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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
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Weekly Toll: Killed At Work

July 2, 2025 Dylan Chamberlin
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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
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Who Cares For Injured and Sick Workers?

June 19, 2025 Kathleen Rest
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Weekly Toll: Killed At Work
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Weekly Toll: Killed At Work
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OSHA Heat Hearing: The Battle Commences
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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
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OSHA Heat Hearing: The Battle Commences
Heat Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process
OSHA Heat Hearing: The Battle Commences
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Trump’s Attacks on Immigrants: Bad for all workers, good employers and workplace safety

April 28, 2017 Jordan Barab

Read this article in The Nation by Terri Gerstein. Gerstein was formerly Labor Bureau Chief in the New York State…

Beryllium Deconstructing the Administrative State Workplace Illness

Trump to Construction and Maritime Workers on Workers Memorial Day: “Get Sick and Die.”

April 28, 2017 Jordan Barab

The Trump administration today — Workers Memorial Day — initiated its first real OSHA regulatory rollback — a proposed weakening…

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The First Hundred Days of Trump’s OSHA: Ain’t Seen Nuthin’ Yet?

April 28, 2017 Jordan Barab

Today is Workers Memorial Day, a day set aside around the world to remember those killed on the job —…

Labor Unions OSHA Poultry Industry

Sacrificing Your Health For Paycheck: NELP Report on Severe Injuries — Especially in Poultry

April 27, 2017 Jordan Barab

Twenty-seven workers suffer severe injuries involving hospitalization or an amputation every day, according to the National Employment Law Project (NELP)…

COSH Groups Workers Memorial Day

The Dirty Dozen: National COSH Releases Report on Companies That Put Workers at Risk

April 26, 2017 Jordan Barab

Just in time for Workers Memorial Day, the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (National COSH) has announced “The…

AFL-CIO Bureau of Labor Statistics Workers Memorial Day

Death on the Job: Workers Memorial Day Update

April 26, 2017 Jordan Barab

Workers Memorial Day is Friday. Events are being organized all over the world, and the AFL-CIO has just issued its…

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Short Stuff: News You Might Want To Know

April 26, 2017 Jordan Barab

♦ From Mitch to Donald, with Love: Looks like we may have a Secretary of Labor by Thursday. Senate Leader…

International

Rana Plaza: Improvement for Garment Workers after Four Years?

April 24, 2017 Jordan Barab

Today marks four years since the catastrophic Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed over 1100 workers. And before…

Fatalities Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Death in the Workplace

April 24, 2017 Jordan Barab

Another week of workers being killed in the workplace by being crushed, dying in falls, killed in traffic accidents, shot,…

Enforcement OSHA Press Releases

OSHA Enforcement: OSHA Continues to Protect Employers from Hazardous Press Releases.

April 24, 2017 Jordan Barab

Twenty more companies succeeded over the past week in hiding federal OSHA enforcement actions from the withering public scrutiny that…

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