Auntie Charo's Soapbox

The death yesterday at the Imperial Hotel on the way to Ypao Beach was totally preventable for that Puerto Rican(the man was from PR according to KUAM news) man who was water blasting the hotel which supposedly changed owners recently. According to KUAM, J&G Construction(which I thought would know better) had the men doing water blasting on the building on a cherry picker.....only problem being, the CP is made of metal........the metal touched the power wires, the man was electrocuted, the man bounced some four storeys down, a fellow employee ran to help him and received shocks himself.
It pains me to write this because one person is dead and another is in pain.....but how many times have we driven past sites where people work near power lines who work with loud colored plastic forms which protect the worker from power lines while they're working near the lines? Daily, people work around power lines and live to tell about it.
When J&G Construction sent these employees to the job site with the cherry picker truck, were they told not to raise the platform near or around any power lines? There'll be all sorts of OHSA investigations............unfortunately, it'll be too late for the dead man............the common sense advice that should have been given, and taken, is a day late......and what should've/could've will probably be carried out in some court.