I'm so glad I watched this I use heat guns often in small spaces and from now on I am going to be double checking with other guys at the site if it's safe to do so from now on
@Seawitch555
2 жыл бұрын
Stay safe, Elliott!
@robertbennett2796
2 жыл бұрын
You should always
@all_time_Jelly_Fish
2 жыл бұрын
It's great to be reminded of real world consequences. Policy and protocol is dry and boring but so important. I always remind myself that what led to far too many OSHA regulations was horrible tragedy. Be safe out there.
@Amador253
2 жыл бұрын
I guess I'm my head I always thought oh naw my boss would never put me in that situation. But sadly this is just not true
@br2485
2 жыл бұрын
@@Amador253 Yeah man. Never trust a boss to have your safety and wellbeing as their top priority.
@TransRoofKorean
2 жыл бұрын
I love how in their animation 11:20 the one worker is immediately "I'm getting the hell out of here!" while the other one just gazes at it "oooh, pretty fire".
@Geophph
2 жыл бұрын
LOL. yeah, I saw that too. maybe its like: wait till the other person is down safely? 'cause 2 people on a ladder maybe too much weight. it did look like the guy was fascinated by the flames.
@madeliner1682
2 жыл бұрын
@@Geophph seems like a pretty realistic response given what I know about human stress responses tbh. Fight, flight, or freeze
@entririhunter
2 жыл бұрын
I'm going to go ahead and guess that every little detail in these USCSB animations is included with purpose. I guarantee you it was animated that way because of the testimonies of the two workers and that is exactly (to the best of their recollection) how they reacted to the fire.
@Exarian
Жыл бұрын
Abbott Animation's work has been really grate lately. It's really nice to see an Industrial and Commercial animation project have touches like this because the animators know that somehow this government contract from an obscure regulatory board has managed to get them a fan following. I imagine working in commercial animation like this, you don't go in expecting to have fans.
@Googledybunker
2 жыл бұрын
I used to write hot work permits in a factory. The nightmare scenarios I've seen are insane.
@quinn799
2 жыл бұрын
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@TransRoofKorean
2 жыл бұрын
I wonder what it would be like if everyone were aware of how many times they almost died, whether due to their negligence or stupidity or anyone else's... how many times have we all dodged a bullet without realizing we even got shot at, y'know?
@jarod144
2 жыл бұрын
I’ve seen contractors do things that are just insane lol Like holy shit we are lucky and I was working in the other facility hahaha
@jackmehoff2363
2 жыл бұрын
Tom, i hate to say it, cause in the oil field safety men are sort of assholes. But you should become a safety man. Your ability to talk and communicate how stuff can go wrong can make a difference.
@bethisway
2 жыл бұрын
Dude Tom's a bad ace, safety men? He's a lawyer bro
@AttorneyTom
2 жыл бұрын
I like to think I make these areas safer when I get a large oil field/ refinery injury settlement for one of my clients, the defendant goes “ya… we need to implement better safety procedures so we don’t get sued again.”
@TransRoofKorean
2 жыл бұрын
@@AttorneyTom Is there anything like a tort, anything that could call for legal action against companies like these who are creating unsafe work conditions _before_ something catastrophic occurs? Like in this case they could have just *_not_* dropped the heat gun in the tub and everyone would have survived -- what would the legal analysis be of the situation if nobody got hurt and nothing got damaged?
@OneTrueCat
2 жыл бұрын
@@TransRoofKorean often the fines are trivial at best. It's like when the fine for dumping in the river is 20k, and the cost of proper disposal is 100k. They'll keep dumping in the river til it costs too much, and sadly, catastrophic injury settlements and judgements are sometimes the only way to accomplish that.
@TransRoofKorean
2 жыл бұрын
@@OneTrueCat Well I wasn't thinking fines from some government oversight institution, I was more wondering if there's something of a lawsuit from the workers or families or some entity like that for the companies who create the unsafe work environment, even before they're actually physically harmed by it. Like at some point they're just as guilty for the "I could have been killed by this but wasn't" as they are for the person who did end up dead. But I know that for obvious reasons, a lawsuit is going to rest on the assumption that there was some harm done that could be remedied or compensated for.
