certaintly don't go past any guarding to do ANYTHING, no matter how "quick". I promise you, as Oscar can, that machine is far faster than your "quick"
Why would you even go clean the machine without checking for lockout tag out??? Should’ve made sure the machine is locked out before preforming machine maintenance with or without training. Common sense
The company kept violating their safety procedures, why not just closed the place down or fired whoever was in charge in the health and safety training department. It looks like they are not doing their job properly. Either that or their employees kept taking shortcuts to meet production goals instead of their own safety.
I worked at ALCOA for 5yrs & was on the Safety Team. If we had so much as a stitch from an injury while at work (shut finger in car door in parking lot) it was a BIG DEAL. Reports went to every plant internationally. Interviews were conducted & reports filed within hours. Then meetings took place were EVERY step was scrutinized to determine exactly what caused, or contributed to the injury. These meetings involved everyone, from employees who worked in the area of accident regularly, and temps who didnt, to the shift lead, the engineer, maintenance to plant manager. Saftey was taken very seriously. And even minor accidental injuries were few and far between. Amputees hadnt happened in years- Globally. Though, there was one death from a fall from a roof out-of-country while I worked there. My point is : THIS IS CRAZY BS !
I worked as a tool and die maker/machinist for decades. Over the tears it became my specialty on setting up and guarding machines for production. I cringe at most workplaces as I instantly see all the de-limbing and human, skinning, crushing, cooking possibilities on a shop floor. It makes my head spin. Most factories are a death traps solely except for everyone trying their best to not get hurt. Every machine I guarded had a pusher or grabber welded onto machine with a chain. And when I trained folks I showed them ALL the ways to screw up and what happens when you do , and how not to do that. I would receive thank yous years later from people. And sometimes I still get a call about a machine i set 15 years ago , they ask why i locked out that setting, I explain, they blanche at the danger , and say, well just leave that as it is! NOW we understand why you did that! So glad we called!
That’s why you don’t wear loose clothing, jewelry or anything else like that when you’re working around moving machinery and you’re supposed to keep your hands away from machines like that. when they’re in operation
Honestly, it should be shown. The gruesomeness of the situation won’t disappear just because you cover up the photo. Fact is these companies need to be held accountable for the technology they implement in their business. Not showing the photo only numbs the viewer. Sure we react to it, but will we actually do anything about it if it doesn’t seem like this is that bad of an issue? Show how reckless these companies have become after putting capitalism first. At least China shows they don’t care instead of pretending to care.
Sounds to me someone was negligent by leaving the machine on and cleaning it and is trying to get a pay out. Guessing since he can’t read English he is finding a way to get around reading instructions.
When they say food is finger licking good this is extreme.... But for real who puts their hands in a running machine any normal thinking person wouldn't do that... I've worked in kitchens with heavy duty mixers I started when I was 16 work experience with school and even I knew not to put my hands where they don't belong
Personal Injury attorneys saying “profits over people” might be the funniest thing I’ve heard. Oscar will get 100k if they win 5 million 😂 bet they won’t be saying profits over people is so bad then huh?
How does a machine grab you if it's turned off with the proper lock out tags? Sounds like operator error, either from not being trained correctly (was his trainers able to train him in Spanish?) or from pure laziness. Most Hispanics I've worked with were hard workers but they cut corners doing things dangerously and got hurt more often. Climbing scaffolding without a safety harness only to fall 25ft and shatter their ankles, for one example.
The problem is people don't read safety manuals or listen during safety training. I worked in a airspace industry before and some people just dgaf , most of the employees are on their phones watching UA-cam playing games while on safety meeting or training. And then do the opposite when working. The unsafe way or shortcut to do their job.
the minuscule fines and no consequences mean no company takes safety serious.shut them down till it is safe,it would not take companies long to understand that.but our government could not give a crap.that is why osha has no teeth.10 grand fine or million dollar settlement wont change their behavior. they write that in as the cost of doing business
That happened to a coworker of mine when I worked at great lakes pallet (best pallet company) in loves park, il. That place has all kinds of violations going on .
