Can Good Journalism Save Workers’ Lives?
Unions are struggling. Workers are intimidated. Congress is comatose. The courts are rigged. OSHA is too small and drastically underfunded. …
A newsletter of workplace safety and labor issues
Unions are struggling. Workers are intimidated. Congress is comatose. The courts are rigged. OSHA is too small and drastically underfunded. …
How workers died last week: falls, machinery and vehicle incidents, forklifts, shootings, cranes, firefighting, grain auger. On average, over 100…
On May 31, 2017, a grain dust explosion ripped through a corn mill owned by Didion Milling, a Wisconsin corn…
So, the nation finally has a new Speaker of the House. An ultra-conservative, rabidly anti-abortion, Christian Nationalist, Trumpy, Big Lie…
I’ve been on vacation — but death in the workplace takes no breaks. Over the last couple of weeks, two…
The preventable deaths of thousands of front-line healthcare workers from COVID-19 was one of the many great tragedies of the…
As we careen into yet another pointless and preventable government shutdown, I’m republishing a post I wrote before the last…
Three 18-year-olds dead. How workers died last week: Electrocution, falls, machinery, vehicle incidents, tree care, drowning, forklift, confined space and…
Just a short follow-up to yesterday’s post about the death of an 18-year-old who fell from a roof because his…
All workplace deaths are tragedies and the vast majority are 100% preventable if OSHA standards are complied with. In other…