Industrial Accidents and Mishaps

[PsihoKekec]

Let's face it, they have been increasing the last few years. One of the biggest reasons is managerialism, in order for numbers to look good in quarterly reports to share holders, expenses like maintenance get continuously slashed, outsourced to outside contractors - usually the cheapest ones. The lack of investment into training of skilled workers (we can find skilled workers on elsewhere) means that once the old geezers running the legacy equipment retire, there is no one replacing them as everyone is poaching from the same - ever shrinking pool. Not to mention saving money on reducing maintenance altogether, by increasing maintenance intervals by the contractors. Not to mention that replacing skilled workers with 70 IQ illegal immigrants who don't speak your language is bound to result in fun times.

And don't get me started on breaking the supply chains during the kung-flu, for things like spare parts and industrial lubricants, specialist hydraulic fluids...

The most recent one:

PLAQUEMINE, Louisiana -- A fire at a Louisiana chemical plant triggered explosions that shook homes several miles away and sent flames and smoke billowing into the air, prompting emergency officials to urge a few hundred nearby residents to shelter indoors for several hours and to turn off their air conditioners.

Flames erupted late Friday at Dow Chemical's plant on the Mississippi River near Plaquemine, south of Baton Rouge. Iberville Parish officials told The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate that the fire started in an area of the plant that handles ethylene oxide, a flammable and toxic chemical.

Residents near Dow Chemical plant in Louisiana ordered to stay inside after several explosions

This is a factory that makes amongst other things precursor chemicals for HE fillings and due to recent war-related developments they increased production, beyond what they could do safely it seems.

 

[Cherico]

we will learn a lot of lessons the hard way lessons that will be taught in future business courses about what not to do.

 

[bintananth]

we will learn a lot of lessons the hard way lessons that will be taught in future business courses about what not to do.

The lessons will be ignored. They always are and we'll get another round of "this shit, again".

 

[PsihoKekec]

History is teaching us, but who is learning?

 

[Flintsteel]

Let's face it, they have been increasing the last few years.

Citation needed.

Just because you hear about them more doesn't mean they're actually increasing in frequency. News sells bad things, not good things ("If it bleeds, it leads"), so there is an over-incentive to report on such matters. And then there can be ideological incentives, for those who support more government power, to use those incidents as a cludgle to push their preferred narrative.

 

[Cherico]

History is teaching us, but who is learning?

There are two kinds of people the people who don't learn from history and the people who do but are helpless to stop the morons from fucking things up once again.

 

[Terthna]

Citation needed.

Just because you hear about them more doesn't mean they're actually increasing in frequency. News sells bad things, not good things ("If it bleeds, it leads"), so there is an over-incentive to report on such matters. And then there can be ideological incentives, for those who support more government power, to use those incidents as a cludgle to push their preferred narrative.

The news has always sold "bad things" though; so why the recent jump in incidents reported on?