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Enforcement OSHA Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP)

OSHA CARES: About the Boss

March 27, 2026 Jordan Barab
Fires and Firefighting Public Employees Weekly Toll

Death in the Workplace: The Weekly Toll

March 24, 2026 Aina Atienza
Congress David Michaels Silica

Republicans Try to Impose Death Sentence on Silica Countertop Workers

March 23, 2026 Jordan Barab
Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Fatal Workplaces: The Weekly Toll

March 17, 2026 Aina Atienza
Occupational Disease Workplace Illness

Small but Mighty: How One Organization Has Championed Worker Health for Nearly Four Decades

March 13, 2026 Kathleen Rest
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OSHA CARES: About the Boss
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Republicans Try to Impose Death Sentence on Silica Countertop Workers
Congress David Michaels Silica
Republicans Try to Impose Death Sentence on Silica Countertop Workers
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Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
Fatal Workplaces: The Weekly Toll
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Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
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Brett Kavanaugh OSHA
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OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
OSHA CARES: About the Boss
Enforcement OSHA Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP)
OSHA CARES: About the Boss
Death in the Workplace: The Weekly Toll
Fires and Firefighting Public Employees Weekly Toll
Death in the Workplace: The Weekly Toll
Republicans Try to Impose Death Sentence on Silica Countertop Workers
Congress David Michaels Silica
Republicans Try to Impose Death Sentence on Silica Countertop Workers
Fatal Workplaces: The Weekly Toll
Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
Fatal Workplaces: The Weekly Toll
In Memoriam

Honoring the Life of a Working Man

August 18, 2025 Kathleen Rest

8-18-18. My dad loved saying his birth date aloud. The cadence, the sound, the alliteration. He would have been 107…

Confined Space Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

August 18, 2025 Jordan Barab

How workers died over the past couple of weeks: Trench collapse, confined space, plane crash, helicopter crash, drowning, electrocution, tree…

Budget

Senate Budget Offers Worker Safety a Stay of Execution

August 5, 2025 Jordan Barab

The Senate Appropriations Committee has sent a strong response to Trump’s efforts to undermine worker safety: Go To Hell. The…

Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Death in the American Workplace

August 4, 2025 Jordan Barab

How workers died over the past couple of weeks: three dead in trench collapses, heat, electrocution, machinery, firefighting, forklift, falls,…

Enforcement OSHA Trump Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP)

OSHA: The Optional Safety and Health Administration

July 31, 2025 Jordan Barab

You are about to enter another dimension. A dimension not only of actual sight and sound, but of corporate greed…

Dispatches (Short Stuff) Journalism

Dispatches: Some Great Reading to Fire You Up

July 22, 2025 Jordan Barab

I’ll taking a break for the next couple of weeks (and hopefully away from the computer.) But just because there’s…

Mine Safety Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: How Workers Die

July 21, 2025 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Fall into a meat grinder, crushed by beam, electrocuted, stabbed, shot, suicide, forklift, struck by…

AFL-CIO Congress Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP)

Congress Holds OSHA Hearing: AFL-CIO Injects Some Reality

July 17, 2025 Jordan Barab

In powerful testimony before the House Education and Labor Workforce Committee yesterday, AFL-CIO Health and Safety Director Rebecca Reindel warned…

Immigrants Labor Unions

Immigration Enforcement Undermines Worker Health and Safety

July 17, 2025 Stephen Knight

The increasingly militarized harassment of immigrants upending our communities across the country has been well understood. Less recognized is how…

Congress

OSHA Hearing Today

July 16, 2025 Jordan Barab

If you’re looking for some excitement this morning, the House Education and Workforce Committee’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections will hold…

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