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Mine Safety MSHA Trump

Death by Deregulation: MSHA to Roll Back Miners’ Silica Protections

December 5, 2025 Jordan Barab
Mine Safety MSHA

Donald Trump’s Mad Love of Coal Versus the Miners Who Pay for It with Their Lives

December 3, 2025 Rena Steinzor
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Workers Who Won’t Be Coming Home: The Weekly Toll

December 1, 2025 Jordan Barab
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A Thanksgiving Thank You for Those Working on the Holiday

November 26, 2025 Kathleen Rest
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How Workers Died Last Week: Weekly Toll

November 25, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Death by Deregulation: MSHA to Roll Back Miners’ Silica Protections
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Death by Deregulation: MSHA to Roll Back Miners’ Silica Protections
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Donald Trump’s Mad Love of Coal Versus the Miners Who Pay for It with Their Lives
Workers Who Won’t Be Coming Home: The Weekly Toll
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A Thanksgiving Thank You for Those Working on the Holiday
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OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
Death by Deregulation: MSHA to Roll Back Miners’ Silica Protections
Mine Safety MSHA Trump
Death by Deregulation: MSHA to Roll Back Miners’ Silica Protections
Donald Trump’s Mad Love of Coal Versus the Miners Who Pay for It with Their Lives
Mine Safety MSHA
Donald Trump’s Mad Love of Coal Versus the Miners Who Pay for It with Their Lives
Workers Who Won’t Be Coming Home: The Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll
Workers Who Won’t Be Coming Home: The Weekly Toll
A Thanksgiving Thank You for Those Working on the Holiday
Uncategorized
A Thanksgiving Thank You for Those Working on the Holiday
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OSHA: What’s On Your Regulatory Agenda?

July 21, 2017 Jordan Barab

The Office of Management and Budget released its Spring (very, very late Spring) Regulatory Agenda yesterday. The Regulatory Agenda is…

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OSHA To Get Political Leadership

July 19, 2017 Jordan Barab

Loren Sweatt, Senior Policy Advisor for the House Committee on Education and the Workforce will reportedly be named Deputy Assistant…

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Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety and Health: Short Stuff

July 19, 2017 Jordan Barab

“We need to be protecting our workers as much as protecting our shores.” So says former OSHA head Dr. David…

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House Budget Devastates OSHA and MSHA Enforcement

July 18, 2017 Jordan Barab

The House of Representatives has released the details on worker safety and health funding in the FY 2018 Labor-HHS appropriations…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Made In America

July 18, 2017 Jordan Barab

Five fatalities in Pennsylvania this week and three in Colorado. Work accident kills Mansfield business owner MANSFIELD, PA — A…

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Harwood’s Last Gasp? OSHA Announces Cruel and Bizarre Grant Round

July 17, 2017 Jordan Barab

OSHA released a grant announcement last week for its Susan Harwood Worker Training Grants. But don’t get your hopes up.…

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Lost Both Arms and a Leg: Life and Death for Farmworkers

July 16, 2017 Jordan Barab

Intrepid Idaho Journalist Showcases Hazards Facing Farmworkers Dairy workers drown in manure pits. Farmworkers poisoned by pesticides. Limbs amputated. Electrocutions.…

Alex Acosta OSHA Voluntary Protection Programs

VPP: An Important Tool or a Waste of Scarce OSHA Resources?

July 14, 2017 Jordan Barab

OSHA will hold a stakeholder meeting on Monday (and another in the Fall) to discuss how to improve the agency’s…

Alex Acosta Budget MSHA NIOSH OSHA

House Releases Labor Budget Bill — And It’s Even Worse than Trump’s

July 13, 2017 Jordan Barab

You thought Trump’s budget proposal was bad for OSHA? Well, our Republican friends in the House of Representatives have issued…

Confined Space OSHA Trench Collapse

Workers Needlessly Killed: Near and Afar

July 12, 2017 Jordan Barab

Just heard about a worker killed in a trench collapse about a dozen miles down the road from me. He…

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