One dead, 4 injured in lake city ammo plant explosion.

[dsdmmat]

One killed, four injured in Lake City Army Ammunition Plant explosion in Independence | The Kansas City Star

 

[Deplorable Me]

 

[Glenn B]

To me it is a sad tragedy when someone in the small arms industry is killed like that. The other four were lucky not to have been badly injured.

 

[Sweetyzfd]

This is a result of dangerous black guns. This is a call for common sense gun laws.

 

[Carlos Hathcock]

Time until anti gun advocates use this story....3...2...1...

 

[Catskillkid]

And just when .22 was becoming reasonable again.

 

[Podmonkey]

According to the article the plant has a history of such incidents. That is not good, they need to come up with better saftey procedures.

 

[gun_slinger_boy]

Damn. Sounds like they've had quite a few very serious accidents.

 

[Podmonkey]

Damn. Sounds like they've had quite a few very serious accidents.

Maybe the powers that be look the other way due it being the place the get much of there own ammo from?

 

[gun_slinger_boy]

Maybe the powers that be look the other way due it being the place the get much of there own ammo from?

Did you see the one comment? Sounds pretty ominous.

 

[Podmonkey]

Did you see the one comment? Sounds pretty ominous.

No, what'd it say?

 

[gun_slinger_boy]

"Sorry to hear as a "Former " employee of many years when safety met something to the other operating contractors of the facility. Sorry to say not the one operating the plant now in my opinion...Many safety concerns I brought to their attention was ignored I'll stop there."

 

[Podmonkey]

"Sorry to hear as a "Former " employee of many years when safety met something to the other operating contractors of the facility. Sorry to say not the one operating the plant now in my opinion...Many safety concerns I brought to their attention was ignored I'll stop there."

Doubtless there is a "crank that ammo out no matter what" mentality in play. Maybe if our government didn't see fit to be perpetually engaged in warfare these unfortunate folks would be in such a constant crunch.

 

[spat]

Doubtless there is a "crank that ammo out no matter what" mentality in play. Maybe if our government didn't see fit to be perpetually engaged in warfare these unfortunate folks would be in such a constant crunch.

A plant like that should be running at 5% or 10% capacity during peacetime at most. Just enough to keep practice ammo available and all the machines and processes in working order.

Right now the employees should be coasting, not being driven hard.

 

[kev74]

A plant like that should be running at 5% or 10% capacity during peacetime at most. Just enough to keep practice ammo available and all the machines and processes in working order.

Right now the employees should be coasting, not being driven hard.

There is no such thing as coasting in manufacturing today. The contracts go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidder cuts corners to maximise profits. The workers get squeezed to do more with less, and safety takes a back seat. When the demand slows, workers get laid off, and those who stay work twice as hard to get stuff done.

I spent 3 years working in a factory production setting. As long as the product gets made, nobody cares how it gets done...until there's an accident.

 

[spat]

There is no such thing as coasting in manufacturing today. The contracts go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidder cuts corners to maximise profits. The workers get squeezed to do more with less, and safety takes a back seat. When the demand slows, workers get laid off, and those who stay work twice as hard to get stuff done.

I spent 3 years working in a factory production setting. As long as the product gets made, nobody cares how it gets done...until there's an accident.

I understand how it *is*, I was describing how it *should be* at a place like lake city.