@ethanc94
2 жыл бұрын
My dad got an engineering Job at phill 66 in a refinery off the shore of Cali in the 80s but 3 days before he got there the plant exploded and killed 23 people so he switched to sales and left to work with Johnson and Johnson.
@CriaVielen
2 жыл бұрын
Gets hired as an engineer Job site explodes Goes into sales Economy collapses Becomes a chemistry professor Gets cancer Becomes a drug lord
@spiffinggoose1585
2 жыл бұрын
@@CriaVielen Gets killed
@Bagginsess
2 жыл бұрын
@@CriaVielen yeah science!
@prestonpyland3900
2 жыл бұрын
I am a chemical operator, i have to baby sit 50yo men all the time, when attorney tom said "these are some dumb mfkers" about the guys using heat guns with no hot work, i felt that
@kstricl
2 жыл бұрын
Simple rule for any work with flammables - if it requires power, it's a possible ignition source. Another "fix" for the issues with the resin would have been simply to have supplied heated fresh air, bring the temperature of the tower up to at least 69f so the resin could cure properly and as a benefit, the workers could have had a slight increase in the quality of the environment. Oh and WHY THE H!?@?! WAS THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER!!! IT'S FLAMMABLE!
@YarbroK
2 жыл бұрын
🎶 Come with me and you’ll be in a world of OSHA violations 🎶
@andye3684
2 жыл бұрын
Well that tunes stuck in my head now lol
@Lauren_C
2 жыл бұрын
How could a heat gun not be construed as Hot Work? It's literally in the name. Don't need to have studied OSHA's guidelines to know that a heat gun gets pretty damn hot.
@nalinea18
2 жыл бұрын
Their logic was probably on the "It says 'heat gun', not 'hot gun', so it is obviously heat work and not hot work"-level 🤦🏼♀️
@Bagginsess
2 жыл бұрын
>drop hair dryer in water >many sparks >drops heat gun in chemical soup "it'll be fine" -drinker
@LowJSamuel
2 жыл бұрын
Not everything that is "hot" is "hot work." Working outside in the sun is hot, but not hot work.
@QuikVidGuy
2 жыл бұрын
@@LowJSamuel the sun isn't a piece of equipment
@LowJSamuel
2 жыл бұрын
@@QuikVidGuy I understand. I am just explaining the reason people wouldn't realize.
@shrokbouf
2 жыл бұрын
Seems like this could have been avoided by just a minimal amount of common sense from the workers. For instance, don't hang the heatgun where it can slide into a bucket of chemicals. Sheeesh.
@bethisway
2 жыл бұрын
100% these jobs are sketch to begin with. The amount of fumes that comes off of fiberglass in a confined space seems ridiculous and should be against the law
@siukong
2 жыл бұрын
The heatgun hanging and slowly sliding down was what the animation showed but that may not necessarily be what actually happened. For all we know one of them directly dropped the gun into the bucket by accident. We only have the testimony of the workers themselves to go off of and they might be changing their story to cover their asses. Of course, in either scenario they were stupid and negligent so it doesn't really change much and your point about common sense still stands.
@johnrtrucker
2 жыл бұрын
Technically speaking any tool that requires an extension chord is considered hot work because a frayed wire can spark
@sarowie
2 жыл бұрын
interesting - so a brushed drill is by default hot work, because of the brush fire? I mean, better safe then sorry and no body argues, that sparks are a source of ignition, when flammable and/or volatile liquids are handled. I would have but the hazard label on the flamable/volatile liquid and identify risk from there. But offcourse, going the otherway/both ways by taking electrical tools as potential ignition sources is a second safety net, that might catch what would be otherwhise overlooked. Still I imagine that plenty people use brushed drills to stear their epoxy mixtures...
