Dangerous Business: A Workplace in Turmoil--At a Texas Foundry.... David Barstow and Lowell Bergman.
by Barstow, David; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 42Business. Publisher: New York Times, 2003ISSN: 1522-3191;.Subject(s): Corporations -- Corrupt practices | Foundries | Foundry workers | Hazardous occupations | Industrial accidents | Industrial safety | McWane Inc | Occupational mortality | TexasDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Since 1995, at least 4,600 injuries have been recorded in McWane foundries, many hundreds of them serious ones, company documents show. Nine workers...have been killed. McWane plants, which employ about 5,000 workers have been cited for more than 400 federal health and safety violations, far more than their six major competitors combined." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article examines the hazards that can occur when "safety programs, environmental controls, even the smallest federally mandated precautions...has been subordinated to production, to the commandment to keep the pipe rolling off the line."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Dangerous Business: A Workplace in Turmoil--At a Texas Foundry..., Jan. 8, 2003; pp. A1+.
"Since 1995, at least 4,600 injuries have been recorded in McWane foundries, many hundreds of them serious ones, company documents show. Nine workers...have been killed. McWane plants, which employ about 5,000 workers have been cited for more than 400 federal health and safety violations, far more than their six major competitors combined." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article examines the hazards that can occur when "safety programs, environmental controls, even the smallest federally mandated precautions...has been subordinated to production, to the commandment to keep the pipe rolling off the line."
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