Family grieves a farm fatality — while facing a $12,000 MIOSHA fine

Michigan Farm News ^ | May 1, 2020 | Mitch Galloway

[madison10]

Please move if this belongs in chat. This is family.

[marktwain]

This is pure bureaucratic tyranny.

Sorry for your loss.

Petty bureaucrats unwilling to take responsibility for anything. It will likely be resolved in the family's favor, once it gets high enough.

[RedMonqey]

More bureaucracy that will be the death of the family farm.

None of these rules will make farm work more safe but serves only as more needless paperwork for the farmer full employment for government workers.

It will drive out the private family farm only to be replaced by a faceless, merciless corporate farm(run by the CCP)

[kalee]

I am sorry for your family’s loss. Prayers for resolution.

[RetiredTexasVet]

The objective of the rules by most, if not all, OSHA organizations is to enforce outlandish rules to generate revenue. The funds for these organizations come for the most part from fines and fees levied against the businesses that they oversee.

[sauropod]

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[farming pharmer]

Condolences. What ghoulish government wonka would pursue this? On a family farm?

[vigilante2]

The family should fine MIOSHA $12,000 for not responding in eight hours..

[SaxxonWoods]

I’m sorry to hear of your loss.

What ridiculous bureaucratic BS re the fine.

[Bommer]

“We”re the Government. We’re not here to help! We’re here to make your life miserable! Oh no charge for that....yet!”

[CJ Wolf]

good God these gov people are sick vultures.

[AlaskaErik]

Don’t expect any help from Governor Dimwit.

[rlmorel]

My condolences.

This is why many people dislike excessive and overbearing government.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

All money rightfully belongs to government.

Everybody knows that.

The family is lucky they don’t just confiscate the whole farm.

For the children.

[BwanaNdege]

Reminds you of the (tall?)tales of dissidents in banana republics being executed by firing squad and the family being billed for the ammunition.

Michigan isn’t a banana republic, is it?

[Spktyr]

Dunno about that, it seems to me that fall protection might have, by definition, kept this from being a fatality.

Also, in case you didn’t notice, this technically *was* a corporate farm. If you incorporate for liability benefits, you have to obey the same rules as any other corporation and this is what happens when you don’t. I can see the family’s point about waiving the fine for the reporting requirement, but the safety violations???

[Spktyr]

Not a tall tale. In the modern era, Iran has done it and it is official policy in China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_fee

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Marxist “Big Brotherism” is still strong in Michigan. Had hoped that after Comrade/KGB asset Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich) retired, that the Communist clique in the state would lose some of its power but I was wrong.

Michigan needs an enema the size of Kansas before they can clean their house of reds and pinkos and really stupid liberals/progressives.

[TBP]

Sorry to hear about this, and unfortunately, I expect this from bureaucrats, especially when tyrannical Democrats are empowering them.

[TBP]

"We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them...you create a nation of lawbreakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden." (2.2.3.39)