Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle For Workplace Safety: Short Stuff
Pork Processing Workers — From Bad to Worse: US meat workers are already three times more likely to suffer serious injury than…
Blankenship Does Us A Favor
Don Blankenship,who spent a year in jail because 29 miners died in his Upper Big Branch mine? What good is…
Blankenship: Negros, Chinapersons and 29 Dead Miners
There are a lot of things to hate Don Blankenship for. Putting production over safety leading to the deaths of…
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Short Stuff: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety
Kentucky Limits Black Lung Claims Reviews: We have recently noted that black lung is back with a vengeance after almost…
Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster Anniversary: Don Blankenship Commemorates By Running for Senate
Today is the eighth anniversary of the Upper Big Branch mine explosion that claimed the lives of 29 coal miners…
Dispatches From The Front Lines of the Battle For Workplace Safety: Short Stuff
More Freedom and More Catastrophic Fertilizer Explosions: After a catastrophic ammonium nitrate explosion at West Fertilizer exploded in 2013 killed…
It’s Always Something: Dispatches from the front lines of the battle for workplace safety
Black Lung is Back: After almost being eradicated in the late 1990, black lung is back, with a vengeance. Epidemiologists at…
Trump’s War on Coal (Miners) Continues
When I noted last week that OSHA had come out of the new Fall 2017 Regulatory Agenda relatively unscathed, I…
Weekly Toll: The Bell Continues to Toll For American Workers
Bentleyville man dies at ArcelorMittal plant in Monessen Monessen, PA — A Bentleyville man died Sunday night at the ArcelorMittal…
Halloween 2017 at the Department of Labor
As one of my former co-workers at OSHA said: “You know you work at the Department of Labor when it’s…