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Showing Original Post only (View all)OSHA fines Halliburton $7K in fracking site blast that killed 1 worker, injured 2 in Weld County [View all]
Federal regulators have fined Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. $7,000 for safety violations in a deadly 2014 explosion at a hydraulic fracturing site in Weld County.One worker was killed and two others were injured on Nov, 13, 2014 when authorities said the three men were trying to heat a frozen high-pressure water line and it ruptured.
According to a U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration document, a 2-inch metal pipe fitting blew off a valve and hit an employee in the head, killing him.
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http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/osha-fines-halliburton-7k-in-fracking-site-blast-that-killed-1-worker-injured-2-in-weld-county
This is tantamount to you or me being fined one penny for mowing down a bunch of kids in a crosswalk. The fine means less than nothing. And there are those who think that corporations don't run the country.
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OSHA fines Halliburton $7K in fracking site blast that killed 1 worker, injured 2 in Weld County [View all]
madamesilverspurs
May 2015
OP
Thats even less than the $25,000 per death for the 4 killed at Dupont outside of Houston!
Dustlawyer
May 2015
#21
This seems worse than no fine at all, a deliberately cruel message to workers and their families.
enough
May 2015
#4
Cheney probably paid that fine personally from the roll of $100's he keeps next to the toilet.
bluesbassman
May 2015
#5
There's more cash than that in change rolling around on the floor of one of their
ChisolmTrailDem
May 2015
#8
I hope they didn't have to dig in their couches too long to scrape that up.
peecoolyour
May 2015
#11
There goes their budget for the toothpicks they use to pick their teeth.
Baitball Blogger
May 2015
#14
Wow! That's really going to cut deep. That might be an entire second's worth of profits. n/t
Bossy Monkey
May 2015
#19
2014 profit according to the BBC - only $622m, poor things. I am not good at math right now or would
Mnemosyne
May 2015
#32
Forget about the money. Shooting Dick Cheney out of a cannon seems like a more
Guy Whitey Corngood
May 2015
#23
I rarely recall ever seeing a fine that was of any real consequence to these sociopaths. nt
Mnemosyne
May 2015
#35
their CEO was selling papers at my last intersection before getting to work today
spanone
May 2015
#28