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161st YEAR • NO. 184 DECEMBER 1, 2015 CLEVELAND, TN 16 PAGES • 50¢ County road worker dismissed due to accident By BRIAN GRAVES of both legs of an employee. department to have committed a “seri- to be placed in all department vehicles parked in front of the department Banner Staff Writer That employee was Debra Norton ous” violation, citing a failure “to provide for use behind tires when the vehicles garage. Jenkins, who is also the sister of Road employees with the necessary safety are parked. Droke stated he did not remember in The Bradley County Road Department Superintendent Sandra Knight Collins. training required before operating a The department also received training which gear he had left the truck. employee who last drove a truck before Another employee, Ted Dobbs, was motor vehicle and [finding the depart- from the Bradley County EMA on Oct. A series of five tests was performed on it backed over two other employees has with Jenkins in a raised garden and was ment] failed to protect employees from 12 on “How To Park A Vehicle.” the truck’s braking system on Aug. 4 by been terminated from his position at the also hit by the truck, but suffered no the recognized hazards associated with TOSHA closed the case on Oct. 13. Hank Plain, TOSHA representative and department. reported severe injuries. small dump trucks or similar medium- During the investigation, Droke gave a investigator, and an unidentified James Droke was terminated from his As reported in Sunday’s edition of the duty trucks.” statement of events saying he did not employee. position on Nov. 5, following a depart- Cleveland Daily Banner, an investigation The county was notified of the viola- remember if he had applied the parking The tests were as documented by ment internal investigation into the Aug. by the Tennessee Occupational Safety tion on Sept. 10, after which the depart- gear when he came in for lunch, but 3 accident which led to the amputation and Health Administration found the ment reported it had purchased chocks noted the truck was in gear when it was See WORKER, Page 16 Utility water meter " #%%#&