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the following news brief has been rated "grim" by me and contains mention of workplace fatality.
caterpillar, inc., a heavy equipment manufacturer who reported 50b USD in revenue and 4.5b USD in profits last year, has been fined 145k USD (less than 0.003% of those profits) by OSHA for wilful negligence after a 39-year-old employee of not even two weeks fell into an iron melter whilst taking a sample and being instantly incinerated. OSHA's final report directly stated that caterpillar's negligence in installing basic safety equipment (a fucking guardrail) to stop people from falling into a vat of ~1100ºC molten metal is the sole cause of the death. caterpillar were, nonetheless, fined barely a fart in the wind for literal actual murder. the cause of death was ruled "thermal annihilation".
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/11/11/dier-n11.html
caterpillar, inc., a heavy equipment manufacturer who reported 50b USD in revenue and 4.5b USD in profits last year, has been fined 145k USD (less than 0.003% of those profits) by OSHA for wilful negligence after a 39-year-old employee of not even two weeks fell into an iron melter whilst taking a sample and being instantly incinerated. OSHA's final report directly stated that caterpillar's negligence in installing basic safety equipment (a fucking guardrail) to stop people from falling into a vat of ~1100ºC molten metal is the sole cause of the death. caterpillar were, nonetheless, fined barely a fart in the wind for literal actual murder. the cause of death was ruled "thermal annihilation".
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/11/11/dier-n11.html