Houston, TX — August 26, 2022, Edderick Penton was killed following an accident where porcelain slabs reportedly fell on him.
Statements from authorities say the incident happened at around 2:15 p.m. on a work site at 2135 Highway 6 South. Details suggest 30-year-old Edderick Penton was in a trailer cleaning up porcelain that broke during transit. While doing so, an A-frame holding slabs collapsed, and a slab landed on Penton. Edderick Penton sustained fatal injuries due to the accident. No other injuries were reported.
Commentary by Attorney Michael Grossman
Most recent statements from OSHA clearly said that “the slabs were not stored in a secure manner to prevent them from falling.” If true, that could explain what went wrong here. But the real question the victim’s loved ones deserve answers to is why that happened. People that don’t work in these industries often shake their head at workers who appear to be flouting safety rules or working without proper equipment.
As much as that happens, folks that do these difficult, thankless jobs know that it’s often employers that fail to provide workers with proper safety equipment, don’t provide supervision on work sites, and otherwise fail to take the well-being of their own employees into consideration. Perhaps whatever employer was involved here did all they could, but clearly there were shortcomings here, and it’s important to make sure those shortcomings are addressed before more people get hurt.
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