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Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health

March 2, 2026 Jordan Barab

OSHA Inspections Down 20% in 2025; Keeling Promises More Hiring A group of Democratic Senators has send a letter to…

Child Labor Dispatches (Short Stuff) Fires and Firefighting Immigrants Meatpacking & Poultry Workers Short Stuff

Dispatches From the Front Lines of Occupational Safety and Health

January 28, 2025 Jordan Barab

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

Bureau of Labor Statistics Meatpacking & Poultry Workers

Poultry Industry Injury Numbers Need a Closer Look

November 26, 2024 Jordan Barab

Cover photo by Earl Dotter. The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently published its annual workplace injury and illness report for…

COVID-19 Dispatches (Short Stuff) Heat Meatpacking & Poultry Workers Mine Safety MSHA Short Stuff Silica Workplace Violence

Dispatches From the Front Lines of Occupational Safety and Health

June 27, 2023 Jordan Barab

Mine Employee and Company Convicted of Falsifying Coal Dust Sampling Walter Perkins, a coal dust examiner in Harlan County, KY,…

Child Labor Meatpacking & Poultry Workers

Labor Department Cracks Down on Child Labor

February 17, 2023 Jordan Barab

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

Meatpacking & Poultry Workers Workplace Violence

Immigrant Worker Lives Matter

January 24, 2023 Jordan Barab

Sometimes you see things and all you can do is shake your head — and write. On January 9, police…

Asbestos Automobile Industry Immigrants Meatpacking & Poultry Workers Short Stuff Temporary Employees

Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health

November 22, 2022 Jordan Barab

Animal Agriculture is Dangerous Animal agriculture Is dangerous work and the people who do it have few protections, according to…

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Child Labor in the Most Dangerous Workplaces

November 16, 2022 Jordan Barab

School-age children working all night — and getting injured — in some of the most hazardous workplaces in the country.…

COVID-19 Dispatches (Short Stuff) Do It Yourself Labor Unions Meatpacking & Poultry Workers Short Stuff

Short Stuff: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Safety and Labor

December 21, 2021 Jordan Barab

Most Influential In our Hearts: Despite the global campaign championing Rory O’Neill for the most influential individual in health and…

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Health Care Workers Hit Hard by COVID

November 3, 2021 Jordan Barab

It should come as no surprise that health care workers were hit hard by COVID-19. And if there was any…