Weekly Toll: Last Week’s Workplace Fatalities
Another week, and another list of preventable deaths. Two double fatalities this week: Two workers killed in a power plant…
19 Year-Old Worker Killed in Baltimore Trench
Nineteen years is a short life, but that’s all that Kyle Hancock of Glen Burnie, Maryland will get. Hancock died,…
Inspector General Issues Bizarre Chemical Safety Board Report
The Inspector General (IG) issued a somewhat bizarre report yesterday on “management challenges” at the Chemical Safety Board. The IG…
Weekly Toll: Last Week’s Workplace Deaths
Man dies in pressroom accident at Pennsylvania newspaper ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A contractor (Ruben Ocasio-Fernandez, 32)became trapped underneath a piece…
Chemical Plant Safety
Chemical Safety Board
Climate Change
Environmental Protection Agency
Hurricane Harvey
OSHA
Process Safety Management
Arkema Chemical Plant Investigation Results in Weak CSB Recommendations
The Chemical Safety Board released its report on the Arkema chemical incident last week. You may recall that during the…
Weekly Toll: Memorial Day Edition
Today is Memorial Day when we remember those who gave their lives defending this country and the freedoms we defend…
Blankenship Does Us A Favor
Don Blankenship,who spent a year in jail because 29 miners died in his Upper Big Branch mine? What good is…
Congress
Deconstructing the Administrative State
House of Representatives
Regulations and Standards
Regulatory Process
House Holds Worthless Hearing on “Regulatory Reform”
Sometimes you just have to wonder why House Republicans even bother. Yesterday they wasted the taxpayer’s money holding a ridiculous…
Patterson CEO Bonus Slashed to $2.25 Million After Explosion Kills 5
Adding tragedy to catastrophe, Patterson UTI CEO Andy Hendricks is receiving only a paltry $2.25 million bonus for 2017 because…
Tesla’s Recordkeeping Violations Show How Repeal of OSHA’s Volks Rule Hurts Workers
One of the first actions of the Republican Congress after Trump’s election was to repeal OSHA’s recently issued “Volks Rule”…