Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health
New Mexico OSHA Cites City of Roswell for Fatal Trench Collapse New Mexico OSHA has issued a $621,768 citation against…
Weekly Toll: Don’t Forget Us
Last Thursday, the Department of Labor held a Workers Memorial Day ceremony in Washington DC. OSHA’s family liaison, Tonya Ford…
Weekly Toll: Crushed, Fell, Drowned, Stabbed, Shot Entangled in Machinery,
How workers died last week: Machinery, drowning, crushed, stabbing, shooting, vehicle incidents. On average, over 100 workers are killed every…
Weekly Toll: How Workers Die
How workers died last week: Two trenching fatalities, electrocution, falls, fires, public employee drowning, machinery deaths, shootings, stabbing, vehicle incidents.…
Weekly Toll: Killed at Work
How workers died last week: Falls, vehicle incidents, shootings and a number of unexplained “industrial accidents”. On average, over 100…
Weekly Toll: Clocking Out of the Last Shift
How workers died last week: Two trench collapses, electrocution, wood chipper, falls, shootings, stabbing, vehicle incidents, suicide. On average, over…
Weekly Toll: Devastated Families, Friends and Co-workers
How workers died last week: Five workers killed in separate building collapses, workers crushed to death, falls, vehicle incidents, shootings,…
Weekly Toll: Killed at Work
How workers died last week: Two workers, including a teenager dies on farms, vehicle incidents, drowning, firefighting, stabbing, helicopter crash.…
Weekly Toll: Carnage in the Workplace
Workers crushed under semi-trailer, under mobile home and by thousands of pounds of dirt in an unprotected trench. Shootings, falls,…
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Year in Review
The 2023 Confined Space Year In Review
Happy New Year. It’s time to look back on the events of 2023 before they’re permanently buried beneath the tragic…