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The employees are no safer at home than at work. Tornados like this one are a statistical risk you take by living in that part of the planet. We can't engineer
by jandrewrogers 5y ago
The employees are no safer at home than at work.
Tornados like this one are a statistical risk you take by living in that part of the planet. We can't engineer practical structures that can survive them. The only mitigation is to live somewhere that doesn't have severe tornados.
- imglorp 5y ago> The employees are no safer at home than at work. Yes but if they're at work, the employer is responsible for their basic safety. Asking them to sit in a sheet-metal-on-slab building during an EF3 storm is neglectful. Sending them home to shelter with their families, whatever they do there, would maybe have been the better plan.
- treis 5y agoWhy? From the images I've seen it's not like the houses survived.
- MrStonedOne 5y agoThe houses have basements, the factory floors do not. The house does not need to survive for the humans in it to be safer then if they were in a sheet metal box with no basement.
- treis 5y agoA basement isn't tornado proof when the house above it is collapsing. It looks like ~90% of the workers survived which doesn't strike me as much different than those in homes that took a direct hit.
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- dragontamer 5y agoWe can engineer bunkers and safe houses though, right? There's a question of whether or not its worth it, especially the maintenance costs. But if tornadoes in the region only give 15 minutes of warning, then a very strong "safehouse" of some kind is probably the best option. Maybe the group would get trapped in the safehouse and be nearly starving after 2 or 3 days. But the rescuers might find them in time? ------- I'm not necessarily saying that its easy to build a 110-person bunker. But if you have 110 workers, then surely that's something you need to consider as a preventative / safety measure?
- 1123581321 5y agoThey had a tornado shelter, as would any significantly sized workplace in the midwest. We will find out if it was as good as it was supposed to be in the investigation.
- dragontamer 5y agoWith over 100 found alive, it sounds like they did the right thing here. The devastation is awful but at least they got out with their lives. They can rebuild.
- themaninthedark 5y agoYou wouldn't want a 110 bunker, you want 4 or 5 30 person bunkers. The building was roughly 340'x300', if the shelter was in the center the longest inside distance would be 200' but they also had material storage outside, up to 380' away as the crow flies(aka. gonna be longer). They will be literally running for their lives but Bob is 45 and has been smoking since he was 15. Jim is in a wheelchair.
- captainredbeard 5y agoDude: when the people from a region tell you that your expectations about preventing tragedy are unreasonable, why do you continue to argue with their firsthand knowledge? Do you think you bring something novel or noteworthy to the table?
- MrStonedOne 5y ago>The employees are no safer at home than at work. I think that should be up to the employees to decide, not their manager, and sure as hell not you.