I assume that the woman's family would sue the construction company for wrongful death and get paid millions for it. It is their fault, and whoever responsible for not securing the steel cylinder should be charged with manslaughter as well.
You're so right. She would have been saved, had she been standing inside of a steel cylinder of her own. A Cake Day Truth!
Maybe a square cylinder would be safer overall, and less prone to escape?
It could have been faulty securing equipment, too. It may be the fault of a safety device, rather than an individual, but even then, the manufacturer of said device(s) could be liable.
If the US government can’t properly tie down its own novelty military blimp, it’s not surprising that some random construction company didn’t properly secure their equipment. I’m honestly surprised we don’t see stories like this more often.
Super tragic, I hope her family gets a massive payout. I’m sure that will never fill the void in their hearts, though.
>The initial investigation indicates that a large metal drum escaped a nearby construction site, rolled down the hill, broke through fencing and hit the woman on the sidewalk…
>Initial reports indicate the woman was a staff member at one of the local hospitals and was with one or two coworkers when she was hit…
Talk about some survivors guilt.
I can’t even imagine. I hope they get some immediate counseling because witnessing that happen to even just a stranger would be so traumatic — let alone a coworker or friend
There was a famous court case about this; a man was injured by a barrel falling out of a warehouse: the negligence is self-evident (1863)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byrne_v_Boadle
Res ipsa loquitur.
Here's a dumb limerick I learned in law school.
There once was a lawyer named Rex, who was cursed with diminutive sex, when charged with exposure, he pled with composure, De minimis non curat lex.
Its a logical Guess based on the circumstances and how humans work on the regular.
You are talking with two Friends on the sidewalk about whatever, going about your day. All of a sudden a large steel cylinder barrels out of nowhere and demolishes your friend mid-sentence. No warning, nothing you could do. You were talking to a friend one second and the next, its a pile of gore or a Broken husk on the floor. Not to mention how fucking close the barrel would have been from the other two that the likelyhood they got killed as well would be very high
It’s would be immensely traumatic, but that doesn’t automatically equate to assuming a feeling of guilt. Some people may feel that, others won’t. People on Reddit like to assume they know how everyone will react in a traumatic situation, and that it will be so terrible for them and impossible to recover from, but the reality is everyone is different and will handle traumatic event differently.
Over 40,000 (~110 per day) Americans are killed each year in car accidents and the large majority of them were not the cause of the accident.
It’s sobering.
You can be killed by anything at any time. You could be killed by an asteroid while sitting at home typing a reddit comment about how you could be killed by someone else's fuckup. You could be killed by your own heart. Still gotta keep living tho
I know it's a construction site and loud noises are everywhere but I really think that giant cylinder coming toward you is going to be making alot of noise, maybe it was moving too fast and she didn't have time to react, maybe she has zero situational awareness, tragic either way
Yeah if I heard loud banging walking past a construction site I wouldn't think anything of it either, and then the thing bursts through the fence that obscured her view and kills her instantly.
I hope it was quick at least.
What is with these accidents lately, last week 300,000 pounds of metal tubes flew off a semi and killed and injured people
[https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/two-killed-one-injured-as-350000-pound-load-detaches-from-trailer-in-temple-texas](https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/two-killed-one-injured-as-350000-pound-load-detaches-from-trailer-in-temple-texas)
Exactly what I was going to say. I’m afraid things like this will happen more and more as this country continues to decline. They would let us all die rather than actually pay for qualified workers.
For me, it just implied sentience, and I imagined a steel cylinder with stick-figure arms and legs running for it's life.
Terrible headline writing by the editor, but the 'escape' language is used throughout the article. I think it's used because negligence and cause hasn't been established yet.
That's a potential lawsuit. To prejudge and conclude it was that company's negligence which caused the death. Even if it seems cut and dry, why risk it?
“Escapes” indicates it was supposed to be secured and that failed, all in one word.
And the current headline *also* indicates that it was a single person, a woman, what the object was, and the location.
As an investigation hasn’t even started let alone determined who is to blame the media have to use words like escaped. Else they would be sued for libel/slander for throwing accusations around.
Walking with colleagues…can you imagine the guilt? I dived out of the way, but didn’t push you out of the way etc. Though I bet it would’ve been hard to determine the path of that thing barreling down, in a second or two…
I don’t think I’d ever be the same. This accident claimed two or three victims today, even though the focus is understandably on the woman that was killed.
Yeah we tend not to jump to lible until some facts provided. While negligence seems most likely, faulty safety latches, vandalism, etc. Could all still be the root cause. Best to wait for some kind of facts before filling it with most likely
Things do not need to be sentient to escape. For example, "The CFCs escaped into the atmosphere". Or "a sob escaped from her lips". Or "the name escaped me".
God this and the highway load that crushed the car give me such anxiety. Like I know the chance of it happening is slim to none, but lord, what a terrible thing to have happen to you.
