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An experience working at BMW factory

This happened around 3-4 years ago. I was working in the body shop, keep in mind this company makes billions per year. A older worker in his 50s-60s get hit by a forklift, he gets thrown maybe 5-10 feet away and is laying in middle of aisles in pain blocking “work traffic – forklifts, buggies bringing parts to lines, etc”. The emt staff at bmw get called and they get there maybe 5-10 mins later, a supervisor makes them move him “safely” out of the way so that work can resume and the vehicles can get through. The man ended up returning to work 2 or 3 weeks later and was fine, however that is one of the moments I realized these factories do not value someone’s life whatsoever, they had no reason at all to move him. 1-2 years before that, a subcontractor in the paint shop got killed…


This happened around 3-4 years ago. I was working in the body shop, keep in mind this company makes billions per year. A older worker in his 50s-60s get hit by a forklift, he gets thrown maybe 5-10 feet away and is laying in middle of aisles in pain blocking “work traffic – forklifts, buggies bringing parts to lines, etc”. The emt staff at bmw get called and they get there maybe 5-10 mins later, a supervisor makes them move him “safely” out of the way so that work can resume and the vehicles can get through. The man ended up returning to work 2 or 3 weeks later and was fine, however that is one of the moments I realized these factories do not value someone’s life whatsoever, they had no reason at all to move him. 1-2 years before that, a subcontractor in the paint shop got killed (squished by a car) , and work in that area was shut down for that day. If they could have, they would have made people continue working.

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