Besides Chevron, are there other companies that have had major conflicts or legal issues with Oxy? I saw they’ve filed lawsuits against Wells Fargo and Sanchez Energy in the past. Any others in the U.S. that have clashed with them?
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@13d Magnolia Oil???
@13d , I assume you have names to prove this.
Every ex-Oxy employee who tried launching their own E&P got hit with lawsuits—Oxy didn’t stop at them, they went after their families, kids… and even their second cousins twice removed.
@bj when you find a company that does dangerous work and no one ever gets hurt, get a job there. I assume you won’t find any people there, because people make mistakes. It’s not about excuses, it’s about real life vs utopia. You know that.
There is no excuse for workers getting hurt or ki-led on the job. It is all about training,, training, and more training. It doesn’t matter how dangerous of a business you are in. There is a safe way to do your work and there is a not so safe way. Corporate rules and policies have a lot to do with promoting the safe way even if it costs the Company money. Oxy is a very safe company.
The company has indeed had many terrible accidents, that’s for certain. It is in a field that involves extremely dangerous work, work that produces products that the country, and the world for that matter, demand and could not do without. You know how many workers died building the Hoover dam? Worker and public safety is much better now than it was 100 or even 50 years ago, but bad accidents will continue to happen. Life is not 100% safe and never will be. Maybe someday robots will do the dangerous work, then we will all die in traffic accidents. Then we can blame Ford and GM.
I think there was a post or reply a couple entries down that listed every single one of them across environmental, industrial accident, corruption, bribery, business litigation and direct lawsuits/damages on almost every level. It was a good summary and states each example in the companies history. It also received many thumbs down despite each example being verified, so that's a good indication its true and the people at Oxy don't like to hear it. Might try looking those up, but I'm guessing the biggest payout was Piper Alpha, which is one of Oxys proudest moments in its great record. Best of luck.
You are so naive. The types and number of lawsuits that corporations have against other corporations would blow your mind. Every little dispute is turned over to each company’s legal department for resolution. Litigation is usually the way cases are resolved. Why do you think big corporations have such a large legal departments?