Oscar doesnt even speak English, so we know the story there; he didnt read or understand any of the safety rules, signs, instructions, warning stickers or anything else, got careless and put his hand where it shouldnt have been on a moving machineand got injured.
Paying $12/hour for what they charge for their product?!! Disgusting. Anyone that doubts that corporate greed exists need to have their head examined. This man should not be cleaning a moving machine. I can't imagine that is policy.
And Chicago people keep arguing why are factories and other companies getting permanently closed this is exactly why they're being sued and permanently closed because of their negligence and unsafe work conditions
120 amputations in 5 years = 24 amputations per year = 2 amputations per month! A person lost a limb every two weeks in that place! That's crazy! Imagine every time you got paid, a random co-worker had to lose a limb...
I’ve got an idea on how we can prevent these sort of things from happening in the future. Instead of fines to a company that ultimately doesn’t care about the fines because it’s a drop in the bucket of their total revenue. Why don’t we make it so the rules state that if there is an OSHA violation due to safety concerns, then that company is then required to pay 5% of their future revenue in the coming year and all C suite level employees have to pay 30% of their yearly income as a fine, I bet you dollars to donuts that there will quickly be changes made to prevent any injuries from ever occurring in the future. Change only will happen when the people who make the decisions are personally affected. If they aren’t responsible for their employees then who is?
30% is way too much. Especially per violation; I don't think you know how many rules there are, or how easy it is to miss one. If all the violations were obvious problems with obvious solutions, we wouldn't need to any regulations except for "Don't do dumb things, or you'll be fined". And you're holding the people in charge of everything personally responsible, that's good, but what about the people who actually commit the violation? Shouldn't they be fined, as well?
Norway here, this workplace would be forced to shut down after ONE control. If ONE accident occured, the owners would have to pay thru their noses. This is a SHAME!
120 amputation events in 5 yrs? That's insane.
That is absolutely crazy right OMG
That's obviously not true.
Rookie numbers. I need to see at least 280. Mr George and his people got 360 already
@@rawbacon across the industry, not 1 plant. Very true.
even a couple is too much 😂 My jaw dropped. That's two amputations per month
Losing your arm for only $12 an hour is insane
Would losing it for any amount of money per hour be worth it ?
Well if he made alot more he could have a new robot arm built
Don't be stupid then ,stay in school & get an education, then u don't have to do jobs like this
@@donkeyballs3307Respectfully agree!!
@@donkeyballs3307 how disrespectful
The employee needed an interpreter which raises a few questions. Did the employee receive safety training in a language he could understand? What and if did language play a role in this? Was the employee advised of the dangers if a mistake is made?
He seems really smart and well spoken, just not in English.
He was a temp worker hired through a staffing agency
English do you speak it? We have non English speaking cashiers in Colorado
Now imagine 1M non English speaking/reading aliens driving around on your highways w no clue. I was hit by one then called a racist by their insurance agent for mentioning it. USA is collapsing fast.
@@bu5761i bet that "illegal alien" was driving a better car than you
12 per hour in 2020, yikes.
Sounds like illegal alien wages 🤔
@@JakeStewart1343sounds like the lazy citizens don’t want the position. They’d rather go panhandle at their nearest freeway exit with a fake vet sign and a starving dog tied up next to them
@@rickyricardo5423they’d rather panhandle on patreon, with a fake get rich quick scheme and cats doing cat scat in the background.
Different states have different minimum wage.
i worked at a bank in the 90s that paid me 6 bux an hour i could not even make my car payment working full time there so i quit and got a way better job
Thanks. I will never buy any Rana products
Lock-Out Tag-Out.
Yep
During cleaning mode that requires movement of the machine? Oh, gee, your simplistic on/off view has a flaw in it. I could walk you thru these places and you'd be like, oh, it is actually complicated in ways I didn't imagine they could be.
I came here to say that. @whickervision742 that's just lazy.
