I remember begin 15 years old and getting a part time job as a work person manufacturing the parts to install sliding glass doors. The ones you might put over a bedroom closet with large mirrors in them. But, we were making the parts to install them and make them slide and there were not enough safety devices yet because it was only 1963 when I was 15. So, one day I was working on a grinder finishing a part and got my finger gouged about a 1/4 inch deep. I realized that there simply were not enough safety features or devices on machines I was working on and I quit this job because I wanted to keep my fingers. Another time I had a part time job working building computer chips (very large ones) and this lady was operating a liquid lead bath of liquid solder that she dipped large chips into. I told her this wasn't safe to do this because what she was breathing was toxic and also had lead in it. She told me that if she died her husband was going to sue the place. I thought this was not only sad but also ridiculous and it caused me to quit this job too. It turns out many people are dying in unsafe jobs not only here in the U.S. but all over the world it seems still.
At least here in the U.S. you might have the right to sue a company whether you win or not if you die. But, many countries don't have that option and people just die or are maimed for life which might not be very long if they cannot work anymore.
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