Workplace Accidents Quotes
Six of his miners were killed in a Utah mine accident and three more died trying to rescue them. Although a coal mine owner, he also questions the values of our society, the coal mining industry, and his company—all of which accept the fact that coal mining is a very hazardous enterprise while many argue that we should just use safer energy sources.
He could not get any legislation protecting the workers but Theodore Roosevelt did in 1906--Employers’ Liability Act of 1906 but rapidly the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional as it was the first federal mandate that had ever been placed on employers. Roosevelt then had the legislation rewritten to get around the Supreme Court objections and that was passed in 1908 and was not overturned. See {640536}.