@@whickervision742 you know you can still manually rotate or actuate most of the machine while locked out. Or simply actuate while your limbs aren’t in the machine then lock out again. Takes time but worth keeping your limbs.
What manufacturing company is not using lock out tag out these days??
They should pay $50 million per plaintiff.
I know this is a serious topic from a serious vid, but I always love randomly stumbling upon a Tay Zonday comment 😂 big fan
120 amputations in 5 years is crazy. Did anybody hear that? That’s over 20 a year
No I didn’t maybe 120 violations
That's almost twice a month 😬
More hostile environment than Chicago 😅
Says 29 OSHA violations since 2012 and only mentions two other amputations. I don’t know where that 120 amputations came from but I would bet all the money in my pocket that’s not correct.
As I watched further he clearly states “the fourth amputation in eight years “, so the “120” definitely incorrect.
They would rather lose money in a lawsuit than invest in safety or pay a better wage with someone that has experience with the machine.
Exactly those type of upgrades are more costly then the law suits greedy corporations smh
They would rather the moron not cut his own arm off by being stupid.
Except they dont PAY in a lawsuit- their INSURANCE pays it.
That my friend is the American way
@YoMama9021 maybe you haven't seen the manufacturing videos from Pakistan and India. These guys work with molten metal wearing sandals and pajamas basically. Of course blame the evil Americans.
Back in 2016 I got both my feet ran over by a forklift while working at a chain grocery store. I've had 5 surgeries, but luckily no amputation. It just hurts to walk now. Turns out, my employer didn't train their forklift drivers. OSHA came in and told them they needed to start training their forklift drivers. I worked their for 5 more years before i couldn't handle it anymore. They didn't train me, or any of my coworkers still, and we all rode the forklift after the accident. Hell ya i'm suing. They deserve it.
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Sorry this happen to you, I hope you sued them!!! Nobody deserves to live in pain especially when it wasn’t even your own doing.
Thanks for the fix. I always get there and their confused. :\ @@sforza209
How do you get close enough to a moving forklift to have your feet ran over. You're told to keep a certain distance between yourself and them
Aren't forklift drivers supposed to be licensed/certified before being hired to use them?
The 2020’s feel a lot like the 1920’s, just faster
1910s and Upton Sinclair the Jungle.
You won’t be saying that once AI and robotics replace these problems.
@@neoneherefrom5836 You can have safety without robotics but sure wedge robotics in there to defect from criticism from the capitalists.
@@writerconsidered hey I’m just sayin if safety is paramount then there ya go.
Hell I love driving but I would sacrifice that right for automated driving because of all the lives it would save.
That’s the way of the world, son. Evil capitalists at work. Lol
That’s a funny joke. Maybe it feels like it, but it’s not because it’s more common now, it’s because the media covers it more now. Industrial environment are safer now as they have *ever* been. You can never make a workplace like that 100% idiot-proof.
There are 2 crimes here. The 1st 1 is paying someone $12 an hour. No 1 can live on $12 an hour.
I for one will boycott Rana Foods for both safety and wages!!!! Just because he doesn't speak English is NO EXCUSE TO PAY LOW WAGES IN AN UNSAFE WORKPLACE.
No speak english and probably illegal equals low pay
If you smoke crack, you can live off 12 bucks
"The rest of us" Like you're some posh club@angryfarmer2024
Exactly, California is going to pass a law with $50 per hour being the minimum hourly wage and soon after that the state of Illinois will adopt that too. Finally a living wage for all.
ALL EMPLOYEES SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO GET OSHA 10 CERTIFICATION
ALL SUPERVISORS OSHA 30
Absolutely! There should be extensive training & power shutoffs (lockout/tag out) before any employee puts his hands in a machine! This company is in violation of OSHA & completely liable $$$
I've been pushing my company to give osha 10 for all laborers/entry positions; or subsidize a class as a prereq to the job. If you start off with new guys being safety-wise, then the culture will grow into a safe one. I'm a humanist, and just don't want people to get hurt, but I had to tell them it is cheaper to make safe employees than deal with the aftermath of unsafe ones. Sad this is our state of industry.
