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I thought Trump had abolished OSHA.

The Mississippi Contractors Association (I think) helped the Mississippi Fire Academy build a trench training facility. It's really just a couple of concrete walls a couple of feet apart set inside of a hill. But it allows people to train safely on trench rescue without doing so in a live trench, which is not exactly safe, as the video shows.

Are these construction companies so bent on profit they sacrifice human life? Saving time and money????? Did something similar happen when the last bridge repair accident happened here in MS and we lost a young man’s life? Crazy! Yes the family might get monetary damages but dang, they are willing to sacrifice the lowest man on the totem pair and have no regrets. Pitiful.

At some point, I would think the person in the hole would think to himself that this is not safe. My life is worth more than a paycheck.

Something about a plan and coming together.

Don't believe anything on The View or MSDNC.

He's from the government, and he's there to help.

See? Turns out your wife was right after all. Again. We need more government, not less.

Having been on Many construction sites, I can say that no site supervisor or laborer ever thinks to himself, "let's forego the safety measures so that the owner can make a few more bucks". These guys get assigned a task and are just doing the job. They look down in the trench and decide that it looks safe enough. After all, they've done it a hundred times, and they've never been hurt. Most have never witnessed a cave-in where someone was injured or killed. That said, they have all had to sit through the safety class, and they know that they are supposed to wait for proper shoring to be in place. But, that could take all day, and they want to get $@#% done!

This video is 5 years old. Trump is trying to dissolve OSHA. Some regulations are needed unfortunately since companies will almost always skimp on worker safety to save a buck. Don’t believe anything a MAGA posts online.

Most people don't realize that Municipalities are exempt from OSHA standards for some reason

I wish we had OSHA for the past 25 years at my job. I was just told to get in there and do it. Also, never listen to a Democrat about OSHA, 99% of them don’t work a job where they get their grubby little hands dirty.

We don't need no damn regalations. We just need to trust bidnesses to do the right thang.

@11:34 - Good one, funniest thing I’ve read all day.

For all the "can't get enough Guv-ment" types posting today, consider this jewel the Biden administration foisted on American businesses last July.
If the heat index (not temperature) reaches 80 degrees, tents must be set up on site to protect the workers from the sun. If the heat index reaches 90 degrees, businesses must supply medical personnel on site to monitor workers.
So a couple of days later (July 2, 2024) , I checked the heat index for Jackson at 10:30 pm. It was 90 degrees.
Now just how is a tent at 10:30 pm going to protect workers from sun stroke? Star stroke maybe, moon stroke possibly?

I knew someone that died in a trench cave in. Two people died 6 feet down that day.

A few years ago, during C-Spire construction in Madison, ambulance copter had to pick up a worker dug out of this same kind of trench that did not meet OSHA safety standards. Never read about a fine which was sure as hell due on whoever the contractor was.