16 Deaths Per Day

Pass this on to friends and family to help protect America's workers.

Sixteen workers are killed a day in the United States because of reckless negligence on the part of their employers. Under existing laws, these employers get a slap on the wrist, or walk away scot-free. Meanwhile, workers who blow the whistle face threats and retaliation at the workplace.

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[pwpg0516]

The laws of our countries haven't been made to protect us but to protect the Corporations... Nobody has realized that we are in the hands of corporate fascism..

But people are so darned stupid and so brainwashed that they believe that because we seek for laws that protect us against these bastards, we are trying to implement socialism in our countries...

[beltanebabe55]

I know nothing about American employment law as I am in the UK but I would love to know if the companies these people work for have them insured with the sort of policy that is mentioned in Michael Moores latest film "Capitalism A love story" I believe it's known as "dead peasant insurance" and it means the company makes a profit from the death of an employee. If that is the case then as the company that is negligent stands to profit from the death of it's employee isn't that Murder?

[Maanchild]

gaddafi should save you if he had the power. or china, first bomb you shithouse in w.c

[doctorpsycho1960]

In addition to everything else, eleven men died on the Deepwater Horizon rig. So far, nobody has even been charged for their deaths.

[TheRevGBones]

Listen to this song

[nilbud]

ONLY in america. No company in the EU would expose itself to the risk of being caught. That's the US, money before everything, horrible place.

[JohnJacobSchmidt]

After watching this, the only question that I can really ask is:

What kind of a disgraceful place (in this case, country) are we running here when these companies are encouraged to put their profit margins above that of PEOPLE'S LIVES!? It's an absolute shame that worker safety isn't the foremost thing on the mind of these companies - regardless of cost to their bottom line. It's an even BIGGER shame that we aren't fining them out of business for this sort of thing.

[JimB621]

You can play with me

[prystalcage]

Some of the comments about CIA and auto accidents seem irrelevant. I think if I worked a place where OSHA inspected and said "You know what that machine needs to be fixed or someone is gonna die...." then if the company is negligent and doesn't fix the problem....well that just doesn't sound like a safe place. 36516 deaths per year that are PREVENTABLE; that is a problem that is fixable, so why not fix it?

[suisenbenjo]

That's what goes through my mind when I see people TEXT MESSAGING while driving.

[l3igcritterstyle]

Auto collisions are also a tragedy when they result in a fatality. I think we'd all like to believe that most of them are not caused by negligence. Whether this is true or not, who knows? I think whether or not a fatality occurs while driving or while at work the point remains, negligent behavior is not good. This life is about eachother. People before profit. Beit in the rat race on the highway or the rat race in commerce.