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I read with interest and sadness Bruce Machart's April 23 Op-Ed article, "Only an Accident." The loss of life is tragic no matter how it happens, but we cannot chalk industrial catastrophes up to "accident." While incidents like the factory explosion in West, Tex., are often preventable, corporate negligence and poor government oversight drastically increase the risk that they will happen.
When we think of violence, we think of events like the Boston bombing: spectacular and immediate. But preventable industrial accidents also constitute a form of violence, one that often proves much more devastating and persistent. Over time, these incidents create far more death and misery than that caused by bombings, which, while awful and unconscionable, are extremely rare.
Bombs mobilize our fears, but the daily devastation wreaked by corporate negligence is also tragic, and it will become only more so if we allow it to remain invisible.
CASEY WILLIAMS
Durham, N.C., April 23, 2013
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