Borges said she and others had complained about a gas odor about 30 minutes before the factory blew up. She is angry Palmer didn't immediately evacuate. She said the deaths of her co-workers — including her close friend, Judith Lopez-Moran — could've been prevented.
Others workers have also said they smelled natural gas, according to their relatives. Palmer, a 75-year-old, family-run company with deep roots in the small town 60 miles (96 kilometers) northwest of Philadelphia, has not responded to questions about the workers' claims.
At 4:30 p.m., Borges told the AP, she smelled natural gas. It was strong and nauseated her. Borges and her co-workers approached their supervisor, asking "what was going to be done, if we were going to be evacuated," she recalled.
Borges said the supervisor noted someone higher up would have to make that decision. So she got back to work.
Just before 5 p.m., the two-story brick building exploded.
As the trans struggle show, workers are being gaslit and have their subjective experience ignored 24/7 under bourgeois dictatorship. "If you smell gas you need CBT therapy and mindfulness training to stop being so crazy and disruptive , that's a you problem, not a problem with us"
I'm furious that a preventable FACTORY EXPLOSION article is being framed as "😂 😂 😂 haha silly worker fell into vat of chocolate. My mother in law is asking if they're hiring"
Building literally fucking explodes around this woman [the media]: Boy I wish I could fall into a vat of delish chocolate, I could eat my way out!
Borges said the supervisor noted someone higher up would have to make that decision.
This whole fucking country operates on "not my call, above my pay grade" passing the buck. There should be, minimum, like 10 people who go to jail for this
Sadly the gutting of unions and regulations has made it scary for lower management types (who are also pieces of shit quite often) to make these life endangering calls. Like how fucked is it a floor manager making barely above anyone else's pay grade is so scared of losing their position they are cool with letting workers die instead of protesting for their safety (cuss the noisy nail gets hammered in).
That’s why you need to punish everyone in the chain of command incredibly harshly. If you know that a worker getting injured means you, your boss, your boss’s boss, and the CEO all go to prison for 30 years, I imagine you’ll be a bit more careful.
Borges now faces surgery on both feet and a long recovery. Her family has launched a GoFundMe campaign to help her pay the bills.
omg I hate this country so much
So the supervisor couldn't make the decision to evac when people were getting nausous from the gas fumes. Holy OSHA. I hope this company gets sued / fined to hell.
the chocolate joker.
or choker, if you will
spoiler
they choke :porky-scared: to death while wearing a choker
If Chernobyl happened here, an entire state would be allowed to be left uninhabitable :agony-shivering:
I just realized just how extraordinarily chuddy the entire Willy Wonka story is from start to finish :surprised-pika:
They're happy to be paid in chocolate! Look at how virtuous they are in their labor! :porky-happy:
