Six Killed in Confined Space Catastrophe
Six workers were killed Wednesday on a dairy farm in Keenesburg, Colorado, about 45 miles northeast of Denver. Many details…
Who Cares About the Lives of Public Employees?
It’s once again time to remind everyone of one of the nation’s most tragic — and least known — injustices:…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
How workers died over the past couple of weeks: Trench collapse, confined space, plane crash, helicopter crash, drowning, electrocution, tree…
Senate Budget Offers Worker Safety a Stay of Execution
The Senate Appropriations Committee has sent a strong response to Trump’s efforts to undermine worker safety: Go To Hell. The…
Weekly Toll: Death in the American Workplace
How workers died over the past couple of weeks: three dead in trench collapses, heat, electrocution, machinery, firefighting, forklift, falls,…
OSHA: The Optional Safety and Health Administration
You are about to enter another dimension. A dimension not only of actual sight and sound, but of corporate greed…
Dispatches: Some Great Reading to Fire You Up
I’ll taking a break for the next couple of weeks (and hopefully away from the computer.) But just because there’s…
Weekly Toll: How Workers Die
How workers died last week: Fall into a meat grinder, crushed by beam, electrocuted, stabbed, shot, suicide, forklift, struck by…
Congress Holds OSHA Hearing: AFL-CIO Injects Some Reality
In powerful testimony before the House Education and Labor Workforce Committee yesterday, AFL-CIO Health and Safety Director Rebecca Reindel warned…
OSHA Hearing Today
If you’re looking for some excitement this morning, the House Education and Workforce Committee’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections will hold…