The stated argument for evacuating the town was that due to ongoing seismic shifts. New fissures were opening regularly, and that these presented an unacceptabl

The stated argument for evacuating the town was that due to ongoing seismic shifts. New fissures were opening regularly, and that these presented an unacceptable danger to public safety. I'm pointing out that it's at best a very convenient omission that the evacuation wasn't happening due to that scenario. Nobody randomly fell into a fissure by accident. That person and others were being directed to work adjacent to and in these fissures. It's an on-the-clock workplace accident due to grossly inadequate safety practices. We're not talking about some obscure inconsequential OSHA rule here. A lot of things have to go systemically wrong to have someone working alone at an unsecured edge without a teather.