Woman killed by runaway steel drum from Pittsburgh construction site
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- A woman is dead after a large steel drum rolled away from the construction site of the University of Pittsburgh's new sports complex in Oakland. KDKA-TV's Mamie Bah reports.
My dog has “escaped” my house. This drum did not “escape”. It “escaped” the attention of those in charge of safety measures, ensuring this didn’t happen to anyone. Lawyer up.
To OSHA, not many things are deemed "accidental" or "by chance". Once OSHA gets all up in that @$$, I'm certain they'll see gross negligence somewhere (faulty carrying straps, improperly tied straps, etc).
OSHA is going to have a field day with this one. Clearly the drum wasn’t in a type of position to avoid an accident like this
@@pablot-r9402I bet they will. I was a medic for almost 10 years and I’ve been to a few construction or industrial accidents and all were preventable. One was at a glass factory and they made huge panes of glass and a very young guy (19 I think or somewhere around that) was in a cherry picker and the bucket was all the way up with him in the bucket and as the cherry picker moved it collided with something else (this was years ago so I’m trying to remember) and was tipped over and the kid in the bucket fell onto a huge pane of glass on a big table. He had a hole in his head that you could put your fist through. I don’t know the result of that investigation but I’m sure the company got fined heavily since the kid in the bucket didn’t have a helmet on nor a harness. I’m willing to bet that was a huge violation and it possibly could have avoided his death. I don’t know but we tried to save him but there was no way we could get him back.
It didn't escape. Negligence on the part of the construction workers caused this death.
It escaped the work site? Was it being held hostage? Come on guys do better
Mainstream is all about the emotions and not facts. Only telling part of the story is how their scam works.
“Became uncontained” was the preferred verbiage, but they were afraid it would trigger the low information viewers
Exactly
The language is carefully used because it’s gonna be a lawsuit.
If I was really dumb, I’d like your comment.
It's not an "accident" it was incredible negligence and failure to follow basic safety procedures. Costa Construction and whoever was the foundation subcontractor need to be fined and put out of business.
I'm no lawyer but it seems a class action could be in order. How many people were walking around there when this happened?
It’s called cheap labor sub contractors and DEI .
edbrod. FDJT
I agree the construction company will be sued
@@aramfingal class action ...?
that explains the "not a lawyer" bit
This is absolutely third world country stuff. Who's running the construction site, Alec Baldwin?
🤣🤣
The Rust armorers has a new job…
trump the 🍊🤡
you seen a third world country?
it's far worse than one miniscule individual construction accident,places like india have children illegally working unprotected lifting heavy and sharp ore\ rocks,constantly getting cut up,while their half useless parents spend all day either digging through trash or scamming people for money and that's just the beginning of just India....that's 3rd world region, this is just a minor accident.
Hey, Alex was "cleared of all charges". Blame the armorer...I mean, the steel drum operator.
Walking with her colleagues and no one hollered look the fk out.
Funny, you should mention it, we just re-watched the movie “Idiocracy“ yesterday. Not because it’s the best movie in the world, but because it makes kind of a point, which is well represented here she got Upgrayeed by her friends
Your so right, you would think someone would be screaming to look out. But, maybe she was on her cell phone, some people become unconscious when looking on those.
jeffreyking, accidents happen. YOU weren't there. YOU don't know they circumstances. Maybe they didn't see it coming. But if it makes YOU feel better, blame the victim's friends, instead of the company...or freakin' fate.
@d.lawrence5670 I just said if she was walking with some colleagues maybe one would have takin her safety into consideration . My friends care about me. I see why yours don't. Lmao.
Unfortunately that’s the Pitt campus area and is RAMPANT with students on their phones not looking out. MANY pedestrians hit by cars in that area over the years. RIP
She was my classmates mom - I just found out today. I feel awful for him. I hope he’s okay after this. I feel terrible about this whole thing
Absolutely horrible to hear about this negligence.
