House OSHA Hearing: Rhetoric vs. Reality
For those of you who missed it, the House Education and Workforce Committee held a hearing last week titled “Reclaiming…
Baltimore DPW Cited For Heat Death, But No Penalty
Maryland OSHA (MOSH) cited the Baltimore Department of Public Works (DPW) with a “serious violation” last week in connection with…
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2024 Confined Space Year in Review
As 2024 thankfully disappears into the sunset, now we can all look forward, with great confidence to….2029? The one definite…
Nevada’s Heat Standard: Much Ado About Little
When writing about Trump 2.0, I expressed the hope that OSHA state plan states would take the initiative to protect…
North Carolinians: Elect Braxton Winston Labor Commissioner
North Carolinians: You get to vote for Labor Commissioner on November 5th. And it shouldn’t be a hard choice: Braxton…
Maryland Issues Workplace Heat Standard
Last week, in a little noticed statement in the Maryland Register, the Maryland Division of Labor and Industry announced the…
Weekly Toll: Not Coming Home
How workers died last week: Suffocated in a farm silo and confined spaces, electrocuted, shot, stabbed, hit by vehicles and…
Weekly Toll: How Workers Die
Today is Labor Day where we honor the important work that this nation’s workers do to make life in this…
Baltimore Hires Anti-OSHA Law Firm to Investigate Worker Heat Death
We wrote last week about the tragic workplace heat death of sanitation worker Ronald Silver II who died of heat…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
How workers died last week: 18-year old electrocuted and 17-year old killed delivering UberEats, heat, falls, machinery, grain bin, vehicle…