Worker Killed At Electric Boat Plant

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) -- A North Kingstown man has died while working at the Electric Boat Corporation manufacturing plant.

North Kingstown police said Wednesday that the 31-year-old worker, who was not identified, had been using a transport device to move a section of steel outside. When it started raining, the steel had to be moved back inside.

The machinery was not moving as the worker got out. But he became trapped between it and a large door that was being closed.

Officials say the employee, who had worked at Electric Boat for 10 years, was treated on the scene this morning and died at Kent County Hospital.

A spokesman for Electric Boat says work has stopped in that part of the plant and counselors will be available for employees.

Electric Boat is a unit of General Dynamics Corp.

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GD Death 7/3/2009 8:28:00 AM I have 2 family members that work in this facility...the pressure to "get things done" is always on. Tey break OSHA rules all the time. Only after an accident or death, do they change anything, they have to be forced into action. It is a very dangerous place to work!
re:GD Death 7/7/2009 7:49:00 AM Come on, you barely have any orders these days! OSHA regulations are part of the problem, they, along with union rules and wages, are strangling American competitiveness. Building ships is dangerous work, by definition, and no matter how distasteful the truth is to some, people will get hurt, and sometimes die in the process. Much fewer deaths would occur if the national speed limit were 20 mph, but no one is clamoring for that option. I worked there during the Reagan administration, when it was a bustling shipyard, building subs as fast as we could to try and stay abreast with the Soviets, who were out-building us 4:1. Now, we are are a nation of pacisfists led by a wise Kenyan leader, BO, that has no more use for messy weapons like nuclear submarines....
Heartless 7/8/2009 8:01:00 AM To the person who replied to GD Death, What a unbelievably narrow minded selfish person you are, How would you feel about losing one of your loved ones, your father, brother, sister, or your child, and have some jackass put a political spin on it and dismiss their death as an acceptable cost of business. I wonder what it’s like to be without compassion or conscience, what goes on in your brain Rush puppet?
re: Heartless 7/8/2009 1:21:00 PM Pay attention, Idiot, and try and follow along: The previous poster was bellyaching about the dangers of working in the shipyard, and that corporate interests in production results, to the point of not following OSHA regulations, was the cause. My response was that 1) it isn't very busy these days at EB, compared to when I worked there, so I doubt that the workers are being pushed too hard, and 2) OSHA regulations are strangling US competiveness by imposing non-value added "safety" requirements, i.e. very little bang for the buck. It's not politcal spin, it's reality. Now go fill out a Hallmark card, I'm sure it will make it all better. And since you mentioned it: Rush is Right!
OSHA regulations are part of the problem, 7/8/2009 2:01:00 PM Idiot! indeed. Yer funny, move to the middle east, there ain't no darn socialist lbbles there!
OSHA regulations are part of the problem 7/8/2009 2:30:00 PM What ??????
Compassion 7/16/2009 12:33:00 AM It was my loved one that died in that accident so maybe you should all have a little compassion. What happened was preventable. There should have been a safety device on the door so it wouldn't have jerked shut with such force. Hopefully something will be done about it so no one else has to lose a loved one.

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