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Trump Administration Retreats on NIOSH Destruction

January 14, 2026 Jordan Barab
Congress Silica

Congressional Hearing: Protecting an Industry that is Killing Workers

January 14, 2026 Jordan Barab
Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

January 12, 2026 Jordan Barab
Trench Collapse

Trench Collapse Deaths Ring Out the Old Year

January 8, 2026 Jordan Barab
Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Dying in the New Year

January 6, 2026 Jordan Barab
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Trump Administration Retreats on NIOSH Destruction
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Trump Administration Retreats on NIOSH Destruction
Congressional Hearing: Protecting an Industry that is Killing Workers
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Congressional Hearing: Protecting an Industry that is Killing Workers
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Public Employees Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Trench Collapse Deaths Ring Out the Old Year
Trench Collapse
Trench Collapse Deaths Ring Out the Old Year
Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
Deconstructing the Administrative State OSHA
Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
COVID-19 Supreme Court
Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
Brett Kavanaugh OSHA
Kavanaugh: Threat to Workers and to OSHA
OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
COVID-19 Health Care Workers OSHA
OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
Trump Administration Retreats on NIOSH Destruction
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Trump Administration Retreats on NIOSH Destruction
Congressional Hearing: Protecting an Industry that is Killing Workers
Congress Silica
Congressional Hearing: Protecting an Industry that is Killing Workers
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Public Employees Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Trench Collapse Deaths Ring Out the Old Year
Trench Collapse
Trench Collapse Deaths Ring Out the Old Year
Mine Safety MSHA

Donald Trump’s Mad Love of Coal Versus the Miners Who Pay for It with Their Lives

December 3, 2025 Rena Steinzor

This past April, President Donald J. Trump issued one of the wackiest, fact-challenged and ineffective executive orders of his second…

Weekly Toll

Workers Who Won’t Be Coming Home: The Weekly Toll

December 1, 2025 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Skid steer, electrocution, fire, assault, shootings and vehicle incidents. On average, over 100 workers are…

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A Thanksgiving Thank You for Those Working on the Holiday

November 26, 2025 Kathleen Rest

Thanksgiving is a day when many of us gather with family and friends to relax and celebrate the holiday. Our…

Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

How Workers Died Last Week: Weekly Toll

November 25, 2025 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Trench collapse, machinery, crushed by pipes, acid exposure, forklift, airplane crash, conveyer belt, shootings and…

Mine Safety MSHA This Day In History

Farmington Mine Disaster and the Blood of Coal Miners

November 20, 2025 Jordan Barab

Today is the 57th anniversary of the 1968 Farmington Mine explosion. At 5:30 in the morning on November 20th, a…

Enforcement Journalism State Plan States

Nevada Gov Drops OSHA Penalties for Musk

November 19, 2025 Jordan Barab

It sounds like one of those detective show plots: Workers suffer serious chemical burns at workplace owned by the world’s…

Weekly Toll

Killed on the Job: Weekly Toll

November 17, 2025 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Coal mining, construction, fall, machinery, electrocution, vehicle incidents and shootings. On average, over 100 workers…

Weekly Toll

Dead on the Job: The Weekly Toll

November 10, 2025 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Airplane crash, suicides, lawnmower, trapped in machinery, firefighting, electrocutions, vehicle incidents and shootings. On average,…

This Day In History Uncategorized Workplace Catastrophes

The Edmund Fitzgerald: 50 Years Later

November 10, 2025 Jordan Barab

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed In the Maritime Sailors’ Cathedral The church bell chimed, ’til it…

International

The Work Continues: Ramazzini Days 2025 and the Future of Occupational Health

November 5, 2025 Chip Hughes

Carpi, a medieval city in Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, hosted something urgent last weekend—not in the sense of panic, but…

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