Failing to Protect America’s Workers: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Trench collapse, helicopter crash, hit-and-run, falls, farming, mowing, drowning, rollovers, vehicular collisions and shootings. On…
Those Who Didn’t Come Home: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Skid loader incidents, airplane crash, lawn mower, explosions, industrial incidents, firefighting, drowning, heat, shootings, and…
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Dispatches From the Front Lines of Occupational Safety and Health
Are you dreading the long boring weekend coming up? Well, never fear. Confined Space is providing you with lots of…
Thank You to Those Who Run Toward the Danger
Every September 11, many of us remember exactly where we were and what we were doing when we heard the…
The Quiet Heroes of the Back-to-School Season
In many places, students are returning to school this week, and the familiar signs of a new academic year are…
Trump’s Dangerous “Gold Standard” for Science
Under threat: scientists’ independence to do research and tell the truth; public health science; and science at universities Likely outcome:…
Worker Deaths Approaching Labor Day: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Machinery, lawn care, grain bin, firefighting, rollovers, tractor incident, firefighting, welding explosion, vehicular collisions and…
Labor Day: A Celebration of Working People—and the Movement That Made It Possible
Ah… Labor Day. For many of us it means a three-day weekend, the last days of summer, a backyard barbecue,…
Heat, Champagne Socialism and Faux Empathy: The Republican Circus
The Republican-controlled House Education and Labor Workforce Committee held a very interesting and helpful circus hearing yesterday on the “burden”…
Worker Bashing Hearing Tomorrow
In case you think the Republican-controlled Congress isn’t doing anything useful, here’s living proof. Tomorrow at 10:15, the House Education…