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someone fucked up
Guessing they'll be losing a whole lot more than 15k now....
Can you imagine that were your family member who died and they're no longer here because 15k was "too much" when the contract for that job is probably some ridiculously high amount?
Unfortunately cost is always an issue with a lot of construction companies. Guys skimp because they don't want to eat into profits.
Super sad that someone passed because of cheap carelessness.
What are the chances of all this information, that they know, causing this company to close it's doors. Cutting cost is one thing, but you can only go so far.
The fucked up thing is instead of spending the 15K and doing it right "Because it was too much money" they decided to rent a 250T hydro crane at the rate of 10K a night and set it 250ft away, Boom out and only grab 20% of the beam off the end pier. They then decided to dog down the end with chains and anchors. If it wasnt for the chains on the end the crane would have went down with the beam. So realistically they tried to cut corners to save 5K....
Even the union can play a part with the laborers involved in some jobs. Sometimes you do a job in an area, the union finds out, and wants you to use a couple of their guys. Problem is, these guys don't know a spoon from a shovel.
I worked for a non union company doing a non union job. A union rep for the laborers came out and wanted people to sign up or threatened to to shut the job down. Tell me how that's even legal.Yup. At a company I used to work at, we were working on a tower for the tollway. We were non union. When it came time to stack the tower, the union told us that there needed to be an equal number of tower workers and union steel workers. We had to send some of our guys home. Problem was that they don't climb towers so we had to be short handed stacking it.
What are the chances of all this information, that they know, causing this company to close it's doors. Cutting cost is one thing, but you can only go so far.
With a bigger company (not entirely sure how big Omega is) but there's a slim chance that the company will close up shop. That's what insurance is for. Now depends on the outcome of the OSHA investigation and whether the insurance company will even pay out (although from what I've seen in the past and know 2nd hand, they normally will). But the insurance company will probably drop their coverage with Omega afterwards. Plus if it came to it, Omega can "close" and just put it in somebody else's name and continue moving forward. I've seen it happen.
Another thing is, sometimes these huge contractors will call up previous bidders (previous jobs) and talk numbers with them. They'll mention that so and so has these numbers and if you can beat them. Yes, it's illegal, but it does happen. There's jobs where we've bidded on jobs and some other company will under bid us by A LOT. How they can even make money is beyond me, but they do bid cheap. And when they do, they tend to try cutting corners whether it be material wise, or labor wise (screwing workers over). Even the union can play a part with the laborers involved in some jobs. Sometimes you do a job in an area, the union finds out, and wants you to use a couple of their guys. Problem is, these guys don't know a spoon from a shovel. At least that happens with smaller companies. Sad thing is, IL CATERS to these unions. Plus these unions also go after a lot of small companies and end up "settling" because these small companies can't afford to go back and forth in court and the Unions know that. Unions even go and bother non union companies and it's just ridiculous.