Despite several notices sent out to all residents about broken glass and uncapped syringes in trash bags, we had an incident this morning where one of our maintenance guys received a 2″-2 \/12″ cut on his leg because a homeowner put broken glass into a plastic trash bag. Common sense would indicate that broken glass should be contained in a manner so as not to injure another person and failing to do so is willful negligence.\u00a0 The homeowner admitted they put glass in the bag, something they normally would not do.<\/p>\n
As a reminder, all broken glass, bottles, window panes, mirrors or other broken and jagged glass materials MUST be in a box that is securely taped closed<\/span>.<\/strong> We have sent out sufficient warnings; any further instances of broken glass in plastic trash bags will result in an appropriate fine to the responsible party.<\/p>\n If this was not bad enough, from the very same street where the broken glass in the trash bag originated, we had another trash bag with 5 or 6 uncapped syringes and needles<\/strong> used with Insulin pens. This is also negligent and one of the guys got stuck by an uncapped syringe.<\/p>\n I am diabetic and I understand the concept of a bio-hazard. Not only do I cap all of my used syringes\/pen needles, I also put them in a coffee can and secure the lid. It is the reasonable and responsible thing to do. And yet, we have had several instances of our residents not even bothering to put the cap back on the sharp end. This is a Health and Safety violation and can result in fines pursuant to Texas Property Code, Section 209.006.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite several notices sent out to all residents about broken glass and uncapped syringes in trash bags, we had an incident this morning where one of our maintenance guys received a 2″-2 \/12″ cut on his leg because a homeowner put broken glass into a plastic trash bag. Common sense would indicate that broken glass..<\/p>\n
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