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Agriculture Chemical Safety Board Dispatches (Short Stuff) Heat Journalism Mine Safety MSHA NIOSH Workers Compensation

Dispatches From the Front Lines of Occupational Safety and Health

September 11, 2026 Jordan Barab

Are you dreading the long boring weekend coming up? Well, never fear. Confined Space is providing you with lots of…

Agriculture Weekly Toll

Workers Not Coming Home This Week: The Weekly Toll

August 19, 2026 Aina Atienza

How workers died last week: rollovers, grain bin incident, three electrocutions, falls, firefighting, industrial incidents, and murder-suicide, on-duty medical emergencies,…

Agriculture Heat Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Mourning for Preventable Deaths: The Weekly Toll

August 3, 2026 Aina Atienza

How workers died last week: trench collapse, grain bin, heat(?), tree care, electrocutions, lightning, flooding, industrial incidents, grain bin incident,…

Agriculture Public Employees Weekly Toll

Occupational Fatalities: The Weekly Toll

July 13, 2026 Aina Atienza

How workers died last week: grain bin incident, farming, tree care, copper mine, fall, industrial incidents, equipment malfunctions, railroad, explosion,…

Agriculture Confined Space Dispatches (Short Stuff) Enforcement Journalism Labor Unions Meatpacking & Poultry Workers

Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health

March 2, 2026 Jordan Barab

OSHA Inspections Down 20% in 2025; Keeling Promises More Hiring A group of Democratic Senators has send a letter to…

Agriculture Confined Space Weekly Toll

Workplace Fatalities: The Weekly Toll

February 24, 2026 Aina Atienza

How workers died last week: crushed, 2 grain bin suffocations, confined space, skiing avalanche, chemical gas leaks, hydrogen sulfide gas…

Agriculture Confined Space NIOSH

Six Killed in Confined Space Catastrophe

August 22, 2025 Jordan Barab

Six workers were killed Wednesday on a dairy farm in Keenesburg, Colorado, about 45 miles northeast of Denver. Many details…

Agriculture Congress Heat Walkaround

House OSHA Hearing: Rhetoric vs. Reality

May 19, 2025 Jordan Barab

For those of you who missed it, the House Education and Workforce Committee held a hearing last week titled “Reclaiming…

Agriculture Mine Safety NIOSH

Partial Stay of Execution? What’s Happening at NIOSH?

May 1, 2025 Jordan Barab

On April 1, the Trump administration snuck up behind the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and murdered…

Agriculture Mine Safety Public Employees Weekly Toll Workplace Violence

Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

May 20, 2024 Jordan Barab

Last week two workers were killed in grain facilities, 8 migrant farmworkers were killed in a traffic incident, workers were…