Weekly Toll: Killed at Work
This week: Falls, building collapse, vehicle incidents, shootings, drowning. On average, almost 100 workers are killed every week in the…
A newsletter of workplace safety and labor issues
This week: Falls, building collapse, vehicle incidents, shootings, drowning. On average, almost 100 workers are killed every week in the…
West Virginia miners beat back an attempt this week to weaken their mine safety protections. West Virginia mine worker Steven…
This week: 16 year old McDonald’s worker shot, mine worker killed, workers run over by bulldozers, killed in fire, crushed…
This week: Trench collapse, fires, shootings and stabbings, vehicle-related incidents, logging. Never short of different ways for workers to die…
When I walked into my new job at AFSCME on November 1, 1982, I was immediately given the workplace safety…
This is the last Weekly Toll. The last list of workers killed in a fall, crushed under a dirt compactor,…
Not a good couple of weeks to be a worker in Florida -- six workplace fatalities. But then, for many…
2018 is gone and buried. What happened in the world of workplace safety and health? What can we learn that…
Today is the 13th anniversary of the Sago Mine disaster that killed 12 miners and led to a sweeping modernization…
Notes: Seven of the 21 deaths listed here this week were from falls. Hard to believe. Gravity is not a…