Absolutly!
And that means absolutely nothing.
@@snowflakehunter It's educational value bestows the individual with a sense of responsibility via their knowledge. If this is the not the case, the person needs to apply to Ross: Dress for Less.
OSHA 10 should be a requirement for all workers. The violation for amputation should be $1M per incident. The current fines are a joke to these companies.
I used to work in a snack food factory in Franklin WI. It was called Baptistas Bakery but then it got sold to Snyder Lance. The supervisors would yell at the operators to never shut the line down because it'll affect production numbers. An operator got her whole arm ripped off in the packaging machine when she went to unclog it while it was still running. The company didn't even shut down the lines around her after it happened. They roped off her machine and everyone had to keep working around her. It was horrifying. I'm so glad I got laid off from that place.
@baiseduezcke2295agreed, now I know who to avoid even though I'm not looking for machine operator work.
Terrible!!!
Lock Out / Tag Out is taught in every factory, it's up to the employees to follow procedures.
Maybe it's the language barrier you get from hiring people with no education.
Lockout Tagout should be an integral part of orientation in all plants across the USA without exception.
One of the issues with immigration is that the bulk of them legal or not regardless of their origin do not speak or more importantly read english. It's funny when they come into the DMV and play charades to get the person behind the counter to give them an application to drive your kids on a bus or drive a truck.
It is…. Get a job and in any company with machines. Day one stuff.
And it is. Now fix clean in place (CIP) and washdown procedures. Wut?
@@superwolf28 ב''ה, not in most of USA
should be mandatory and when company fails to enforce, fines should not be appealable, this actually will result in cost saving! if one looks beyond the first quarter.
Something tells me he did it while the machine was running. People get a little comfortable around big machinery like this and start taking little risks here and there until something like this happens.
Well then there should be cameras and that would have prove him wrong, but that isn’t the case. All those 120 violations were also people taking “little” risks??
If this were the only incident, I might agree with you. But they've had multiple accidents and multiple OSHA violations.
Yeah I guess you guys are probably right. Who knew making pasta could be so dangerous 🤕
@@greciacastro9020you would be surprised how many people don’t follow osha rules 💀💀💀 they should take some responsibility cuz it was definitely their own actions that caused it, it’s just easier to put blame on everyone else for a dumb decision you could easily avoided
@rkm5369 what a racist comment
My cousin worked for Ford Glass. They were getting ready for a shutdown for a holiday. It was the last piece of glass before that shutdown. It got shut and she went to dislodge it, she got sucked into the line. They got the machine shut off before it killed her. She was lucky she didn’t lose her arm. She was stuck in that machine for a couple hours while they were trying to tear it apart to get her out. Compression injuries are the worst.
Sounds like they ignored / she ignored safety concerns just to get out sooner and start the holidays rather than spend an extra hour to do things correctly. When it’s an end of day accident like that it tends to be the employee. It’s also sadly why you don’t want your court case to go to jury deliberations on a Friday afternoon. Studies show they come to a conclusion faster to get home and have the weekend off.
I have worked there before about 8 years ago. We had to work from 6pm to 6am. 12 hour overnight shifts by like 4am people were falling asleep. It is poorly run and they exploit my people the undocumented or the people down on thier luck and desperate. It was not a surprise when I saw this but I was shocked because this could have happened to me
Since you are undocumented stealing American jobs they don’t want to treat you like they would an American
That's most factory work, it's dangerous. I've done many warehouse jobs over the years and there's 1000 ways to get killed/maimed. Not just the machines, but the other workers could kill you. These type of jobs have A LOT of alcoholics and drug addicts. So that guy driving the forklift or towing equipment has a 50/50 chance of being sober. I've been almost run over many time. Sorry this happen to Oscar.
Profits over people...America tradition.
democrat tradition
@@MrE-y7vLOL PROJECT HARDER! It's not a party thing, It's a fat cat greedy tycoon thing.
