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Showing posts with label ignored safety practices. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ignored safety practices. Show all posts
January 14, 2012
The aftermath of a school explosion
January 13, 2012 Science room mishap prompts HAZMAT response at David Douglas High
January 13, 2012 Science room mishap prompts HAZMAT response at David Douglas High
August 12, 1985 Science Class...
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close:The aftermath of a school explosionNYTIMES Magazine, February 27, 2005. "The Rescue Artist," by Deborah Solomon. Below is an excerpt from an article about Jonathan Safran Foer, Author of Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.… "Astoundingly, he insists that his development as a writer was shaped less by his parents and by his genetic endowments, less even by the novelists and poets he loves, than by a single event: the Explosion, as he calls it. ...
[His email] began: “Firstly, let me say that these are, quite literally, the first words I’ve ever written about this. Ever. Literally not a single world.” Foer told me later that he had composed the message at home, at the desk in his cluttered basement workshop, his thin face streaked with tears. The letter recounted, in some detail, the event that split the idyll of his childhood in two: the years before Aug. 12, 1985, and the years after.
That bright Monday morning began innocently enough. Foer, a boy of 8, was attending a summer program at Murch Elementary, a pubic school not far from his home. The first lesson of the day was a chemistry project, and in an act of nearly unbelievable carelessness, the teacher laid out bowls of combustible materials. The goal was to make sparklers...
Read more: The aftermath of a school explosion
Includes The Washington Post article: $11 Million Awarded for Boy Burned in School Lab
September 02, 2011
May 20, 2011
...intimidated workers who raised safety issues...
Massey Energy Co. ignored well-established safety practices, intimidated workers who raised safety issues and used its clout to exert political influence and resist regulation. From the report: “Such total and catastrophic systemic failures can only be explained in the context of a culture in which wrongdoing became acceptable…It is only in the context of a culture bent on production at the expense of safety that these obvious deviations from decades of known safety practices make sense.”Persistent black lung, old scourge of coal, found in autopsies of most Massey miners. Autopsies of the 29 men killed in last year’s explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia revealed a surprising fact: Most had coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, better known as black lung , a deadly disease that U.S. authorities have been vowing to eradicate for more than 40 years. Center for Public Integrity
http://www.iwatchnews.org/
Report Faults Massey in Miners' Deaths
A 13-month independent investigation into the coal-mine explosion that killed 29 Massey Energy Co. workers last year concluded that the accident could have been prevented and was primarily the result of the company's failed safety systems, which federal and state regulators failed to correct. The 120-page report by J. Davitt McAteer, the top mine regulator during the Clinton administration, is the first comprehensive account of the worst U.S. coalmining disaster in 40 years, which occurred at Massey's Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal, W.Va., on April 5, 2010.
The Wall Street Journal [Author Kris Maher]
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