I am so glad for you and your mom.

Thank the good Lord you didn’t have to find out!

I have newspapers interviews from when my mother recovered.

Your poor mom. Thank goodness she made it.

Did she have survivors guilt?

I wish more companies thought like that

It doesn't matter because it's always the entrepreneur or the state who pays for it in the end, not the loan sharks who demanded all security and quality be cut for the sake of growing their sacred dividends. Until shareholders are made personally liable for debt incurred through business malpractice, it's not gonna change.

Or be prepared for a major lawsuit.

Yep! Or, if you think you're late now, try getting pulled over for speeding.

@@kenmore01 This! I always tell people this when I'm in the car with them and it cools them right down every time 😆

Hope he rots in Hell.

He probably spent the remainder of his life in front of the telly watching wheel of fortune re-runs, Eating t.v dinners, and taking sips from his mom's vintage bottles.

@@joseole1117 poster boy for vigilantism.

Maybe in the afterlife.

WHAT fucking “ afterlife “ ?

That's exactly what I was thinking!

That is terrible!

What

wow.

😣

sounds about right for north carolina

Much has changed even in just the past 40 years due to cases like this. But there are still places out there where safety concerns rank low in importance. The safety violations go unreported, especially in small towns where the business in question is pretty much the only chance for employment, for obvious reasons.

Thank you for working hard to feed those who need prepared meals and for taking their safety to heart in your work.

I work in Auto Manufacturing so different industry but same energy. Im glad these companies have come so far in protecting their employees.

Tomorrow is Wednesday. Wednesdays and Thursdays have become notorious in recent months for food industry plants having freak incidents. Beware!

Same for my company in the biotech/pharmaceutical business. It is truly impossible to overstate how monumentally important safety and regulatory compliance are. It's not a case of "we never screw up"-- we actually hyperfocus on our screw-ups. Half of my job is doing root cause analysis to find out why Joe Labcoat forgot to recap his thermometer. We actually just got inspected by an overseas equivalent of the FDA last week, and they gave us a finding for storing our sink-cleaning bleach at ambient temperature and not room temperature. We use this tiny stuff to improve ourselves, constantly. People don't get in trouble for it. To err is human. Pretending you're err-proof to escape short-term consequences is the issue, and fortunately that is the exact opposite of the culture these days.

Not to mention the racism

What would they steal anyway? Chicken

This sounds like the stardust nightclub disaster here in Dublin ireland emergency exits were locked and fire extinguishers were removed .

Rich Guy who gets away with it gets the blackout

@@Canev821 There's quite a few jokes I could make about that, but... nahhh

@Brenda Callahan this shoud be interesting - I have worked in the tobacco business for 30 years.

Yeah, I've read about the horrors of NC's industrial pig farms; it's a wonder a similar accident hasn't happened at one of those or a pork-processing plant. When one of my aunts moved to New Bern, I tried to warn her about "the smell". Fortunately she never noticed (at least she never told me); she now lives in Washington State (she moved there when my cousin moved to Seattle; not because "the smell" finally got to her).

Bingo

Repliblicans, lack of organized labor, lax accountability for big business, weak laws, underfunded and weak government regulations… this is the end result.

