A short, reflective clip from a YouTube video (uploaded/created by Bill Gallagher) in which the speaker recounts attending their first open-casket funeral for a worker killed in the oil field. The narrator describes the emotional impact of seeing the bereaved family, how the event shaped their curiosity about the oil field, and seeded early concerns about workplace safety.
Certainly in the third grade. I'm not thinking, oh, man, I want to get into safety. What is safe? That safety wasn't even a word that came into my mind. What I knew then was that my dad could go to work and not come home like that. I did understand pretty quickly, and it was actually my first funeral that I had ever attended, and it was an open casket, and it was. I just. I remember to this day all those feelings and seeing the faces on my. On my buddy, on. On his face and his family, the wife that he had left behind and. And his daughters. And then, you know, growing up, then seeing that family. Life goes on, right? Unfortunately, life goes on. And so to see that family progress and to patch together what they had left of a family was always impactful on my life. And I was just always curious about, wow, what is the oil field? What is this that people can go to work and die?
