Worker Not Crushed to Death in Trench Collapse
What does it take for some employers to get the message? OSHA announced yesterday that it had issued citations with…
Weekly Toll: Workers Killed on the Job Over the Past Two Weeks
2 firefighters killed as blaze rages in northern California REDDING, CALIF. —The National Park Service reports a second firefighter has died…
Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety and Health: Short Stuff
Death by Trench: Equipment World has just completed a special report on trench hazards and the dozens of preventable deaths that…
Weekly Toll: The Last Shift
Genesee Power Station employee dies in workplace accident FLINT, MI – An employee died in an industrial accident at the Genesee…
Weekly Toll: Last Week’s Workplace Fatalities
Another week, and another list of preventable deaths. Two double fatalities this week: Two workers killed in a power plant…
19 Year-Old Worker Killed in Baltimore Trench
Nineteen years is a short life, but that’s all that Kyle Hancock of Glen Burnie, Maryland will get. Hancock died,…
Trench Deaths: You Don’t Send Your Family To Die
And speaking of trench collapses… We wrote earlier this year about the tragic death of 25 year old Zachary Hess,…
Trench Deaths: A Tale of Two Dakotas
Check out the graphic on the right. What’s wrong with that picture? Somehow workers keep dying in trench collapses. Just…