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Firefighting Causes Cancer Mindy Isser in Jacobin describes how toxic chemicals and materials released during fires result in firefighters being…

New Mexico OSHA Cites City of Roswell for Fatal Trench Collapse New Mexico OSHA has issued a $621,768 citation against…

I have (unfortunately) written often about the growing scourge of child labor — especially in dangerous food processing industry —…

How workers died last week: Two workers, including a teenager dies on farms, vehicle incidents, drowning, firefighting, stabbing, helicopter crash.…

Happy New Year. It’s time to look back on the events of 2023 before they’re permanently buried beneath the tragic…

16-year old Michael Schuls did NOT die in a “freak accident” in a sawmill on June 29. The cause of…

Another teenager has died in a workplace where children have no business working. HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) – A teenage boy…

Some jobs teach kids good work habits and skills. Some jobs kill them. Last Thursday morning, two weeks into summer…

Sometimes it takes good journalism or a bad disaster — or both — to encourage interest or activity or change…

Last Fall, I wrote about a Labor Department injunction against Packers Sanitation Services Inc. (PSSI) for illegally employing 31 children…

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