PaulAdrian's Blog

I think this is typical of government - getting lax and lazy. It was more than fortunate, no one was killed or badly injured in the explosion/fire. I'm sure there will be a request for 'more money' to do what they should be doing...but in several years, all will be once again be back to lax and lazy.

What I would like to know is will this company be fined for not training their employees properly? I think they should be charged with the clean-up instead of the taxpayers.

That is simple; we expect for these agencies to do their jobs to avoid this kind of horrid "accidents" such as this but seems they have already swept this one under the carpet.

Citizens take so much for granted, we expect everyone is doing their jobs. How are we to know who is lax and lazy? Do we need babysitters for each agency and how could we trust the babysitters? Everyone greases everyone on that big political wheel. It makes me dizzy just thinking about it.

No, we just have to wait for something to blow or something to flood or someone to die to find out, by journalist such as yourself, that dig and pry to find out someone is not doing their jobs. I know I for one do not have the time, money or resources to ensure my tax dollars are being utilized wisely *(she types, laughing hysterically).

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I saw the story on the explosion and wonder why you are interviewing the employees and putting so much emphasis on the fact that they are ex-convicts.What we should be concerned about is the fact that they received no safety training at all. Where was their supervisor? Who trained the worker who drove the truck where the explosion started? I think it is ridiculous to insinuate that their being ex-convicts had anything to do with the explosion.We should be concerned with making sure that facilities like this are inspected on a regular basis and that safety training is being done or we will see this happen again.

There is this book that they're suppose to have in plained sight. A easy located area to easy locate this book that is called a ( MSDS )
Material Safety Data Scheet. That describes all the important information in the book.

Their safety program for the company needs to be looked into far as if they followed their safety policies. OSHA regulations were violated. I'm sure that there are violations here that need be further investigated if not all ready done so. I'm sure the Dallas Fire did all that they could in there findings.

Under Texas Statues there is in the book. Criminal Negilects and with that it is up to the Justice system to sort thru the mess now.

With all due respect Paul, you want to profile X-cons in a situation where the John Q citizen is the one that is being deceptive. Thats weak and uncalled for. I hire X-Convicts all the time and they are better employees than all the "good citizens" ever could be. I'll be damned if they aren't better workers thant Illegals too. "good citizens" are bigger on breaking the rules than the X-Cons. Press wants to profile X-Cons but turns their head when their own boss breaks more laws and rules than all cons combined. Till you have any proof of wrong doing by the X-Cons, you need to back off. As if you never did anything wrong before...geeez Cops will be the first ones to tell you that the difference between X-cons and them is, they didnt get caught. Check yourself before you point fingers. ( X prison guard, now self employed)