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…
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…
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Catching Up: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety — Short Stuff
Just got back from a couple of weeks away and thought I’d spend some time catching up on what’s been…
Blankenship Sponsors Nauseating, Error-ridden Commercial
Some of you may have had the misfortune over the last few nights to see this commercial. Produced and paid…
Trump Names Coal Executive to Head MSHA
As deaths in coal mines rise, President Trump last Friday nominated retired coal mining executive David Zatezalo to head the…
Interior Department Cancels Surface Mining Health Study
The Trump administration has halted a study of the health effects of mountaintop removal strip mining for people living near…