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Dispatches from the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health

June 29, 2022 Jordan Barab

Violence Against Transit Workers Transit workers and labor unions across America are sounding the alarm over the trend of violence,…

Fires and Firefighting Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Death in the American Workplace

March 21, 2022 Jordan Barab

This week: Fires, falls, machinery, shootings, vehicles, forklift. On average, almost 100 workers are killed every week in the United…

Fires and Firefighting Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: They Left It All At Work

January 31, 2022 Jordan Barab

This week: Explosions, falls, fires, suffocation, shootings, electrocution, vehicle-related incidents…and yet another trench collapse. Never short of different ways for…

Fires and Firefighting

California Fires: Firefighters Aren’t The Only Ones At Risk

October 20, 2017 Jordan Barab

Over 40 people have been killed in the California fires. All but one, so far, have been residents; only one…

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Dispatches from the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health

Weekly Toll: Death in the American Workplace

Weekly Toll: They Left It All At Work

California Fires: Firefighters Aren’t The Only Ones At Risk