A newsletter of workplace safety and labor issues
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced lots of new members of the newly christened House Education and Labor Committee this morning — and all but one are newly elected members of Congress. (I’d say new “young” members, but one of the new members is former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala — hardly a youngster…
Supermarket Employee Killed in Fall from Ladder Pasco, WA — A supermarket employee, Duoc Tran, fell to his death at Comumbia Market when the ladder he was climbing to retrieve an object for a customer slipped and he fell and hit his head on the floor. [Source Washington Department of Labor and Industries.] Construction worker…
Yesterday marked the 159th anniversary of the Pemberton Mill collapse that killed an estimated 145 workers.
When it comes to attacks on workplace safety and workers’ rights, it’s always something. Read all about it here. You won’t be sorry.
Life at the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are in chaos with a growing number of open high-level positions, resignations and Senate failure to move on confirmations. Meanwhile the government shutdown has put a crimp in the leadership’s dream of rolling back regulations. And it doesn’t look to get better anytime soon.
As Confined Space readers know, the solvent Methylene Chloride has killed dozens of workers and consumers who used the material in enclosed spaces without realizing the extreme danger of the substance. MC is so hazardous that the Obama administration proposed to ban it. As might be expected, however, Trump’s EPA, under former administrator Scott Pruitt…
Weekly Toll: Holiday Season Provides No Vacation From Workplace Death
2018 is gone and buried. What happened in the world of workplace safety and health? What can we learn that we can put to good use in 2019?
Today is the 13th anniversary of the Sago Mine disaster that killed 12 miners and led to a sweeping modernization of mine safety regulations.
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