As Mining Deaths Rise, MSHA Gets Acting Head — With No Mine Safety Experience
MSHA has joined OSHA with a new Deputy Assistant Secretary as the agency’s highest official until an Assistant Secretary is…
Interior Department Cancels Surface Mining Health Study
The Trump administration has halted a study of the health effects of mountaintop removal strip mining for people living near…
Kansas City Star Calls on Trump, Congress to Give OSHA Tools It Needs
Following up on its article (and my blog post) on the tragic trench death of DJ Meyer last December, the…
OSHA Issues Largest Workplace Violence Citation in its History. Good indication for the Future?
Although I am frequently critical of OSHA under the Trump administration, never let it be said that I have failed…
Weekly Toll (Actually 3 Weeks): Death in the American Workplace
Summer vacations, eclipses, white power marches and murders –but one constant: people keep dying in American workplaces One killed in…
Trench Death: ‘Mom, I got in a ditch today, and it started caving in on me and I got out’
There is so much sad and infuriating about this story that it’s hard to know where to begin. How about…
5 Killed in Tampa: Playing With Fire And Workers’ Lives
The Tampa Bay Times has published a fascinating and tragic investigative piece on the June 29, 2017 incident where five…
OSHA Shuts Down Recordkeeping Webpage Due To Alleged Security Breach
OSHA announced yesterday that it was temporarily shutting down a portal for employers to report injuries and illnesses while the…
Solution to Workplace Injury of Immigrant Workers: Deportation
Immigrant workers do some of the most dangerous jobs in this country, and get hurt and killed most often. Now…