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Fertilizer Plant Fire Raises Memories of Tragedy and Regulatory Failures

Feb 4, 2022 Jordan Barab

The Winston-Salem fertilizer plant fire raises difficult questions on our failure to issue adequate regulatory protections for workers and communities…

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Oil Field Workers: “We’ve just got to find a way not to kill them.”

Dec 21, 2018 Jordan Barab

American workers drilling for oil have dirty, dangerous jobs that often kills them. In return, they're covered by weaker OSHA…

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Farm Bill Drops OSHA Language that Would Have Endangered Chem Plant Workers

Dec 12, 2018 Jordan Barab

Workers in chemical facilities and those living nearby can sleep easier after the US Congress declined to include language in…

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Bhopal

Dec 3, 2018 Jordan Barab

“Bhopal” For health and safety activists and public health people, that word sends shivers up our spines. Thinking of the…

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Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Health and Safety: Short Stuff

Oct 9, 2018 Jordan Barab

The Little Program That Refuses To Die: OSHA announced its 2018 Susan Harwood Grant Awardees last week. This is the…

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Weekly Toll: Workers Die at Gas Stations, Construction Sites, Bowling Alleys, Chicken Processing Plants, in Rivers and Falling off Buildings

Oct 8, 2018 Jordan Barab

Boom truck hits power lines in Flagler, electrocuting 2 workers PALM COAST, Fla. – Two construction workers were electrocuted Monday in an…

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Don’t Want to be Incinerated in Your Sleep? Too Bad

Sep 26, 2018 Jordan Barab

Well there’s some very bad news for those of you who don’t want to be blown to smithereens in your…

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Court Orders EPA To Implement Chemical Plant Safety Rule

Aug 17, 2018 Jordan Barab

In a stinging rebuke to the Environmental Protection Agency, a federal court has called EPA’s delay in implementing the Obama…

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

Aug 2, 2018 Jordan Barab

Captives on the Kill Line: Hiring immigrant workers — even undocumented workers — can be a headache. They get rounded up…

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House Farm Bill Threatens Chemical Plant Safety

Jun 28, 2018 Jordan Barab

Last week, the House of Representatives narrowly passed the Farm Bill. And a little noticed sentence in this this gigantic…

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