So government is going to BLAME the WORKERS so the COMPANY doesn't have to pay up for criminal and homicidal negligence, huh?
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Around New England: Globe Cuts the Connecticut Cheese
Around New England: Something Stinks in the State of Connecticut
Can still smell it.
I wish I could say I was surprised; that is why the "investigation" is taking so long.
"Federal investigators look at fatigue in explosion" by John Christoffersen, Associated Press Writer | March 6, 2010
NEW HAVEN, Conn. --A federal agency investigating a power plant explosion in Connecticut that killed six workers last month says some workers were putting in long hours and it's looking into whether fatigue played a role.
Authorities say the Feb. 7 explosion at the Kleen Energy Systems plant in Middletown happened as workers were using natural gas to clean out gas lines.
The son of the one of workers who was killed has told The Associated Press his father was working long hours for months and an attorney for an injured worker said they were working seven days per week.
Some workers, including some of those involving in cleaning the gas lines, worked 12-hour shifts, said Donald Holmstrom, lead investigator for the Chemical Safety Board. He emphasized the board has not determined whether fatigue was a factor in the blast.
"There were some workers working long hours," Holmstrom told The Associated Press on Thursday. "We're documenting their schedules. We're examining that issue. It's just not clear that there is any causal connection yet."
Holmstrom could not say how many workers were putting in long hours or for how long. He said investigators still need to talk to key workers.
Kleen Energy declined to comment. Telephone messages were left Friday with other companies involved in the project, including O&G Industries and Keystone Construction.
Erik Dobratz, whose father Ray Dobratz was killed in the blast, said last month his father had told him he was working 12 hours a day, seven days a week, for six months.
"A lot of the guys on the job were doing this for six months, and they were exhausted," Dobratz said at the time. "They were all exhausted. To me that just seems a little ridiculous. Eighty-five hours a week -- accidents happen, if you ask me."
This is no accident.
Robert Reardon, an attorney for a worker injured in the blast, also has said workers were spending seven days a week on the project and were pressured to get the job done.
The Chemical Safety Board cited worker fatigue as a contributing factor in its report on a 2005 explosion at
That report cited studies finding that people experiencing fatigue are typically more rigid in thinking and have greater difficulty responding to changing or abnormal circumstances and take longer to reason correctly. It raised specific concerns with 12-hour shifts, saying they negatively affect worker performance and can lead to higher accident rates.
Why did an image of our occupying troops just flash through my mind?
The Connecticut blast, heard and felt for miles, occurred about an hour after some workers at the site complained of a heavy gas smell.
The board said last week that the purging process is "inherently unsafe," and should be curbed to prevent similar accidents.....
Thus NO CRIMINAL CHARGES will be filed.
Exactly what sparked the blast has not been determined, though Holmstrom said there were "several" potential ignition sources nearby....
State and local authorities are conducting a separate investigation into whether there was any criminal negligence.
But they can't investigate crooked politicians?
More stinky stuff:
"Ex-aide admits stealing lawmaker’s funds; Campaign chief spent on himself" by Stephen Singer, Associated Press | March 12, 2010
HARTFORD — The onetime campaign manager for former US Representative Chris Shays pleaded guilty yesterday to tax evasion and to taking more than $250,000 in campaign money to pay for car repairs, limousine rides, baseball tickets, furniture, and other personal expenses.
Oh, Chris!!!!
Michael Sohn of Fairfield entered the pleas in US District Court in Hartford. He faces up to four years in prison and a fine of up to $75,000 under a plea deal....
Prosecutors said that Sohn, using ATM and debit cards, took tens of thousands of dollars from Shays’s campaign account each year between 2005 and 2008.
In the plea agreement, Sohn disputed the prosecution’s position that he abused a position of trust, which would add prison time....
Well what would you call it then?
Sohn was charged with failing to report $527,136 in income between 2005 and 2008 as an employee of the Shays campaign and the US House of Representatives, along with the campaign money he took. Prosecutors said he did not file tax returns in 2005, 2006, and 2007.
Sohn worked for nearly six years as campaign manager for Shays, a Republican who served 10 terms in Congress, representing Southwestern Connecticut. Shays lost the seat in 2008.
If you can call it "work."
Prosecutors said Sohn caused Shays’s campaign committee to file four false campaign reports in 2008 because the reports did not accurately report the campaign’s expenditures and the cash available....
Just weeks after Shays was defeated, a review of his campaign finances uncovered irregularities. Assistant US attorney Peter Jongbloed said the campaign contacted the FBI, which investigated.
This is what the FBI should be doing, not setting up patsies for false flag operations.
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Better lift off those covers then. Needs a good airing out.
