The company that chartered the cargo ship that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was recently sanctioned by regulators for blocking its employees from directly reporting safety concerns to the U.S. Coast Guard — in violation of a seaman whistleblower protection law, according to regulatory filings reviewed by The Lever.

Eight months before a Maersk Line Limited-chartered cargo ship crashed into the Baltimore bridge, likely killing six people and injuring others, the Labor Department sanctioned the shipping conglomerate for retaliating against an employee who reported unsafe working conditions aboard a Maersk-operated boat. In its order, the department found that Maersk had “a policy that requires employees to first report their concerns to [Maersk]… prior to reporting it to the [Coast Guard] or other authorities.”

  • @rhombus
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    He didn’t say that the government won’t go after Maersk, just that the federal government is fronting the cost. If the bridge had to wait for Maersk to pay up it could be years before they begin rebuilding.

    • PP_GIRL_
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      -763 months ago

      If you believe that will happen I’ve (literally) got a bridge to sell to you

        • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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          113 months ago

          Looking at their post history, yes.

          They also spend a lot of time in NSFW communities while preaching how bad porn is.

      • @[email protected]
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        233 months ago

        It happens all the time, a lot of things get handled this way because the infrastructure still needs to be fixed in a reasonable timeline.

      • @[email protected]
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        203 months ago

        There’s thousands of examples of this working correctly in America, and very few of it not working.

        Please kindly stop spouting nonsense that’s not backed up by data.

      • deaf_fish
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        143 months ago

        Whoa, shifting goal posts. We were talking about what Biden said, not if we believed it. Slow your roll.