No Accidents, Only Oversights: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: helicopter crash, fall, occupational cancer, explosions, electrocution, skid steer rollover, head injury, and crushed by…
OSHA CARES: About the Boss
Let’s do some philosophizing and theorizing. Deep thoughts like: why does OSHA exist, how is it working out for workers…
Death in the Workplace: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: airplane and fire truck collision, falls, crushed by industrial equipment, medical episodes, train and truck…
Republicans Try to Impose Death Sentence on Silica Countertop Workers
A very new, yet very old and always deadly health specter is haunting American workers: acute silicosis. It’s not your…
Fatal Workplaces: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Trench collapse, pushed down the stairs, electrocution, heavy equipment, logging and tree care, railroad worker,…
Small but Mighty: How One Organization Has Championed Worker Health for Nearly Four Decades
Dateline: September 28-October 2, 1986, Las Vegas Nevada: The American Public Health Association was holding its annual meeting. A small…
New DOL Enforcement Memo Details Where Not to Enforce
Department of Labor Solicitor Jonathan Berry issued a new “enforcement” memo at the end of February to share his “enforcement…
Clocking in for The Final Shift: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Coal mine death, electrocutions, CO2 fire suppression system discharge, steamroller, trench collapse, vehicular collisions, shootings,…
50 Years Ago Today: The Scotia Mine Disaster
At approximately 11:45 a.m., March 9, 1976, a massive explosion caused by coal dust and methane gas blasted through Scotia…
The DeMise of DeRemer?
With the chaos enveloping this country and the world, those old, traditional stories of government corruption, personal malfeasance, coverups and…