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Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week

October 13, 2025 Jordan Barab
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OSHA & MSHA Get Leaders: A Good Thing?

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Weekly Toll: Workers Killed on the Job

October 6, 2025 Jordan Barab
Criminal Prosecution Dipatches (Short Stuff) Mine Safety

Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health

October 3, 2025 Jordan Barab
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The Dark Side of the Chip

September 30, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Alex Acosta Budget OSHA Susan Harwood Worker Training Program

Save Harwood. Here’s the easy way to Contact Your Congressperson

June 27, 2017 Jordan Barab

Labor Secretary Acosta just finished his last hearing before the Senate on the Department of Labor’s FY 2018 budget. We’ll…

OSHA Recordkeeping

OSHA Proposes to Delay Recordkeeping Rule

June 27, 2017 Jordan Barab

OSHA has officially announced a proposal to delay the reporting requirements of its “Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses”…

Fatalities Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Workers Dying Every Day

June 26, 2017 Jordan Barab

Worker dies in accident at Weitsman facility Oswego, NY — An employee at Ben Weitsman & Son’s facility in Owego…

Beryllium Construction Deconstructing the Administrative State Labor Unions Regulatory Process

Breaking: OSHA Launches Rollback of Beryllium Worker Protections

June 23, 2017 Jordan Barab

Less than half a year after workers finally received long overdue protections against deadly beryllium dust, the Trump administration has…

Chemical Safety Board Fatalities OSHA

Kill Workers. Don’t Respond. Repeat.

June 23, 2017 Jordan Barab

So what’s going on here? OSHA investigates second fatal explosion in a month at Barbour Co., WV plant ARDEN, W.Va.…

David Michaels Immigrants Mine Safety Short Stuff

Lead Poisoning, Murder, and Trump’s Father-Daughter War on Workers: Short Stuff

June 22, 2017 Jordan Barab

Get the Lead Out: Joe Rubin at Huffington Post has a troubling story of how the California Department of Public…

Workplace Violence

“Verbally abused, cursed, spit on” New York’s Transit Employees

June 21, 2017 Jordan Barab

“My conductors, on a weekly basis, are either verbally or physically assaulted.” Two assaults were reported recently, he said, including…

Environmental Protection Agency OSHA Process Safety Management State Plan States

California Makes Major Move to Protect Refinery Workers (and communities in their shadow)

June 20, 2017 Jordan Barab

It’s not all bad news out there. While Washington sucks workers down into an abyss of corporate anarchy, the State…

Fissured Workplace Labor Unions

Truckers: Modern-Day Indentured Servants

June 20, 2017 Jordan Barab

Despite the political setback last November, some of us still believe that the arc of justice for working people bends…

Fatalities Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: The Tragedies Never End

June 19, 2017 Jordan Barab

Construction Worker Dies After Falling From Brooklyn Building: NYPD New York, NY — A construction worker fell from a building…

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