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Past experience with industrial accidents is that fines for safety violations resulting in death is a few ten thousand dollars. No one goes to prison ever, eve
by HarryHirsch 11y ago
Past experience with industrial accidents is that fines for safety violations resulting in death is a few ten thousand dollars. No one goes to prison ever, even if the omissions that caused the incident were grave. Here is a report on the fallout from an incident that caused four deaths and much head-shaking in the chemical engineering community: http://cenblog.org/the-safety-zone/2015/05/osha-fines-dupont-for-methyl-mercaptan-deaths/ http://cenblog.org/the-safety-zone/2015/05/osha-fines-dupont...
With that background, your faith in the system is touching but unwarranted.