OMG! Terrible. God Bless those people.

So sad . blessings to those poor people. But this is why it cost more money to make things in the USA. We have better safety measures and more worker's rights .

Can't help but wonder when was the last time this fireworks factory was safety inspected?????????? I doubt whether it ever was. ever. That's why in India the rich get richer and poor get poorer. Sound familiar????? In India safety and work standards are a figment of the imagination. I guess non-existent is the proper terminology.

Hmmmm -- I see "STAR WARS" all over the fireworks wrapper. I wonder if Lucasfilm has contacted the Om Siva Shakti fireworks factory yet?

I'd like to expand on something Jennifer said. Wouldn't it be a better idea to extend U.S. safety & workers rights measures to the rest of the world? We have most favored nation status, free trade agreements, & tariff reductions to reward compliance. Non-compliance would result in boycotts, sanctions, import duties, etc.

The costs of imports would get so high it would be cheaper to manufacture things in the U.S. (And now for the gymnastics portion of the program where someone bends & twists logic to explain why more jobs for Americans is a bad thing.) Anti-American demonstrations would become extremely awkward, since people who work for a living, & their dependents are a solid majority in any country. Illegal immigration would just fade away. Anyone dumb enough to go to the expense & risk of breaking into the U.S., when he can get a decent job at home, should be easy to catch.

Best of all, incidents like this will become rare, instead of expected occurrences.

Brings back flashbacks of Union Carbide.

If some folks have their way, this will be the way of the U.S.A..

Condolences to the families of the dead and wounded.

I agree with most of the posts here. What caught my attention most though were the fact that six employees were arrested. Sounds like the type of safety programs we are getting shoved down our throats in the U.S. 1. All accidents are preventable, so its your fault. 2. Don't report a near miss, you could get fired. 3. We will attempt to blame you with our liablity for worker safety. Yep sounds like the type safety program they had here. Thats why American Corporations flock to these countrys. India has been a favorite of American business. What kind of people head our corporations. They care nothing for human sufferage and life. Look at this poor under nourished women on this bed (a injured employee). She can't sue the company though because it was her fellow employees fault and she might be implicated also for getting injured because remember although the place blew up around her it was "HER FAULT". American Corporations, you gotta luv'em.

Horrible tragedy. How will the company ever find replacement workers?

It really does sound like Union Carbide all over again. Cheaper, less expensive foreign goods come at a human price. Condolences for all the families affected.

There was once a phrase - Public Corporation, which meant you could prosper by as much as the market would bear, with the provision that your products were of benefit to the public. In one of the many ironies connected to communism, capitalists adopted Marx's bizarre theory of rule by bureaucracy before the ink was even dry on the "Manifesto". The word "public" was dropped, & in addition to the family owned inherited despotic monarchy, we had the coporate totalitarian tyranny.

Businesses have evolved. Now instead of producing goods & services, they produce executive compensation & stockholer dividends. If we're injured or killed for profits, we should be grateful for the opportunity to"take one for the team". After all those profits produce jobs building private jets, yachts, & mansions. Let's conduct an informal poll. How many of us do this kind of work?

I prefer a free market economy, something communists won't allow, & capitalists hate.