If I may ask, do you know how it happened? Was she walking by the truck while they were unloading it or hit as it rolled down the hill. I know she wasn't hit by the car because that would have been obvious.
I'm asking because I'm always wondering how this could be avoided by other people on next time. Since this is a unique event none of us would have expected!
I very much doubt that he is okay.
Stop lying!
@@954brent954 She was my dad's first wife's best friend from Mobile, Alabama. They say I met her but I was in a coma at the time. If my cat hadn't cuddled up with me they were gonna pull the plug. I'm doing 57% better now. I'm working to get to 58%. Every day is a challenge. I'm playing with Legos. They are fun. I wish I had someone else to play Legos with.
Outrageous negligence
The pipe escaped? Like a runaway prisoner. How about poor business practices of the construction workers.
This is truly sad I feel sorry for her family and friends and hope the family sues the construction company for that
Oh I do believe they will so sad
Sad n tragic. Negligence from construction company. Things like this shouldn’t happen.
across OUR HOME, USA. and the hater/aggressor nations subversives have taken over campuses again, and the kidults who think they know it all and the dei the extended affirmative action hires... and illegals lefties in the wh and their appointed! thus off the rails in Everything.
I shouldn't get a flat tire but here we are
@@jamesferguson2353 that's quite a bit different than somebody being killed, by negligent workers. This was not an accident. It was negligence and complacency.
@@654Crossman I don't think that was his point at all. Do you know how many people are killed in auto accidents every year, falling off ladders or how many kids commit suicide every day who are under 14 years old. The bottom line, that should be considered, is that we have never been safer in life, but that we can do better: don't over work your employees, and make sure they are not rushed, and always double check their work.
In the Movie "Time-Travel" (cute movie) there is a part where the main character is told to live each day twice, until you figure out how to live each day fully.
Time for both companies to be shut down by OSHA. They both have numerous safety violations, including violations, resulting from the death of workers. This must stop.
Here comes the lawyers!!
With every right!
a piece of steel cannot escape a construction site.
Nice way to display your total ignorance.
@@lennychorn147how? They're not wrong. It doesn't have legs or arms to push itself away. It's not a pet that slipped out the door and escaped it's owner.
@@raeraebadfingers It was a heavy cylindrical object that can roll. There could be a number of reasons that it was sent rolling. It could be from an unloading accident. Someone on a machine could have accidentally hit it, causing it to start rolling. If you look, you can see that there was a decent downgrade from the jobsite to the sidewalk.
@@lennychorn147 Ok, both of those things are not "accidents", the correct word is negligence.
@@ShionWinkler Maybe, maybe not.
journalism has died with this story
Pitt needs to build more libraries not sports arenas.
🎯💯🎯
The sports arenas sponsor the libraries.
@@qret-dv5ym no, that depends on each cities level of corruption and the local pro teams should pay for it, not taxpayers
@@katiesioux7757 This is college. Pitt athletics is definitely sponsoring the university. They don't have to pay the athletes. They're banking off their football and basketball players.
People complain about federal and state safety regulations and organizations. Well guess what’s coming next, all because someone said I don’t need to do that it’s stupid.
Yeah, it’s funny how people vote for Republicans who want to go into office and cut regulations cut federal oversight and then they wonder why stuff like this happens. If you want stuff like this to stop, you need to keep the Democrats in office so they can maintain a strong administrative state to punish companies when they do reckless stuff like this that’s the only way you are going to change their behavior.
Over-regulation is a problem. Not all regulations are good. Some are needed, many are not.
@@dr.emilschaffhausen4683 And then we wonder how lead gets in our water...
LOL 😂, the cylinder " escaped" from the construction site .... as if it was a animal with legs escaping from the zoo. 😂
it's looking for dio and the rest of the road roller
The woman who lost THEIR life? The woman who lost HER life. Pay attention in English class, kids.
It's LAWYERESE
God Bless Her Soul...I'm so sorry this happened to you...
