Precious Time: The Cody McNolty Story | WorkSafeBC

This made me want to go hug my dad and tell him I love him. I can't imagine the pain Cody went through. I'm glad he's not eating himself up with blame over not being there sooner. No way he could've known.

The safety director at my job told us that we should watch this, but also said that she couldn't show us due to language. (my work place had a no swearing policy). I'm glad I looked this up and wish that we were able to show this at work. It really nails what NOT to do.

Great video, shows the importance of a pre-entry check with a multi-gas detector and attached to any personnel whilst working in any confined space

An excellent depiction of how seemingly innocent locations, places people have been working in many times before without a problem, can become deadly. Simple oxidisation in enclosed and partially enclosed spaces is something easily overlooked. Well Done Worksafe BC.

So many people can't act blue collar situations well. These guys killed it, at least in my experience.

One of the best videos out there for confined space. Sad for the family though. I recommend this video for ALL safety personnel and workers.

Education is the key to understanding.

I had to find out more information on this story bc the video left a lot of gaps and questions that weren't answersed. I think it's misleading and deceptive to attribute this to confined spaces alone without also explaining why the men collapsed. So I read up on the story and there wasn't any chemicals or gasses down in the compartment that immobilized the workers. According to their analysis, the compartment which had been sealed for 3 years was rusting and since there was no ventilation or no proper ventilation, the rusting process used up the oxygen inside the compartment bringing the concentration down to less than 16%. The other compartments were ventilated and when tested they showed an O2 concentration of 20.9-21% which would not have impaired the workers had they been in any other confined space on the barge. If something had happened to father in another compartment, the son would have been adequately able to go for help but because there's was little oxygen and he stayed with his father so long, each breath he took brought him close to passing out. So that is the reason his father died and the workers passed out. It wasn't chemicals or gasses, it was lack of oxygen due to the poor or lack of ventilation of a rusting compartment that consumed the available oxygen while it was sealed.

Thank you WSBC/Cody.

Wow, what a great safety film.

Confined space awareness video thanks

From what I understand a lot of these shipboard confined spaces are extra nasty because the motherfucking hatches are often difficult or sometimes even impossible to fit through with breathing gear on. So sometimes even people who know they need the gear will go in without it, underestimating how fast the problem will affect them, or figuring they can work fast enough. So, in addition to worker training and equipment provision, I think there also needs to be a hatch retrofit program. If something is being scrapped, cut a bigger hole on principle.

I wanna hug my dad now 😢

This video was uploaded 17 years ago. Wild.

I don't go anywhere when a string base or a cello is playing.

I am a volunteer firefighter and i can be proposed for anything at anytime

If they fail to watch this because they are too dainty then I guess that would be Darwin at work.

It would have been good to tell the viewer what gas was there and why it accumulated down there and further led to the tragic loss of the elderly gentleman.

Is there a shorter term for this type of situation? When an enclosed space has low oxygen due to whatever?

Wish I had a dad.