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Maintaining the Failure of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration: State–Corporate Crime Through Tolerance and Permission
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This research explores the failures of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to effectively protect workers in the United States. Utilizing a secondary analysis of OSHA records, OSHA regulations, and scholarly and journalistic accounts of occupational violence, this research highlights the role of the state in creating and recreating the structure within which work-related health and safety regulations are routinely violated. Although we acknowledge that regimes of permission emerge from state–corporate symbiosis, our purpose here is not to explore the symbiotic nature of the relationship between the state and corporations which has led to the failure to protect workers. Instead, this research seeks to expose the consequences of the symbiosis, a regime of permission that allows corporations to maximize capital accumulation by ignoring health and safety regulations.
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Name variations include (but are not limited to) Patterson-Uti, Patterson-Uti Drilling Company, Patterson Drilling-Uti, Patterson-Uti Drilling Co Lp, and Uti-Patterson.
These figures are possibly understated given incomplete OSHA data. Due to unreliable data, no complete and accurate number can be provided for fatalities occurring between 2008 and 2010; however, at least four fatalities did occur on Patterson-UTI worksites during this time frame (3/27/08, 5/5/2010, 6/3/2010, and 11/27/2010). This means that over a ten-year period (2003–2013), there was a minimum of 31 worker fatalities related to Patterson-UTI (most of which occurred in the state of Texas). At least another nine fatalities occurred between September 2000 and September 2002 (US Department of Labor 2016).
Given the inconsistencies in the IMIS database, this listing is likely incomplete.