@johnrtrucker
2 жыл бұрын
@@sarowie it was sort of meant in a satirical manner mostly I mean safety is very important no doubt but one can take regulations to far extremes of logic and deem any work place "unsafe" by saying "those two planks of wood can be rubbed together and make a flame" etc where as I tend to lean more towards logical thoughts and procedures when I washed out my tanker trailer I screwed the manhole wingnuts down all the way and tied off a safety strap to keep the manhole lid open incase of a wind gust and the wingnuts to ensure one wouldn't accidentally latch to its reciever if it closed suddenly one doesn't need regulations if we were taught to think logically about safety issues sadly though the regulations are very much necessary to ensure the safety of everyone but sometimes osha can take it to ridiculous lengths sometimes making a job almost impossible ya know
@QuikVidGuy
2 жыл бұрын
@@johnrtrucker I really don't know because I don't know where this sentence is supposed to end you didn't even give an example of them going too far
@nathanielhill8156
Жыл бұрын
@@sarowieit is absolutely a danger. It's just considered a very small danger. The average craftsman making small projects won't encounter the same additional dangers that industry workers do. This is why some worksites like old mines required the use of pneumatic and hydrologic tools and special blast lanterns because the smallest spark can cause giant explosions if the workers ever drill into explosive gas pockets
@rustyshackleford5166
2 жыл бұрын
Did the two contractor companies know the other one was even there? I feel like industry wide protocol would require at least "hey, we're down here.", and "OK, we're working up here." And no one screamed up the shaft "FIRE FIRE! EVACUATION! GTFO!"?
@nalinea18
2 жыл бұрын
You'd be shocked how little those protocols are respected… I once had to deal with a situation where a piece of equipment exploded during maintenance in a Nuclear Physics lab. I had no idea there even was anyone in the lab or that any maintenance was scheduled, although I was the safety operator in charge and no one was supposed to go in without telling me. There's a lot of "this rule is dumb, I know what I'm doing" going on in places like labs and factories. Unfortunately that resulted in me having to pinch shut someone's femoral artery while trying to figure out A) whether anyone else was in the lab and hurt, and B) what nightmare fuel had leaked out of the broken system. The person with the sliced artery was incoherent so they couldn't tell me, and the place was a (literally) bloody maze so I couldn't see shit. Luckily the person lived and the leak was just nitrogen (70% of air is that so no biggie in a big hall where it can't replace all the oxygen), but those were some of the tensest moments in my life. And I repeat, that was in a _Nuclear Physics lab._ At first my colleague couldn't even get the EMS and firecrew to come in because they were worried about radiation. I can't imagine how much "I'll just ignore this inconvenient rule" goes on with (slightly) less hazardous materials.
@rustyshackleford5166
2 жыл бұрын
@@nalinea18 *frantically writing on notepad* Equipment... May... Explode... If... Operated... By... Idiots... That sounds intense. I can imagine if someone asked the top team to toss a wrench and some dingus gets klonked on the head. So many things can go wrong. For every rule, there's a dumbass that made it necessary. Warning: Hot glue may be Hot.
@Fatherofheroesandheroines
2 жыл бұрын
I blame Michael Scott for this. Also, does anybody else find it ironic that a company called BlastCo is responsible for this explosion?
@jasonnelson5745
11 ай бұрын
Yes, but it could be a fake name for legal purposes
@GeorgeSu15
2 жыл бұрын
I went to a wilderness camp once and one of the things we did there was make a hatchet out of a metal bar and hot coals. Whenever a bar was taken out of the coal to be tempered, we had to yell out "HOT METAL OUT" to alert everyone that someone has hot metal out of the fire and bringing it to be tempered, it was to assure no one got burned/injured by the hot metal. Communication is very important in all walks of life, especially if the danger is more catastrophic than being accidentally branded. Talk to each other people, even if you hate them, it is to "Cover your ass" so you don't get in trouble
@Slourcey
2 жыл бұрын
One problem. Grinding is hot work. They would have already had to get a hot work permit for the grinding, as well as the confined space permit. Using a heat gun actually isn't considered hot work at most locations, but that shouldn't have mattered - they were using grinders! But you can do hot work in a confined space, so long as you go through the proper permitting process.
