The Indiana Department of Labor says the state's workplace injury and illness rate remained the same in 2010 compared
to 2009, but the agency's commissioner says improvement is needed.
The Times of Munster reports data released Thursday show workplaces reported 4.3 injuries and illnesses per 100
workers last year. It marked the 13th straight year when the statewide rate didn't increase.
Labor Commissioner Lori Torres said the two largest employer sectors — manufacturing, and state and local government
— experienced more injuries and illnesses than previous years. Manufacturing and government both reported more than
five incidents per 100 workers in 2010.
Incidents in the state's third-largest employment sector — health care and social assistance — fell 9 percent,
to fewer than six incidents per 100 workers.
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Well, we could blame ABC because they haven't advertised the INDY 500....not during the HUGE TV rating shows like Dancing with the Stars (of which IICS driver Helio Castroneves is a former champion). He never won a CART championship, did he?
We could blame the new car...because it's ugly and has a V6 that has less horsepower than the pace car. CART (to my knowledge) never had that problem with cars they presented at the speedway years 1979 through 1995.
We could blame the fencepost, but that would be crass. Or maybe Danica? Or maybe Jean Alesi....or boost increases from constant rules tampering. Maybe we could blame Penske who still is winning everything as usual.
Maybe we can blame the world for not understanding the the great Indy gods who regularly twist things in such ways that we mere mortals must only accept, but never question.
So, it does beg the question....who is responsible if the series and Indy continues to flounder? Are the responsibilities so diffuse and complicated that no one really is to blame for it's fall from grace?
I urge the speedway to sign on for 7 more years of ABC coverage and 7 more years of NBC Sports Network coverage. It been win-win so far....*cough* *cough* -
"They're problem was thinking they were bigger than the institution that made their existence possible. That turned out to be a mistake."
The above quote made by Disciple shows his continued inability to grasp a simple concept: CART is dead. Twice. It provided a brilliant stage for some of the best open wheel racing in all the past century of racing. It's gone DOOD, get over it.
PLEASE explain, Mr. Disciple of INDYCAR, why you continually hammer home, even on the eve of the 2012 Indy 500, this same point...over and over? Seriously, why does the legacy of CART haunt you so much?
The same problems that affected the sport for over a century of AOW racing STILL affect it now. Your answers (or lack thereof) belittle the very sport you claim to love. Indy rots in your hands yet you request status quo. You negate salient points with drivel...always.
Indy is not going to die. But, it is dying...are you willing to accept that? "Indy is a hot mess"....it's true. Yet you want it that way? What is wrong with you? -
I just want to make sure I am reading this right - Wellpoint is eliminating 112 employees. Wellpoint is a customer of Repucare. Repucare is creating 82 jobs. I sure hope they are hiring Wellpoint employees. Does not make sense!
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Triscuts...love um!
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Of course the fair will go on. Don't you big city reporters understand county fairs? Get outside the beltway and see what life is really like!
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That is either a really crappy measurement or innaccurate reporting. Employee injuries should be examined by specific class codes and payrolls. Using the number of workers out of 100 neither accounts for different types of job classifications, (i.e. steel worker vs. bank teller), cost of healthcare by locality, average age of worker, etc.
Why are we taxpayers footing the bill for something that could be more accurate, not to mention cheaper, if it was a study undertaken by the smart young business students at IU, Purdue or Ball State? Those kids love stuff like that.
Another boondoggle for some huge accounting firm that gave money to somebody, I suppose...