Clocking in for the Final Shift: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: asphyxiation, crushed to death, stabbings, rollovers, firefighting, explosions, vehicle incidents, shootings and occupational cancer. On…
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Dispatches From the Front Lines of Occupational Safety and Health
Are you dreading the long boring weekend coming up? Well, never fear. Confined Space is providing you with lots of…
Workers Killed on the Job: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: trench collapse, falling rock, crushed to death, lawn mower, septic tank suffocation, electrocution, mine incidents,…
Fooling Around with Workers’ Lives: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: trench collapse, electrocutions, coal mining, falls, tree care, crane collapse, vehicular collisions, stabbed, ruptured hot…
50 Years Ago Today: The Scotia Mine Disaster
At approximately 11:45 a.m., March 9, 1976, a massive explosion caused by coal dust and methane gas blasted through Scotia…
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…