Apparently yet another company failed to run their business well and now we have a 3 mile wide sludge spill.
Caterpillar Inc., the Peoria-based maker of mining and construction machinery, confirmed in a statement Sunday that "an undetermined amount of waste oil" overflowed from a storage area at the company's manufacturing facility in Joliet.
"Caterpillar has notified appropriate authorities about this overflow, and the company immediately began corrective action when the overflow was discovered," the statement said. "The company is coordinating efforts to contain and remediate this overflow."
The company also said it would investigate the incident and "put in place management practices that minimize the potential for future occurrences."
Will put into place? WTF? You do that before you dump 65K gallons of sludge into the world. What is wrong with these people? What is wrong with us that we create organizations that let this happen?
Update:
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50,000 gallons of raw sewage spills into local creek
Recently the Tennessee Valley Authority made the news relative to two ash spills.