​@Brenda Callahan I'm late to the party here, but I'll throw in my experience just for context. I'll start by saying that I think the original poster is exaggerating in extremis with the word "horrific" here, but I'll also say I grew up in Western NC (not in the mountains but just on the edge of the foothills, where farms weren't so big), rather than in the sandhills down East where fields are much larger. Farmers here were poor, but communities were tight-knit. Tobacco harvesting begins in August, when summer temperatures are at their zenith, and the harvest was (and as far as I know, still IS) done almost completely by hand, even though the planting would have been done by machine. Come harvest time, all the kids and young adults in the farm community would be invited out to the various farms of neighbors for a couple days at a time to pull the ripe leaves and begin priming them. Kids are told they'll be paid a lump sum (or sometimes a certain amount per armful of primed tobacco) and they'll also be fed by the hosting family. Work starts as early as possible, sometimes at dawn for the well organized and the dedicated, but usually around 7:00 or 8:00 for most. If you've done this sort of work before, you wear a long sleeve shirt, a breathable broad-brimmed hat, and short pants, but if you're inexperienced you wear as little as possible, anticipating the heat. The tobacco is 5-7 feet high, and the wilting, yellowed, "ripe" leaves are at the bottom of the plants, which stand in closely spaced rows. The morning dew quickly dissipates, and the gentle coolness emanating from the soil is replaced by a cloying, suffocating humidity. You pick the leaves one by one, the milky sap quickly beginning to dry and harden uncomfortably on your fingertips and between your fingers, and you tuck the leaves into bushels beneath your arm, trying to hold on to as many of them at a time as you can to minimize trips back and forth to the wagon or longbed truck. There are no shade trees in a tobacco field, and the heat is boiling by 10:00. The sap of the tobacco plant contains nicotine which, as it's left on your hands, seeps through your skin and into your bloodstream, making you feel dizzy, lightheaded, and nauseous. Come lunchtime (around 11:30 or so), the women of the house will have been working on the meal all day, and it's truly a thing of wonder. Ham, fried or baked chicken, boiled or mashed potatoes, huge cakes of cornbread, fluffy buttermilk or cream biscuits spread with home-churned butter or strawberry preserves, rice, vats of baked beans with fatty bacon, soft boiled eggs, gallons of sweet tea and lemonade (iced, if you're lucky), and a big bowl of fresh wild blackberries or canned peaches with sugar and condensed milk for dessert, all served and eaten on the breezy front porch, under a shade tree in the front yard, or on the bed of a truck with the sideboards removed. It's all delicious, but it tastes a lot less wondrous coming back up a few hours later when you head back into the fields around 2:00. This is the hottest part of the day, and the "greensickness" of the nicotine exposure is usually at its worst about now, and this is also when the threat of heat stroke is highest. If everyone is really feeling awful, another break might be called around 4:00, but it's a break in place, no going back to the house or any precious bit of shade. In mid August, the sun doesn't set until 8:30 or so in the evening, so as the sun gets low on the horizon, a small breeze might begin to make its way through the dense stands of tobacco, but this is also when everyone will be feeling the push to beat the sunset and work increases to a fever pitch. You hope the sun moving behind the trees at the edge of the field around 8:00 will bring some semblance of relief from the heat. It does not. The moist, muddied ground has absorbed every dram of heat and humidity from the day and relentlessly magnifies it back at you from below once the sun has given you a little respite from above, and by 9:00 or so when the day is finally called you feel like a three pound hammer is falling on your head with every beat of your heart. You pray you don't drop any of the leaves, because that would mean bending over, and if you bend over to pick it up, you might just pass out while you're down there. At the end of the day, you walk home down the still-blistering tarmac or gravel roads back to your own plot, and you're grateful your daddy doesn't grow tobacco on your land. However, you'll still go back the next day and do it again, and when you're finished at one neighbor's property you'll go to the next neighbor's, and then the next, and at the end of the month you'll say it was worth the $100 or so when you get paid, because it's how you grew up, and you know the people you're working for and helping out, and how else are you going to make money during the summer anyway.

Intent matters. Just because they died doesnt mean he intended for that to happen. His stupidity cost their lives, not his actual intent. Murderers get less time than that.

@@markus7166 19 years is already a slap on the wrist for 25 lives imo. I think 1 count of involuntary is usually around 10. I had family members serve 24 months for selling weed (although) it was quite a few years ago.

@@markus7166 Please! If you block the fire exits you are knowingly admitting that the lives of the workers are expendable. He knowingly endangered their lives, and those people died because of that. He deserved much more than 19 years.

@@markus7166 i would argue that such dedication to horrendous safety violations is impossible to distinguish from genuine intent

@@lordmarcusrax life without parole

I hope to God the authorities dish out very heavy fines for locked fire exits these days, better still a prison sentence for the plants manager.

That's chilling. A sudden, instantaneous death is one thing.....but knowing your likely outcome, and not being able to do anything about it is horrible. I wonder how many of the employees looked at those locked exits and wondered when...not if this was gonna bite them in the ass.

You can see the boot marks at @7:29 in this video. So very sad.

"Footprints on the north breakroom door. A worker kicked open the door during the fire so he and his coworkers could escape." That person survived.

Family members of the deceased have a grim flashback for the rest of their lives every time they pass by a KFC or Swiss Chalet over the sad day when their loved ones were trapped in a blazing inferno.

Sadly, all safety regulations are written in blood.

