Oil Field Workers: “We’ve just got to find a way not to kill them.”
American workers drilling for oil have dirty, dangerous jobs that often kills them. In return, they’re covered by weaker OSHA standards than other American workers. Investigative Journalist Jim Morris tells the story of these workers.
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Howard Berkes has published a major investigative piece for NPR/Frontline on the resurgence of black lung among coal miners. Read it or better yet, listen to it. Berkes puts most of the blame on failures of the Mine Safety and Health Administration, but is who is really at fault, the regulatory agency or the mine owners?
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OSHA State Plans: love ’em or hate ’em, but we have to live with them. The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, Ohio Valley ReSource and the Center for Public Integrity have just put out a devastating series of articles and audio reports about serious flaws in Kentucky’s state run OSHA program, and raised serious questions about the… Knoxville News Sentinal’s Jamie Satterfield, the investigative reporter who has been following the story about cleanup workers who died and were sickened by their exposure to coal ash in the cleanup of the massive spill at the Tennessee Valley Authority Kingston Fossil Fuel Power Plant in Tennessee, was interviewed yesterday on NPR’s All Things Considered. You… Charleston Gazette-Mail reporter Ken Ward is a rare specimen in many ways. First, he’s a journalist — and there aren’t many of those around any more — at least many good ones. Second, he’s an investigative journalist. He actually digs for stories — and by “dig,” I mean way below the surface to the root… It is Halloween night, 2016, and, as I reach the outskirts of town, it feels as though I am entering Mordor. Bursts of red and yellow flames shoot up out of the earth, illuminating the pitch darkness. These are the byproducts of oil fracking, the natural gas and methane that are burned away by producers… Some people — especially journalists — sometimes falsely label workplace fatalities as “freak accidents” even when they’ve happened before and could have been prevented. But how can you tell? Here is a couple of handy examples: Freak Accident 2 teens arrested in killing of Burien grandmother by stray bullet BURIEN, Wash. — Two teen boys… There are eight million stories in the Naked City, and some of them — like this one — you’d never believe. After all these years, I’m the stories of the work people — especially immigrants — do in this country continue to amaze and sicken me. This is a ProPublica and Voice of America investigation by Kiera Feldman… Jim Melius. Leslie Nickels. Jack Sheehan. Mike McGraw. Paul Nyden. As a new year starts, everyone from the New York Times to the Academy Awards looks back at those we have lost and the effect they had on our lives. We’ve already discussed the sad losses of Adrian Markowitz, Rick Burns and George Yoksas last year. …“Suffocating While Alive” The Return of Black Lung
Are Kentucky — And Other OSHA State Plans — Failing Their Workers?
Interview With Journalist Jamie Satterfield About Workers Poisoned by Coal Ash
Ken Ward: Genius Journalist
Working in Mordor: Workers and the Hazards of Oil & Gas Pipeline Work
Freak Accidents? How to Tell
Crushed to Death and Discarded: The Invisible “Third Men” of New York’s Garbage Industry
The Lives They Lived. And The Gifts They’ve Left Us With