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Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health

Nov 22, 2022 Jordan Barab

Animal Agriculture is Dangerous Animal agriculture Is dangerous work and the people who do it have few protections, according to…

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Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff

Nov 15, 2018 Jordan Barab

OSHA: The Incredible Shrinking Agency: The number of OSHA inspectors has hit an all-time low according to data compiled by…

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Production Over Safety at Tesla: “People are getting hurt every day”

Apr 18, 2018 Jordan Barab

Elon Musk, owner of SpaceX and Tesla is a seriously strange and driven guy. Sometimes that can be amusing if…

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Indiana OSHA Cuts Penalty 94% for Fatality at Indiana Auto Parts Facility

Jan 29, 2018 Jordan Barab

Last October, Melissa Stephens went to work on third shift at Autonium in Jeffersonville, Indiana. She never came home to…

Automobile Industry Immigrants OSHA Recordkeeping Short Stuff

Some Bad New (about NY Dairy Workers), But Also Good News: Read All About It in Short Stuff

Jun 6, 2017 Jordan Barab

Milking the Workers? Farm worker advocates have published a survey of mostly undocumented Hispanic workers that describes discrimination and workplace abuse experienced…

Automobile Industry COSH Groups Ergonomics

Tesla: Futuristic Cars, Same Old Worker Injuries

May 26, 2017 Jordan Barab

Tesla may make shiny, new, innovative, futuristic American automobiles, but the relentless pace at which it pushes its workers is…

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Apr 11, 2017 Jordan Barab

Home Sweet Home: Congress is home for two weeks. Hopefully all of you are planning on talking to your Senators…

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More on Southern Auto Parts Carnage

Apr 3, 2017 Jordan Barab

Bloomberg Business Week’s Peter Waldman published a devastating article last month about the injuries and fatalities in Southern auto parts facilities.…

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OSHA Resumes Preventive Auto Parts Inspections

Mar 29, 2017 Jordan Barab

OSHA today officially renewed its Regional Emphasis Program (REP) targeting auto parts establishments in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. Following the devastating…