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. …
Weekly Toll: Death on the Job
How workers died last week: falls, machinery and vehicle incidents, forklifts, shootings, cranes, firefighting, grain auger. On average, over 100…
Didion Milling: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Kill Workers
On May 31, 2017, a grain dust explosion ripped through a corn mill owned by Didion Milling, a Wisconsin corn…
Speaker Mike Johnson, OSHA and Dog Bites
So, the nation finally has a new Speaker of the House. An ultra-conservative, rabidly anti-abortion, Christian Nationalist, Trumpy, Big Lie…
Weekly Toll: Death on the Job Takes No Vacation
I’ve been on vacation — but death in the workplace takes no breaks. Over the last couple of weeks, two…
CDC to Healthcare Workers: Drop Dead
The preventable deaths of thousands of front-line healthcare workers from COVID-19 was one of the many great tragedies of the…
Shutting Down Government — and Worker Protections
As we careen into yet another pointless and preventable government shutdown, I’m republishing a post I wrote before the last…
Weekly Toll: Say Their Names
Three 18-year-olds dead. How workers died last week: Electrocution, falls, machinery, vehicle incidents, tree care, drowning, forklift, confined space and…
OSHA Cites Before Worker Is Killed
Just a short follow-up to yesterday’s post about the death of an 18-year-old who fell from a roof because his…
18-Year-Old Killed in Fall: Why We Need OSHA, Part 843,053,495
All workplace deaths are tragedies and the vast majority are 100% preventable if OSHA standards are complied with. In other…