When people say freak accident...it usually isn't. In this case no one called it a freak accident and it absolutely is.
First off , it's not a steel drum, as your video description says. Second, it did not "Escape", as you have reported it to have.
Did anyone else see “Acme” on the side of the cylinder?
Life is unpredictable. Treasure every moment and live it to the fullest.
That's what I keep saying
How could you not get out of the way of it.
Prayers for the family
Her family will own the company now
You mean the family's lawyer will own the company now.
Just goes to show, your day can always get worse. I feel so bad for the woman or they/them.
Negligence.
Yep, she wasn't paying attention to her surroundings! 🤷♂️
@@CadillacToothdeville Exactly, how in the F can something like that roll up (or over) on ya and not see it coming?
Escape = break free from confinement. Please explain how an inanimate objects manages to free itself. Construction workers were negligent.
It weighed a fukn ton... That's how.
That and probably a little negligence.
Nowhere in your definition of escape does it specify that the object of focus has to under its own power break free. Just thought I'd point out your own definition
& it's to "blame"
@FordRangerClassics
@@Eduardo_Espinoza I'm sorry, I literally do not understand what you're trying to tell me
@@FordRangerClassics I don't own Oxford English Dictionary nor am I a lexicographer, so it's not my definition. Escape and Break Free are verbs (action words) and inanimate objects can't act on their own. Guess you never went to school because elementary school students are taught Newton's First Law of Physics -- An object at rest remains at rest unless acted on by an *external force.*
Hope the get sued for everything
The construction company will say they have heavy hearts, but at the same time, empty wallets.
@@ironbowtie yeah
They will. Notice that their statement came from their attorney. Lawsuits will be filed against several parties.
@@garfieldsmith332It's always the company attorney who writes the statement anyway.
Bottom shelf employees will continue to have these types of accidents! Be on alert at all times!
I was there, you can see my car parked nearby as police interviewed me off camera.
It's was absolutely gruesome, a person had their Stomach/abdomen completely blown open and exposed to the open air.
It was about 60 degrees out here and there was literal STEAM coming out of their lower stomach. I honestly
couldn't believe that the human body was that hot on the inside
One female driver was dry heaving after getting out of her
vehicle to run up & get a better look, as the person's entrails had smelled like "Bad sewage" (As the lady described). I had to drop my breakfast off at
the nearby shelter because I had lost my appetite knowing I had inhaled someone's inner "Fumes", I even found myself dry heaving earlier just thinking about it...
I will never forget seeing this
You would think the cylinder would be making all sorts of noise rolling, but being next to a construction site with its noises, and the general city’s noise she would not have noticed it.
A tragic accident.
Thats what I was thinking too.
Yeah, but it had to get louder as it approached.....
that student had some incredibly dumb insight
Yeah, especially when she said it's scary that things like this can happen on a "random Friday". As if it is tragic that this occurred on a Friday vs any other day of the week.
Most people are never good at impromptu interviews anyway. They will just say whatever comes to mind.
Costa Contracting is going to be paying a lot of money
It sure will COSTA lot!
Was seeing on another news site that Pittsburgh OSHA barely fines for the death of employees. This company should be sued for millions
Always be ready to meet your Maker! You never know what kind of weird circumastance can occur!
The drum didn’t escape like it moved on its own and tired of being fenced in. The language is quite elementary. But I see a lawsuit coming.
I would bet that there were attorneys on that case, prior to the pipe jumping the fence!!!
My condolences to the woman, her family and friends.
Who lost her life today not their life today.
Apparently, she succumbed before they had time to "ask her what her pronouns were", so... just playing it safe.
It literally makes no difference except some people just love to be upset over labels because, uhhhhhh, the OTHER people are snowflakes! Yeah!
Grammar is dead for every generation after those educated in the 1990's.
