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Slashed Throat, Cooked in an Oven, Electrocutions and Heat Stroke: Why We Write the Weekly Toll

July 2, 2025 Jordan Barab
Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed At Work

July 2, 2025 Dylan Chamberlin
Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: We All Have To Die Sometime

June 25, 2025 Dylan Chamberlin
Heat Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process

OSHA Heat Hearing: The Battle Commences

June 23, 2025 Jordan Barab
Occupational Disease Workplace Illness

Who Cares For Injured and Sick Workers?

June 19, 2025 Kathleen Rest
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Slashed Throat, Cooked in an Oven, Electrocutions and Heat Stroke: Why We Write the Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll
Slashed Throat, Cooked in an Oven, Electrocutions and Heat Stroke: Why We Write the Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: Killed At Work
Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: Killed At Work
Weekly Toll: We All Have To Die Sometime
Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: We All Have To Die Sometime
OSHA Heat Hearing: The Battle Commences
Heat Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process
OSHA Heat Hearing: The Battle Commences
Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
Deconstructing the Administrative State OSHA
Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
COVID-19 Supreme Court
Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
Brett Kavanaugh OSHA
Kavanaugh: Threat to Workers and to OSHA
OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
COVID-19 Health Care Workers OSHA
OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
Slashed Throat, Cooked in an Oven, Electrocutions and Heat Stroke: Why We Write the Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll
Slashed Throat, Cooked in an Oven, Electrocutions and Heat Stroke: Why We Write the Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: Killed At Work
Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: Killed At Work
Weekly Toll: We All Have To Die Sometime
Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: We All Have To Die Sometime
OSHA Heat Hearing: The Battle Commences
Heat Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process
OSHA Heat Hearing: The Battle Commences
Enforcement OSHA Workplace Violence

New Jersey Workplace Violence Case: DOL & OSHA Cave In

June 5, 2017 Jordan Barab

Which statement below represents reality? This one? NOTICE TO EMPLOYEES OF BRMC WORKPLACE VIOLENCE PREVENTION PLAN May 22,2017 Bergen Regional…

Enforcement OSHA

Death, Amputation and Interesting Times in Saipan

June 2, 2017 Jordan Barab

Not that you’d find it the homepage of its website, but OSHA issued a large press release earlier this week…

Recordkeeping

Wolf to Pigs: Don’t worry. I’ve got your backs.

June 1, 2017 Jordan Barab

I swear, sometimes I don’t know if I’m reading facts or farce. Bloomberg BNA reports that the Labor Department —…

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Possum Blogging

June 1, 2017 Jordan Barab

Being as I am no longer gainfully employed in one of those jobs where you actually have to put on…

Budget Chemical Safety Board Congress Process Safety Management

If CSB Swims with the Fishes; American People Suffer the Consequences

May 31, 2017 Jordan Barab

America, we have a problem. And it promises to get worse. 2 Killed in Explosion at West Virginia Industrial Plant…

Agriculture Alex Acosta Department of Labor MSHA Poultry Industry Short Stuff Whistleblowers

Short Stuff: More Problems for Construction, Poultry Processing, Farms and Whistleblowers. So why doesn’t anyone want to work at DOL?

May 30, 2017 Jordan Barab

Do Not Pass go: The New York Times reports that “the owner of two Brooklyn construction companies was charged with…

Enforcement State Plan States

Feds Crack Down on Arizona OSHA…For Now.

May 30, 2017 Jordan Barab

There are a couple of stories here. Recent headlines report on an OSHA letter warning Arizona OSHA that it is…

Construction Susan Harwood Worker Training Program

Grrrrr

May 30, 2017 Jordan Barab

Don’t let Acosta or OSHA get away with these simplistic condescending tweets while they delay the silica and beryllium standards…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Memorial Day Edition

May 29, 2017 Jordan Barab

Owner killed in explosion PHILIPPI, WV — After further investigation of an explosion in Barbour County on Wednesday, the Occupational…

Public Employees State Plan States

Public Employees: Too Late to be Concerned After a Death

May 29, 2017 Jordan Barab

The Massachusetts Senate has voted to expand the death benefit for public employees who die on the job to $300,000.…

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