Man De-Icing Plane Falls to Death

[masoncgy]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/sto...h-deicing.html

A worker at the Calgary airport is dead after falling out of a cherry picker while de-icing an aircraft.

What a terrible tragedy for someone who makes sure we can fly safely... especially at this time of the year.

[89s1]

Saw it on the news when I woke up, RIP to the man, and may peace be with his family through this holiday season

[Tomaz]

That sucks!

RIP

[nykz]

R.I.P really unfortunate for his family, especially at this time of the year

[Nufy]

Are they not required to have fall protection in those things ???

RIP

[Tik-Tok]

RIP to the poor man, but

W..T...F...?

A) I can't believe they use open cab sprayers
B) What the hell was he doing leaning out of the open cab???
C) Why wasn't he latch in?

edit:

Originally posted by Nufy
Are they not required to have fall protection in those things ???

RIP

Yeah, but what the company tells you to do, and what you decide to do, are two different things. 8' is the maximum height without (according the the OH&S guy that
audits us)

Hope it wasn't my wife's co-workers husband. He works for them.

[vengie]

Originally posted by Nufy
Are they not required to have fall protection in those things ???

RIP

You would think so! when I worked construction we were required to have fall protection when working 5' above the ground

RIP

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

RIP

[masoncgy]

Those de-icing cherry pickers have safety harnesses inside the bucket... so I would assume the fellow wasn't strapped in and took a spill as a result...

Speculation, of course.

Very tragic.

[GTS4tw]

Originally posted by Tik-Tok
RIP to the poor man, but

W..T...F...?

A) I can't believe they use open cab sprayers
B) What the hell was he doing leaning out of the open cab???
C) Why wasn't he latch in?

edit:


Yeah, but what the company tells you to do, and what you decide to do, are two different things. 8' is the maximum height without (according the the OH&S guy that
audits us)

Hope it wasn't my wife's co-workers husband. He works for them.

At the Kelowna airport it is basically just a truck mounted cherry picker like this:



It would be fairly easy to fall out of if you leaned over the side, the guys here wear a harness though.

RIP to the guy, real rough for his family, right at Christmas too, sad stuff.

[im2fst4u]

Very sad indeed, especially at this time of year.

R.I.P.

[scat19]

RIP, close to home as I work in aviation.

[ExtraSlow]

A workplace fatality is always sad. I would have assumed that he'd need to be clipped in in that situation though. You can be certain that they workplace health and safty people will be doing an investigation into this.

[AndyL]

Let's assume he was hooked in, they do work in close proximity to the plane - perhaps the lanyard hooked on something - pulled him out of the basket and tore the lanyard?

Legally over 6' above grade you're to be tied off (the old addage of you don't need to tie off in a aerial work platform no longer exists - all AWPs now require you to be tied off). If the company says different, it's up to the employee to envoke "right to refuse unsafe work", yep - lots of paperwork, but you have got to be safe...

If it turns out he wasn't tied off, it's going to be an ugly christmas for his family - WCB doesn't cover you if you don't use the proper PPE. And life insurance companies will likely say "workplace accident - not covered"...

[freshprince1]

Terrible news. Prayers are with the family.

[adidas]

From what i understand my friend was on the flight or waiting for the flight where this man lost his life.

Unfortunate.

RIP.

[Tik-Tok]

Originally posted by AndyL
Let's assume he was hooked in, they do work in close proximity to the plane - perhaps the lanyard hooked on something - pulled him out of the basket and tore the lanyard?

If the bucket is withing 10' of the aircraft, he's doing something seriously wrong.

Here's how far away they should be deicing, and this is also the enclosed buckets Servisair SHOULD be using. I can't even imagine being in a open bucket in the dead of winter

edit: image taken out because it was way too big. here's the link.

http://www.klm.com/travel/aircraftse...m252-58618.JPG
http://www.aircanada.com/en/about/me...er_deicing.jpg

[AndyL]

Pretty sure the last time I was getting de-iced at the airport - the de-icing trucks were just plain old basket trucks; I remember thinking "poor SOB" as I was watching him hose us off...

[FraserB]

CAA has both types, guess the low seniority guys get to hang out in the cold.

RIP. Horrible accident that never should have happened.

[2Valve0]

This is horrible.
RIP