Jun 29, 2006

News: Worker Flips Wrong Switch Costing Company Millions

Nova Chemicals Corp. will likely lose $11 million in profit when a worker at a major Ontario plastics plant flipped the wrong switch, causing a process shutdown. The switch was supposedly a safety mechanism and investigations are still underway to determine the exact cause of it being triggered.

I don’t know about you, but I’d label the emergency shutdown switch better. Maybe put one of those clear plastic covers over it with yellow stripes along the sides like they do in the movies. I did check and the worker responsible was not named “Homer”.

File that under Doh!

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