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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?

October 9, 2025 Jordan Barab
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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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Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week
OSHA & MSHA Get Leaders: A Good Thing?
OSHA
OSHA & MSHA Get Leaders: A Good Thing?
Weekly Toll: Workers Killed on the Job
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Criminal Prosecution Dipatches (Short Stuff) Mine Safety
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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

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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…

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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…

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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.…

Construction Fall Prevention OIRA

Residential Construction: Death, Injury and Doing it the Right Way

May 28, 2017 Jordan Barab

Kudos to Idaho Statesman Reporter Audrey Dutton for a first-rate article about the hazards of residential construction — how many…

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