Weekly Toll: Workers Killed on the Job
Logging, mining, firefighting, confined space, lightning, highway construction, crushed by stone slab, vehicle incidents and shootings. On average, over 100…
Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health
There is a lot happening in the world of workplace safety and health. . Miners Rally to Force Silica Protections…
The Dark Side of the Chip
By Chip Hughes When Maria, a 32-year-old technician in Phoenix, first started at the sprawling TSMC fab, she thought she…
Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job
How Workers Died Last Week: Six public employees killed, not including four fire and police officials. Also, forklift, drowning, highway…
Government Shutdown: Trump 2.0 Style
So, once again we ask “Will the Government shut down at midnight tomorrow?” And more important, what does this mean…
Smoke Gets In Your Lungs
These are not good times for those who care about workers’ safety and health. Democrats and labor feel frustrated, powerless…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
How Workers Died Last Week: Crushed by machinery, tiger attack, pipeline, farming, drowning, tree trimming, construction, vehicle incidents and shootings.…
Weekly Toll: End of Shift
How Workers Died Last Week: Confined space, electrocution, oil field explosion, firefighting, falls, drowning, helicopter crash, farming, tree trimming, construction,…
Weekly Toll: Not Coming Home From Work
How Workers Died Last Week: Machinery, tuberculosis, construction, forklift, skid steer, logging, vehicle incidents, stabbing and shootings. On average, over…
City Decides to Protect Public Employees. Where’s the Rest of the State?
Following the death of Milton, West Virginia city worker Paul Linville in a trench collapse last month, the city of…