Not to minimize what happened to these poor people, but if there's still fires occurring at businesses due to cutting corners, it doesn't seem like it's working as a warning or cautionary tale. Many of these regulatory agencies have no teeth, meaning they can recommend stuff but can't enforce it, and that's one of many things that need to change to stop these horrible things from happening.

Been in NC for 40 years. Never heard of it...

Considering how NC as a whole seems to feel about regulation, I don't think they learned that lesson

If you'd ever worked in a food processing plant, you'd wonder why they ALL don't burn to the ground eventually. The worst are potato chip or other fried food factories, but any food processing facility has fryer vats, ovens, heaters, or hydraulic equipment that can cause fires.

Sounds a little bit like "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair.

Sounds like every single fucking company I've ever worked for 🤷🏼‍♂️

@@markus7166 You gotta get some better employment my man :D

@@EneTheGene Greater scheme is termed "capitalism", so that's gonna be hard, I feel.

@@EneTheGene I will never work for another company again. I've been self employed for as long as I can remember, and I'm not even 30 😂

Probably nothing sadly. I wonder if there's enough information that this content creator can make a KZfaq Shorts follow up? Stupid racism. What POSSIBLY could've been the harm in getting more help to put out the fire?

none. racism runs all the way to the top in that area.

Maybe he was afraid of racial backlash? i.e. "Why are you using our resources for your peeples‽"

And all of this because of racism. Or at least, that's the only reason I could see, why he wouldn't call the voluntary fire departement. Even if their equipment sucked, it was a life or death situation and every help would have been needed - the faster the better. No, this piece of shit decided, he'd rather let people die, then to let black people have the glory of saving lifes. Like what the fuck is wrong with this guy?! I imagine being a racist is like seeing your biggest enemy in every people of color. There are several people in this wolrd, whom I wouldn't shed a tear, if they painfully perrished. But be sure as fuck I'd still very much appreciate their help, if I was traped in a god damn fire, enemy or not. Even the biggest racist piece of shit you've ever seen on the planet wouldn't mind the help of a black person in such a situation.

@@puppiesarepower3682 I’m pretty sure volunteers would be willing to save a life It’s merely an assumption to believe the volunteers would be standoffish and would deny. It’s the south immediately following the civil rights era. I’m 95% certain it’s likely the chief was just racist. It’s not like those 60’s racists just changed their mind because the law changed. Like there is still pushback against gay marriage today, there were still people against the idea of integration. Just because some people “focused on the black community” at the time doesn’t mean everyone is like that. There were plenty of black volunteers doing honorable things, from war to politics. There’s actually a good documentary about that

Free him

Good, no pity for him. There are better ways to determine theft that don't risk safety.

Willing to kill some teenagers! What a bastard.

@@bigzach7778 he’s probably dead. This was like 20 years ago and he was like 70.

Exactly, I've worked at places were fire extinguishers were used to prop open doors and nails put into plugs rather than fuse etc. Little things that 9 times out of ten cause no problem but just as suddenly can cause a devatating one. Having done no safety training at all I was given the task of listing and inspecting the electrical equipment were I was working. I very quickly found one plug with signs of overheating and discovered the fuse had been replaced by a quarter inch thick cut down nail. The problem is complacency, start cutting corners and accepting corner cutting and the small issues build up into big ones. For the record with mutch ridicule from others i worked with I insisted the motor was replaced and the plug and power supply upgraded to 16 amp, I moved on in my career quite quickly but did get this one small change.

Thank you

Thanks much. : )

Yes, the worker who kicked down the door was named Bobby Quick. He severely injured his back in the process but got a sizable payout from the lawsuits and was able to get himself a new home with a truck and some chickens to raise. He’s still alive I think.

He should be named and shamed. Probably still alive.

Racism is a powerfully stupid thing.

Or maybe he wasn’t racist at all and sending a volunteer fire force trained for residential fires into an industrial fire is a really bad idea.

@@mushyroom9569 that would then be up to the volunteer firefighters on whether they wanted to take the risk. they could help the main firefighters by bringing water, supplies, helping with the injured

@@mushyroom9569 Jesus Fucking Christ! The mental gymnastics of some people try to excuse obvious racism. It was a fire emergency, meaning that any able and willing person to assist is vital, but that racist moron decided that black firemen aren't qualified to assist in this FIRE emergency. Just sit in the corner and THINK about it.

