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Ep. 30- A Routine Mulch Job Turned Fatal: “We’ve Always Done It This Way”
Nineteen-year-old Bradley Hogue was on his second day of work when a routine mulch delivery turned fatal. Inside a bark-blower truck, a dangerous workaround had become an accepted way to keep material moving—and it placed a new employee within reach of rotating machinery.
In this Wednesday Post-Incident Review, John Bongiovanni examines the Washington FACE investigation and enforcement records to explain how equipment defects, inadequate training, and an accepted unsafe practice contributed to this tragedy.
This episode covers:
How repeated equipment problems can normalize dangerous…
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