Fundraisers/contributions at work?

wants2laugh wrote:Would you be offended if someone asked for a donation, or just not donate if you didnt want to?

wants2laugh wrote:... people were running for the exits that were locked!

Opa Shale wrote:
Locked exits should be against the law and some anonymous person should notify the fire inspector of that.

I am very alert to that and have forced employers to put 'panic bars' on egress doors marked as exits. "Bodies stacked by the fire exit like cord wood" is not a pleasant news report but happens all too often.

wants2laugh wrote:

I agree. For "security reasons" our building housing 1500 employees has 2 entrances, one for us, one for supervisors. During a fire drill, a panic button is hit which unlocks the surrounding doors so that employees can evacuate during an emergency. They never hit the button so the doors didnt unlock! jerks... ur right... maybe the fire inspector will get a call

Opa Shale wrote:
Locked exits should be against the law and some anonymous person should notify the fire inspector of that.

I am very alert to that and have forced employers to put 'panic bars' on egress doors marked as exits. "Bodies stacked by the fire exit like cord wood" is not a pleasant news report but happens all too often.

wants2laugh wrote:I agree. For "security reasons" our building housing 1500 employees has 2 entrances, one for us, one for supervisors. During a fire drill, a panic button is hit which unlocks the surrounding doors so that employees can evacuate during an emergency. They never hit the button so the doors didnt unlock! jerks... ur right... maybe the fire inspector will get a call

Opa Shale wrote:
Locked exits should be against the law and some anonymous person should notify the fire inspector of that.

I am very alert to that and have forced employers to put 'panic bars' on egress doors marked as exits. "Bodies stacked by the fire exit like cord wood" is not a pleasant news report but happens all too often.

Fire at Chicken Processing Plant Kills 25 : Disaster: Witnesses say locked doors added to death toll at North Carolina facility that had never been inspected for safety; 49 workers hurt.
September 04, 1991|PAUL TAYLOR | THE WASHINGTON POST

Fire broke out near a 26-foot-long, deep-fat fryer fueled by natural gas at a chicken-processing plant in this rural community, killing at least 25 minimum-wage employees and injuring at least 49 others Tuesday morning, authorities said.

Friends and relatives of victims at the Imperial Food Products plant said locked doors at the one-story brick and cinder-block building contributed to the death toll. Most of the victims suffered from smoke inhalation, not burns, fire officials reported.

Victims

Fire at Chicken Processing Plant Kills 25 : Disaster: Witnesses say locked doors added to death toll at North Carolina facility that had never been inspected for safety; 49 workers hurt.
September 04, 1991|PAUL TAYLOR | THE WASHINGTON POST

Fire broke out near a 26-foot-long, deep-fat fryer fueled by natural gas at a chicken-processing plant in this rural community, killing at least 25 minimum-wage employees and injuring at least 49 others Tuesday morning, authorities said.

Friends and relatives of victims at the Imperial Food Products plant said locked doors at the one-story brick and cinder-block building contributed to the death toll. Most of the victims suffered from smoke inhalation, not burns, fire officials reporte



"I don't see how people can lock doors in a plant where you know something like this can happen," said Thomas Brown, 25, whose cousin was flown to a hospital in Durham, about 100 miles north, to be treated for smoke inhalation.

State safety officials had never inspected the 11-year-old plant, which makes chicken nuggets and marinated chicken breasts sold at fast-food restaurants and grocery stores, said Charles Jeffress, assistant commissioner of the North Carolina Department of Labor.

"I'm sure that there are many others" that have not been inspected, Jeffress told the Associated Press. He said that the state does not have enough inspectors to reach every plant and that it never received a safety complaint about the Imperial Food plant.

"I have heard about 10,000 allegations that doors were locked, but I cannot confirm whether any were locked," Hamlet Fire Chief David Fuller said. Many victims were found near doorways, he said, indicating that they may have been overcome by smoke.



http://articles.latimes.com/1991-09-04/news/mn-1562_1_chicken-processing-plant