I’m amazed that someone is trying to correct someone over the use of a pronoun such in this case when we come to these comments section and I see people writing one verrrrrrrrry long run on sentence and nothing has a capital letter such as when starting a sentence and that’s probably because no one wants to use a period, comma, or a question mark. Makes it impossible to read. I’ve heard that schools are not teaching kids how to write in cursive anymore now that computers are everywhere. Did they stop teaching grammar now at all? I’m curious to know if you are the grammar police with those who can’t type a sentence at all?
@@debrakleid5752 bro fyi, I'm 30 and they stopped teaching cursive in schools when I was about 8 or9 years old. I feel like so many people have been out of school to the point that they just fantasize about it and vote on that. Nott you specifically, I'm just saying in general
Ain’t no way they didn’t hear that thing rolling down the hill
Man, this incident sure is gonna COSTA lot of money in fines and lawsuits.
Unsecured heavy Round steel cylinders atop a slope, what could possibly go wrong?
Pipe DOWN! It did NOT Escape. Unless you mean it "Escaped" the attention of the workers.
My payers go out to the family of the woman who has died 😢😢😢
Profits before safety, the cost of doing business is too expensive. Hurry up and get it done at any cost. That kind of mindset unfortunately gets people killed.
Holy crap! Could u imagine seeing that flying at u....wow I pray for her family. Downbtown is like this also all types of construction
This horrible accident that could've been prevented to excuse
Politicians are now calling for more 'Drum Control'.
Thoughts and prayers? Like that's at all helpful. How about lots of apologies, money and plans to properly secure your construction materials in the future?
Suing doesn't change anything life wise ..
No, it buys a house or 2, financial security, a new car, plastic surgery etc..................live IS changed
Time for drug tests.
Absolute incompetence. People die when safety is not treated seriously.
Man, the other people with her, saw it all.Never get that scene out of your mind.That's how quick it happens.May the victim rest in peace
Since the dawn of life, being unable to react and move quickly has always had fatal consequences.
They feel so bad they cant even say her name.
"Escaped"?!?!? It's not a living creature with free will.
Can't you hear a cylinder that big rolling down the road? Perhaps staying off your phone and paying attention to your surroundings.
It was likely going quickly, but also would have been loud.
OSHA is going to have a field day with this because that heavy drum clearly wasn’t secured properly to avoid accidents like this. I’m sure someone will get roasted.
Major ineptitude is what allowed a large round metal object to roll from an uphill position, and accountability is what follows. Creating new guidelines can't help this poor woman or anyone else because there are already a multitude of safety regulations that need to be followed when doing this kind of work, which were obviously ignored.
Terrible reporting and misread the words in the graphics multiples times.
That Pitt student wouldn't do any better though.
Mamie Bah just wanted to get it over with and get the weekend started lol
Sue them until they are bankrupt and selling the sports complex to pay for further damages and fines. Government should Sue the company as well.
Pay attension, when somethings rolling your way. Move!
Due to the horrible accidents Oakland is the most dangerous place in Pittsburgh for simply walking, jogging or biking
Can't be as bad as Oakland, CA. C'mon now.
Lawsuit!! You can't compensate a life, but you can definitely hold the company accountable.
“It could have been a student.”
Thank goodness it was only a non-student!
Right, what an odd thing to say.
Schools don't teach intelligence.
Putin must be held accountable for allowing the steel drum to escape from captivity
Oh no, sorry, but it was Trump's fault.
How were there no anti-roll tabs welded to the outside of that cylinder?
She either didnt notice or was looking at her phone. Thats horrible!
It's not her fault who would have thought she was going to die by being crushed it was accident that could've been prevented period
@@juliaweber212 Yes, it is not her fault. Prayers to victim and to her family & friends. I'm sure it all happened so fast once that heavy drum started rolling & picking up momentum.
Another heavy item falling off a truck- this is the 3rd in the last 2 weeks 🙏🏼
Training? Maintenance?
