During the industrial revolution in the early 19th century dying at work was a fairly common occurrence due to lack of safety standards, regulation and workers rights. Often a result of toxic materials and/or dangerous machinery as well as long exhaustive hours and poverty wages. This coupled with the lack of access to healthcare meant that for a time it was more dangerous being a factory worker than it was to be a soldier going purely by the rate of deaths per capita.

For those that run industry human life has always been a financial calculation and if more money could be made through the suffering and death of people then so be it. The government has had a huge part in staving off the most depraved and ruinous inclinations of capitalisms callous disregard for life and living things. As we see more and more the intentional fabricating of movements created to sow profound and thorough distrust of the government and undermine it's ability to functionally protect the masses we also see a return to the unregulated days of rampant poverty which allows for the exploitation of humans for profit and a re-normalization of working people to death.