The Dark Side of the Chip
By Chip Hughes When Maria, a 32-year-old technician in Phoenix, first started at the sprawling TSMC fab, she thought she…
Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job
How Workers Died Last Week: Six public employees killed, not including four fire and police officials. Also, forklift, drowning, highway…
Government Shutdown: Trump 2.0 Style
So, once again we ask “Will the Government shut down at midnight tomorrow?” And more important, what does this mean…
Smoke Gets In Your Lungs
These are not good times for those who care about workers’ safety and health. Democrats and labor feel frustrated, powerless…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
How Workers Died Last Week: Crushed by machinery, tiger attack, pipeline, farming, drowning, tree trimming, construction, vehicle incidents and shootings.…
Weekly Toll: End of Shift
How Workers Died Last Week: Confined space, electrocution, oil field explosion, firefighting, falls, drowning, helicopter crash, farming, tree trimming, construction,…
9/11 reflections: Mental Health as Worker Health
In September 2001, I found myself at the World Trade Center (WTC) site as part of the National Institute of…
Remembering the Heroes and Losses of 9/11
Every day is a good day to take a moment to recognize and be grateful for the multitude of workers…
Appeals Court Opens the Way—Someday—to OSHA Regulation of Ergonomics
In an important, but almost un-noticed opinion last month, the federal Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (covering Michigan,…
Weekly Toll: Not Coming Home From Work
How Workers Died Last Week: Machinery, tuberculosis, construction, forklift, skid steer, logging, vehicle incidents, stabbing and shootings. On average, over…