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Posted on 7/30/15 at 5:28 pm to deltaland
Lol...hoping this is just a troll attempt.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 6:09 pm to Agforlife
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That's all well and good until someone dies.
Wouldn't be the first time. Had a guy killed last year cause he fell in a grain bin, another one killed a few years ago in a wreck cause his door didn't latch properly and it threw him out.
I've seen too much fricked up shite on this farm.
Guy got run over by a tractor and crushed his hip
Guy got crushed welding on an aerator frame, had to airlift him to the hospital
Guy got his hand cut off running a seine reel..got caught in the gears.
Guy ran into a tractor and the axel sheared off the side of his truck and damn near took his leg all the way off.
Guy shot himself in the head last week cause his GF left him
A guy flipped a tractor over in the pond, trapping him under water and drowning him
A guy got burned bad in a seining boat cause his cigarette caught the gas tank on fire...sunk the boat.
This is just in the past 10 years. Don't believe me..iI have a few pictures of some incidents to prove it...catfish farming is an interesting career. It was at one time ranked top 5 most dangerous jobs in the country...the working conditions just aren't good. Narrow, rough roads driving ragged out trucks, old unreliable tractors, rigged up electrical work, lots of moving parts and stupid people working there.
Here is the one of the boat that caught fire
And another truck wreck
Most I don't have a picture of..but we've had quite the few incidents over the years. It's never boring at least
Posted on 7/30/15 at 6:13 pm to deltaland
Damn I'm glad I don't work for you, and I hope OSHA doesn't ever come visit you.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 6:25 pm to Agforlife
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Damn I'm glad I don't work for you
I don't own this farm, just in a management position.
I'm about to leave though and get my own farm, got approved for an investment.
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I hope OSHA doesn't ever come visit you.
They got us last year after the guy died in the grain bin, then the next week the guy welding got airlifted. We had to do a lot of electrical updates and buy new trucks that were up to standards..I did the updates myself to make sure it was right but it's back to being rigged again by now. I try to fix the bad stuff but just don't have time to do it all...company is too big. 8500 acres of ponds and a processing plant, along with an owner who inherited about a half billion worth of money and assets and gives zero fricks...think Donald Trump and you have my boss. He thinks he owns the world and doesn't have to abide by rules. We have a pipeline running under one block of ponds and the pipeline people went livid after we started pushing dirt with dozers and didn't call them..I told my boss he needed to call them beforehand and he said "this is my fricking land and I'll do what I fricking want with it..they can piss off".
Posted on 7/30/15 at 6:29 pm to deltaland
I'd run like hell if I were you. Your boss is gonna get you killed. The electrical stuff is bad enough, the other stuff is bad but cutting dirt over a pipeline without locating it and seeing how much cover it has is just plain suicidal.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 6:34 pm to Agforlife
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cutting dirt over a pipeline without locating it and seeing how much cover it has is just plain suicidal.
Oh I stayed far away from the dirt crew during that fiasco. It doesn't have much cover..you can see the pipeline crossing the drainage ditch..might be 2 feet under the surface. When the ponds are drained there is a noticeable hump on the bottom where it runs through
It wasn't this way for a long time under the original owner..yea the job itself is unsafe but that just comes with the territory. I don't worry about the electrical stuff I'm experienced with it when I work on it. I worry about the other guys working on it and try my best to hammer safety in their head. As far as equipment and electrical every catfish farm is bad so you can't escape that though when i get my own farm I'm going to try to keep it as safe as possible...I don't need a lawsuit.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 8:26 pm to deltaland
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just in a management position
Managers go to prison for repeated willful violations, not so much owners.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 8:31 pm to p0845330
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Managers go to prison for repeated willful violations, not so much owners.
I don't think you understand the delta. I know a catfish farmer who, back in 03, shot and killed one of his night men for falling asleep on the job and never so much got a slap on the wrist.
Farmers are damn near untouchable here. My grandfather used to call it the "mississippi mafia"
Posted on 7/30/15 at 8:40 pm to deltaland
Like the crawfish farmers over here. Gotcha
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