@@MrE-y7v And yet it's red states removing safety regulations, and changing laws so under age kids can work longer hours. Not to mention they all have right to work laws.
Human tradition.
@@MrE-y7v ahahhahhahhaha the victimhood is unreal. 😂😂😂😂
Knowing this, I won't purchase any of their products. Shame on Rana.
What happen to lock out tag out?😮😮😮😮
Yes,lock out tag needs to be strict.Otherwise the machine would not have started.Once turn off and lock there is no need for the machine to start on its own.
That’s a first world concept.
Looks to me like it needs to run at a crawl speed (jogged) to be thoroughly cleaned. It is too big to hand crank and takes too much time to keep cycling power off and on. That lid looks super dangerous like it could fall down on someone inside, and then start running in automatic.
Lockout tagout only works if you have people in the facility teaching it and enforcing it. Sounds like this facility has a very poor safety culture which is sad
I work in a food processing plant about 200 miles away from there. They put the fear of God in us everyday about wearing PPE and following safety procedures. We get a few ergonomic issues and a laceration every now and then; but an amputation is unheard of- and 120 in five years is ludicrous.
Also, $12 an hour is ridiculous. We start off employees making $24 an hour to work on the lines.
@user-rr4fr8pf3j there is no way $12 is acceptable for food processing. You are only getting less than half what you make at a legitimate factory. Our temps get $18 an hour. TEMPS. You get $13 an hour working part-time at McDonald’s. This factory is taking advantage of their workers and cutting corners and safety for profit.
At what point in the video did they say they were 120 amputations in five years? Can you tell me the time they said that
@@hadley407literally the first ten seconds of the video…
Because immigrants drive down wages and don't have the same attitudes about safety standards.
To Rana, their migrant workers are expendable. And US courts agree because they still allow them to keep doing it even with all the safety violations they repeatedly get. My money is that nothing changes. If one of their foreign laborers die, they would probably blame the worker and get off Scot free.
The best way to fight this is to boycott Rana products. 😡
Rana has good products.
He takes loco out tag out before cleaning machines. It’s workers speeding up. Not following procedures.
Im an arm amputee below the elbow from a fire and i really feel for these people. You would think after the arm is cut off and totally healed it would be ok, but theres so much pain still. Im going on 3 years and theres still days i don't want to get out of bed.
Phantom pain ?
@@Zee-ob1pe it's called phantom pain because I can still "move" and feel every single part of my missing hand right down to the fingernails. Your fingers move from different nerves located high in the shoulder I believe - I feel mine below the elbow. I can move each "finger" separate. That's how I also control my bionic arm. The pain I get is real like a cramp in my hand or feelings of fingers crushing. There is no cure. Just crappy meds
1:38 question when he was cleaning dough off the machine A was the machine plugged in and powered up and running still? B Was the machine locked out and disconnected from the main power?
Question: have you ever worked in a food plant? Do you know what CIP stands for? Do you know that equipment often needs the energy sources connected during cleaning? Do you know this is often done overnight under minimal supervision? Do you know that ease of cleaning is often a forgotten aspect of a design or left mostly as an afterthought?
@@whickervision742 These accidents are prevented with Lock Out Tag Out locks. If you are inside a machine you push one of those big fun red buttons and put your red Lock Out Tag Out lock over it, so it can't be turned on while you are inside. If someone told you that's not how it works you've probably been lied to. If you need the machine running while you clean it, you're most likely cleaning it wrong.
@@whickervision742 Oh and by the way, my source is that i actively, currently work in a food plant. I am on my lunch break right now. You are definitely someone who's cutting corners if you don't even consider lock out tag outs, and i have to imagine wherever you work has a bit of a "repeat" problem just like Rana up there
Sad to see someone seriously injured on their job, merely trying to provide for themselves and their family. I hope he wins his lawsuit
$12.00 and hour to work on and maintain industrial machine is absolutely insane. Those machines should be serviced by trained people, and are definitely not being paid enough.
