Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety & Health
Bring OSHA into the 21st Century The Occupational Safety and Health Act just had its 52nd birthday. OSHA was born…
A newsletter of workplace safety and labor issues
Bring OSHA into the 21st Century The Occupational Safety and Health Act just had its 52nd birthday. OSHA was born…
On June 29, 2017, five workers at Tampa Electric — Michael McCort, 60, Christopher Irvin, 40; Frank Lee Jones, 55,…
I consider myself a fairly reasonable person. True, I believe that any employer who kills one of his workers in…
If you’re an avid reader of The Weekly Toll, you may have noticed a few weeks ago the tragic death…
For the first time in the state’s history, a Washington employer will go to jail for the death of one…
Sometimes it’s hard to remember with all the bad news around OSHA’s authority to protect workers from COVID-19, that there…
OSHA: The Incredible Shrinking Agency: The number of OSHA inspectors has hit an all-time low according to data compiled by…
“They Treat Us Like Mules”: “They will break you down and then throw you away.” That’s what construction worker Ernesto Rivera…
Another in a continuing, never-ending series on the tragedy of preventable trench collapses (and the journalism that accompanies them.) Anthony…
Death by Trench: Equipment World has just completed a special report on trench hazards and the dozens of preventable deaths that…