Prayers and thoughts go out to the family and friends of employee involved.
I am having a hard time with the fine against Piedmont Airlines. AS stated in article and admitted by the company they had 2 safety meetings PRIOR to the arrival of this aircraft. Noting that no employees are to go near engines while still running and beacon still flashing, as stated below which I grabbed from the article:
"The penalty comes after an NTSB preliminary report released in January was favorable to the airline. It said the ground crew at the airport held two safety briefings immediately before the plane arrived at the gate.
Employees were told they should not approach the plane until the engine was shut off and a beacon light was turned off, according to the NTSB report."
Sounds to me that the company did the right things and also sounds as that an employee did not follow proper Protocall and procedures. Also stated they had 2 safety meetings prior to flight where I am sure they were told to wait for engine shut down before approaching A/C. What more is the company suppose to do?
There is not enough company employees to have them stop an employee, grab and employee or even tackle an employee so they don't get ingested into a running engine. As we all in aviation are well, well aware of the safety boundaries of any and all running engines even when idling.
Sounds to me like this fine came out after a complaint about a favorable article said the company had the safety meetings and had proceedures for not approaching around running engines. We never get the full story either so wondering the late fine afterwards.
Here's the full article below:
finance.yahoo.com
I am having a hard time with the fine against Piedmont Airlines. AS stated in article and admitted by the company they had 2 safety meetings PRIOR to the arrival of this aircraft. Noting that no employees are to go near engines while still running and beacon still flashing, as stated below which I grabbed from the article:
"The penalty comes after an NTSB preliminary report released in January was favorable to the airline. It said the ground crew at the airport held two safety briefings immediately before the plane arrived at the gate.
Employees were told they should not approach the plane until the engine was shut off and a beacon light was turned off, according to the NTSB report."
Sounds to me that the company did the right things and also sounds as that an employee did not follow proper Protocall and procedures. Also stated they had 2 safety meetings prior to flight where I am sure they were told to wait for engine shut down before approaching A/C. What more is the company suppose to do?
There is not enough company employees to have them stop an employee, grab and employee or even tackle an employee so they don't get ingested into a running engine. As we all in aviation are well, well aware of the safety boundaries of any and all running engines even when idling.
Sounds to me like this fine came out after a complaint about a favorable article said the company had the safety meetings and had proceedures for not approaching around running engines. We never get the full story either so wondering the late fine afterwards.
Here's the full article below:
OSHA fines American Airlines subsidiary $15k after worker gets sucked into plane engine, dies
OSHA fined an American Airlines subsidiary more than $15,000 after a ground crew worker died when she was sucked into an airplane engine in Alabama.
