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…
Weekly Toll: More Workers Not Coming Home at the End of the Day
Mechanic dies after car falls on him in east Las Vegas auto body shop LAS VEGAS, NV — A mechanic…
Short Stuff: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety
More Tesla: I wrote earlier this week about the health and safety issues, and under-reporting of injuries and illnesses at…
Weekly Toll
Man, 32, Killed After Barge Overturns in Guilford GUILFORD, CT — One person is dead after a barge carrying eight…
Construction Company Owner Charged with Manslaughter in Trench Death
Nothing sharpens the mind like the prospect of spending time in jail. Those of you who know me know that…
Boiled to Death, Buried Alive and Leg Ripped Off: The Stories Behind the Statistics
One of the fathers of occupational health, Irving Selikoff, once said that “statistics are people with the tears wiped away.”…