The local paper, the Courier-journal, contained a brief mention of the death of two men at the Tyson plant in Robards, Kentucky. One of the men was working near a vat of chicken parts when he fell and landed in the steaming mess. He attempted to get out but the gas from those rotting chicken guts overwhelmed him and he passed out. Other workers gathered around and planned to rescue him but there were no lifts, no harnesses, no safety chains, no standard equipment, in fact, nothing whatsoever. Some of the workers tied ropes around a chair and lowered another man down to him but that guy was overcome by the gases as well. Both men suffocated and died in that pot of gore. The first man was in his twenties with two small children, the second was in his forties. The most tragic element in this sad story is that, when a representative from the Labor Cabinet for the state of Kentucky was asked why there was no safety equipment at all, he answered that OSHA was understaffed and can only get around to inspecting a plant every three years. The Tyson plant had been open two years and I took that to mean that the plant had only been inspected upon opening or had never been inspected at all. Given that it had been open two years and no old or worn safety equipment was lying around, I took the latter interpretation.