Skip to content
  • Tue. Jun 3rd, 2025

Confined Space

A newsletter of workplace safety and labor issues

  • Books, Resources and Publications
  • Other Newsletters, Journals and Blogs
  • Political Action
  • About Confined Space
  • Contact
Budget Chemical Safety Board MSHA OSHA Susan Harwood Worker Training Program Whistleblowers

Trump Budget to Workers: Drop Dead

June 2, 2025 Jordan Barab
Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

May 27, 2025 Jordan Barab
Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Workplace Death

May 20, 2025 Dylan Chamberlin
Agriculture Congress Heat Walkaround

House OSHA Hearing: Rhetoric vs. Reality

May 19, 2025 Jordan Barab
Trump

The Gift – and a Regifting Proposal

May 16, 2025 Kathleen Rest
  • Latest
Trump Budget to Workers: Drop Dead
Budget Chemical Safety Board MSHA OSHA Susan Harwood Worker Training Program Whistleblowers
Trump Budget to Workers: Drop Dead
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Public Employees Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Weekly Toll: Workplace Death
Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: Workplace Death
House OSHA Hearing: Rhetoric vs. Reality
Agriculture Congress Heat Walkaround
House OSHA Hearing: Rhetoric vs. Reality
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 Budget to Workers: Drop Dead
Budget Chemical Safety Board MSHA OSHA Susan Harwood Worker Training Program Whistleblowers
Trump Budget to Workers: Drop Dead
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Public Employees Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Weekly Toll: Workplace Death
Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: Workplace Death
House OSHA Hearing: Rhetoric vs. Reality
Agriculture Congress Heat Walkaround
House OSHA Hearing: Rhetoric vs. Reality
Budget Chemical Safety Board MSHA OSHA Susan Harwood Worker Training Program Whistleblowers

Trump Budget to Workers: Drop Dead

June 2, 2025 Jordan Barab

In Washington DC, the classical way to attempt to hide bad news is to announce it late Friday afternoon. And…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

May 27, 2025 Jordan Barab

How Workers Died Last Week: Electrocutions, explosion, fire, forklift, machinery, drowning, tree care, logging, shootings, stabbing, vehicle incidents. On average,…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Workplace Death

May 20, 2025 Dylan Chamberlin

Here are how some workers were killed on the job over the past couple of weeks: falls, animal attacks, forklifts,…

Agriculture Congress Heat Walkaround

House OSHA Hearing: Rhetoric vs. Reality

May 19, 2025 Jordan Barab

For those of you who missed it, the House Education and Workforce Committee held a hearing last week titled “Reclaiming…

Trump

The Gift – and a Regifting Proposal

May 16, 2025 Kathleen Rest

The gift was BIG news; big in so many ways. I’m talking about the BIG gift that the government of…

Congress Jordan Barab

FLASH!!! OSHA Hearing Tomorrow

May 14, 2025 Jordan Barab

If you have an hour or two on your hands tomorrow morning, I will be testifying at the hearing by…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

May 6, 2025 Dylan Chamberlin

Meanwhile, workers continue to die. Here are how some were killed last week: Scaffolding collapse, machinery, mudslide, falls, farming tree…

Agriculture Mine Safety NIOSH

Partial Stay of Execution? What’s Happening at NIOSH?

May 1, 2025 Jordan Barab

On April 1, the Trump administration snuck up behind the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and murdered…

Books Occupational Disease

American Poison: How Leaded Gas Companies Beat The Toxicologists

May 1, 2025 Scott Schneider

One hundred years ago scientists solved a puzzle: how to improve gasoline to make cars more fuel efficient and eliminate…

Fires and Firefighting Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Workers Memorial Day Edition

April 30, 2025 Dylan Chamberlin

Monday was Workers Memorial Day where we pause to remember the dead and fight like hell for the living. Meanwhile,…

Posts pagination

1 2 … 110
Subscribe to Confined Space

Enter your email address to subscribe to Confined Space and receive notifications of new posts by email. (You will get an email to confirm.)

