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…
City Decides to Protect Public Employees. Where’s the Rest of the State?
Following the death of Milton, West Virginia city worker Paul Linville in a trench collapse last month, the city of…
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DOL Issues Spring 2025 Regulatory Agenda
Fall is in the air, so it’s high time for the Trump administration to issue its Spring 2025 Regulatory Agenda…
House Budget Bill Mostly Duplicates Trump Request
Today we got our first peek of the House of Representatives FY 2026 Department of Labor (and NIOSH) budget proposal.…
Labor Day Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job
How Workers Died Last Week: Confined space, heat, cement roller, falls, electrocutions, coal mining, crane collapse, shootings, vehicle incidents. On…
Three More Killed in Confined Space
For the second week in a row, multiple workers have been killed in a confined space incident. Three workers died…
Trump & Republicans Escalate War on Coal Miners
Donald Trump has made a resurgence of the coal industry a top priority. That promise helped him win the nation’s…
Weekly Toll: Killed at Work
How workers died last week: Confined space, falls, logging, grain bin, skid steer, electrocution, fork lift, fire fighting, vehicle incidents,…
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:…