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It was the deadliest workplace in America. So why didn’t safety regulators shut it down?
Inspectors issued more than 100 safety violations and millions in fines. Yet deaths and injuries continued.
PHENIX CITY, ALA.
The police lieutenant sounded unnerved as he stepped inside the old lumber mill. The power was off. The giant saws were quiet. But the smell of fresh sawdust still hung in the humid summer air. In the darkened factory, sunlight streamed through jagged holes in the rusted metal walls as Lt. Marc Cutt walked across a machine that turned logs into lumber.
“Has it been rendered safe?” Cutt asked another police officer as his body camera recorded the scene.
“Safe is a relative term in this place,” the officer responded.
The police knew this place well. So did federal safety inspectors.
FULL Washington Post Story is HERE.
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