Or he was shown the fire exits and the evacuation procedure was explained to him and his entrance and exit in and out of the site was registered he might have had a better chance than he did.

@@Badger13x I've never ever heard of a company describing the emergency exits and procedure to delivery drivers. That's some shit you gotta figure out on your own 😂

@@Badger13x Yeah, this was a long time ago so his employer not even knowing he died in the fire isn't too surprising. Most places, you're not getting in the turnstile without registering your presence now.

I have a policy at my plant that ANYONE who comes in must be shown exists and locations of fire extinguishers. Doesn't matter if you're a vendor, UPS driver a visitor or how long you intend to be there.

What’s worse is that he was identified by one of the responding firefighters as his father.

Think this is depressing? Go to the US Chemical Safety Board KZfaq channel.

@@DeaconG1959 Gonna have to check it out!

It's the playbook for disaster. Yet people believe that regulations and inspections are a hinderance.

@@adamhickey396 Ikr?! It's infuriating!

@@kathryncumberland Especially how the higher ups always seem to get off with a mere slap on the wrist comparatively.

Keeping fire exits clear at my workplace is literally part of our job! Those of us who have been with the company (Wal-Mart) for a long time, myself among them, are dummy uptight about it. Unfortunately, some of the newer people aren't really paying full attention to their safety training, so we still have to move the odd pallet or cart. That kind of irresponsible shit irrates me to no end!

@@MsBee-iw3qw not surprised as your and their lives could depend on it. I really dont understand why some people have a dumb attitude to their own safety or almost try to get themselves killed.

This is one of the issue of every single major fire that I heard of! I can't get my head around why one could think that it is a good idea to lock a fire exit!

@@cyberleaderandy1 Because people don't have a great sense of danger. They often don't think about what could go wrong until it does go wrong. And in the workplace and elsewhere, I've always noticed that people are terrible at thinking ahead.

@@MsBee-iw3qw Walmart owned Asda over here and weren’t that bothered about it. The customer ones yes but the warehouse ones were usually chained to “prevent theft”.

We definitely stand a better chance than most in a fire! That’s for sure. And we know not to visit any progressive new theme parks. : )

It's made every EXIT sign, every max capacity sign of a venue LAW for me 😂

Every time I observe a safety measure I end up thinking “someone or someones has paid in blood for that…”

I have an industrial hygienist for a dad so he is my Irl version of this channel to an extent

I notice things and hear them in FH's voice in my head. ie "The fire exit door was barred shut to prevent sneaking in to the theater".

If you don't lock them, workers could steal at least tens of dollars worth of chicken!

so many of the stories of fires on this channel have inoperative sprinklers and locked/blocked fire doors often to avoid theft or illegal access.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire springs to mind.

Kazy, ikr! I guarantee that if one worked a week at that death trap, chicken would be the last thing the would want.

@@KazyEXE > some employees tend to steal a part of the produce and sneak out on the emergency exits > wire the opening of these exits to an alarm, thanks to which a security guard can intercept the thief. Isn't that effin' simple?? But I guess it was still too much of a costy solution for that penny clenching jacka****ss, not even damned to provide circuitry in decent working order. There sure is a will to cashgrab, but when it comes to invest and act professionally...

Are you serious Drove through there and ate at the diner on every trip to Myrtle Beach. Usually stopped and ate sandwiches in the park on the way back home.

But that goes directly against the "profit above anything" way of doing business that's so popular in the US. Who cares about the lives of some workers? There's plenty more where they came from. The only thing businessmen and companies care about with disasters like this is the loss of the plant, products and producing capacity.

@@tjroelsma exactly. No employer cares about the lives of their workers, until their workers rightfully sue them for dangerous work enviromemts. Its their lawyers that companies respect and take care of. But not thrir workers. Very sad

welcome to small town america.

It was rural North Carolina in the early 90s, nothing about this is shocking

This stuff will always happen when greedy people are in charge. Happens in America, happens in Mexico, happens in China, and it happened in collapsed regimes like the USSR. Sometimes it's for money, sometimes it's for production quotas demanded on them by authorities, sometimes it's for political appeal... But it always results in the same thing, death and injury.

Racist attitude ??? What ??? 🤦🏼‍♂️

@@markus7166 I think the video did mention that the town fire department refuses to call the local fire volunteers just because they are black.

@@kringe700 if that were the case, why would they allow them to be volunteers in the first place ? Dont believe everything you see or hear on the internet 🤦🏼‍♂️

@@markus7166 Re-watch the video. Imagine trying to defend racism. The town’s fire Marshall did not call on them to help. Just because it’s near the town does not mean that they have the same jurisdiction. It clears states that the fire department was ready, but was never called and probably can’t without the clearance to do so. There’s no legitimate reason why the Marshall should not have called for help.

@@markus7166 It was a mostly black volunteer department in a mostly black community in North Carolina... They were underfunded, in spite of even state requirements to the contrary, under equipped, neglected in just about every aspect... and genuinely less than stellar because of it. Whether the city department refused to call them just because they were black or because of the general lack of equipment and training and so on... it's a clear example of the "systemic racism" that still exists to this day... It sucks, and as a Tennessee resident, I hate it about "The South" in general... BUT refusing to believe it exists is just willful stupidity. Things are generally getting better, and they have been for a long time. They're not "alright" even yet, though. It is (and was) what it is. ;o)

Sad that you're right, but you have a good point. I was getting grumpy that he got off so easy, and while I still am, I like your perspective on it too. At least 1 person in greedy management caught a charge in this case! Although workplace and industry safety has improved in the US, I think that the rich and greedy management people who cut corners actually get away with it more often these days when something like this *does* happen.

I guess this case was egregious enough (or more likely, well known enough and the cause of enough public anger) that they felt they had to throw him under the bus to try and stop people from demanding more meaningful change to the system that lets this sort of thing happen

The "Good Ole Boy" system always wins!!!!

My thinking is the main reason he plead guilty is because prosecutor probably told him if he didn't want to take a deal, his son would be getting charged instead/in addition. Not wanting his son to go to jail, he took the deal.

His son was probably the guy who personally clicked the padlocks on the fire doors and gave the direct order to put that janky hydraulic hose in service. He got away free and clear.

Didn't they successfully kick that particular door open?

​@@lossnt557 This steel door looks locked in that photo & has kick marks all over it; therefore I doubt it was unlocked during the incipient phases of the emergency. Snapshots can be taken at any point in time. I never remember the news saying this door was successfully opened. That Doesn't make headlines.

@@GregBrownsWorldORacing The latch is broken though and the door's open

That door with the boot prints is etched in my mind. That door was supposed to be preserved and sent to the Smithsonian for display, not sure if it ever happened.

Wow I just noticed that!! That's just so incredibly horrible imagining what they were going through as the person tried to kick that door open...😥💜🙏

The manager drove to the nearest fire department, it was the fire chief there that failed to call back-up from the near by volunteer unit because they were black.

Yeah, he didn't drive past the nearest fire dept; the fire chief purposely left a closer fire dept out of the effort for reasons unknown. Doesn't change the fact that this was murder, and everyone practically got away with it which is even worse.

@@nlwilson4892 Did you ever consider that maybe the volunteer black firefighters weren't known for being very reliable, and that there might have been a good reason for not wasting time going there? Not everything is 'racism', you know.

@@elisabethandersen1102 Help was never requested. How long would a phone call take? Do you know something about the uncalled unit that you haven't shared, or is there another reason why you suggest they were unreliable?

@@elisabethandersen1102 There was no wasting time simply to phone them, the fire chief could have even phoned them after phoning the other station. All firefighters are trained to the same standards, they pass the same tests and even if they weren't quite as good they would have still been a huge improvement on waiting much longer. If there had been a valid reason then that would have been given during the inquiry into the fire.

I accidentally set an oven mitt on fire by turning on the wrong burner to boil water once. Luckily I was there but if I had turned it on and walked away? Fire terrifies me

People are forgetful. I sure am. So yeah, teaching people to *never* put things on the stovetop is important.

When I first moved into an older apartment the stove/oven was old and dying. To the point that the landlord told me to just call when it needed to be replaced since repairing it wasn't worth it. After not being in the kitchen for several hours, I walked back in to find one of the burners was on. I had recently moved in and had not even used the stove top yet. I had items on the counter that were very close to the stove but just far enough away to not touch the burner, but it was pretty scary. Since I had no idea how/why it turned on to begin with I would manually turn off the oven's breaker when not in use. That way there was no way for it to happen again.

