"The school failed to maintain safe working conditions or heed National Weather Service warnings on a day wind speeds in the area reached 53 mph, the Indiana Department of Labor said.""The other violations included a failure to make annual, monthly or weekly inspections of the lifts for more than a year; a failure to have the scissor lift serviced as required by the manufacturer; and a failure to have an operator's manual on the unit. The lift also was missing some warning labels, while others were faded and weathered."
Now I know the Irish will probably get hit in Civil Court for this by the Sullivan family, but for the state to only impose a 77k fine is totally absurd to me. I cannot believe this was the fine they came up with. Now I do not know how they come up with these numbers but this number seems awfully low. Like is their somewhere in Indiana State Law that says "Death of Student operating on 40 foot high lift in Severe Weather and excessive winds :75k dollar fine. The number just seems so arbitrary to me. Pretty weak nonetheless. All I'm saying is that the punishment does not seem to fit the crime. This is a massive university that takes in about 40k per student and has an extremely wealthy alumni. Pretty sure ND could have mustered up a little more money in this one considering someone lost their child. Pretty messed up
Dude, you're retarded. Notre Dame didn't fine themselves. It's not like they picked how much they were going to be fined. The State of Indiana decided on the amount of the fine. Besides, what does how wealthy ND alumni and how much tuition costs factor into what the punishment should be? If Bill Gates got a speeding ticket for going 15 over, should his fine be $2 million dollars because he has a lot of money? Least thought out post yet.
ReplyDeleteThe point of my comments were that if someone gets killed for your university not keeping up to code they should get fined more. Obviously I know ND did not fine themselves, I just wanted to point out that it was travesty that it was such a small amount and it was more a detriment on the state of Indiana than ND.
ReplyDeleteTime for the jerk off lawyer to provide a legal explanation of the fine: The Indiana State Department of Labor is the governing body when it comes to workplace safety in that state. This province is granted to them by the Indiana State Legislature. The same legislature is responsible for approving the safety regulations suggested by the department and the fines that are levied for violations. Those fines are fixed by statute and correspond to each rule broken. Under Indiana state law, the Department of Labor fined the University of Notre Dame the maximum amount allowable under the law. So, I believe that Chet was actually voicing a distaste for the labor regulations in the state of Indiana; advocating a system where institutions who have more means to create a safe work environment should be held more accountable when they do not do so. The point is that ND has all the money in the world to make things safe and they did not. Ideally the state labor statute should hold them accountable in a manner that reflects this.
ReplyDeletePost script: I believe Chet’s overall distaste with the University of Notre Dame Football may have also come into play, but any right-minded American should know what a disgusting organization the Notre Dame football program (and for that matter their entire athletic office) is.
Can you please elaborate on what makes the ND football program (and their entire athletic office for that matter) a "disgusting organization"? I know you can't be talking about paying players, recruiting violations, or graduation rates. So, please, give me some insight on what makes the ND football program, and their entire athletic office, so despicable.
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