Inspections, ergo, no violations, record is good. Perhaps Perry could spend the money in making our jobs safer rather than wasting it on the borders with national Guards which doesn't have any authority. Way to go Perry, be sure to put this on your presidential resume.

that way it's conveniently never anyone's fault. Unless, well, God's?

The deregulation frenzy has cost thousands of families their loved ones. According to the AFL-CIO "In 2012, 4,628 workers were killed on the job in the United States, and an estimated 50,000 died from occupational diseases, resulting in a loss of 150 workers each day from hazardous working conditions. Over the past four years, the job fatality rate has largely been unchanged with a rate of 3.4 deaths per 100,000 workers in 2012."

The news media blithely ignores the negligence and management failures that lead to these terrible tragedies. People would stand up to the corporations and their bought and paid for politicians, they are just ignorant of the fact that the vast majority of these workplace fatalities are preventable.

The market will not correct itself to provide worker protections, as long as it is cheaper to pay the piddling fines and have protection from lawsuits thanks to tort reform.

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Dupont has enough insurance to buy off the families and their lawyers. They have enough political credit to drown any investigations. So they just write it off as cost of doing business

We may as well put the blame of the right company.

That's the smelly stuff put into Propane and Natural Gas to enable you to smell that it's there. Ethyl Mercaptan is also used for the same purpose. It's a lot like Hydrogen Sulfide but not as toxic in small quantities.

I remember an Old Timer that worked in the Oil Patch in Oklahoma. He had two dogs, Ethyl Mercaptan and Methyl Mercaptan. He called them Ethyl and Methyl for short.