Jacky Ickx Quotes

Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.

In 1896 one out of every 11 steel workers would die on the job.

It is a reproach to our civilization that any class of American workmen, should in the pursuit of a necessary and useful vocation, be subjected to a peril of life and limb as great as that of a soldier in time of war.

Injuries are part of the job.

Every job carries occupational hazards.

I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people, and that plant - that plant kills people.

[My grandfather -a miner] had black lung, and he didn't talk about it much. It's almost like a combat veteran. But he witnessed some horrific things.

In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly.

The mother-in-law had an accident at work. A hot rivet dropped down her drawers and she fell off the oil rig.

Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk.

In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85.

From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands.

The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.

Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.

In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.

If the worst thing that can happen is that nobody laughs, then I can deal with that, because the worst thing that can happen at the factory is that I could lose a limb or be crushed by a huge machine.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.

Every single Federal mine safety initiative has been written with the blood of miners.

Whether we, as individuals, are motivated by simple humanity or by simple economics, we can no longer permit profits to be dependent upon an unsafe or unhealthy work site.

No pound of coal is worth getting hurt over.

This is going to sound really crude, but I lost my fingers in a meat grinder.

I worked in the pit for more than 20 years and never had a serious injury.

Our prisons are very bad. When I was in Ikoyi prison, people were dying every day. They were carrying bodies out of the prison every day.

My father lost an eye to a snapped cable while trying to rescue trapped miners, though he kept on working for fifteen years afterward.