So I’m posting for my husband because we just don’t know what to do regarding this situation. He works in the industrial maintenance field with big machinery. Last Monday a fellow employee threw a large tool, weighing a solid 5 lbs, at another employee. It didn’t hit them luckily but only because it hit a piece of equipment before reaching them. The piece of equipment the tool hit was 25-30 feet away from the offender and would have made it the extra few feet to the potential victim if it hadn’t been blocked. This would have been a serious injury if it had made contact. The offender was back at work the next few days then out Thursday and Friday. Then back at work again today (Monday). We don’t know if being out those days was some kind of suspension or if he called out as he’s been known to do after he’s lost his temper at work before. All other outbursts have been verbal, this was the first physical altercation. But to us, this seems like grounds for immediate termination especially with previous incidents taken into consideration. Plus the fact that they fail to perform their job satisfactorily in general, ie taking a month to complete a job that takes other techs a week to do, having equipment sent back from customers often because they still aren’t working properly, and machines having to be torn down and rebuilt before ever leaving the shop because they don’t pass inspection. This person just makes the job miserable for everyone they work with and has been reprimanded before but you’d think this would have been the final nail in their coffin. What actions, if any, can be taken to ensure something is done about this? At this point it doesn’t seem like the company is going to be doing any thing further regarding their other employees concerns and safety. My husband loves this job and the flexible hours it provides outside of the drama surrounding this one employee.