The Working Wounded

The OSHA was put in place to protect workers but is staggeringly ineffective. These 341,000 workers who died on the job were someone's son, daughter, mother, father, husband, wife, relative or friend. I found this article very disturbing.

In the 38 years since Congress enacted the Occupational Safety and Health Act, only 68 criminal cases have been prosecuted, or less than two per year, with defendants serving a total of just 42 months in jail. During that same time, approximately 341,000 people have died at work, according to data compiled from the National Safety Council and the Bureau of Labor Statistics by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Read more...