[time-nuts] Man killed in quartz crystal accident

[Peter Gottlieb]

Maybe the penalty for not following engineering guidelines resulting in injury 
or death is to require the offending company to relocate their plants to more 
remote locations.


On 11/24/2013 8:40 PM, Sanjeev Gupta wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Bill Dailey <docdailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am a chemical engineer and am quite frankly appalled that this kind of
>> high pressure process would be done in such proximity to innocents.
>>
> It was pure luck, or chance, that the NDK office building did not have
> injuries.  Would the staff not count as "innocents", exposed to danger?
>
> This was classified as "light industrial", but even if it was a not, where
> should we put nuclear power plants, waste recycling facility, railway
> tracks that carry coal, roads that carry 1 tonne metal slugs, etc?
>
> Locating such facilities in the wilderness means no access to facilities,
> increases costs to the plant and its workers, and offends the Sierra Club.
>