This is not the price of a human life as you define it, but American government agencies consider the price of a human life to be worth $10M, which is way more than the $200k fine.
GONZALEZ: These are pre-coronavirus numbers. But to convince workers to take this risk, companies have to pay them an extra $400 a year - each of them. So if I accept $400 to take a 1 in 25,000 chance of dying at work, I have revealed, essentially, a value that I put on my own life. And if the group of 25,000 people get $400 each, that’s $10 million.
![[CW: dead children] $200K is not enough of a deterrent to stop them from hiring children.](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/d1448390-d767-42a4-b562-dd1f59de3e5f.webp){kind=link}
This is not the price of a human life as you define it, but American government agencies consider the price of a human life to be worth $10M, which is way more than the $200k fine.
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/23/843310123/how-government-agencies-determine-the-dollar-value-of-human-life
Somewhat better but still not enough. It’s not just his life, an entire family has been destroyed for their whole lives too.