ok.....lets say a doctor is performing eye surgery and operates on the wrong eye and you lose your vision....BUT the doctor is going through a divorce and doesn't feel "good" and wasn't working to his full potential....is that ok? Should he just regret his actions and that be it? Should he not be punished? I mean...he had a good excuse...right?
You are saying that as long as he has a good excuse he isn't responsible....
If the Doctor is feeling bad he should not have been doing surgery. Bad Example.
Doctor Operates on wrong eye is pure neglegence. Doctor operating on eye and nicks a nerve with a knife because a nurse runs in screaming, a bomb goes off, power flickers is an accident, he may at that very moment had something happen that is totally beyound his control. Chit happens.
You still have missed my point.
I never said the workers should just get off scott free. I did say it is something they will live with forever. That alone can be very punishing in its self, Knowing that you made a mistake that caused someone to die. Making them pay $1,000,000 is not going to change anything. Not every accident is negligence.
Contractor I work with sometimes does wood working for a hobby. He has been doing it for 30 years. Then one day he is doing the same rip on a table saw that he has done a hunderd thousand times got distracted at the wrong moment, he cut the tip of his finger off to the first joint.
There is always 2 sides.
Most likely these workers were negligent. My point is sometimes things just happen, the workers for what ever reason forgot to do something that they may have done a thousand times and it caused the death of someone. That can be called a terrible accident. Or the company failed to properly train the workers on safety, or they were just plain stupid.