@endeavor44
2 жыл бұрын
Wow what a smart angle to take, honestly I bet even blastco's lawyers wouldn't realize this at first
@NinJestre
2 жыл бұрын
Hot Work, not already on fire work. If it can burn you, it's hot. This is a case where understanding how words work could have saved lives
@unisexbathroom66
2 жыл бұрын
the USCSB animators are doing gods work
@nolunch4908
2 жыл бұрын
I work as a security guard at a automotive Assembly plant and we are very strict on our hot work permits all security guards can write and terminate a hot work at any time and there have been issues where we have had to do so because contractors did not know the rules or didn't want to follow them
@ASK2286
2 жыл бұрын
I've done some art projects with resin and temperature is a huge factor. I was commissioned for a piece for Christmas and thought I could get around the temperature issue, it was miserable. I had my heat gun, blow dryer and a heater going but the circuit kept tripping, and I couldn't get enough heat. The temperature issue should be well known by anyone working with resin, working with resin in the cold just makes your job 5x harder.
@Ghav
2 жыл бұрын
I love how in these videos, you can tell how pissed Tom is at everything that went wrong and is visibly concerned about the lives of the affected workers. You can tell he's a good attorney. He cares about those he represents. He wants to make a difference.
@blooblefwarden4432
2 жыл бұрын
If you’ve ever used a heat gun you must know its an electrical fire waiting to happen
@1053Master
2 жыл бұрын
Can confirm. Papermills stink for miles around.
@Amador253
2 жыл бұрын
True I live in Tacoma and the aroma of Tacoma comes from a huge papermill we have downtown lol it's gotten better though
@1053Master
2 жыл бұрын
@@Amador253 oh shit homie!! I'm talking about Camas just east of Vancouver, WA. What up?
@Amador253
2 жыл бұрын
@@1053Master haha what up bro my fellow Washingtonian
@nonotyet7590
2 жыл бұрын
Thought this was a repeat and realized Tom has me watching USCSB videos on my own.
@KarrusMusic
2 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one that sees the dark humor in Blastcorp failing to follow safety protocols which resulted in a "blast"?
@wesleyb7104
2 жыл бұрын
Completely preventable and unacceptable
@all_time_Jelly_Fish
2 жыл бұрын
70 % on Blastco for Inadequate planning and training. Most importantly, they named their company Blastco! what did they expect to happen? A blast of course.
@averyphillips256
2 жыл бұрын
Always a good day when Attorney Adam Scott uploads a USCSB reaction. Thanks Adam
@The.Cow96
2 жыл бұрын
Great Scott
@DarkVampireL
2 жыл бұрын
1% Rimcore: Didn’t ensure they had communications with other contractors before before they worked adjacent to them. 49% Boom corp: Unprofessional job set up, clearly not qualified for their contract, failed to communicate what they were doing to the owners. 50% Ever green: failed to make sure both contractors were communicating and ensuring they had a good means to. Didn’t oversee the contractor’s work.
@undead2382
2 жыл бұрын
How does someone not know a HEAT gun is HOT work!?
@Gaskillzz
2 жыл бұрын
I worked at this mill during the shut down. It was sad to hear the news but not surprising. That paper mill is extremely hazardous.
@DergEnterprises
2 жыл бұрын
At my work, we have a change coordinator (I'm changing the real title) that will review all changes to make sure they don't interfere with other changes, notify all parties involved, and approve the change.
@Purpleturtlehurtler
2 жыл бұрын
The amount of detail in these animations. Top tier Half-Life 2 cinimatics.
@the_real_rascal
2 жыл бұрын
As soon as I saw their video I couldn't wait to hear Tom's take on it!
@-phenring-
2 жыл бұрын
what about the grinding fumes? it's hazardous to breathe those in general, the other workers wouldn't have the right PPE is they didn't expect fiberglass being ground in the same space
@TheMrGrey
2 жыл бұрын
Hey Tom, I work for a utility in Louisiana and we often work with other companies. This is how we operate. A representative of both companies, normally the most experienced personel assigned to the job. They sit at a table with a set of prints. Before any company does work we have to radio or call that table and discuss what we need to do and how we plan on doing it using 3 point communication. Before we get the approval to perform work, the other company representative verifies if the work will have any potential to effect their workers. If so we don't perform the task unless we make it safe or they complete their work.
