— from Bev Madan —
OPALCO Substation Technician Bob Belcher, who was injured August 13, 2014 while on the job on San Juan Island, has been released from Harborview Medical Center and is recovering at home.
As a dedicated member of our OPALCO team, we wish him and his family the very best toward a speedy recovery.
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This is the second injury to an Opalco employee in less than year.
I hope OPALCO and the IBEW is getting to bottom of this and will improve the safety culture at OPALCO.
I have no interest in criticizing anyone! I just hope that all our wonderful OPALCO employees are safe and healthy. They do such an amazing job going out there facing the danger in the middle of the night when the rest of us are snug in our beds! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Merry
I hope no thinks I was critical of anyone! I was pointing out that two injuries in less than a year that require treatment at Harborview is two too many!
Labor and Management have to really get together to find out why these are happening and what can be changed in the working conditions that led to these two injuries, so that they never happen again.
Being thanked is very nice, going home to your family every night is even nicer!