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Heat Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Failing to Protect America’s Workers: The Weekly Toll

September 21, 2026 Aina Atienza
Fires and Firefighting Weekly Toll

Those Who Didn’t Come Home: The Weekly Toll

September 15, 2026 Aina Atienza
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Dispatches From the Front Lines of Occupational Safety and Health

September 11, 2026 Jordan Barab
This Day In History

Thank You to Those Who Run Toward the Danger

September 11, 2026 Kathleen Rest
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The Quiet Heroes of the Back-to-School Season

September 9, 2026 Kathleen Rest
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This Day In History
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Budget Chemical Safety Board MSHA OSHA Susan Harwood Worker Training Program

Congress Rejects OSHA & MSHA Cuts

January 22, 2026 Jordan Barab

The Senate and House of Representatives agreed this week on an FY 2026 appropriations bill that rejected President Trump’s proposal…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: How Workers Die

January 19, 2026 Aina Atienza

How workers died last week: Bee attack, caught in chemical mixer, dough mixer and dip tank, hit be steel beam,…

Uncategorized

Is Labor Secretary Chavez-DeRemer Not Long for this (Political) World?

January 19, 2026 Jordan Barab

Donald Trump, who only hires the best, seems to be very very bad at choosing Secretaries of Labor. His first…

Labor

The Changing Landscape of Minimum Wage Across America in 2025 – and What It Means for Workers and Their Families

January 16, 2026 Kathleen Rest

As we move into 2026, millions of American workers are experiencing changes in their paychecks, thanks to some minimum wage…

In Memoriam

In Memoriam: Those We Lost in 2025

January 15, 2026 Jordan Barab

This is always the saddest part about ushering in the New Year: remembering the health and safety and environmental activists…

NIOSH

Trump Administration Retreats on NIOSH Destruction

January 14, 2026 Jordan Barab

Even in these darkest of days, there is sometimes good news. Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. and the…

Congress Silica

Congressional Hearing: Protecting an Industry that is Killing Workers

January 14, 2026 Jordan Barab

A subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing this morning at 10 AM ET with the snappy…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

January 12, 2026 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Three dead from electrocutions, 5 workers crushed under vehicles, construction, confined space, welding explosion, falls,…

Trench Collapse

Trench Collapse Deaths Ring Out the Old Year

January 8, 2026 Jordan Barab

At least five workers were crushed to death in preventable trench collapses in the last month and a half of…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Dying in the New Year

January 6, 2026 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Overturned tractor, crushed in machine, trapped in farm equipment, shootings and vehicle incidents. On average,…

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