@brylythhighlights4335
2 жыл бұрын
I feel like there's an argument to be made that Evergreen should have a smaller share than Blastco, given they had specific policies that would have prevented the accident if followed (hot work and entry permit) that Blastco disregarded. While Evergreen can check in on a company's history and licensing and all that, they can't be reasonably be expected to interview and grill every employee of every contractor to determine if they're competent enough to hold the licenses that other entities have given them. If Evergreen had made no mistakes, there's still a very real chance that the same issue would have occurred, given Blastco's failure to recognize the heat gun as hot work. If Blastco had recognized the heat gun as hot work and followed their own or Evergreen's policy on hot work or the entry permit, the accident would not have ocurred 2% Rimcore 18% Evergreen 80% Blastco
@urielgrey
2 жыл бұрын
I work for a business that uses lots of paper. There is currently a paper shortage in the usa especially colored paper. I guess the reason is somehow 3 employees fell into machinery of a papermill. I wonder Tom if you could find out anything about it or if we just wait til the usbc covers it. I feel for the families of the 3 people who died.
@johnlewisiii2076
2 жыл бұрын
If I were a juror, I would say that the reason you assigned 51% of the fault to Evergreen is because they are the party with the most money to potentially pay out. I don’t think the facility is at fault anywhere near the level of responsibility you have assigned.
@alexlerouge1170
2 жыл бұрын
Idk, clearly blastco is at fault but there's a lot of context missing in the video that could make this whole situation a lot more nuanced rather than just Blastco is unqualified. Such as why they're doing the maintenance during this time of year, did the plant establish any communication between the two contractor, did they act as a go between on issues instead of the contractors speaking directly to each other. What were the experience and conditions of the workers. Were the employees following company policy and training or ignoring it. What was the timeframe that the job had to be completed. I could definitely see this being an overnight rush job with overworked workers coming in for a second shift that weren't given time for a full briefing on the job or their equipment. Seems like a pretty low skill job, grind off old stuff then paint on the new stuff, so the company might not have seen the need to train the workers extensively, or the workers could have ignored training because they've done it a thousand times and this is a lot more efficient for their time scale than spending however much time heating up a 5 gallon bucket of resin and then hauling it several ladders up the scaffolding where it might cool down over time so they'll have to constantly go up and down long ladders carrying heavy buckets to keep it heated. Like until someone dies because you didn't spend the extra 4 hours hauling buckets of heated resin up and down ladders, to an average worker it would probably seem unreasonable to do so. Especially if you have a boss breathing down your neck because he has the plant owner breathing down his neck to have it finished by the end of the night.on top of that, having worked construction at different phases, you might have 3-5 contractors doing separate things stepping on each other's toes. Each has a different timeframe and different working conditions and when they butt heads, rarely if ever will one contractor step aside for the other without the owner or the general contractor getting involved and if someone from the plant isn't available because it's the middle of the night, then probably nothing will get resolved. Also there might be a good reason why the maintenance was scheduled for this time of year during the night, probably to reduce downtime for the plant during a part of the year where they aren't as busy. Idk I don't actually know anything about the job these guys were doing but when it comes to manual labor it's always really easy to look back on a mistake someone made without taking into consideration all the factors that went into it. It's easy to just say "well you just should have done this" but until you've actually worked the job you don't understand why that might not be feasible.
@MultiPurposeReviewer
2 жыл бұрын
I actually like the smell of paper mills. I used to think it was bad, but as I got older, I grew to like it. It's always fun on a road trip when you catch a whiff of one, and immediately know there's a mill nearby.
@nalinea18
2 жыл бұрын
Me too! I thought I was the only weirdo. My dad works at designing woodyard equipment for pulp and paper mills and thus I visited them quite a few times as a kid, so maybe I'm just desensitized? Of course I was always left in the offices because kids are the natural enemy of safety manuals 😆
@MultiPurposeReviewer
2 жыл бұрын
@@nalinea18 I just come from a family that generally is fascinated by mills of any kind, so we go and investigate whenever we learn there's a mill nearby, so I would fairly regularly be exposed to strange smells. I do think it's somewhat of an acquired taste, similar to the inside of a ship, or gasoline. I think all of those smell good. But whenever I catch a sniff of any of those, I take a deep breath.
