For those of you who don’t see the value of government regulation, read this. Some companies will happily trade safety for profits.
When you “let the market decide,” good people die.
The owner of the West Virginia coal mine where an explosion killed 29 men last year kept two sets of books on safety conditions – an accurate one for itself and a sanitized one for the government, federal regulators said Wednesday.
Managers at Massey Energy pressured workers at the Upper Big Branch mine to omit safety problems from the official set of reports, said Mine Safety and Health Administration official Kevin Stricklin. Workers told investigators that the company wanted to avoid scrutiny from inspectors and keep coal production running smoothly.