Weekly Toll: 2023 Ends With More Death in the Workplace
How workers died over the last couple of weeks: Two workers killed in trench collapses, worker crushed under 90,000-pound trailer,…
Weekly Toll: Death on the Job
How workers died last week: falls, machinery and vehicle incidents, forklifts, shootings, cranes, firefighting, grain auger. On average, over 100…
Weekly Toll: Death on the Job Takes No Vacation
I’ve been on vacation — but death in the workplace takes no breaks. Over the last couple of weeks, two…
Deadly Injustice: Public Employees as Second Class Citizens
This is a tale of two systems: One where employees are protected by a law requiring them to be provided…
Weekly Toll: Death on the Job
How workers died over the past few weeks: I was on vacation for a couple of weeks, so this is…
Weekly Toll: Killed in the Workplace
How workers died last week: trench collapse, explosions, electrocution, falls, vehicle incidents, shootings. On average, over 100 workers are killed…
Weekly Toll: Workers Who Will Not Be Coming Home
Last week workers were electrocuted, killed in a trench collapse, died in falls, crushed by machinery, shot and a bunch…
City Turns Contractor into OSHA for Trench Hazards
Last Fall, I wrote about the failure of my city’s public works department to enforce safe working conditions for the…
Weekly Toll: Mourning for the Dead
Last Week was Workers Memorial Day. Workers were killed in yet another trench collapse, petroleum plant explosion, falls, shootings, tree…
Workers Memorial Day: Mourn for Tony Rice, and Fight for All Public Employees
Today is Workers Memorial day where we’re supposed to mourn for all workers killed on the job and fight for…