Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health
There is a lot happening in the world of workplace safety and health. . Miners Rally to Force Silica Protections…
Labor Day Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job
How Workers Died Last Week: Confined space, heat, cement roller, falls, electrocutions, coal mining, crane collapse, shootings, vehicle incidents. On…
Trump & Republicans Escalate War on Coal Miners
Donald Trump has made a resurgence of the coal industry a top priority. That promise helped him win the nation’s…
Weekly Toll: How Workers Die
How workers died last week: Fall into a meat grinder, crushed by beam, electrocuted, stabbed, shot, suicide, forklift, struck by…
NIOSH Budget: The Horror Show
I promised to analyze President Trump’s proposed FY 2026 budget for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).…
Partial Stay of Execution? What’s Happening at NIOSH?
On April 1, the Trump administration snuck up behind the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and murdered…
Trump’s War Against “War on Coal” is a War on Coal Miners
Remember the days when Donald Trump pledged to end the war on coal? True to form, during Trump I he…
April is Still the Cruelest Month
Tomorrow is the 15th anniversary of the Upper Big Branch mine mine explosion that killed 29 miners. That was only…
Kentucky Goes After Miners After Weakening OSHA
It’s Trump Time. But while Elon and the Trump regime pillage protections for workers, consumers and the environment, there is…
Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health
Miners Beware Ten miners have been killed on the job between January 3 and March 5, 2025 – more than…