@Rizzob17
2 жыл бұрын
As someone who worked in construction, not this field; but I can say there is rarely any pre work planning aside from the initial quote and work order. Very common.
@kalkuttadrop6371
2 жыл бұрын
The best videos from them you haven’t done are “Deadly Contract” and “Fatal Exposure”
@PaulSteMarie
2 жыл бұрын
"Fatal Exposure", the phosgene one? That was really sad. Once the phosgene hit him, his death warrant was signed and all the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't save him, even though he got help immediately and it took several days to kill him. That is just so f***ing horrible.
@CriaVielen
2 жыл бұрын
Did they honestly not expect differently from a contractor whose name is boom corp? What kind of refinery hires somebody named BOOM? 100% refinery at fault for not reading the cosmic messages that were so blatantly clear.
@Vaelosh466
2 жыл бұрын
I don't suppose you could find a feel-good CSB video where there's an industrial accident and the safety procedures get everybody out with only minor injuries.
@MrGreg242
2 жыл бұрын
Ok I love these videos and hot damn CSB be flexing their 4k high detail computer renders. Like damn the detail on the models and textures are fly AF.
@Mister6
Жыл бұрын
I don't know how it works in the US but in Australia when multi-party operations (SIMOPS) are underway there is almost almost either a Master Services Integrator or a Project Manager/Director that takes overall control and responsibility to ensure cohesive delivery.The first mistake is that it looks like Evergreen ignored this vital element in their maintenance project
@AceOfSevens
Жыл бұрын
There was a similar problem a couple years ago in Iowa City. Construction site tried to use outdoor space heater to make resin cure in cold weather & started a fire. No one died but they had to tear down half the building & redo it and cost millions of dollars & months of delay.
@Tony29103
2 жыл бұрын
YAY a new USCSB video! Seriously these guys are beyond amazing, and your take is just as awesome
@sheppycider123
2 жыл бұрын
It’s called HOTwork not flamework or sparkwork. The whole point of it being called hot is so that anything that creates heat is caught and flagged.
@mckennaConfig
2 жыл бұрын
I saw the CSB video when they uploaded it and immediately wondered when Tom's react video would cross my feed.
@meligoth
2 жыл бұрын
The lack of care when using heat guns is pretty common in many jobsites. What happens is that people would hang them by their cords or set them down carelessly like it's a drill than property putting them down in it's designed safe position when not in use. Many tools does not produce flame, but definitely alot of heat like the exhaust from a gas generator.
@bethisway
2 жыл бұрын
that kind of work is so ridiculous it's sad ppl have to go in those things. Tom, the reason they don't go in when it's hot is because the heat inside would be so hot
@tster2011
2 жыл бұрын
While I’m not an Attorney I am an insurance broker and this incident scares the shit out of me. The liability implications are insane. I would really like to have seen their insurance policies, I’m curious if they will have sufficient coverage for the liable parties to pay for the damages imposed. Scary stuff, safety is number one priority
@Christopher_Gibbons
2 жыл бұрын
No amount of training can compensate for the level of stupidity required to leave a heat gun dangling over a bucket of flammable liquid. This should be a criminal negligence case.
@JPaterson8942
2 жыл бұрын
I used to live nearish the old paper mill in Steilacoom, WA. It's long gone now, but I remember the smell occasionally wafting through.
@SD-oi9gr
2 жыл бұрын
They were essentially cooked alive… that’s one of the most awful ways to go. I hope to god they did actually pass out fully before the heat for to them.
@bluebanana6753
2 жыл бұрын
Okay so just from my experience in sweden from paper mills. We have so called stop weeks. Basicly you stop the whole production once a year to do major overhaul. Also it is specialised firms doing these overhauls. Even to the extent that all of the paper mills have differemt stop weeks. So yes everything needs to be done right then. I know machines that has had oils leaks like 2 gallons a day. But there wasnt time to fix it so it got pushed to next years overhaul. It was cheaper to just fill more oil each day.
