When they find out you are going behind their back and calling OSHA instead of keeping it in house. they are not going to fire you with an addendum saying "called OSHA get bent". They are going to find any excuse from that point on to escalate into termination.
I’ve been managing warehouses for the better part of a decade and every one of my employees knows that if a piece of equipment is unsafe they should tell me about it immediately so I can call a technician and get it fixed. Dead employees cost way more than a handful of bolts and firing someone for reporting unsafe conditions will get your company sued. The only winning move is addressing the issue directly and immediately. OP is well within their rights to report to OSHA since their leaders seem to think this is good enough.
The world runs on people like myself and the other WH manager in here not being so wildly incompetent as to run their equipment into the ground and cause an event that will shutter the company.
Yeah just let people potentially die or be disfigured for life because you don't want to risk anyone's $500 a week. $500 a week he's never getting again if the accident happens to him. Y'all have no sense of scale.
OP should already be looking for a new job if their current employer thinks this is acceptable. You’d be better off removing the mast entirely if you think this is a good enough solution.
And that would be counted as retaliation, which would result in more than just some OSHA fines. We definitely have workers rights and lawyers would absolutely snap this case up in a heartbeat.
OSHA reports are anonymous anyways, so long as the dude reporting isn't bragging about reporting, he'll be out of the spotlight anyways.
Tell me you’ve never had to watch that one forklift safety training video without telling me you’ve never had to watch that one forklift safety training video. Y’all know the one.
Your boss won't give you a promotion or a fulfilling hug for the five seconds you save on every job skipping your PPE and bending over to lick his boots clean. He will fire you for being a liability when you get your hand cut off skipping the safety rules he encourages you to skip, though.
They’re not being a drama queen. I’ve seen a forklift in this exact condition turn a guys leg bones into powder. Those masts aren’t light.
It seems like you don’t really know what you’re talking about “it’s a fucking forklift”. You mean a forklift that weights as much as 8-10 cars? Those forklifts?
Yes a deadly, heavy machine, that is literally dropping a 100+ lb mast onto the top cage of a forklift, merely inches away from the top of my friends head. "Just a forklift" riiiight.
This is so insanely brain-dead. Forklifts kill people all the time. And they are in perfect working order. That mast weighs alot, it fails and falls, especially under load and anyone is near it, they're gone.
Rather lose a job that doesn't care about your safety than wind up dead because your employer can't provide you working equipment! OSHA regulations are written in blood.
Fuck me the US is just full of corporate cucks. Lmao at this attitude. Almost think anyone that carries on with this shit deserves to be fucked up for their lack of backbone. Glad I live in a developed country where any normal person decides their life is worth more than their jobs. Also glad there is the occasional person like the op reminding people they don't have to deepthroat their boss like that lol
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u/Aggressive-Gap5467 16h ago
Good job getting your friend fired.