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Olaide1295:
However unfortunate, this accident happens wherever there is manufacturing.
We shouldn’t shut down factories because someone died. Over 40,000 people died in china last year alone due to manufacturing accidents. Similar happens in Germany, USA etc
We should enforce safety laws, and ensure compensation to families of victims.

Accidents happen in attempts to industrialise.

Exactly.

jyz200:
Work hazard
May God continue to guide us

Work don pass level since na. Simple LOTO would have prevented this tragic. I pity those Wey de hail Chinese companies... people wey no value safety.

Working as a junior in any working place most especially a factory is very tiresome, as you will be toss here and there by superiors, especially if its a low-skilled job!

I remember when i was working in a cement producing factory, i was advised by the fellow workers there to quit the the work and find something else, but this was the only work that can feed me well. My role was to arrange blocks and also to ensure sand flowed into a tunnel for mixing untop an high metal basin.

After sometime, i was told that i will start working in the cement facility(tearing of cement and emptying inside a tunnel untop an high metal structure) everything in that cement department was compromised. No formal way of ensuring work there. Just anyhow. No adequate working gears.

After sometime of working there, one particular day i was emptying cement inside the tunnel. I took another cement and as i was cutting it, i fell from that height i was standing unto the floor, crashing my whole body. My luck was that the height was fair enough, not too high. Assuming it was very high, that would have been my last day. No barricades to prevent one from falling inside that cement facility.
And i was given command here and there involving huge layers of machine. Sometimes i dont even ensure if the conditions were safe before doing any of the commands.

God just save me!

Olaide1295:
However unfortunate, this accident happens wherever there is manufacturing.
We shouldn’t shut down factories because someone died. Over 40,000 people died in china last year alone due to manufacturing accidents. Similar happens in Germany, USA etc
We should enforce safety laws, and ensure compensation to families of victims.

Accidents happen in attempts to industrialise.

You can give this advice again when your family member is a victim. Thanks

GorillaApp:
After being made to serve jail time. That's an intentional act. How would you ask someone to go in when you are yet to shut down the machine knowing that once the obstruction is removed the machine will continue grinding?
If I was president, all these Chinese companies will be on their toes

It looks like he was intentional about grinding someone that day, no any other way to explain it

[quote author= post=135534409]Source: https://punchng.com/industrial-machine-kills-employee-in-ogun-factory/[/quote]A lot not environmental friendly is going on at the Ogun State corridor of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway requiring you to cover your nose as you pass by. The Chinese factory businessmen are polluting the environment terribly while OGSG looks the other way. Only the uninformed will subscribe to the housing estate on that stretch of property!

juwoonn:
Its instant death...
He might not feel pain like that

Not instant like a bullet, it is gradual and slow

maasoap:
You can give this advice again when your family member is a victim. Thanks

The 40000 people that died in China don’t have families? It’s good to stop being emotional. It’s sad and unfortunate that a person died. But it doesn’t mean factory should be shut down.

funshint:
That might not be the first time they are removing plugs from the machine without switching it off. You know Nigerians always like to act fast while risking their lives in things like this. We see obedience to safety precautions as a waste of time. Since we don't place values on our life those sub-foreigners(Indians, Lebanese and Chinese) won't either. Their should be safety laws that must be well adhered to by all these industries and strict monitoring and enforcement has to be put in place but the corruption and laxity by govt agencies is a problem. Normally the owners of this companies together with that machine operator should have been arrested and detained by now but I'm sure they'll bribe their way out. Don't be surprised he was being paid a useless salary. And they might not even think of compensation for the family of the departed. Working in all these companies is tantamount to slavery.
So unfortunate!

He was instructed by the machine operator who happened to be a Chinese. Why are you blaming the victim? Don't be too hard on yourself

Imagine am forklift operator, and someone will said I should come down from forklift and enter into machine, never, I will rather take my Leave. Is against the work ethic of forklift operators

Olaide1295:
Accidents are unfortunate but they happen. In a workplace, subordinates are tasked to do the hard jobs.
Unless you mean he deliberately wanted to kill the man at the factory.

Yeah, personally, I'm of the opinion that he wanted to see how it would look like to have human being grinded alive

Olaide1295:
The 40000 people that died in China don’t have families?

Did you read what caused the death of this particular employee? The factory had to be shutdown until investigation is concluded

It’s good to stop being emotional. It’s sad and unfortunate that a person died. But it doesn’t mean factory should be shut down.

A human being was grinded alive and you're saying it is good to stop being emotional! You don't know what you are saying at all.

[quote author= post=135534415]What Exactly Is Happening In This Ogun State?[/quote]Too many factories and industries but no strict regulations.

THIS IS WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU LIVE IN A COUNTRY LIKE NIGERIA WHERE WE HAVE MAD PEOPLE IN POWER.
IMAGINE A FOREIGNER TELLING A CITIZEN TO REMOVE A SCRAP FROM A ROLLING MACHINE.

SHAME ON THE LEARDERSHIP OF THIS COUNTRY!!!

