I've spent many years in the places which, most of you arm-chair-experts have never seen (lets just call it "the places of heavy metal"):

- "mega-bucks companies" don't care about federal, state, local laws. they only care about their corporate policy,

- "mega-bucks companies" typically have toothless safety managers, but they generally can't stop things after ops goes over their head, these safety managers+programs exist mostly as a front,

- corporations exist in order to insulate most employees (especially "managers") from personal responsibility from "bad things happening,"

- employees which are injured to anything past a minor extent are taken into a back room with HR, given the instruction of:

1] take a large payment (paid through the same channel as their paycheck)

2] never speak of the incident to anybody, EVER, including any co-workers, lawyers, and anybody else (although they can tell their spouse and their personal physicians),

3] must resign from their position (not always!), or they are terminated without cause (right-to-work state) as part of their backroom settlement,

33] maybe they forge retroactive "resigned/termed the day before" in order to get around the osha reporting (can't report an injury happening "today" about an employee who "quit yesterday" ha ha ha),

4] they have to give 90%+ of the money back if the employer can prove (in court) that the employee broke their bye-bye agreement.

edit more: of course this is all probably illegal, but they are giving the person just enough money to be sure they will not want to talk. MANY become injured as the goal, of getting this type of large lottery payment. some payments are 10x the pay of the entire year, and these are just poor people, they ALWAYS take the money.

so the employee that got blown up by the moulding machine probably got a huge backroom offer to claim they had resigned the day before the incident, or they were terminated without cause (right-to-work state), that's why there was nothing to report to osha in terms of personnel injuries.

oldest trick from the book. video footage is suddenly unavailable if it is too inconvenient for the HR narrative.

they do a similar with drug tests after you cause an accident: if you know you'll fail, you just clock out and go home. nobody asks because everybody knows. first thing the next day, they pull you in for the drug test that you're ready to pass.

that being said, most employees who get injured at work are usually high (edit: they're high most days, and then either high or not high in the moment they get injured)

sorry for my english but you gringos don't build anything anymore because it's too difficult to keep shit under wraps, unless it's a right-to-work state. in the old days of american making goods, people were injured all the time.

think I am bullshitting? go make some farmer friends, and make some mechanics friends, eventually you'll know friends-of-the-friends who have missing fingers, etc., and they laugh as they tell you the story. they laugh because they got paid to lie. they laugh because they were paid to never say they got paid. they laugh because the actual way they got hurt is too bad to say.

blood mist cloud.

one of you data freaks should plot the:

1] illegal immigration rate in right-to-work vs not states

2] the lack of osha reports in such right-to-work states compared to those same industries in the not states

- I bet you do not find the same amounts of industries in the not-right-to-work states!

3] overwhelming osha compliance in not-write-to-work states

you may find something interesting.

AI can not come soon enough for these business leaders, all of these get-hurt-on-purpose workers will be gone!!!

I think the only difference is, those who get hurt for the payment, and those who were just trying to do a good job and were hurt honest by the system.