Preventing Deaths in the Season of the Trench
Sometimes it’s hard to remember with all the bad news around OSHA’s authority to protect workers from COVID-19, that there…
Weekly Toll: New Year Rings In With Teen-age Workers Killed
This week: A 16 year-old, an 18 year-old and a 19 year-old worker were killed on the job last week.…
Weekly Toll: Missing From the Table This Holiday Season
On average, almost 100 workers are killed every week in the United States due to traumatic injuries suffered at work.…
Weekly Toll: Tornadoes, Falls, Machines, Vehicles, Shootings — Dying in American Workplaces
On average, 14 workers are killed every day in the United States due to traumatic injuries suffered at work. That’s…
Weekly Toll: Workers Lose Their Lives as Holidays Approach
This week: Confined space, machinery deaths, shootings, stabbings, forklifts, electrocution, vehicle incidents. On average, 14 workers are killed every day…
Weekly Toll: Wood Chippers, Guns, Falls,Vehicles — How Workers Die
This is a weekly list of some workers killed on the job over the past week. I collect this information…
Public Employees: Still Second-Class Citizens After 51 Years
When I walked into my new job at AFSCME on November 1, 1982, I was immediately given the workplace safety…
The Last Weekly Toll: They Shall Not Be Forgotten
This is the last Weekly Toll. The last list of workers killed in a fall, crushed under a dirt compactor,…
Weekly Toll: Workers Killed on the Job in the Last Two Weeks
Not a good couple of weeks to be a worker in Florida -- six workplace fatalities. But then, for many…
Weekly Toll: Workplace Deaths Continue into New Year
Supermarket Employee Killed in Fall from Ladder Pasco, WA — A supermarket employee, Duoc Tran, fell to his death at…