[quote author= post=135534409]Source: https://punchng.com/industrial-machine-kills-employee-in-ogun-factory/[/quote]Accidents can happen to anyone but l guess this is Chinese or Indian company, those people are very terrible as humans so they no safety measure

Love800:
What kind of machine is dat?
The forklift that i know does not do grinding. Abi they are talking about another forklift here?

A forklift driver was asked to enter into a scrap grinding machine and r move something that was stopping the machine from working.

maasoap:
It looks like he was intentional about grinding someone that day, no any other way to explain it

It's intentional. The guy is a demon.

This could have also been a deliberate wickedness from the machine operator (a foreigner) ...

Never trust all these Chinese guys. Some of them are deeply racist and evil

maasoap:
He was instructed by the machine operator who happened to be a Chinese. Why are you blaming the victim? Don't be too hard on yourself

Read what I wrote very well so that you can comprehend. So if the stupid Chinese tells you to put your hand inside fire you'll do it? But trust Nigerians we have tricks to things like this. This might not be his first time doing it, the Chinese observed that he's good and fast at pulling things out of the clog so naturally they'll call him to do what he's skilled at doing when occasion calls for it not minding the risk. But this time he was unlucky. I've seen Nigerians risking their lives at some of this factories, you'll wonder if we truly value our lives?! This might not be the case but I'm just painting a scenerio. But all I'm trying to say is we should learn to value and love our lives. Really sad and unfortunate.

[quote author= post=135534415]What Exactly Is Happening In This Ogun State?[/quote]What do you expect to happen in an state filled with hundreds of factories? The media love painting Ogun State black because they knew that is the only way to get you people's attention, same way they love talking good about Lagos.


Accident are bound to happen in a factory, I once witnessed a colleague of mine getting chopped by mixing machine and guess what? Life goes on.

One day we will discuss the havoc these Indian and Chinese companies are doing to our Nation.

That was gory!

Sad!

Thanks for your comment.

GorillaApp:
A forklift driver was asked to enter into a scrap grinding machine and r move something that was stopping the machine from working.

GorillaApp:
Is it a Chinese company? Na dem get this kind wicked mind. If I was president, all these Chinese companies will be on their toes!

The machine operator who sent the poor man in is complicit. He should be charged to court and let the law handle him. After serving he should be deported.

Also the company should be fined heavily after certifying that they meet all safety requirements for future operations.
Lastly, the dead man's family should be compensated and his children placed on scholarship.
I so rule,!

The company should also pay his monthly Salary to his Children until the last one graduates

[quote author= post=135534409]Source: https://punchng.com/industrial-machine-kills-employee-in-ogun-factory/[/quote]Justice for Abayomi, if you ask me, I’d say that that foreign nationale does not like Abayomi and might have sorted a way to end him, thus sending him to remove the scrap while he knowingly left the machine on. Investigations should be conducted on this because these foreigners you see does not value the Nigerians lives and probably see us as flies. #Investigate #nigeriapolice ✊

funshint:
Read what I wrote very well so that you can comprehend. So if the stupid Chinese tells you to put your hand inside fire you'll do it? But trust Nigerians we have tricks to things like this. This might not be his first time doing it, the Chinese observed that he's good and fast at pulling things out of the clog so naturally they'll call him to do what he's skilled at doing when occasion calls for it not minding the risk. But this time he was unlucky. I've seen Nigerians risking their lives at some of this factories, you'll wonder if we truly value our lives?! This might not be the case but I'm just painting a scenerio. But all I'm trying to say is we should learn to value and love our lives. Really sad and unfortunate.

I don't buy any of your assumptions. The machine got stuck, it was possible for anyone to assume that it had been switched off except the operator. Besides, those Chinese, Lebanese, Indians treat our people working in their factories like subhumans, I haven't seen any Nigerian who worked there and had good story to tell about everything in there from the pay to working hours to working condition.
The Chinese probably wanted to catch fun.
This is a loss of life, you don't blame the victim who was asked to do certain thing, you blame the animal who was supposed to switch off the machine before sending someone inside it unless you are of the blacks out there who look down on themselves and blame themselves for everything because of their own skin colour, aka inferiority complex

PeaceMaker24:
This is no news, an average of 2 dies monthly from these steel companies in Ogun state along ogijo axis.
Company pays 3m to the family and life goes on. The funny thing is even the white Lebanese guys too also die

My brother your input is so accurate , I don’t know if you’ve lived in ogijo before , worst years of my life.
Fresh out of nysc , I had to work in factories around there , from phoenix to Everest , then Metal recycling industries(mri) , And how much is the pay then ?900 per day for 12hours as at 2017 I was there . The owners are mostly Indians , and it was alleged that people that died are being used as sacrifice. It always happens like an accident , but carries a deeper undertone. The family gets compensated like you said and that’s the end.

This particular man’s death seems suspicious, firstly a forklift driver isn’t even suppose to come down from his machine unless in the case of going for break or some other emergencies, asking him to pick out something from a baling machine is not in his job description, they have other people for that , workers of a lesser rank. A forklift driver is a skilled employee . His job is just to provide the beam to carry the grinded scrap to the furnace for melting and carry the finished product to the warehouse. This is very sad .