East Palestine: The Forgotten Rail Workers
The trains must go through! As you might imagine, there was quite a mess to clean up in order to…
East Palestine Part 1: The Causes
Please excuse the length of this post. But once I went down the rabbit hole, I couldn’t get out. To…
East Palestine Part 2: Politics and the Road Ahead
Continued from Part 1: The Causes The Politics: Continued Warfare or a New Age of Bipartisanship? The politics of the…
Weekly Toll
Last week, workers were killed in falls, machinery, chemical plant explosion, shootings, plane crashes, electrocutions and vehicular incidents. On average,…
Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health
Amazon Cited Again….And Again…And Again There should no longer be any doubt in anyone’s mind — even in Jeff Bezos’s…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
In this report, workers died tree-trimming incidents, grain bin, falls, drowning, electrocution, shootings and vehicular incidents. On average, over 100…
Rail Disaster: For a Worst-Case Scenario, Look North
The East Palestine rail disaster is bad. But it’s not even close to a worst-case scenario. We have seen worse,…
Labor Department Cracks Down on Child Labor
Last Fall, I wrote about a Labor Department injunction against Packers Sanitation Services Inc. (PSSI) for illegally employing 31 children…
Modernizing OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program: Does it Make Sense?
OSHA announced today that it is inviting “the public and workplace safety stakeholders to share their comments on how the…
Labor Shortages? How About More Child Labor?
Last Fall, I wrote about an upsetting Labor Department injunction filed in federal court against Packers Sanitation Services (PSSI) Inc.…