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Weekly Toll

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

February 9, 2026 Aina Atienza
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Seriously, Mr. President — We Cannot Afford to Dismantle FEMA

February 6, 2026 Kathleen Rest
Health Care Workers Workplace Violence

NY Nurses Strike for Safety

February 5, 2026 Jordan Barab
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Weekly Toll

February 3, 2026 Aina Atienza
Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job

January 27, 2026 Aina Atienza
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Workers Who Won’t Be Coming Home: The Weekly Toll

February 9, 2026 Aina Atienza

How Workers died last week: Snowplowing, falls, forklift, train, carbon monoxide, helicopter, drowning, trash compacter, vehicle incidents, carbon monoxide poisoning…

Climate Change

Seriously, Mr. President — We Cannot Afford to Dismantle FEMA

February 6, 2026 Kathleen Rest

This week, a coalition of unions and nonprofit organizations filed a lawsuit to block the Trump administration’s plan to cut…

Health Care Workers Workplace Violence

NY Nurses Strike for Safety

February 5, 2026 Jordan Barab

Anyone who reads Confined Space regularly is likely depressed about the ongoing shrinking of OSHA’s ability to police working conditions…

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Weekly Toll

February 3, 2026 Aina Atienza

How Workers died last week: Snowplowing, falls, machinery, gas exposure, utility poll collapse, scaffolding, electrocution, stabbing, firefighting, vehicle incidents and…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job

January 27, 2026 Aina Atienza

How Workers died last week: Fall into lubricant tank, crushed by falling steel, grain bin suffocation, snowplowing, falls, electrocution, stabbing,…

Bureau of Labor Statistics Recordkeeping

Reported Workplace Injuries and Illnesses decline in Last Biden Year

January 26, 2026 Jordan Barab

The number and rate of workplace injuries and illnesses in 2024 — the last year of the Biden administration —…

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The Unsung Heroes: Workers Braving the Monster Storm

January 24, 2026 Kathleen Rest

It’s a very cold, sunny Saturday morning here in Boston. Like many others, we are bracing for the monster snowstorm…

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Congress Rejects OSHA & MSHA Cuts

January 22, 2026 Jordan Barab

The Senate and House of Representatives agreed this week on an FY 2026 appropriations bill that rejected President Trump’s proposal…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: How Workers Die

January 19, 2026 Aina Atienza

How workers died last week: Bee attack, caught in chemical mixer, dough mixer and dip tank, hit be steel beam,…

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Is Labor Secretary Chavez-DeRemer Not Long for this (Political) World?

January 19, 2026 Jordan Barab

Donald Trump, who only hires the best, seems to be very very bad at choosing Secretaries of Labor. His first…

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