
Death on the Job
A revealing look at how workers' safety is being compromised with tragic results. Interviews with accident investigators, co-workers, and victims' families detail the causes and consequences of accidents, while extensive news footage and home videos taken by accident survivors and family members expose the hazards of such industries as commercial fishing, construction and chemical refineries. An indictment of inadequate governmental safeguards, this important film makes a plea for the protection of workers.
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- TV17 Nov 1991
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Death on the Job was released on 17 November 1991.
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4/11/2026
When this was made, there were over 600,000 industrial accidents in the United States, and a further 2,100 people died as a result of incidents at work. There are a few specific examples developed here, starting with some excessive fishing that resulted in the sinking of a trawler in perfectly calm waters; a mining disaster caused by a build up of methane gas and then a massive explosion at a Texan petrochemical plan…
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