@Ivyrose4
2 жыл бұрын
There’s a fire mill not too far from me that I pass by when driving. I hold my nose every time I pass it
@andrewevenson2657
2 жыл бұрын
Fun fact, I worked at a paper mill, idk if it was just the mill I worked at, but it was only stinky outside the building. On the factory floor didn’t even smell bad, in fact in the white paper section, since they have to bleach the paper, it just smelled clean. I was just working for a contracted company that does janitorial work and minor maintenance. Like replacing the industrial air filters and stuff.
@wreath626
2 жыл бұрын
The pure negligence these two corps showed here. Wow.
@roblax87
2 жыл бұрын
Love these videos!! Keep up the uscsb reviews!
@SenorGato237
2 жыл бұрын
I work for a major manufacturer that often uses contractors in this way. We always have to coordinate the contractors, and it isn't easy. One of my main career goals is to make sure Tom never opens an office in my state. Your business is not welcome here Tom! You are though. If you're ever in Oregon I'll buy you a beer.
@ntwitch9105
2 жыл бұрын
As soon as I saw that USCSB had put out this video I was hoping you would react to it!
@PaulSteMarie
2 жыл бұрын
100% joint and severable liability to Blastco and Evergreen. This was really a total lack of training and proper planning/tool control. Joint and severable liability because my bet is that Blastco was a bottom of the barrel low bid glorified labor agency. Hell, I bet those Blastco "safety procedures" were out of a Nolo Press book. A better question is whether this constitutes depraved indifference murder.
@DustinRodriguez1_0
2 жыл бұрын
'How were we supposed to realize the heat gun could get hot?!'
@chdreturns
Жыл бұрын
"Paper Mills smell terrible" so true, the town of West Point, Va is my least favorite town as its the only paper mill town I've had the misfortune of driving through.
@thefoolishhiker3103
2 жыл бұрын
Always a good day when AT uploads a USCSB reaction video
@SubFlow22
2 жыл бұрын
Super healthy jobs I'm sure.
@dramspringfeald
2 жыл бұрын
Couple Months later of this video, it's September and we're all in a massive heat wave
@moihawk666
2 жыл бұрын
can you interview the people that lit two people on fire? BLASCO sounds like a dumpster fire of neglect
@cindyy4866
2 жыл бұрын
Man we even do hot work permits if a contractor has to bring a laptop or cellphone into the area.
@jackfitzsimons2569
2 жыл бұрын
Damn, that seems kinda excessive imo. Are laptops and cellphones really that flamable?
@PaulSteMarie
2 жыл бұрын
@@jackfitzsimons2569 Depths on the environment. Working with ether or gasoline and salt water? Definitely.
@MearsFL
2 жыл бұрын
All of the CSBs videos are amazing but tragic. You should check some more out!
@grossmanjake34
2 жыл бұрын
@tom I have a class action lawsuits for ya the definition of wire fraud includes not providing a service but still charging for the service. If you get banned on a dating app they don't stop charging your card.
@weirdazuweirduzo5327
2 жыл бұрын
Objection!! A premises owner owes no duty to injured subcontractors. That's the general contractor's duty.
@leonardmcdonald3928
2 жыл бұрын
Already watched this video, I was wondering when tom would get to reviewing this.
@Chic_Ken
2 жыл бұрын
Grew up around green bay Wisconsin, can confirm smell 😣😣
@TheRumpletiltskin
2 жыл бұрын
Wow... that is lots of lack of communication and safety.
@SilverStarHeggisist
2 жыл бұрын
I was literally thinking about this channel earlier today.
@jsomiller44
2 жыл бұрын
In general when painting cold conditions are bad. It can cause condensation and prevent adhesion. To fix this you heat the work environment using an external AC system that is piped in. Sometimes this works in tandem with the existing fresh air system used in a confined space like this. Bottom line is the product is made to be applied at a certain temperature. Heating the product won't help because the surface it is going onto also needs to be that temperature. The correct action is to change the environment using air conditioning or thermal blankets on the outside of the vessel.
