Worker Killed In Trench Collapse — Again. Why? And What Can Be Done?
Another in a continuing, never-ending series on the tragedy of preventable trench collapses (and the journalism that accompanies them.) Anthony…
Weekly Toll: Summer Ends, Workplace Deaths Continue
Man run over while overhauling bus at Chicago Heights junkyard Chicago, IL — A man died after being run over…
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…
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…
Weekly Toll: The Last Shift
Genesee Power Station employee dies in workplace accident FLINT, MI – An employee died in an industrial accident at the…
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…