To be totally fair to Willy Wonka, at least a couple of those candy factory casualties involved kids deliberately circumventing reasonable safeguards, sometimes aided and abetted by the parents who were supposed to be supervising them. What happened is at most 60% his fault.
I love when someone casually mentions their messed up sleep schedule or that they haven’t eaten anything but popcorn all day and their friends immediately go “YOU TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF RIGHT NOW OR I’M GONNA PUNCH YOU IN THE MOUTH”