Where's Daddy?

Where's Daddy?, is a chilling question asked by a five year old when quitting time has long since past and Dad has not come home yet. The phone rings. Your heart jumps in your chest and the anguish on Mothers face goes ashen."What, she screams"? "He did what"? You never forget that day for the rest of your life. The day that Daddy didn't come home! All over this country, on any given day, at any given time, sombody's Daddy doesn't come home from work. It happens all of the time. A fall. A crush. An electrocution. A smothering. An entrapment. A poisoning. A cave-in. You would think that we live in an uncivilized country but we don't. We live in the U.S.A. where we have the best food, clothing, housing, medical facilities, and some of the most modern machinery that was ever invented in the history of the world. Why then does this kind of thing keep happening? Why do workers get killed on the job? Because we still take chances don't we? We still walk on that narrow plank high above the construction site don't we? We still change wall recepticles live because we are so careful don't we? We still take that short cut to unjam that machine because it takes too long to stop it and unjam it safely don't we? Daddy, make sure you come home tonight. Somebody is counting on you.