More than a dozen hurt in industrial blast outside Cleveland

[The Jungle 1]

21. Big Branch mine

CEO and coal baron Don Blankenship ignored safety regulations in his mines because it was cheaper to pay the fines.
29 miners died because of this mans lust for money.
He was convicted and did spend ONE year in jail. 29 died because of his greed, he got ONE year.

Corporate America does not care about us. Repukes will continue to run around and scream we need less regulation.
The fatal work injury rate was 3.6 fatalities per 100,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) workers, up from 3.4 per 100,000 FTE in 2020 and up from the 2019 pre-pandemic rate of 3.5. These data are from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI).
The share of Black or African American workers fatally injured on the job reached an all-time high in 2021, increasing from 11.4 percent of total fatalities in 2020 to 12.6 percent of total fatalities in 2021. Deaths for this group climbed to 653 in 2021 from 541 in 2020, a 20.7-percent increase. The fatality rate for this group increased from 3.5 in 2020 to 4.0 per 100,000 FTE workers in 2021. CFOI.
Corporate America does not care.
UNION NOW!