Can you please come to my house and deliver a safety lecture? I'm constantly removing flammable items my wife and kids throw on the stove top.

@@davidcox3076 Switch the oven breaker off when it's not in use! The kids likely won't know to do it to get it back on but your wife will. Maybe it'll be slightly safer that way? It really depends on how often your wife uses the stove top and if she turns it back off every time

That's because they don't cause incidents just like this one.

Heck, my whole friggin state is depressed, desperate for jobs. I wonder what kind of crap goes on here relating to this kind of thing.

@@JohnDoeRando West Virginia?

@@JohnDoeRando Answer: A lot.

@@ashleyhathaway8548 other side of the country, New Mexico.

Unreal. I had actually been considering suggesting this tragedy here also but I'm not sure how much of the comments he reads. I never see any interaction. The 25th anniversary is coming up very shortly and the horrific injuries she sustained and the disgraceful way in which the Chief Minister (politician) wanted the implosion to promoted to the point of allegedly ignoring safety issues and cost cutting is a story definitely worth this content creators time and research. What a sad day for that family and tragic waste of a life.

That's so insane, as an Australian and someone with direct family ties from Canberra I had no idea this even happened! I can't believe I never heard of it, not even from family that live there 😳

Happens everyday, at least once, in every country

To be honest I would love to see a video on the robodebt scandal. They believe there were 2000 suicides attributed to it.

This is a old and minor but really interesting one, but I've researched the Barringer Mine Flood near Charlotte NC way too much and would love to see a video on that

Modern food safety recognises that if you're not compliant with the law (eg, occupational health and safety laws) you probably aren't particularly trustworthy with food safety either. Figure that's what happened in your circumstance?

@@paulmoir4452 I have some absolutely mind blowing stories about rat and cockroach infestations from this job. A tech company started a grocery business and had no idea what they were getting in to, but thought they were smarter than anyone who had experience. wild times

@@ravioli2020 Oh, that does sound like a recipe for disaster!

True! There is such a huge difference between 'hadn't thought that could be an issue until it was' and 'yeah, we know, whatever'.

It's awful what you can do when people in power are inhumane.

It's awful what you can do when people in power are inhumane.

One of the difficult things about the US is that even with strong federal or state safety standards, if you go looking you can find someplace that's basically a third world country desperate to become a resource to be exploited because then at least they'll have something there. You can be in a town where buildings are all safe, regularly inspected, there hasn't been a workplace injury in decades, and it feels like it's supposed to and drive like 30 miles in the same state and even same county and find a hellscape. Add a stubborn, short sighted, and stupid local government in the mix and people die.

@trollolol This wasn't criminals ignoring laws, this was local law enforcement letting a company get away with dangerous stuff out of a perceived economic necessity.

l live in a rural area with food processing and manufacturing plants. Maintenance employees are often someone's brother-in-law with no schooling. Scary stuff.

have a friend who is a maintenance mechanic. Company he works for has same safety minded. They would much rather a safety inspector/ mechanic completely over react to some minor issue, shut down the line for an entire shift to fix issue/clean something and start it back up than see someone get hurt or killed.

as someone who's seen a person pulled into a machine (cheese factory) and essentially shredded / flayed because he was cleaning without fully disabling it, I'm VERY glad to hear that you stand up for yourself and refuse to work on running machinery.

Good stuff! 👍

@@RealElongatedMuskrat is bet you never get that image out of your head! Keep telling people so hopefully no one else meets that horrific fate! And I’m sorry you had to so ness that! Does it cause nightmares?

Your poor dad. Inspecting that site must have been nightmare inducing.

@@k33k32 he'll be alright

@@k33k32 don’t worry, he wasn’t actually there. He just knew some of the folks who were.

They dieded?

Now days, you cant even pass gas without OSHA showing up lol.

@@mikexxxmilly Unless your building is full of mold or mildew. Then they really don't care.

It was sadly a common attitude at the time... North Carolina was still very much a manufacturing state in those days, and a lot of other places would get away with inspections and situations similar to Imperial Foods because that one major employer was pretty much responsible for the economy of entire towns or counties. It wasn't really until manufacturing started leaving and going overseas in the late 90's and 2000's that those mill and factory towns started attempting to diversity their economy. Some still haven't recovered and they're shrinking as people leave to seek their fortunes elsewhere.