Join 1,665 other subscribers
Search
Tip Jar
Feel free to drop a few bucks in the tip jar now and then. Use Paypal by clicking below. And thank you!
READ BOOKS: And buy at Powells
Powells is a union bookstore in Portland. Visit Scenic Powells.com
Archives
Categories
  • 2024 Elections
  • AFL-CIO
  • Agriculture
  • Alex Acosta
  • Amazon
  • Ammonium Nitrate
  • Asbestos
  • Automobile Industry
  • Avian Influenza (H5N1)
  • Beryllium
  • Blame the Worker
  • Blog
  • Books
  • Brett Kavanaugh
  • Budget
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • Centers for Disease Control
  • Chemical Plant Safety
  • Chemical Safety Board
  • Chemical Standards
  • Child Labor
  • Climate Change
  • Combustible Dust
  • Confined Space
  • Congress
  • Congressional Review Act
  • Construction
  • COSH Groups
  • COVID-19
  • Criminal Prosecution
  • David Michaels
  • Deconstructing the Administrative State
  • Department of Labor
  • Dipatches (Short Stuff)
  • Do It Yourself
  • DOGE
  • Election 2024
  • Enforcement
  • Environmental Protection Agency
  • Ergonomics
  • Fall Prevention
  • Fatalities
  • Fires and Firefighting
  • Fissured Workplace
  • Freak Accident
  • Gig Workers
  • Government Accountability Office
  • Harwood (See Susan Harwood Worker Training Program)
  • Health Care Workers
  • Heat
  • House of Representatives
  • Humor
  • Hurricane Harvey
  • Immigrants
  • In Memorium
  • Infectious Diseases
  • International
  • Job Postings
  • Jordan Barab
  • Journalism
  • Labor
  • Labor Unions
  • Lac Megantic
  • Lockout Tagout
  • Meatpacking & Poultry Workers
  • Mine Safety
  • MSHA
  • NIOSH
  • Occupational Disease
  • Office of Management and Budget
  • OIRA
  • OSHA
  • Penalties
  • Photo of the Week
  • Poultry Industry
  • Press Releases
  • Process Safety Management
  • Public Employees
  • Railroads
  • Recordkeeping
  • Regulations and Standards
  • Regulatory Process
  • Risk Management Program (EPA)
  • Senate
  • Short Stuff
  • Silica
  • State Plan States
  • Supreme Court
  • Susan Harwood Worker Training Program
  • Temporary Employees
  • This Day In History
  • Trench Collapse
  • Trump
  • Uncategorized
  • Volks Rule
  • Voluntary Protection Programs
  • Wage and Hour Division
  • Walkaround
  • Weekly Toll
  • West Fertilizer Explosion
  • Whistleblowers
  • Workers Compensation
  • Workers Memorial Day
  • Workplace Catastrophes
  • Workplace Illness
  • workplace safety and health programs
  • Workplace Violence
  • Year in Review
States
Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
Meta
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
Top Posts & Pages
  • Trump Budget to Workers: Drop Dead
  • Political Action
  • Trump Picks OSHA/MSHA Heads
  • Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
  • Trump to Visit Company Where Worker Was Killed After Company Removed Guard
  • Other Newsletters, Journals and Blogs
  • The Purge: DOGE Kills NIOSH -- And Workers
  • House OSHA Hearing: Rhetoric vs. Reality
  • The 2023 Confined Space Year In Review
  • AFL-CIO Issues 2025 Death on the Job Report
Follow Me on Bluesky
  • Bluesky

Confined Space

A newsletter of workplace safety and labor issues

Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Newsup by Themeansar.

  • Home
  • Books, Resources and Publications
  • Organizations
  • Other Newsletters, Journals and Blogs
  • Political Action
  • About Confined Space
  • Contact