Criminal Prosecution After Willful OSHA Citations for 5 Deaths at Tampa Electric?
On June 29, 2017, five workers were burned to death at Tampa Electric’s Big Bend Power Station — Michael McCort,…
NY Times Misses the Point on “Regulatory Fatigue”
Buried in paragraph 6 of an article on Page 11 of today’s New York Times — right next to an…
Appeals Court Upholds OSHA Silica Standard
There is no better holiday gift than the gift of life and that is what the DC Appeals Court gave…
Is Opioid Addiction the Most Important Workplace Safety and Health Problem?
I’m going ask some questions in order to start a conversation here — about workplace drug abuse, workplace fatalities and…
“Anything goes” Death at Goodyear — in the Workplace and on the Road
Goodyear Tire and Rubber makes tires. They also seem to be good a killing people in a variety of different…
Workplace Fatalities Rose in 2016
In the unlikely event that anyone out there was thinking that workplace fatalities were fading into the past, check out…
The Weekly Toll: More Workers Not Coming Home
Firefighter battling SoCal wildfire dies from ‘thermal injuries, smoke inhalation’ SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — A firefighter died Thursday while…
Trump’s War on Coal (Miners) Continues
When I noted last week that OSHA had come out of the new Fall 2017 Regulatory Agenda relatively unscathed, I…
CDC Censors List of Words: What Does This Mean For NIOSH?
We have just received word that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the government agency whose mission it…
Fall Regulatory Agenda Released: Not Much New For OSHA
Yesterday was that bi-annual event that all red-blooded Americans celebrate: the release of the new federal Regulatory Agenda; in this…