He’s cleaning dough and not turning off the machine
I definitely won't buy this company's products, this is disgusting. The unfortunate truth is most manufacturing plants are like this.
If u live in the US yeah go do that, otherwise outside the US usually they have alot better safety practices
Just imagine how quickly the machine was up and running again.. gross lmao
I wonder if they tried to save that batch of pasta with the big red patch in the middle of it?
💪 👀!?!
Na... i was an osha trained safety manager, and the workers do everything they can to subvert safety measures if it means they get to go home early. A dairy I was auditing their safety policies and found that because the company paid a full day even if they finished hours early lead the workers to subvert/defeat every safety measure the company had. Animals frequently died, one worker got his head smashed and his brain squeezed out... another individual I had to rescue because he defeated the cip process, which led to a deadly noxious gas to overtake him.
Even now, you can agree that Osha is disparaged all the time.
Guarantee dude was told many times not to do that!
Dairy? The brains don't seem vegetarian. I'm not being facetious. It's horrifying. I love OSHA. What's wrong with Osha haters?
@user-ov4wr5yu4r Well, Osha is pretty gae sometimes, but for the most part, I was trying to save lives. The issue is that osha haters always try to defeat safety parameters only to cry foul when they get themselves hurt. What most infuriating is after they hurt THEMSELVES, they want a big payday. Crazy
@@josephaltman460 facts
I'm betting for sure he wasn't abiding by rules.
Bless his heart. 🥺 🙏🏾
120 amputations in 5 years= 24 per year = 2 per month. Not to mention $12/hr. That is unacceptable. Period
$12 per hour is not great pay.... did they give you sanctuary and are you a American citizen.
Does the machine not have a safety lock out on the machine?
Managers should face prison time for this kind of negligence.
Frito Lay is the same way.
She is sooooo nice! Great energy. What a blessing
Why is this genius cleaning the machine while it’s working?
Exactly
🤬they don’t give a F & take advantage of them.🤬🤬🤬🤬
120 ppl lost there arm ect working there & 12$ an hour they should be shutdown.!! Shut them down!!!!!!!
Smh & they still not gone do nothing about it 🤦♂️🤬
Never buying Rana again. To think over 100 amputations over just a handful of years... awful.
12 dollars back in 2020 was like 17 dollars today, just for perspective, that's how bad the rate at which the value of a dollar is falling.
Was he able to read the label printed in English to unplug the equipment prior to cleaning?
Pretty sure the person in charge is supposed to give them all the info before they start working.. regardless of the label
Appreciate those who help
12$ an hour should be criminal in itself.
Freedom of choice. Nobody has to work for that.
Rana isn't known nationwide. I've been around the sun almost 40 times and this is the first I've heard of them.
Refrigerated section in the grocery store
12/hr!!!! Thats the first sign they don't care about their employees. If the business is booming like advertised theh can definitely afford to pay more than 12/hr!! This story just added to my arsenal of proof that low wage jobs do not care about u or your family. They probably tried to offset it by "offering" (forcing) them to work constant overtime
They are illegal immigrants hired through staffing agencies who know they are illegal that’s how they get away with $12
Most large companies operate like this. I work for Amazon. Low pay high risk. Always have your head on a swivel and put your own safety first.
Well, I’ve worked for a plywood plant one time, and I witnessed an employee cleaning underneath the round table and it was running and rotating and he slid his arms through the safety barrier to get a piece of wood out his arm, then got caught in the chain and got tore up as a result yes, he did get the arm amputated it wasn’t a pretty sight. I couldn’t stop the guy because I was way too far away, but I was yelling at him to get his arm out of there before it got tore up. later, I found out he was trying to get an insurance claim on the company. But there were other witnesses so his claim was denied. In court
So the guy was willing to lose an arm for a WC claim? I find it hard to believe someone would do that... unless they owed a gambling dept. Then they'd definitely do that 😂
Osha needs more inspectors and workers need more commonsense.
