Guilty! Successful homicide prosecution against company that killed two workers in Arizona.
Why should an employer who sends a worker to his death in an unmonitored confined space or an unprotected 12-foot deep trench not be prosecuted under a felony as opposed to the Occupational Safety and Health Act, where the maximum penalty for willfully killing a worker is a misdemeanor with a maximum of six months in jail? They should be so charged. The author deplores merely waiting for Congress to increase OSHA penalties.
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