Corporate crime

January 10, 2003 10:26 PM

DANGEROUS BUSINESS (NYT) In plant after plant, year after year, McWane workers have been maimed, burned, sickened and killed by the same safety and health failures. "The current law is inadequate to deal with serious violators, repetitive violators, situations where people are put at risk day after day," said Charles N. Jeffress, who headed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the late 1990's.
posted by semmi (3 comments total)

I passed on this series the first time around until I saw the NY Times writer interviewed on either CNN or Fox or one of the other TV news shows. Then I went and checked it out. It's pretty horrific. If the article wasn't so credible you wouldn't believe this could happen in the US.
posted by vito90 at 10:29 PM on January 10, 2003

c'mon Semmi. That's just lazy. I mean, it's not only a double, but on the same day, just eight posts lower? Jeez.
posted by jonson at 10:32 PM on January 10, 2003

this was on Frontline last night . . .
posted by _sirmissalot_ at 10:52 PM on January 10, 2003