Basher of Obama and OHSA has tragic accident.

[Half-Century Man]

Last edited Fri May 23, 2014, 07:52 AM - Edit history (1)

During the 2012 presidential campaign, Wisconsin businessman Lance Johnson said President Barack Obama's workplace safety inspectors were burdening him and killing jobs with too much red tape.

As reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a "catastrophic failure" of machinery sprayed molten metal on workers, injuring eight and sending four of them to the hospital. According to a statement from Johnson issued Tuesday, the molten metal hit workers on their legs and backs. None of the injuries were life-threatening.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/21/johnson-brass-obama-osha_n_5368316.html


As the company in question is the Johnson Brass & Machine Foundry Inc, it is likely that molten brass was sprayed. Brass has a relatively low melting point and temperature range to keep it molten for injection molding (1652 to 1724 °F) [metal was sprayed, ergo it was under pressure]. I worked in industry for 25+ years and saw OSHA inspections gradually get further and further apart as their funding was slowly stripped away. As of 2004 or so, the only way I know an OSHA inspection team would come to a place of business would be repeated complaints. I might be wrong about this, I am speaking from personal observation.

[TxVietVet]

1. I worked in Saukville at a Charter Wire factory when it remodeled.

You hear clowns like Johnson whine because it catches him and his management cutting corners and preparing to create a disaster like this. It's too bad his workers had to suffer.

I don't know what went on but I'll take a guess and say some one wanted the process done faster which is not necessarily safer and this is the end result.

Profit. It's all about profit.

One thing good about Wisconsin is when there is an industrial accident the first responder is usually a police officer. They tend to find the cause right off the bat before management has time to tell the workers what to say.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Faster, or. . .

. . .someone thought a makeshift modification instead of a full blown repair (requiring a shutdown) would be just fine.

That happens all the time too.
GAC

[BootinUp]

2. 1652 to 1724 F that is glowing red fucking hot.

keep that shit away from my skin please.

I always like the line in the movie Ronin where one character asks DeNiro if he is worried about saving his skin...and DeNiro replies something like....yes I am, it covers my body.

[JimDandy]

3. BUSINESS that bashed Obama's OSHA

Just Had Horrifying Industrial Accident" is the actual title of the article, but you knew that.

We don't need any James OKeefe type editing on DU.

[Half-Century Man]

4. I write my own titles for my posts, and try to avoid plagiarism issues.

What I read from the article was
The human being who runs the business named after him or his family, publicly complained about the OSHA inspections and fines he saw as disruptive and costly to his business.

Businesses can not speak. They can not form opinions. They exist as a legal abstraction of a person for the purposes of entering into contracts and paying taxes. Businesses are a collection of possessions bound together in court to be used to generate profit. They may be owned by a single person or multiple persons.
The people associated with a business can speak, opine, follow religion, and say things on political matters which later make them look bad.

I stand by my title. If it offends you, feel free to show it to Admin. I think they will side with me.

[JimDandy]

8. The business and it's employees sustained the accident

Your title was misleading as it made it appear that Mr Johnson sustained the accident. Quoting only the article's first paragraph and then selectively editing out the all important second paragraph added to that.

That it happened at Mr. Johnson's business after he made those comments was comeuppance enough. It's tiring to see misleadingly edited material, whether it's done by Fox, O'Keefe or here on DU.

[ananda]

5. Acronym police says it's OSHA

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

[Half-Century Man]

7. Thank you

Corrected

[TBF]

6. I love these 2 lines at the end of the story-

Through a spokesman, The Huffington Post asked Johnson if he still believed OSHA regulation was too burdensome. He had no immediate response.

According to OSHA records, Johnson's company was hit with proposed penalties of $9,638 for exposing workers to apparent hazards in 2011.

Despite his protestations I would hazard a guess Johnson is more concerned about his bottom line than the safety of rank and file workers.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. To Be Fair. . .

. . .which may be what you screenname stands for, all companies are more interested in the bottom line than worker safety, it's just that some of them resist their baser instincts and do the right things to protect people anyway.

The problem isn't caring about the bottom line, it's about the inability to do the right thing and live with the condquences to the bottom line.

It's a license to do business the right way. Unfortunately, as the regulation gets diluted more and more, there is nobody to revoke the license.

[TBF]

11. Nope - TBF has a different meaning entirely

but a few folks have guessed that.

It is true that capitalism promotes this mentality of bottom line before worker safety. I can't argue with that.