I hope he doesn't settle take that case to the judge and get the max payout worker's comp allows.
Lock-Out, Tag-Out goes a very long way. NEVER go near any machinery without safe guards in place while it has power running to it! Certaintly don't go past any guarding to do ANYTHING, no matter how "quick". I promise you, as Oscar can, that machine is far faster than your "quick"
Why would you even go clean the machine without checking for lockout tag out??? Should’ve made sure the machine is locked out before preforming machine maintenance with or without training. Common sense
"We have hired safety specialist. He was hospitalized why inspecting the pasta machine. "
The company kept violating their safety procedures, why not just closed the place down or fired whoever was in charge in the health and safety training department. It looks like they are not doing their job properly. Either that or their employees kept taking shortcuts to meet production goals instead of their own safety.
They hire temp workers through staffing agencies it’s a complete joke because those workers are illegals I’ve seen it first hand I live there
I’d sue that company. For what they did
Ew im steering clear of rana. "Honey theirs something crunchy in my rana" .
A tip of a finger with a fingernail?🤮😂
😂
Horrible Sending Prayers
That will do what exactly?
And people will still say we don't need labor unions... Just another example why we do more than ever.
I worked at ALCOA for 5yrs & was on the Safety Team. If we had so much as a stitch from an injury while at work (shut finger in car door in parking lot) it was a BIG DEAL. Reports went to every plant internationally. Interviews were conducted & reports filed within hours. Then meetings took place were EVERY step was scrutinized to determine exactly what caused, or contributed to the injury. These meetings involved everyone, from employees who worked in the area of accident regularly, and temps who didnt, to the shift lead, the engineer, maintenance to plant manager.
Saftey was taken very seriously. And even minor accidental injuries were few and far between. Amputees hadnt happened in years- Globally. Though, there was one death from a fall from a roof out-of-country while I worked there.
My point is : THIS IS CRAZY BS !
Rules and precautions, if not followed , will result in injuries or death................
Kinda like driving 😮
Boycott time until they come up to OSHA's codes.
I worked as a tool and die maker/machinist for decades. Over the tears it became my specialty on setting up and guarding machines for production.
I cringe at most workplaces as I instantly see all the de-limbing and human, skinning, crushing, cooking possibilities on a shop floor. It makes my head spin.
Most factories are a death traps solely except for everyone trying their best to not get hurt. Every machine I guarded had a pusher or grabber welded onto machine with a chain.
And when I trained folks I showed them ALL the ways to screw up and what happens when you do , and how not to do that. I would receive thank yous years later from people.
And sometimes I still get a call about a machine i set 15 years ago , they ask why i locked out that setting, I explain, they blanche at the danger , and say, well just leave that as it is! NOW we understand why you did that! So glad we called!
Slum CEO’s & greed is the problem! 29 violations & only fined a half a mil
That’s why you don’t wear loose clothing, jewelry or anything else like that when you’re working around moving machinery and you’re supposed to keep your hands away from machines like that. when they’re in operation
This place should be closed immediately
Osha has big pockets to cover it up.
Honestly, it should be shown. The gruesomeness of the situation won’t disappear just because you cover up the photo. Fact is these companies need to be held accountable for the technology they implement in their business. Not showing the photo only numbs the viewer. Sure we react to it, but will we actually do anything about it if it doesn’t seem like this is that bad of an issue? Show how reckless these companies have become after putting capitalism first. At least China shows they don’t care instead of pretending to care.
Sounds to me someone was negligent by leaving the machine on and cleaning it and is trying to get a pay out. Guessing since he can’t read English he is finding a way to get around reading instructions.
Well maybe if he knew English he could read warning labels or a lock out and tag out card.
When they say food is finger licking good this is extreme.... But for real who puts their hands in a running machine any normal thinking person wouldn't do that... I've worked in kitchens with heavy duty mixers I started when I was 16 work experience with school and even I knew not to put my hands where they don't belong
Personal Injury attorneys saying “profits over people” might be the funniest thing I’ve heard. Oscar will get 100k if they win 5 million 😂 bet they won’t be saying profits over people is so bad then huh?
