Armed Liberal at Winds of
Armed Liberal at Winds of Change explores the underlying statistics about mine safety, and coverage of other statistics, and has a great conclusion:
A good assessment both of our current state, and of the place we should be. AL leaves out one issue, which is the long-term effect of deferred maintenance. I don't know how many violations represent deferred maintenance that will cause problems later (I'm not asserting one way or the other).
I do know that people manage to their metrics, and if our metrics are high fines, we'll get high fines. If they are low deaths...well, let's just say that fines alone are not be the metric we ought to be looking at.
A good assessment both of our current state, and of the place we should be. AL leaves out one issue, which is the long-term effect of deferred maintenance. I don't know how many violations represent deferred maintenance that will cause problems later (I'm not asserting one way or the other).
