Tunnel monster

Ah yes, socialists love private equity firms. Well known for that. And you should understand what "employee owned" can mean, It can mean a number of different things, but I highly doubt Bain Capital is a workers' co-op or anything of that sort. It just means they have stock options and the like. I won't pretend to know all the ins and outs, but it's not a worker cooperative like the Mondragon Corporation in Spain, which absolutely does have socialist/anarcho-syndicalist roots.

I can surmise a lot of information about a candidate by knowing what party they belong to. Particularly in this day and age. Having their party affiliation listed is a good thing. Otherwise, Republicans would just always run somebody who comes alphabetically first and win all of the time.

Right? He could've taken the train. Imagine how much fuel spent just to fly from D.C.

boomer alert

Thing with something like a bucket truck or boom lift is that they can basically act as a catapult. The harness would be attached with a lanyard somewhere on the boom or in the basket/bucket within operator reach. An accident can still involve injury, and possibly even death. But if you're wearing a harness and lanyard, it keeps ya from getting ejected, ejection being much less survivable.

Don't want to speak ill of the dead or speculate too much, but there were very likely multiple safety rules being broken. From PPE, maybe traffic control, maybe inexperience. Won't know until the investigation is done.

They're required to, but from my experience a lot of folks take safety shortcuts even when they aren't being pressured by a boss. Harness and a lanyard is required on this type of equipment, but it sounds like he wasn't wearing it.

From the sounds of it, this wasn't the semi driver's fault.