Of Birds and Men: DuPont, Corporate Penalties and the Law
Just over 18 years ago, I wrote a post entitled “Of Fish and Men” where I observed that “The penalty…
AFL-CIO Issues Death on the Job Report
Friday is Workers Memorial Day, the day every year that is dedicated, in labor organizer Mother Jones’ words to “Mourn…
Weekly Toll: Mourning for the Dead
Last week workers were decapitated in a vehicle crash, crushed in a trench collapse, caught in machinery and killed in…
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health
Workplace Violence Back on Congressional Agenda Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) and Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) re-introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation that…
ATF Doubles Down on Unscientific Finding of Arson in 2013 West Fertilizer Blast
Like certain politicians, some government agencies just have no shame. Despite widespread condemnation by fire investigation experts and the citizens…
Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week
Last week workers were crushed in a trench collapse, machinery and by a falling pipe. A worker died of a…
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West Fertilizer Explosion
The West Fertilizer Explosion Ten Years Later
It was exactly a ten years ago tonight that that my wife called me from another room to say she…
Weekly Toll: Killed at Work
Last week, two workers killed in a trench collapse, 19 year old killed in tree trimming incident, others killed in…
Book Review: Flying Blind — Corporate Greed, Captured Regulators and 346 Deaths
Corporate greed kills. Mostly one at a time. But in some cases, hundreds. Specifically, in this case, 346 souls. Flying…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Last week: Workers crushed by trees and stone slab, killed by mass shooter, hit by cars, killed by forklift, electrocuted…