Weekly Toll: Death at Work
Silo suffocation, refinery fire, highway construction, wildfire, electrocution — all the ways that workers died last week. n average, almost…
Why Can’t the City Afford to Enforce Contractor Safety Standards?
Welcome to another chapter of Do-It-Yourself-Neighborhood-Health-and-Safety-Inspector. As many of you know, while walking to dogs, I’m constantly running across unprotected…
Three Workers Dead in Grain Silo, Including a Child. OSHA Can Do Nothing
In what may be the largest mass casualty workplace event this year, three workers were killed after being trapped in…
OSHA Reschedules Chemical Plant Safety Stakeholder Meeting
For those of you interested in commenting on OSHA’s update of its aging process safety management standard, the agency has…
New Rail Deal May Still Be Doomed Over Scheduling Issues
Does this seem like a good way to attract loyal, dedicated, satisfied workers? Come work for the railroad. It’s a…
Weekly Toll: Crushed, Buried, Suffocated on the Job
Drowned in a trench, suffocated in a corn silo, crushed under a stone, Trench Collapse, grain silo suffocation, falls, burned…
Lessons of the Averted Rail Strike
And we have an agreement…. I was over at the Department of Labor building yesterday and there were paper signs…
Crippling Rail Strike Looms as Rail Companies Refuse to Address Workers’ Concerns
Rail companies' sceduling policies force railworkers to strike.
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Yet another Trench Collapse. Workers dead in industrial incidents, rail crashes, shootings, electrocutions and vehicle incidents. On average, almost 100…
Elise Stefanik and the Republican War on Workers
New York Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik is a piece of work. This comes as no surprise to anyone who follows…