Workplace Safety

* Re “GOP Moves to Nullify Ergonomics Regulations,” March 3: The cost to corporations to prevent injury: minor. The cost of injuries not prevented: immeasurable.

In my case, a $50 corporate expenditure would have prevented$3 million-plus in lifetime costs to myself and other taxpayers. Why should other workers finance the costs of injury--Social Security disability, workers’ comp, medical cost-shifting by workers’ comp to private insurance and the injured, lost taxable wages and shattered lives?

In overturning the OSHA ergonomics rules, the GOP is backing yet another corporate welfare program at the cost of the individual taxpayer. Do not corporations have a moral and financial responsibility to protect workers against the No. 1 cause of work injuries?

DUSTIN MACKIE

Aliso Viejo