Every facility I have worked in has had a good safety program- during first shift. Second and third are on their own.
So what did the owner do wrong? Did people try to leave and he told them they would be fired or something?
Well, I just moved from there. It’s actually not. We had tornadoes then snow the next day. That area is right where the jet stream comes through & warm air fights with cold air until deep winter finally sets in. It has just been warmer later this year.
Yes F5 tornadoes are rare. Joplin, the 2 Oklahoma F5s Greenburg Kansas and Jarrell Texas come to mind. You may be from that area but catastrophic tornadoes that wipe ot towns is extremely rare on the Fujita scale of plus 4 to 5 is extremely rare especially in Kentucky. Actually if it is an F5 it would be the first confirmed F5 tornado in the history of Kentucky with records dating back to 1880 when they started keeping them.
We've had that in Oklahoma and actually in SC. The time we got over a foot in the upstate in 2000 (possibly) we had thundersnow.
I'm in Kentucky now and it got bad. Had 2 warnings last night and the wind is crazy right now. Over 70 dead as of now.
There has been conjecture that its airspeed and path distance make it one of the strongest in history. Doesn't matter if it was the strongest, deadliest, whatever. It was awful.
I went by Jarrell Texas after its tornado in 1997. Where the tornado crossed Interstate 35, you could see where it sucked up pavement. The first few houses I saw were not just completely gone, it pulled some of the water pipes out of the ground that led to bathrooms and showers.
We all knew the front was coming. They shouldn't of even been at the facility working. It wasn't a surprise, it didn't take place out of nowhere.
Appreciate that. Just got off the phone with him. Prayers answered
No, but it's not hard to monitor the situation now. And if you don't have proper shelter for employees, then yes shut down when the conditions are what they were. One place was Amazon, we can all wait just a little longer for our packages. Better precautions could of been made.
While that may sound reasonable to you, it is not practical to shut down every time there might be a tornado. Instead have your building with a safe tornado shelter.
Exactly, ludicrous to blame the factories for a natural disaster, no different than blaming President Bush for Katrina.
I'm a contractor and I build schools in SC. We have some of the strongest built buildings in America because we have to build with Earthquakes and hurricanes in mind. A large portion of our schools are used as shelters. Tornadoes are common throughout a large portion of America. If you're going to run a business that doesn't stop operating when life threatening weather is coming through the area, you should at least provide adequate shelter. You can try to say whatever you want, but many people are dead because someone was more worried about turning a profit than protecting lives. Point blank.
It sounds like you are advocating for a change in building codes, which may be exactly what is needed, rather than blaming a particular building owner just because his building happened to be the one destroyed. It's my understanding this tornado hit the candle factory at 9pm. Mayfield has a Walmart, a Lowes, and many other big-box stores with construction that is probably similar to the Amazon warehouse and the candle factory. Did all of these facilities close down tight with a knowledge that a tornado was on the way?
No. Tornados in KY in December are not rare. I never said anything about the F scale.
Any time it is forecasted to go from 80 to 30 degrees overnight you know something wicked is coming through.
Do you recommend cancelling entire shifts when a line of thunderstorms is forecasted? If so, that would be ridiculous. Just as ridiculous to send employees out of a facility to seek shelter elsewhere when a Tornado is imminent.
Yeah if tornados are an issue in an area, requiring businesses to have tornado shelters for employees would be the answer. Not stopping production every time there is bad weather.
With all due respect we, meaning those of us in Kentucky at the time, had tons of warning on this. It was literally all that was talked about Thursday and Friday. They literally put that area in the red xxx area for 70% chance of tornadoes.