I feel like there's too many construction projects happening all at once. In DC where I'm from the entire DMV is just one big construction site, everything from the roads to buildings all at once, its making traffic unbearable and taking lives as well. My condolences to the young woman who was killed.
A 1 ton object doesn't simply move by accident. It clearly was not secured in a safe manner.
0:41 is the picture that shows the blurred out body with the broken fence and the cylinder beside the truck letting people know how this happened.
She was walking by a construction site heard a bunch of noise didn't think nothing of it then something broke through the fence killing her ending up by the truck. 🙏
This is an accident, it's called negligence. This doesn't randomly happen. This happens when companies put cost above safety. PERIOD.
when are we going to get common sense anti assault steel cylinder laws? This construction material violence has to stop!
OSHA, is slipping. This is absolutely tragic, seems the construction company got their attorney real fast, hopefully that poor woman’s family does the same and sues them! RIP, taken before her time 🙏
Put down your phone. Look around. It doesn't matter who you blame.
Be safe. Please be aware of your surroundings.
has the offending cylinder been charged with the escape?
Just for you need to know when I have a daughter that lives in Pittsburgh and I don’t know where she is😳… she’s 34 years old May 15… I pray that she is all right.!
Everyone should work on their situational awareness check your surroundings it was most likely easily avoidable. Imagine the noise that thing was making while rolling??
Not a Giant Anvil or Piano?
MAJOR lawsuit coming through.
They fr need to name the whole building after her. What kinda incompetence?????
thats stupid
someone was playing donkey kong
ESCAPED? wth??
No drum roll before announcement?
Sue this university
I am trying to wrap my head around how nobody saw or heard a 2000 pound metal cylinder rolling down the hill.
One warning and this lady might still be alive.
But then again...nobody has any situational awareness anymore and focus and attention to ones surroundings are a thing of the past.
Noses buried in phones and earphones in is all I see in my day to day life.
Go to a popular grocery store. You know how they usually have stop signs for vehicles so people can walk out with their groceries when cars are stopped? I can’t tell you how many people I’ve seen go to the store or from the store with their faces in the phone texting or doing whatever. Add on we have an other of drivers who refuse to stop at these stop signs and I’m amazed no one has been run over or killed yet. I was behind a pickup who stopped at the stop sign when a car came from one of the parking lanes behind me and instead of going behind me and waiting his turn he went around both of us and blew a stop sign and nearly ran over a woman coming out of the store. She was clearly in the intersection with cars stopped from both directions.
I got stuck behind 2 people on the same day and one was in a car who moved to the left lane at the last minute before stopping at a red and when we got our green she was driving about 10mph under the limit and once I FINALLY got around I got stuck behind a very expensive SUV also in the left lane and he was going about 15 or so under the limit. When I finally got around him I saw him holding his phone up in front of his face while driving. Pisses me off especially since I’ve seen 3 fatalities from people texting and driving including when a 16 year old girl was texting and driving and hit another car and the other car was wrapped around the pole. We took the driver to the ER in a helicopter and another helicopter came for the passenger but was cancelled because the passenger died and that passenger was the drivers 12 year old son.
Thats horrible.
Jesus. Does it take over 5 million dollars worth in first response vehicles and crew just for one death? The Swamp is growing.
Thats your biggest problem in life
@@richardmesser1091 , this and Bide/Kamala's inflation.
How does this happen???
Imagine someone at Western Psych yelling about seeing this 😮
That’s so sad and bizarre at the same time
That lady is wrong. It's not unfortunate. It's not random accident. It's negligence
someone really messed up HARD!
and some company will have to *PAY OUT*
Thats some Final Destination stuff right there
Construction company have to pay big money 💸 to family of the victim. I suggest you start with $100 million lawsuit. Hire famous lawyer to sue construction company for big money 💸.
There are only accidents, when all safety and workplace procedures fail. After that, it is negligence and incompetence
Someone is going to get fired and company is going to get sued
Accidents happen because basic safety measures are not followed. Somebody made a mistake.