I can't say for sure outside of my region in the states. My team is very small, we haven't had a recordable incident in 8 years... But our sister offices scattered around the region? Fucking atrocious, and at that safety meeting, we saw the graphs. Massive spike in incidents shortly after covid began. Another massive spike in late 2021, when the jab mandate was still on the table- I imagine a lot of good employees left. NPCs remained. NPCs are retarded, they make dumb mistakes, and in this field, a single dumb mistake doesn't just mean "you get a talking to by management", it means "HOLY SHIT YOU BLEW UP JEFF, WHAT THE FUCK DUDE?!" or something equally problematic. I was ALMOST involved in a recordable- a new employee, a field chemist, had packaged a vial of some kind of sodium compound... in a drum full of water. If you know basic chemistry, you might see where this is going. When I picked up said drum, the vial inside came open somehow, and the sodium was exposed to water. I felt it get really hot, realized what was about to happen and drop kicked the fucking thing. The lid burst off of it as I kicked it, ended up with some flames on my (thankfully flame-retardant uniform). Normally, sodium compounds like this would be packed in a drum of mineral oil, so that if the sodium container inside busted open somehow, it CAN'T react with the oil. The guy who almost blew my ass up is still working here. I watch him like a fucking hawk, because I don't trust him. I think he may get me killed one day. Guess what color his skin is.