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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
OSHA

Students: Help Workers Fight for Safe Working Conditions

January 5, 2026 Jordan Barab
DOGE Heat Journalism MSHA NIOSH Regulatory Process Year in Review

2025 Confined Space Year in Review

January 5, 2026 Jordan Barab
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This Day in Workplace Safety History: The Sago Mine Disaster

January 2, 2026 Jordan Barab
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Trench Collapse Deaths Ring Out the Old Year
Trench Collapse
Trench Collapse Deaths Ring Out the Old Year
Weekly Toll: Dying in the New Year
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Weekly Toll: Dying in the New Year
Students: Help Workers Fight for Safe Working Conditions
OSHA
Students: Help Workers Fight for Safe Working Conditions
2025 Confined Space Year in Review
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Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
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Trench Collapse Deaths Ring Out the Old Year
Trench Collapse
Trench Collapse Deaths Ring Out the Old Year
Weekly Toll: Dying in the New Year
Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: Dying in the New Year
Students: Help Workers Fight for Safe Working Conditions
OSHA
Students: Help Workers Fight for Safe Working Conditions
2025 Confined Space Year in Review
DOGE Heat Journalism MSHA NIOSH Regulatory Process Year in Review
2025 Confined Space Year in Review
Trench Collapse

Trench Collapse Deaths Ring Out the Old Year

January 8, 2026 Jordan Barab

At least five workers were crushed to death in preventable trench collapses in the last month and a half of…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Dying in the New Year

January 6, 2026 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Overturned tractor, crushed in machine, trapped in farm equipment, shootings and vehicle incidents. On average,…

OSHA

Students: Help Workers Fight for Safe Working Conditions

January 5, 2026 Jordan Barab

Are you a college or graduate student interested in work, workers and workplace safety and health? Do you want to…

DOGE Heat Journalism MSHA NIOSH Regulatory Process Year in Review

2025 Confined Space Year in Review

January 5, 2026 Jordan Barab

Ah, the hopeful dawn of a new year! This is a time when we look back fondly at the events…

Mine Safety MSHA This Day In History

This Day in Workplace Safety History: The Sago Mine Disaster

January 2, 2026 Jordan Barab

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Sago mine disaster.

Year in Review

Report Card on Previous New Year’s OSH Resolutions

January 1, 2026 Kathleen Rest

Two years ago, January 1, 2024 — back when the world made sense — I drafted some New Year’s Resolutions…

Weekly Toll Workplace Violence

No Happy New Year: The Weekly Toll

December 29, 2025 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Logging, construction, gas explosion, truck repair, avalanche, mining, stabbing, shootings and vehicle incidents. On average,…

Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll

December 22, 2025 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Trench collapse, skid steer, fork lift, coal mining, fall, shootings and vehicle incidents. On average,…

Immigrants

An Open Letter to ICE Agents

December 18, 2025 Kathleen Rest

To the men and women of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: I write to you not as an adversary, but…

Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

How Workers Died Last Week: The Weekly Toll

December 16, 2025 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Two separate trench collapses, trash compacter, falls, snowplow, demolition, shootings and vehicle incidents. On average,…

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