<p>Chapter 1 1. McWane Corporation is the company that is known as one of the US worst and most dangerous business to work for.</p><p>2. Marco Lopez begins his day with pain. He hurt his back on the job.</p><p>3. 4,600 workers hurt on the job since 1995.</p><p>4. Burns, amputations and violent industrial accidents are common.</p><p>5. McWane workers say “safety is sacrificed for production”.</p><p>6. Increased profitability from disciplined management practices. These resulted in increasing profits at an enormous human cost.</p><p>7. To increase productivity they ignored human needs such as urinating.</p><p>8. OSHA sets safety rules.</p><p>Chapter 2 9. Coffer was missing for 2.5 hours trying to relieve the pressure on his arm.</p><p>10. 6,000 workers die from accidents in the US</p><p>11. Gerry Hopson died a long slow death by walking over an unguarded machine.</p><p>12. Company should have had a shield or guard so people couldn’t walk thru the hazard.</p><p>Chapter 3 13. Safety Handbook spells out all the rules.</p><p>14. There is a gap on the shop floor between policy and practice.</p><p>15. As productivity increase there were four more amputations after Ira Kofers and 30 more safety violations in 1999 of unguarded machines.</p><p>16. Tyler Pipe and McWane continued to violate OSHA rules.</p><p>17. Penalties in the OSHA act are inadequate. Serious violations carries a max penalty of $7,000.</p><p>18. “Reduce man hours per ton” is posted in big orange letters on bulletin boards</p><p>19. Tyler Pipe hired ex-convicts in East Texas because no one wanted to work there. 20. Worker’s compensation provides immunity for the company. Employees loose the right to sue.</p><p>21. Worker’s compensation costs tripled in one year.</p><p>Chapter 4 22. Mr. Lopez will be partially disabled for life. 23. McWane Corp headquarters is in Burmingham Alabama.</p><p>24. There was an abusive management culture that put producing pipe ahead of everything.</p><p>25. Reginal Ellison was found dead just inches from a safety switch.</p><p>26. The safety inspector had 0 years of experience.</p><p>27. The safety director paid only $4,500 for excessive safety fines.</p><p>Chapter 5 Come up with your own questions to 30. 28. </p><p>29. </p><p>30.</p>