This Day in Workplace Safety History: The Sago Mine Disaster
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Sago mine disaster.
Trouble in Republican Paradise? Mineworkers Don’t Want to Die
News Flash: Some Republican politicians think it might be a bad idea to kill their constituents.
Death by Deregulation: MSHA May Roll Back Miners’ Silica Protections
On April 18, 2024 the Biden administration issued a long awaited new silica rule to protect coal miners — more…
Donald Trump’s Mad Love of Coal Versus the Miners Who Pay for It with Their Lives
This past April, President Donald J. Trump issued one of the wackiest, fact-challenged and ineffective executive orders of his second…
Farmington Mine Disaster and the Blood of Coal Miners
Today is the 57th anniversary of the 1968 Farmington Mine explosion. At 5:30 in the morning on November 20th, a…
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).…