The price of a worker's life in America: Caterpillar fined only $145,000 for willfully ignoring safety requirements causing a man to fall to his death in a vat of molten iron

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[–]Countach_3D[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

For comparison, the $145,027 fine is > 0.003% of Caterpillar's $4.5 billion profit last year - less than half the price of a medium-sized bulldozer, less than two days' pay for their CEO.

[–]Countach_3D[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

lol a fucking bulldozer is worth more than a human life (two human lives!)

[–]Musky 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That is a very metal way to die.