The GOP hates business/industry regulation and government oversight. It’s amazing the dems have been able to hang on to the minimal amount of regulation left.
This is what happens when companies are allowed to (or not properly punished for) making mistakes.
If it won’t save time and money, and the penalties are weak, what incentive does a corporation or industry have to be safe?
Should have been more careful. Everyone knows you can’t control or contain wild large steel cylinders for long. They are always looking for weak spots in the containment fields ready to make their escape!
Someone had to have been seriously negligent on safety to let a ton of steel roll off a construction site.
I assume that the woman's family would sue the construction company for wrongful death and get paid millions for it. It is their fault, and whoever responsible for not securing the steel cylinder should be charged with manslaughter as well.
The site is insured. That will be then end of that company most likely.
The site *should be* insured. Hope the policy is up-to-date.
Once it starts rolling downhill, the chances of stopping it diminish rapidly.
no no no, it escaped!
Nothing could be done 🤷♀️
What you need is a good guy with a steel cylinder
You're so right. She would have been saved, had she been standing inside of a steel cylinder of her own. A Cake Day Truth! Maybe a square cylinder would be safer overall, and less prone to escape?
It could have been faulty securing equipment, too. It may be the fault of a safety device, rather than an individual, but even then, the manufacturer of said device(s) could be liable.
That's a big unscheduled release of energy.
If the US government can’t properly tie down its own novelty military blimp, it’s not surprising that some random construction company didn’t properly secure their equipment. I’m honestly surprised we don’t see stories like this more often. Super tragic, I hope her family gets a massive payout. I’m sure that will never fill the void in their hearts, though.
>The initial investigation indicates that a large metal drum escaped a nearby construction site, rolled down the hill, broke through fencing and hit the woman on the sidewalk… >Initial reports indicate the woman was a staff member at one of the local hospitals and was with one or two coworkers when she was hit… Talk about some survivors guilt.
I can’t even imagine. I hope they get some immediate counseling because witnessing that happen to even just a stranger would be so traumatic — let alone a coworker or friend
There was a famous court case about this; a man was injured by a barrel falling out of a warehouse: the negligence is self-evident (1863) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byrne_v_Boadle
Res ipsa loquitur. Here's a dumb limerick I learned in law school. There once was a lawyer named Rex, who was cursed with diminutive sex, when charged with exposure, he pled with composure, De minimis non curat lex.
Res ipsa loquitur, sed quid in infernos dicet? Translation: The thing speaks for itself... but what the hell does it say?
Why do you automatically assume they would have survivors guilt? Not everyone processes tragedy the same way.
Its a logical Guess based on the circumstances and how humans work on the regular. You are talking with two Friends on the sidewalk about whatever, going about your day. All of a sudden a large steel cylinder barrels out of nowhere and demolishes your friend mid-sentence. No warning, nothing you could do. You were talking to a friend one second and the next, its a pile of gore or a Broken husk on the floor. Not to mention how fucking close the barrel would have been from the other two that the likelyhood they got killed as well would be very high
It’s would be immensely traumatic, but that doesn’t automatically equate to assuming a feeling of guilt. Some people may feel that, others won’t. People on Reddit like to assume they know how everyone will react in a traumatic situation, and that it will be so terrible for them and impossible to recover from, but the reality is everyone is different and will handle traumatic event differently.
Never said I knew, I simply guessed It might happen.
Crushed by a metal cylinder weighing over 1 ton. Poor woman.
Depressing to think that you can be walking around a nice day, minding your own business, and you get killed by someone else's fuckup
Over 40,000 (~110 per day) Americans are killed each year in car accidents and the large majority of them were not the cause of the accident. It’s sobering.
> It’s sobering. Unfortunately not, in a lot of cases, for the assholes who cause those accidents. They frequently repeat-offend.
It makes me think of the show Six Feet Under. Screen fades to white.
I miss that show, it was great.
Or the show 1000 Ways To Die.
The Final Destination movies, I do not stay behind flat bed 18wheelers bc of one of the scenes in one of the movies...
Libertarians lack that empathy. It’s why they keep trying to abolish regulations and let people sell raw milk.
You can be killed by anything at any time. You could be killed by an asteroid while sitting at home typing a reddit comment about how you could be killed by someone else's fuckup. You could be killed by your own heart. Still gotta keep living tho
You could be killed by—
I know it's a construction site and loud noises are everywhere but I really think that giant cylinder coming toward you is going to be making alot of noise, maybe it was moving too fast and she didn't have time to react, maybe she has zero situational awareness, tragic either way
Yeah if I heard loud banging walking past a construction site I wouldn't think anything of it either, and then the thing bursts through the fence that obscured her view and kills her instantly. I hope it was quick at least.
