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by 000ooo000 1024 days ago
Have been using this portal for a year or two and what surprises me is the number of fatalities in bus accidents in India and the like. Some weeks it seems like 50-odd people die a day in a bus accident in that part of the world. We had a 10 fatality bus accident here in Aus recently and it was "the worst road accident in decades". Pretty awful that it happens almost routinely elsewhere.
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Life is very cheap in India. Things like bus crashes, people falling off trains due to overcrowding don't even make the local news because they is always something worse and 'sensational' that grabs headlines more: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/raped-rajast...
I met with the health and safety team at a large multinational manufacturer, with factories all around the world, US, UK, Asia (including India and China). Their health and safety chart showed that, by a large margin, the highest number of worldwide health and safety lost days came from transporting workers to factories in India.