How does a machine grab you if it's turned off with the proper lock out tags? Sounds like operator error, either from not being trained correctly (was his trainers able to train him in Spanish?) or from pure laziness. Most Hispanics I've worked with were hard workers but they cut corners doing things dangerously and got hurt more often. Climbing scaffolding without a safety harness only to fall 25ft and shatter their ankles, for one example.
The problem is people don't read safety manuals or listen during safety training. I worked in a airspace industry before and some people just dgaf , most of the employees are on their phones watching UA-cam playing games while on safety meeting or training. And then do the opposite when working. The unsafe way or shortcut to do their job.
the minuscule fines and no consequences mean no company takes safety serious.shut them down till it is safe,it would not take companies long to understand that.but our government could not give a crap.that is why osha has no teeth.10 grand fine or million dollar settlement wont change their behavior. they write that in as the cost of doing business
This is a simple case of someone being careless and blaming their company for it
I dont think ive ever hesrd of rana before, what a great first impression
That happened to a coworker of mine when I worked at great lakes pallet (best pallet company) in loves park, il. That place has all kinds of violations going on .
Nationwide? I’ve never heard of it.
Appreciate the thorough investigative journalism, ty Dave Savini!
Oscar doesnt even speak English, so we know the story there; he didnt read or understand any of the safety rules, signs, instructions, warning stickers or anything else, got careless and put his hand where it shouldnt have been on a moving machineand got injured.
How much will he get from the settlement
Paying $12/hour for what they charge for their product?!! Disgusting. Anyone that doubts that corporate greed exists need to have their head examined.
This man should not be cleaning a moving machine. I can't imagine that is policy.
Because they hire thru staffing agencies which hire illegals
And Chicago people keep arguing why are factories and other companies getting permanently closed this is exactly why they're being sued and permanently closed because of their negligence and unsafe work conditions
Uh, SHUT THE MACHINE OFF before working on it!
120 amputations in 5 years = 24 amputations per year = 2 amputations per month!
A person lost a limb every two weeks in that place! That's crazy! Imagine every time you got paid, a random co-worker had to lose a limb...
I worked for a place that always had the emergency fire exit blocked and only clear when we had an inspection. I hated that place.
12 bucks an hour
Don't say rana say the name of the CEO. The news Says it's a problem but protects this company/ owner by saying the company name not the CEO
Well that law suit is going to be crazy
I’ve got an idea on how we can prevent these sort of things from happening in the future. Instead of fines to a company that ultimately doesn’t care about the fines because it’s a drop in the bucket of their total revenue. Why don’t we make it so the rules state that if there is an OSHA violation due to safety concerns, then that company is then required to pay 5% of their future revenue in the coming year and all C suite level employees have to pay 30% of their yearly income as a fine, I bet you dollars to donuts that there will quickly be changes made to prevent any injuries from ever occurring in the future.
Change only will happen when the people who make the decisions are personally affected. If they aren’t responsible for their employees then who is?
30% is way too much. Especially per violation; I don't think you know how many rules there are, or how easy it is to miss one. If all the violations were obvious problems with obvious solutions, we wouldn't need to any regulations except for "Don't do dumb things, or you'll be fined". And you're holding the people in charge of everything personally responsible, that's good, but what about the people who actually commit the violation? Shouldn't they be fined, as well?
This makes me think of the movie "The Machinist" where a character loses an arm because of the protagonists mistake.
Why didn’t he shut off the machine? Seems he failed to do his part
How do you say "dont put your arm in the machine" in spanish?
the people who make your food you buy in the grocery store, do not speak English and they make twelve bucks
Norway here, this workplace would be forced to shut down after ONE control. If ONE accident occured, the owners would have to pay thru their noses.
This is a SHAME!
Yes they care so much one of the charges was willful negligence
Thank God you're alive