@l.b8896
8 ай бұрын
“I didn’t know I was doing hot work” Oh really what where you using??? “A heat gun. It’s a gun that I use at work to make things hot.”
@KylePedretty
2 жыл бұрын
Cant wait to watch this. I listen to the USCSB videos all the time
@johncarter7364
2 жыл бұрын
That black liquor is something evil. And god help you if it ever gets on your clothes.
@LadsGamingChannel
2 жыл бұрын
They have crazy realistic people for the animations lol
@naysaykiller928
2 жыл бұрын
Can you really ever trust a company literally named Blastco?
@evilsharkey8954
2 жыл бұрын
I’ve been waiting for this ever since I saw the safety video pop up in my feed. I put majority blame on the dumbasses using a heat gun on a vat of flammable liquid and leaving it hanging above. Those things can melt solder! They’re really frikkin’ hot! They’re not even that good for heating large amounts of liquid. I was wondering why they didn’t use some kind of contact heater until they mentioned that such a thing existed but the morons didn’t even think to use them! Very incompetent company. Of course, the paper mill probably was assigned the most blame in real life because they have more money to spare and they didn’t bother to check their contractors’ qualifications and tell them they’d be working on two sides of the same tube.
@ronjohnson6916
2 жыл бұрын
This is one where 100% isn't enough. I mean the two main players were each around 105% to 110% responsible. Infuriating.
@YooperMedic
2 жыл бұрын
I hope to see Attorney Tom's perspective on the Johnny Depp v Amber Heard case
@DrummyMcDrumface
2 жыл бұрын
as soon as this USCSB vid came out I couldn't wait for AT's video. lol. Also, USCSB owes him some money, cause I didn't even realized I subbed them after watching AT's videos lol.
@AliceObscura
2 жыл бұрын
Yes!!! This is my favorite Attorney Tom series!!!
@MiniWarGameMasters
2 жыл бұрын
@attorneytom I am curious as to why you put rimcore's percentage so low as how i see it all of these problems are common sense problems. I put it as the following 60% to the plant owner 25% to blastco 15% to rimco As blastco did the actual damage but rimco was just as at fault for failure to communicate and plan, since as a company they should be knowledgeable in how these operations should have been run.
@hanner8830
2 жыл бұрын
Lol I live near a paper mill town called Canton NC. When I drive through there it literally smells like egg farts. Idk how people ACTUALLY live there.
@condemnedd684
2 жыл бұрын
TBH in this case I’d say blast Corp shares the majority of liability because this was also a case of poor training. Closer to 55-60%
@Josh-xl6zh
2 жыл бұрын
You should react to the video on the explosion/fire at the Huskey Energy Refinery jn Superior
@iPsychlops
2 жыл бұрын
Heatguns are frequently used on resin.
@shaydenthomas9832
2 жыл бұрын
I do this as a union painter and you can heat it up to cure but the surface is going to cool down and cause it to fail anyway also drying the resin quicker then what’s on the data sheet on the paint it will potentially fail too
@calebthomas6385
Жыл бұрын
I miss these type of Tom videos. Wish he would do a couple for old times sake
@NephiylusBaphson
2 жыл бұрын
Lmao this whole vid is Tom being like "see? see? what did I fucking tell you"
@TheOmegaRiddler
2 жыл бұрын
I had BlastCo at 65%, Evergreen at 25% and Rimcore at 10% but I can see where I was wrong. I forgot that Evergreen is ultimately responsible for what happened on their site. It doesn't matter if it was because of piss poor training at BlastCo. Evergreen let them on the site and didn't ensure work was safe. I agree that Evergreen and BlastCo are probably going to be paying 50% of damages each but I hope RimCore got a slap on the wrist.
@PackproYT
2 жыл бұрын
Yes I love these sorta videos xx
@spudz7405
2 жыл бұрын
A city near mine has a paper mile and i can attested they stink suprisingly bad
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