It’s not as if a gas tanker should be regulated and inspected or anything, because we wouldn’t want to impede the free fucking market, amirite?
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials said Monday that two worn-out bolts on a gas tanker truck broke, causing a leak that resulted in a hospital explosion that killed five people last month.
The results of the investigation again highlighted the unsafe conditions that many propane tankers operate under.
The failure “was caused by (metal) fatigue on the bolts due to a lack of proper maintenance,” said Mexico City chief prosecutor Rodolfo Rios.
When the two bolts on a pipe flange connected to the truck’s pump cracked, a gasket partially blew out, allowing gas to accumulate on the hospital grounds for about 25 minutes.
That rebuilt ammonium nitrate facility in West Texas still can’t be inspected.
get used to it. Mexican (non)regulation is the business model Rethugs plan to emulate. Rethug birth control: let business kill the proles.
Ah, a George Orwell fan.
Capitalists have always killed off its workers prematurely. Hence the union movement.
The question we all have to answer now is what do we do with those workers put out of work by machines? In Japan they have a hotel that is entirely staffed by robots. From the front desk check-in clerk to the housekeeping staff (yes they can change the sheets). If you can run a hotel only employing robots then every business can be run without human beings.
So now what?