Quote Originally Posted by Renton View Post
Also, one can view this as trading risks for other risks. Someone who works in construction 50 hours a week for $30,000 a year should snap push the button for a pretty low amount (maybe like 300,000 or less) and quit his job. He's be choosing a 1% straight up death risk in place of an aggregate similar death risk over time (read: health risk). He could use the money to invest in himself to work in a field that has less detriment to health and more reward for his time.
This is only true from a statistical point of view. Most construction related deaths are due to stupidity by the worker. Between OSHA and insurance companies it's getting almost impossible to get a job done without an abundance of ppe (personal protective equipment). Most deaths and injuries happen because the inflicted worker decided not to follow the safety guidelines put in place to keep him safe in the first place.

I see it all the time on my jobs. Some guy who's working 30' above a concrete slab will put on a harness but fail to attach his lanyard to whatever piece of structure there is because it's easier to perform his task without being tied off. The company has supplied him with the proper ppe but he has decided not to use it. The risk only exists because he decided to make it exist.