The Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
How American workers died last week: Trench Collapse, confined space suffocation, heat, forklift, machinery, vehicle incidents and shootings. On average,…
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Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health
Lot’s happening in the world of workplace safety and health. OSHA and MSHA are making progress on several standards and…
Dispatches From the Front Lines of Occupational Safety and Health
Mine Employee and Company Convicted of Falsifying Coal Dust Sampling Walter Perkins, a coal dust examiner in Harlan County, KY,…
Weekly Toll: Killed at Work
Last week workers were killed in explosions, fires, lightning, falls, building collapses, forklift incidents, shootings and vehicle incidents. On average,…
Gaming the System: How Wealthy Coal Operators are Undermining the Solvency of the Black Lung Benefits Program
The following post is somewhat long and complicated. Read it anyway. At its core, this is the same age-old story…
Weekly Toll: Mourning for the Dead
Last week workers were decapitated in a vehicle crash, crushed in a trench collapse, caught in machinery and killed in…
Weekly Toll: Death on the Job
This list is a bit longer than usual because while I was on vacation, workers continued to die. This round:…
Weekly Toll: Killed at Work
Three trench deaths last week (on top of three the week before), a 16-year old killed driving heavy equipment, mining…
Marvit Nominated to Mine Safety Review Commission
We discussed the turmoil at the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC) a couple of weeks ago and…
Republicans Still Control The Mine Safety Review Commission — Putting Miners at Risk
These are troubling times at the obscure Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC) and that means troubling and…