Republicans cut regulations or defund agencies tasked to enforce regulations. Republicans hate regulations and responsibility. They don’t want any corporation to be regulated. They are dumber than dirt.

I honestly thought he would have swindled his way out of it as they so often do

The responsible party wasn't punished at all. The Emmett Roes of the world are just masks for the loan sharks of the world who demand companies operate like this for the sake of extracting as much money as they can int he form of dividends, then declare bankruptcy and go on to do it again somewhere else. Until shareholders are made personally liable for debt incurred through business malpractice this will continue happening.

@@craigmandall9420 He did, you can tell just by looking at him he'd swindle his way out of anything, even if he had to get on his hands and knees to do it.

Not just that, but there was also racism at play here.

Yeah, it's not benign when it takes lives.

Almost sounds like everyone "working" (taking up space and wasting the air they breathe) in Washington these days on BOTH sides of the aisle!

The channel is reporting on the investigation which described the inspectors turning a blind eye as benign neglect.

What's unbelievable is how you butched such a simple sentence. He GOT away with four years of prison.

prision is pretty roughion

@@SkunkApe407 If you're gonna be a grammar Nazi, at least spell butchered right.

@@SkunkApe407 seriously? THAT'S your takeaway??? Guess you'd be a cheap shout🍻.

@@SkunkApe407 BUTCHERED. If you are going to play the grammar/spelling Nazi role then FFS check your own work.

I love waking up on Tuesdays knowing I get a new one to listen to as I wake up

What in the hell ails you that you’re going to bed this time of morning?

Theres just something calming about listening to his voice describe how people burned to death in an accident 👌😂

@@WestonEvans not everyone lives in the US. Maybe they work 3rd shift 🤷🏼‍♂️

@@WestonEvans Y'know, time zones are a thing and not everyone lives where you do - lmao.

Yup

Me too.

Right here with you.

"Oh, it must be 2am."

Same 😅

Right?! Sometimes I feel like this channel isn't good for my health; stories of stupid and greedy people who recklessly endanger the innocent always makes my blood boil. But this guy's diverse content, respectful tone, and high-quality approach are just SO GOOD, I can't stay away.

This should be a responsibility of employers to tell workers where the exit is and meeting place to make sure everyone is out.

Imagine a company locking an emergency exit 🤦🏼‍♂️😂

You must have grown up in the 60s. I've never ever heard of a company blocking a fire escape 😂

I remember my manager laughing at me cos I mentioned the back door to our restaurant should always be unlocked "oh it always is" yeah most of the time it is but the day the kitchen catches fire and someone's stuck out back most of the time isn't good enough

@@markus7166 You've never heard of it? Well! It must never happen then, seen as you are all-knowing and all-seeing. 😂 emoji indeed!

Disney would've made it into a movie by now.

@@Unownshipper Come on, give Disney more credit than that

Why would chickens rescue their slaughterers? I have found a flaw in your imaginary story

@@TheMouseAvenger You're right. DreamWorks.

Almost like they want a food shortage after warning about food shortages 🤔

@@cooleddie1438 what

@@lossnt557 I dont get it either 😂

@@timiwer he is going through something

@@cooleddie1438 Get a grip.

Hi from Brisbane.

Gday Melbourne Australia......what a great time for us to get this upload.

@@stuart8663 hi neighbour! 😀

Greets from Maleny

@@marvindebot3264 greets from Nambour 😀

Not really. Smoke inhalation would render you unconscious fairly quickly. Even if you were fully immolated, the flames would completely burn all of your nerve endings withing a matter of seconds. Burning alive SOUNDS terrifying, but in actuality it is no worse than drowning.

@@SkunkApe407 My close friend would strongly disagree...having survived 3rd degree burns to 60% of his body. He told me the pain prior to the nerve endings dying was beyond anything he could describe, as nothing he'd ever experienced pain wise had given him the words or comparison to articulate the level of pain he experienced.

@@Cynthiabecker24 you struggle with reading comprehension, don't you. I clearly stated that the nerve endings would burn. They also burn away in seconds, meaning that pain is fleeting. The brain specifically blocks the memory of pain, so your friend is speaking of his panic and terror, not the actual pain. Extensive studies have been performed on this subject already.

@@SkunkApe407 Calm down.

At least someone is teaching us