All in a Seven Days’ Work: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: bird flu, mining, shootings, electrocutions, falls, on-duty medical emergencies, vehicular collisions, helicopter crashes, carbon monoxide…
Occupational Fatalities: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Trench collapse, heavy machinery incidents, tree care, aerial vehicles crashing, falls, construction incidents, occupational cancer,…
Clocking in for the Final Shift: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: asphyxiation, crushed to death, stabbings, rollovers, firefighting, explosions, vehicle incidents, shootings and occupational cancer. On…
Workplace Deaths: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: rollovers, falls, firefighting, vehicular collisions, stabbings, tree care, falling objects, hits-and-run, shootings, crane incident, and…
Sacramento Bee investigative series documents shocking management failures at Cal/OSHA
Discussing California’s OSHA program (Cal/OSHA) tend to be a game of “Best of times, worst of times.” The state’s OSHA…
Deadly 9-to-5: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: mining, firefighting, electrocutions, tree trimming, rollovers, entrapment, and drowning, shootings, stabbings and vehicular incidents. On…
Carnage in Highway Work Zones
Imagine trying to do a difficult, physically taxing job — often in hot, noisy, dusty environments, or in cold, dark…
No Quiet on the Workers’ Front: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Heat, farming, falls, construction, woodchipper, helicopter crash, rollovers, occupational cancer, shootings and vehicular collisions. On…
Workplace Tragedies: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Seven highway construction workers were killed on the road last week. Also falls, electrocutions, oil…
NRC Wants to Bulldoze Workplace Radiation Protections
If your job requires you to work with radiation, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), whose mission it is to protect…