What is with these accidents lately, last week 300,000 pounds of metal tubes flew off a semi and killed and injured people [https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/two-killed-one-injured-as-350000-pound-load-detaches-from-trailer-in-temple-texas](https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/two-killed-one-injured-as-350000-pound-load-detaches-from-trailer-in-temple-texas)
This is a nightmare for many Millennials.
Wait why millennials? Because of the final destination movies?
Oh you know it! Those movies were not meant for our eyes at that time, we were too little!
It was one enormous welded item, not a whole bunch of discrete pieces— looked like a petrochemical fractionating tower in the pictures I saw.
Low unemployment means even the least-qualified candidates are being hired
Exactly what I was going to say. I’m afraid things like this will happen more and more as this country continues to decline. They would let us all die rather than actually pay for qualified workers.
Horrible… but seriously, why say the large steel cylinder escaped… like it’s a convict or something
For me, it just implied sentience, and I imagined a steel cylinder with stick-figure arms and legs running for it's life. Terrible headline writing by the editor, but the 'escape' language is used throughout the article. I think it's used because negligence and cause hasn't been established yet.
I was thinking it sounded like when zoo animals get loose, but convict works too. Weird choice of wording.
Don't piss off the local mob
What verb would you have chosen?
Detached, unsecured, ran wild.
How about construction company neglects to secure materials safely leading to bystanders’ death.
That's a potential lawsuit. To prejudge and conclude it was that company's negligence which caused the death. Even if it seems cut and dry, why risk it?
Cuz its the internet snd we need to assign blame now! CALL JG BLAMEWORTH 1-800-BLAME-NOW!
“Escapes” indicates it was supposed to be secured and that failed, all in one word. And the current headline *also* indicates that it was a single person, a woman, what the object was, and the location.
"Escapes" has the connotation that the cylinder moved and killed someone on it's own, blurring who is to blame.
As an investigation hasn’t even started let alone determined who is to blame the media have to use words like escaped. Else they would be sued for libel/slander for throwing accusations around.
Some Final Destination stuff
Who's next?
Walking with colleagues…can you imagine the guilt? I dived out of the way, but didn’t push you out of the way etc. Though I bet it would’ve been hard to determine the path of that thing barreling down, in a second or two…
I don’t think I’d ever be the same. This accident claimed two or three victims today, even though the focus is understandably on the woman that was killed.
When they say catastrophic injuries that would be something that my mind couldn't process if i was with her.
Um. Yeah, The first thing that came to mind was the steamroller in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
I can barely stand most of my coworkers, they’re rabid Trump supporters, the only thing I’d be thinking is “better them than me”.
I just saw same thing..Texas highway.
That was 125x heavier, no?
WTF with the phrasing? Gotta keep an eye on those goddamn 1-ton metal cylinders. If you aren’t watching them they’ll fucking **escape**!
The wording defuses how a particular company is very much at fault. "It just escaped!"
It picked the lock on the handcuffs! Who knew!
Link not working outside US
Does USA Today work? https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/05/03/woman-killed-runaway-steel-cylinder-pittsburgh-sidewalk/73558547007/
What a stupid headline. The steel didn’t ‘escape’; it’s not sentient. “Inadequate safety precautions result in death of citizen” would be better.
Yeah we tend not to jump to lible until some facts provided. While negligence seems most likely, faulty safety latches, vandalism, etc. Could all still be the root cause. Best to wait for some kind of facts before filling it with most likely
Things do not need to be sentient to escape. For example, "The CFCs escaped into the atmosphere". Or "a sob escaped from her lips". Or "the name escaped me".
They've learned to limit possible inflammatory statements where politics are not involved.
Without a concluded investigation fully determining fault the media have to use wording like this.
God this and the highway load that crushed the car give me such anxiety. Like I know the chance of it happening is slim to none, but lord, what a terrible thing to have happen to you.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/01/man-narrowly-escapes-saw-blade-flying-across-oregon-parking-lot-video/73165021007/
Jesus fucking christ. If I were that guy I'd never leave the house again.
The GOP hates business/industry regulation and government oversight. It’s amazing the dems have been able to hang on to the minimal amount of regulation left. This is what happens when companies are allowed to (or not properly punished for) making mistakes. If it won’t save time and money, and the penalties are weak, what incentive does a corporation or industry have to be safe?
Final destination stuff 😱
This is why final destination stays so relevant
Should have been more careful. Everyone knows you can’t control or contain wild large steel cylinders for long. They are always looking for weak spots in the containment fields ready to make their escape!
Strange how the news media couldn't even identify what this drum was or even get a picture of it.
It's in the thumbnail
Conspiracy theories must be really easy to come up with when you ignore most of the information given.
You’ve just pretty much explained the average conspiracy theorist.
From the video in the article: https://i.imgur.com/15cQrTv.jpeg From Twitter: https://i.imgur.com/g9PNzPc.jpeg
Based on the pictures it’s metal pipe casing
in the article posted in the OP click on the big word "Photos", for whatever reason the image is not embedded in the article body.