The second to last paragraph has either a typo or is grammatically incorrect. It says, “OSHA sought prosecution on only 93 percent of those cases. There were only 11 convictions.” Why say ONLY 93%? 93% is almost all of them!! What does this mean? Should “only” be sruck from the sentence, or is the percentage wrong?
Now, saying “only” 11 convictions IS reasonable; that IS ONLY 1%.
In 2002 5,524 people dies due to a workplace death. So the 1,242 referred IN 20 YEARS amounts to nothing.
OSHA’s 20 year period
1,242 fatality cases resulted in employers’ willful violation of OSHA standards, of those only 119 were referred to the Department of Justice.
The Justice Department has won 4 convictions against employers whose willful violations of OSHA standards resulted in a job death.
So in twenty years, if the death count is 109, 500*, only .03% of workplace deaths have ended in convictions. http://www.usmwf.org
My son was killed two weeks after falling through the same skylight his older brother had fallen through and the company continued to scoff at OSHA regulations. US employers have killed far more workers that Saddam or the Taliban. Let’s clean up our own backyard first, going to work shouldn’t be a grave mistake.
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
The second to last paragraph has either a typo or is grammatically incorrect. It says, “OSHA sought prosecution on only 93 percent of those cases. There were only 11 convictions.” Why say ONLY 93%? 93% is almost all of them!! What does this mean? Should “only” be sruck from the sentence, or is the percentage wrong?
Now, saying “only” 11 convictions IS reasonable; that IS ONLY 1%.
Somehow 93% of anything hardly suggests the word “only” should be used.
In 2002 5,524 people dies due to a workplace death. So the 1,242 referred IN 20 YEARS amounts to nothing.
OSHA’s 20 year period
1,242 fatality cases resulted in employers’ willful violation of OSHA standards, of those only 119 were referred to the Department of Justice.
The Justice Department has won 4 convictions against employers whose willful violations of OSHA standards resulted in a job death.
So in twenty years, if the death count is 109, 500*, only .03% of workplace deaths have ended in convictions.
http://www.usmwf.org
My son was killed two weeks after falling through the same skylight his older brother had fallen through and the company continued to scoff at OSHA regulations. US employers have killed far more workers that Saddam or the Taliban. Let’s clean up our own backyard first, going to work shouldn’t be a grave mistake.
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