Terribly sad to lose one's life at such an early age. My condolences to his family and friends.

I don't post comments but tonight I somehow felt compelled to post something.

My condolences are to the family and the community affected by this tragedy.

I've worked around the world in the offshore oil and gas industry and have seen many forms of safety measures put in place to help reduce and or hopefully eliminate disasters like this from happening. The Government of the Bahamas needs to wake up and adopt some of the measures used by other countries such as the UK, Canada, Europe etc... If they want to either be taken seriously or protect the well-being workers. Especially in industrial environments.

Nevertheless the questions I feel need to be raised from this accident are

1: Where was the safety inspector who signed off on this?
2: Was the crane sufficient for the dedicated lift?
3: Was the crane and lifting equipment associated with the lift tested and rated?
4: Was the operated trained to notice defects and potential dangers?
5: Who was in charge of the manouvere
6: If these questions can't be answered why not? Where is the chain of accountability? Someone is to be held responsible.

I can sit here and create a list of at least 100 more questions that would typically be asked by any inspector in one of the countries listed above.

I hope that the family or community will put pressure on the government to reduce or eliminate similar accidents like this aren't replicated.

Very, very sad. The Bahamas has lost a good young man.

Years ago Road traffic would check vehicle headlights for the offset to the left, especially important as most vehicles imported from the U.S. have the headlights offset to the right.
Why? specifically not to blind on coming cars. Such a simple thing, long since fallen by the wayside, along with so many other criteria for public safety.
Inspection of scaffolding, cranes, Communication towers, the list is endless.
Spalling concrete on Government buildings, vehicle emissions, especially commercial.

The only problem now is that the majority of modern vehicle headlights cannot be aimed or adjusted like they used to in the round/square headlight days. You probably would not be able to get a single US spec vehicle imported into this country with the modern flush form fitted headlights, you couldn't repoint them for left hand use.

This is a tricky family affair on the Out Islands ........ They will grieve, bury the boy and go on as if nothing happened ......... There will probably be NO charges brought against the operator of the derelict truck ............... There is NO inspection standards of most heavy equipment in this country ....... Once the engine starts, these pieces of junk will be used ....... Until something like this happens ....... Happy New Year to all and go to church.