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Re:2016 was first year on record for zero roof fall fataliti... by pm215 on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @06:42AM (#41499394)
The industry was motivated by costs, but the government regulation was motivated by deaths and injuries. And the graph in the article certainly rather suggests that when the government regulated that's when the number of deaths fell...
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Re:2016 was first year on record for zero roof fall fataliti... by boxed on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @08:52AM (#41500273)
There was a pretty sharp drop before too.
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Re:2016 was first year on record for zero roof fall fataliti... by snowflakeandrey on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @10:26AM (#41501137)
I wonder if that's because as regulation is considered and debated, industry incentives start to align as they attempt to show they're "regulating themselves just fine".
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Re:2016 was first year on record for zero roof fall fataliti... by boxed on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @02:13AM (#41508496)
Could be. Could also be partly due to the general decline of the coal industry.
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