Quotes about Workplace Injuries

Victor Papanek

There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.

Bob Whitmore

OSHA can’t and won’t do its job…. the current OSHA injury and illness information is inaccurate in part due to wide-scale underreporting by employers and OSHA’s willingness to accept these falsified numbers

Whitmore uncovered massive company underreporting of injury on the forms that were required by Federal law and OSHA regulations. The George W. Bush administration position had been that industrial accidents were much reduced citing the reports which the companies had systematically underreported. Whitmore who was in charge of the OSHA records confirmed the underreporting to the House Committee on Education and Labor. His agency, OSHA, tried to keep him from testifying, but he did so as a private citizen. He was then placed on ‘administrative leave’ and had no access to any OSHA records thereafter. This was an unusual time in American history, and this atypical administration censored government scientists and repeatedly refused to be truthful in Congressional Hearings. It was so bad that the Attorney General resigned in large part over his testimony to Congress.

Jimmy Carter

I oppose increased black-lung benefits for miners, because ‘they chose to be miners.

Dustin Poirier

Normal pain is no problem, that just comes with the job.

Alice Hamilton

It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

Ron Funches

The worst job I ever had was working as a Lady Liberty sign-twirler for a tax services place, where I'd just dance and have fun. The way I talk about it makes it sounds like a fun job - but then I got a staph infection from the costume. So that was probably the worst part about it.

Alice Hamilton

It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.

Grace Napolitano

Latinos are disproportionately more likely to be injured on the job than other ethnic groups.

Wole Soyinka

Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk.

Benjamin Harrison

It is a reproach to our civilization that any class of American workmen, should in the pursuit of a necessary and useful vocation, be subjected to a peril of life and limb as great as that of a soldier in time of war.

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}.

Stephen King

There is a story in the book Night Shift, called 'The Mangler,' about a laundry machine that takes on a sort of malignant life. I worked in a laundry for about a year and a half after I got out of college. It was the only job I could find to support my wife and our first child. There was a fellow there that had no hands or forearms. He simply had hooks. This is one of the things that they don't tell you about when you become management. You have to wear a tie. It was this fellow's tie that did him in.

Patrick Reams

In 1896 one out of every 11 steel workers would die on the job.

Workplace Injuries Quotes