Trench Deaths: You Don’t Send Your Family To Die
And speaking of trench collapses… We wrote earlier this year about the tragic death of 25 year old Zachary Hess,…
Trench Deaths: A Tale of Two Dakotas
Check out the graphic on the right. What’s wrong with that picture? Somehow workers keep dying in trench collapses. Just…
Weekly Toll: More Workers Not Coming Home at the End of the Day
Mechanic dies after car falls on him in east Las Vegas auto body shop LAS VEGAS, NV — A mechanic…
Full of Surprises: OSHA Spring Regulatory Agenda Released
When Spring is in the air, this man’s fancy turns to (where else?) the 2018 Spring Regulatory Agenda to discover…
We won’t see their like again…
Although the sad news has been known to many of us for a while, Bloomberg Law officially announced the retirements…
Weekly Toll: Nothing New on the Workplace Death Front
Salisbury Chemical Plant Employee Dies After Falling Into Open Tank Salisbury, NC — The employee who died in a workplace…
Crushed to Death and Discarded: The Invisible “Third Men” of New York’s Garbage Industry
There are eight million stories in the Naked City, and some of them — like this one — you’d never…
Dreaming of Acosta Being Kicked Upstairs?
OK, it’s the weekend, so we can kick back and gossip and spread rumors. If you read last Monday’s Punching…
Blankenship: Negros, Chinapersons and 29 Dead Miners
There are a lot of things to hate Don Blankenship for. Putting production over safety leading to the deaths of…
Rest in Power: Workplace Safety Heroes John Mehring and Samuel Epstein
The workplace safety movement lost two of its heroes in March — one fairly well known (enough to get an…