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WilliamPitt

(58,179 posts) Tue Jul 8, 2014, 04:42 PM Jul 2014

OSHA goes all Medieval on Freedom Industries...y'know, or not. Like, at all. [View all]

So, yeah, remember Freedom Industries? The West Virginia coal company that dumped thousands of gallons of poison into the Elk River, obliterating the drinking supply of some 300,000 people for weeks on end? The company that declared bankruptcy after the spill to make themselves judgment-proof? Our friends at OSHA (the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration, a.k.a. your tax dollars at work) finally lowered the boom on them, vis a vis a stiff fine for their deplorable behavior.

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...$11,000

Not The Onion.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Bargain_Basement

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OSHA goes all Medieval on Freedom Industries...y'know, or not. Like, at all. [View all] WilliamPitt Jul 2014 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author Adam051188 Jul 2014 #1

WTF Autumn Jul 2014 #2

Did OSHA miss the secret bankruptcy. GeorgeGist Jul 2014 #3

If it had been $11K per DAY.............. CaliforniaPeggy Jul 2014 #4

Strangely enough, that's an appropriate OSHA fine jmowreader Jul 2014 #5

Amazingly, I doubt anybody will read your post, even though it's the most reasoned response MohRokTah Jul 2014 #8

Smaller guvmint! Less regerlations! Freeeeedum! progressoid Jul 2014 #6

Is there a case for bankruptcy piercing the corporate veil? dickthegrouch Jul 2014 #7