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Violent Assaults Against Workers Continue While OSHA continues to sloooowly make progress on its standard to protect healthcare workers against…

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USPS Heat Death Draws Small OSHA Fine. And Huge Anger

January 9, 2024 Jordan Barab

On June 20, 2023 postal worker Eugene Gates died from heat stroke while delivering mail on his route in Lakewood,…

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The 2023 Confined Space Year In Review

January 2, 2024 Jordan Barab

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

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Business Tries to Kill Protections from Heat Hazards that Kill Workers

November 9, 2023 Jordan Barab

The Miami-Dade County Commission has voted 8-2 to table proposed protections for outdoor workers against heat until next March where…

Heat Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Death on the Job

September 11, 2023 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Electrocution, heat, falls, fire, logging, vehicle incidents and shootings. On average, over 100 workers are…

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The Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

September 4, 2023 Jordan Barab

How American workers died last week: Trench Collapse, confined space suffocation, heat, forklift, machinery, vehicle incidents and shootings. On average,…

Heat Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job

August 28, 2023 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week. Heat, electrocutions, crane collapse, explosion, tree trimming, machinery and vehicle incidents and on and on…

Heat Weekly Toll Workplace Violence

Weekly Toll: How Workers Die

August 7, 2023 Jordan Barab

How workers died over the past few weeks: I was on vacation for a couple of weeks, so this is…

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Miami-Dade Moves to Protect Workers from Heat as Another Dies

July 21, 2023 Jordan Barab

Workers continue to die from high heat and employer neglect, while an OSHA standard may be years off and Texas…

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Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health

July 18, 2023 Jordan Barab

Lots happening in the world of workplace safety and health. OSHA and MSHA are making progress on several standards and…

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