Congress Urged to Make Workplace Deaths Due to Employer Negligence a Felony
National News • April 29, 2004
A man whose son was killed 11 years ago in a gruesome workplace accident in Florida urged Congress this week to give prosecutors the threat of felony convictions against employers whose neglect ...
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Subject: RE: workplace deaths
Posted On: July 27, 2004, 1:28 pm CDT
Posted By: Tammy Miser
Comment:
Yes, you are correct. I tried to go back and correct my mistakes, but unfortunately I ran out of time and patients.
You see I have lost a young brother due to a workplace death. The out come seven serious violations with maximum penalties. WITH NO JUDICIAL REFERRAL. Although they know the dangers of Aluminum dust IOSHA felt they were not knowing killing. Which should have been up to the courts but since you can not sue an employer in Indiana they get off scott free no workman's comp because he was not married just an agreement between OSHA and Hayes Lemmerz (which this company is know for it's violations, they use the pick em and pay em method). Why because it is cheaper to kill someone than it is to fix a problem!
I have to say I did the same as all before me I trusted in the government to do the right thing. But unfortunately we can take legal action for hot coffee, unkind words, harming ourselves (smoking) and injuring or killing animals. When it comes to human lives the system pushes the papers and shrugs it off to the point that these things and many others out weigh a death.
The employer gets a big thumbs up and the family is left to pick up the pieces.
http://www.usmwf.org
Subject: RE: workplace deaths
You see I have lost a young brother due to a workplace death. The out come seven serious violations with maximum penalties. WITH NO JUDICIAL REFERRAL. Although they know the dangers of Aluminum dust IOSHA felt they were not knowing killing. Which should have been up to the courts but since you can not sue an employer in Indiana they get off scott free no workman's comp because he was not married just an agreement between OSHA and Hayes Lemmerz (which this company is know for it's violations, they use the pick em and pay em method). Why because it is cheaper to kill someone than it is to fix a problem!
I have to say I did the same as all before me I trusted in the government to do the right thing. But unfortunately we can take legal action for hot coffee, unkind words, harming ourselves (smoking) and injuring or killing animals. When it comes to human lives the system pushes the papers and shrugs it off to the point that these things and many others out weigh a death.
The employer gets a big thumbs up and the family is left to pick up the pieces.
http://www.usmwf.org