puppyandjune
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Can a person bring charges against an employer for negligence and carelessness
BEFORE an injury or death occurs?
I work in a lab. The room next to it is where flammable liquids are stored. ( 55gal
drums along with a few hundred sample jars of things such as heptane, methanol,
acetates and the like.) I need to go into that room every few days. In April I found 4 propane gas cylinders on the floor. Propane cylinders are never to be stored inside of a building, let alone in a room with flammable liquids. Even though we have safety personel at this facility they dropped the ball on this one. So I printed out the National Fire Safety regulation and part of the OSHA regulation which pertains to flammable compressed gas storage from the Internet and took it to my boss the terminal manager in order to impress upon him the danger of this. The next day the cylinders were outside of the building on the ground (not caged as required).
Today (May23) I went into that room and there were the 4 cylinders of propane on the floor again. I don't know how many days they were there.
Back in the mid 1980's I worked at a place that had a propane tank explosion which took
out the entire warehouse (nobody was in the warehouse at the time), so I know
the devastion that can happen all by itself. It would be far worse in a room full of flammable liquids.
Since I and two other people work just on the other side of the wall to this room, it made me extremely anxious to find the cylinders back again.
Do people need to be injured in order to bring charges of negligence?
BEFORE an injury or death occurs?
I work in a lab. The room next to it is where flammable liquids are stored. ( 55gal
drums along with a few hundred sample jars of things such as heptane, methanol,
acetates and the like.) I need to go into that room every few days. In April I found 4 propane gas cylinders on the floor. Propane cylinders are never to be stored inside of a building, let alone in a room with flammable liquids. Even though we have safety personel at this facility they dropped the ball on this one. So I printed out the National Fire Safety regulation and part of the OSHA regulation which pertains to flammable compressed gas storage from the Internet and took it to my boss the terminal manager in order to impress upon him the danger of this. The next day the cylinders were outside of the building on the ground (not caged as required).
Today (May23) I went into that room and there were the 4 cylinders of propane on the floor again. I don't know how many days they were there.
Back in the mid 1980's I worked at a place that had a propane tank explosion which took
out the entire warehouse (nobody was in the warehouse at the time), so I know
the devastion that can happen all by itself. It would be far worse in a room full of flammable liquids.
Since I and two other people work just on the other side of the wall to this room, it made me extremely anxious to find the cylinders back again.
Do people need to be injured in order to bring charges of negligence?