House Farm Bill Threatens Chemical Plant Safety
Last week, the House of Representatives narrowly passed the Farm Bill. And a little noticed sentence in this this gigantic…
USDA Lets Foxes Guard The Hog House
The US Department of Agriculture has always struggled to balance a split personality: on one hand it’s supposed to “Provide…
No Protections: Children Get Hurt and Die On Family Farms
What happens when financial pressures and fear of “big government” intrusion run into concerns about the safety of children. In…
Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle for Safe and Health Workplaces: Short Stuff
The moral of this week’s stories is that if you find yourself eating pork chops at your fancy seaside hotel…
Trump to Speak to Farm Bureau. Will He Discuss Farm Worker Safety and Health?
Can’t wait to be back in the amazing state of Tennessee to address the 99th American @FarmBureau Federation’s Annual Convention…
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 article…
Dairy Workers: Suffocating in Manure
Tim Craig has written a very good, if disturbing article in the Washington Post about hazardous conditions for dairy farm…
Lost Both Arms and a Leg: Life and Death for Farmworkers
Intrepid Idaho Journalist Showcases Hazards Facing Farmworkers Dairy workers drown in manure pits. Farmworkers poisoned by pesticides. Limbs amputated. Electrocutions.…
Three Workers Killed in Corn Mill Explosion
In one of the biggest workplace disasters this year, three workers were killed in a massive explosion at the Didion Milling…
Short Stuff: More Problems for Construction, Poultry Processing, Farms and Whistleblowers. So why doesn’t anyone want to work at DOL?
Do Not Pass go: The New York Times reports that “the owner of two Brooklyn construction companies was charged with…