FOR PROFIT INDUSTRY RATHER ACCEPT HUMAN DEATHS THAN SPEND
MONEY AND RESOURCES ON SAFTY!!
One of the
seldom talked about culture of America’s Capitalist System is the acceptance of
human an as a part of the profit and production process!! In other words, in
the production and/or conduct of an enterprise for profit is human deaths or as
it is pleasantly called “Collateral Damage.” Capitalist have calculated
that it cost much more to institute safety measures than to pay for any suite
that may occur from people that are killed or injured from the work they are
assigned to do!
The
history of Capitalism has recorded the following on tha acceptance of death:
- The Cost Of The Panama
Canal:
500 Dead Per Mile (or 48 miles X 500= about 24000 deaths) – Mostly Black
Bajans.
- Suez Canal -. Lesseps forced hundreds of
thousands of Egyptians over a ten-year period of the construction of the
Suez Canal. 120,000 slaves died in the projec
- The Coal Minig Industry records- Coal According to earlier Xinhua
reports, citing safety and mine officials, 4,746 people died in mine
accidents in 2006; 3,786 in 2007; 3,214 in 2008 and 2,631 in 2009. Huang
said his administration closed 21,200 illegal coalmines and slashed the
number of small-scale mining operations from 18,145 to 9,042 over the past
five years.
- Structural Iron works, how many Structural iron and steel workers die
per year? Based on the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data, there
were 18 annual fatalities for Structural iron and steel workers, or
30.3 deaths per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers.
- The Oil industry- Injury Research in the Offshore Oil
and Gas Extraction Industry- During 2003-2008, 648 oil and gas extraction
workers were killed on the job (onshore and offshore, combined), resulting
in an annual fatality rate of 29.1 deaths per 100,000 workers, over seven
times the rate for all US workers. Nearly 11 percent of the industry’s
fatalities occur offshore; during 2003-2008, 69 fatalities occurred among
offshore oil and gas extraction workers. With 23.5 deaths for every 100,000
workers, mining places above industrial fishing, forestry, and
agriculture.
- Diamonds-Gold- THIRTY-SIX thousand, mostly Blacks men have been killed in accidents
on the gold mines since the
beginning of the century. Untold others have died from septicaemia and
other diseases contracted as a result of accidental injury. Many more have
lost limbs or eyes, or have been otherwise disabled. The annual death toll
from accidents on South African mines fluctuates around 800. The figure
for i960 was close to 1,400 because of the Coalbrook disaster of January
21. In Britain the number of deaths from mining accidents seldom exceeds
200 a year.
- Dams- Because large conventional
dammed-hydro facilities hold back large volumes of water, a failure due to
poor construction, natural disasters or sabotage can be catastrophic to
downriver settlements and infrastructure. Dam failures have been some of
the largest man-made disasters in history. The Banqiao Dam failure in
Southern China directly resulted in the deaths of 26,000 people, and
another 145,000 from epidemics. Millions were left homeless. Also, the
creation of a dam in a geologically inappropriate location may cause
disasters such as 1963 disaster at Vajont Dam in Italy, where almost 2000
people died. Smaller
dams andmicro hydro facilities create less risk, but can form continuing
hazards even after being decommissioned. For example, the small Kelly Barnes Dam failed in 1967,
causing 39 deaths with the Toccoa Flood, ten years after its power plant
was decommissioned.
- How many deaths
must occor before a city puts up a traffic light at an intersection-How many children must be killed by
gun owners before the nation will try to legislate some reasonable gun
control??
Dr. J. Alva Scruggs,
BS, MS, MA, EdD
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