[thrown_22]

>Because that's other people dying.

My first job out of high school was on an old school oil rig: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Jn2BU4eyVHQ

What worried me about it wasn't the fact I could lose a hand, but that more than half the chemicals we were getting smeared in daily weren't properly tested for their long term effects on humans.

[fluoridation]

The distinction you're trying to draw seems unclear to me. Why is bodily harm from chemicals worse than bodily harm from mechanical forces?

[cactacea]

Worse isn't the distinction, clarity of danger is. If your hands didn't get crushed at work that day then you can stop worrying about your hands when you go home. Not the case with whatever he was swimming in.