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Project Supervisor fell asleep driving this morning
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will
Not a good start to the week, Driver fell asleep, woke up over corrected and rolled the truck and trailer. Driver fine due to the fact he was properly wearing his seat belt, passenger had seat belt on but under his arm, busted his ribs, greenhorn in the back seat was laying down sleeping with no seat belt at all on busted his collar bone and dislocated his shoulder, state trooper said the ladder rack probably saved all their lives.
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will
Mike H Said:I agree Mike and yes he is and has always been a good man.He is a 30 year roofer and family man,has never missed a day of work that wasn't planned, and very respected by all in our company, the day of the accident he was checked at the hospital and released but chose to practically camp out at the hospital for two more days till his crew was cleared and released.mastersroofing Said: What are you going to do about a roofing supervisor falling asleep at the wheel? He had two other people that could have driven if he had just said, Im really tired, can one of you drive?. He endangered others. Do you just chalk this up to an unfortunate accident, do you change policies, or do you take action against the supervisor? Im curious. What have you done?Chuck http:www.masterswa.comMasters Roofing Mukilteo
As a steering wheel narcoleptic, you dont always get that warning. We all assume a huge amount of risk every time one of our trucks leaves the shop with a load of employees. If he was a good man before the accident, Ill bet hes a better man after the accident.
This has happened to us, and Im sure glad I didnt take a chunk of the guys arse, cuz hes one of the great ones now.
will
grumpy Said:Grumpy we do have have an existing policy regarding driving, the cause if his lethargy is still unclear at this time, immediately after the accident he was drug tested and passed with flying colors and we dont allow our employees to work more than 8-9 hrs a day, if they have 4-5 hrs of driving to do in a day then they only spend 3-4 hours on the roof that day, we respect our workers and would not push any of our employees that hard no matter what could be gained in profits. Our roofers are treated very well and our employee turnover is practically non existent, the supervisor has been with us a long time, he was honest when he was asked the cause of the accident. But as to why he fell asleep is still unclear at this timemastersroofing Said: What are you going to do about a roofing supervisor falling asleep at the wheel? He had two other people that could have driven if he had just said, Im really tired, can one of you drive?. He endangered others. Do you just chalk this up to an unfortunate accident, do you change policies, or do you take action against the supervisor? Im curious. What have you done?Great point, and I was wondering the same myself. I wonder if you had an existing policy regarding driving. What was the cause of his lethargy? If it was caused by a night out of heavy drinking and this occured, he gets the axe. If he worked 16 hours the day before and only had 3 hours of sleep because he had to be up early to go back to work, then its not his fault IMO.Chuck
grumpy
mastersroofing Said: What are you going to do about a roofing supervisor falling asleep at the wheel? He had two other people that could have driven if he had just said, Im really tired, can one of you drive?. He endangered others. Do you just chalk this up to an unfortunate accident, do you change policies, or do you take action against the supervisor? Im curious. What have you done?Great point, and I was wondering the same myself. I wonder if you had an existing policy regarding driving. What was the cause of his lethargy? If it was caused by a night out of heavy drinking and this occured, he gets the axe. If he worked 16 hours the day before and only had 3 hours of sleep because he had to be up early to go back to work, then it's not his fault IMO.Chuck
robert
I agree with mike, sometimes people know they screwed up do you have an abundance of available roofers in your area? Is he a good employee if so look at the whole picture, long term.
Mike H
mastersroofing Said: What are you going to do about a roofing supervisor falling asleep at the wheel? He had two other people that could have driven if he had just said, Im really tired, can one of you drive?. He endangered others. Do you just chalk this up to an unfortunate accident, do you change policies, or do you take action against the supervisor? Im curious. What have you done?Chuck http:www.masterswa.comMasters Roofing Mukilteo
As a "steering wheel narcoleptic", you don't always get that warning. We all assume a huge amount of risk every time one of our trucks leaves the shop with a load of employees. If he was a good man before the accident, I'll bet he's a better man after the accident.
This has happened to us, and I'm sure glad I didn't take a chunk of the guy's arse, cuz he's one of the great ones now.
spudder1
During one of the Hurricanes we were busy as hell all of our trucks were equiped with 2 way radios which covered from Miami to our Office in Port St lucie, one of our drivers was in a rush that night and was speeding this was noticed by one of our super and he started to squawk at the driver, all of our trucks has governors on them except for this one He was hauling a load of roof tile and was on the way to the dump, the way that I figured out what happened was that the driver dropped the mike on the floor , he went to pick it up and his truck weaved into the other lane, when he tried to correct this the load shifted and rolled this 24 foot truck on its cab, the driver was killed and squashed the truck slip on the asphalt pavement a 1500 plus feet before coming to a stop. I was the first death that we had as a contractor, later we found out that that he was going on a first date and was in a rush
will
Vickie the Boss Said: Praise GOD they are OK! How scary to get that call. Puts a hamper in your production this week.Yes we are very thankful they are ok and no other vehicles were involved, and it will hamper production for several weeks until we replace the truck and Supervisor
will
mastersroofing Said: What are you going to do about a roofing supervisor falling asleep at the wheel? He had two other people that could have driven if he had just said, Im really tired, can one of you drive?. He endangered others. Do you just chalk this up to an unfortunate accident, do you change policies, or do you take action against the supervisor? Im curious. What have you done?Chuck http:www.masterswa.comMasters Roofing Mukilteo
He will be demoted to a technician and all three employees will be written up, the driver for driving negligent and allowing his passengers to not properly wear their seatbelts and the passengers for not properly wearing seat belts. We were four days away from a company wide safety training meeting addressing driver safety as one of many topics
vickie
Praise GOD they are OK! How scary to get that call. Put's a hamper in your production this week.
mastersroofing
What are you going to do about a roofing supervisor falling asleep at the wheel? He had two other people that could have driven if he had just said, "I'm really tired, can one of you drive?". He endangered others. Do you just chalk this up to an unfortunate accident, do you change policies, or do you take action against the supervisor? I'm curious. What have you done?
Chuck http:www.masterswa.comMasters Roofing Mukilteo
Lefty1
That hurts is right.
Glad all the injurys were minor.
tinner666
That hurts. I'm so glad I don't have that issue any more.
Many moons ago, I had the 70 series/style Ford P/U's. A service shop around the corner went to every auction and got them for $75.00, most inoperable. He'd take what he wanted and sell them to me for $75. and drop them in my yard. I'd take a weekend and pull them down to the frame and stack all the parts separately. When a truck got wrecked, I'd take another weekend and reassemble the wrecked truck and it would be back on the road Mon.
Matter of fact, Last week, I donated enough '70ish stuff to a restorer to rebuild two more trucks. :)
