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On-the-Job Deaths Vex Steel Industry
By Kris Maher and Robert Guy Matthews
Word Count: 905 | Companies Featured in This Article: ArcelorMittal, U.S. Steel, Steel Dynamics, Gerdau Ameristeel
At a time when steel mills in the U.S. are running flat out to meet increasing demand, the steel industry is trying to unravel the causes of on-the-job accidents that resulted in more deaths in the first half of 2008 than in recent full years.
The increase in fatalities has prompted the world's largest steel maker by revenue and output, ArcelorMittal, to agree to tie more executives' compensation to plant safety performance and to establish joint health and safety committees in all of its facilities under an agreement with unions. ArcelorMittal has had four fatalities involving workers at four different ...
plant (PUT) Show phonetics
verb
1 [T + adverb or preposition] to put something firmly and strongly in a particular place:
[R] My brother planted himself on the sofa in front of the television.
He planted a kiss on her forehead/a blow on his opponent's jaw.
2 [T usually + adverb or preposition] to cause an idea or story to exist:
That incident planted doubts about him in my mind.
Who planted these rumours?
The increase in fatalities has prompted the world's largest steel maker by revenue and output, ArcelorMittal, to agree to tie more executives' compensation to plant safety performance and to establish joint health and safety committees in all of its facilities under an agreement with unions. ArcelorMittal has had four fatalities involving workers at four different ...
The Washington Post goes with a near-banner headline, "An Economy Thrown Into Turmoil." USA Today's front page also features several big arrows; the ones for good things are going down and those for bad things are going up. "So this is what a day of reckoning feels like ... If it wasn't clear before Tuesday, it is now: This is no ordinary economic crisis, and it won't be over anytime soon," the paper writes.
That's a reckoning both the US and China are keen to avoid. On Sept. 11, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Christensen described Taiwan's UN gambit as "ill-conceived and potentially quite harmful," as well as a "needless provocation."
day of reckoning noun [S]
a time when the effect of a past mistake is experienced or when a crime is punished
verb [T] MAINLY UK
to calculate an amount:
Angela quickly reckoned the amount on her fingers.
The inflation rate is now reckoned to be 10%.
reckoning
noun [C or U]
a calculation which you make:
By my reckoning, we should arrive in ten minutes.
plant (PUT) Show phoneticsverb
1 [T + adverb or preposition] to put something firmly and strongly in a particular place:
[R] My brother planted himself on the sofa in front of the television.
He planted a kiss on her forehead/a blow on his opponent's jaw.
2 [T usually + adverb or preposition] to cause an idea or story to exist:
That incident planted doubts about him in my mind.
Who planted these rumours?
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