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OSHA & MSHA Get Leaders: A Good Thing?

October 9, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Weekly Toll: Workers Killed on the Job

October 6, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health

October 3, 2025 Jordan Barab
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The Dark Side of the Chip

September 30, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job

September 29, 2025 Jordan Barab
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OSHA & MSHA Get Leaders: A Good Thing?

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OSHA and MSHA finally have leaders. David Keeling was confirmed by the Senate earlier this week to be the new…

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Weekly Toll: Workers Killed on the Job

October 6, 2025 Jordan Barab

Logging, mining, firefighting, confined space, lightning, highway construction, crushed by stone slab, vehicle incidents and shootings. On average, over 100…

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There is a lot happening in the world of workplace safety and health. . Miners Rally to Force Silica Protections…

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The Dark Side of the Chip

September 30, 2025 Jordan Barab

By Chip Hughes When Maria, a 32-year-old technician in Phoenix, first started at the sprawling TSMC fab, she thought she…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job

September 29, 2025 Jordan Barab

How Workers Died Last Week: Six public employees killed, not including four fire and police officials. Also, forklift, drowning, highway…

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Government Shutdown: Trump 2.0 Style

September 29, 2025 Jordan Barab

So, once again we ask “Will the Government shut down at midnight tomorrow?” And more important, what does this mean…

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Smoke Gets In Your Lungs

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These are not good times for those who care about workers’ safety and health. Democrats and labor feel frustrated, powerless…

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How Workers Died Last Week: Crushed by machinery, tiger attack, pipeline, farming, drowning, tree trimming, construction, vehicle incidents and shootings.…

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9/11 reflections: Mental Health as Worker Health

September 12, 2025 Chip Hughes

In September 2001, I found myself at the World Trade Center (WTC) site as part of the National Institute of…

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