Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
How Workers Died over the past few weeks: Crushed, electrocuted, shot, suicide, explosion, vehicle incidents. On average, over 100 workers…
OSHA Issues Proposed Heat Standard
OSHA announced today the issuance of a draft Heat Protection standard that will protect 36 million workers from the deadly…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
How Workers Died over the past few weeks: Heat, drowning, workplace violence, electrocution, shootings, falls, explosions, building collapse, vehicle incidents.…
Bad Week for Worker Safety: Chevron Deference and Budgets
Not a good week. And I’m not even talking about last night’s debate. What’s been happening that you really don’t…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
I’ve been traveling for a few weeks, so this and next week’s list will be a bit longer than usual.…
Workplace Heat Protections: Forward for the Feds; Progress and Coup in California
As the nation plunges into the summer’s first major heat wave, protections for workers seem have taken a couple of…
Bill Introduced to Stop Public Employees’ Deaths
Somewhere close to 100 workers are killed in the workplace every week of the year. It’s a tragically normal thing,…
Weekly Toll: How Workers Die
I’ve been traveling for a few weeks, so this and next week’s list will be a bit longer than usual.…
OSHA’s New Walkaround Rule Approaches. Be Afraid?
You probably didn’t know…. But a specter is haunting America business. The specter of mass unionization. And the tiny Occupational…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Last week two workers were killed in grain facilities, 8 migrant farmworkers were killed in a traffic incident, workers were…