Electric Boat worker hit the wrong button, report says
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NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- The Electric Boat worker who died July 1 at the Quonset Point submarine plant had left his hard hat in one end of a transport vehicle and tried to squeeze through the hangar door to retrieve it, a police report released Tuesday said. The police report said Ritchie A. Morse, 31, had been moving a section of submarine with a transport device that has a cab on either end. An Electric Boat spokesman last week identified the machine as a Scheuerle. From the transporter's front cab, Morse pulled the submarine section outside. It started to rain, so Morse used the rear cab to pull the submarine section back in and out of the weather. About 20 feet of the transporter remained outside the hangar doors, with about a foot of clearance between the door and the vehicle, the report said, Morse realized he had forgotten his hard hat in the front cab, witnesses told police. Unable to squeeze through the small space between the door and the transport, he pushed a button intending to open the door but instead hit the button to close it. The hangar door jerked closed, the report said, crushing his head against the transporter. He was buried Monday at Quidnessett Memorial Cemetery in North Kingstown. 
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With respect to the deceased, I don't think a hard hat would have prevented his death. According to the report, "crushing his head against the transporter."
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I agree. However, it seems (in this case) the hard hat actually caused the accident and (subsequently) his death. Kind of ironic.
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I cant believe that you just cant let this go and let my family deal with his death..But no you have to keep on going on about his death..Man have a heart for once in your lifetime..
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