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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

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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
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Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week
OSHA & MSHA Get Leaders: A Good Thing?
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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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COSH Groups Freak Accident Weekly Toll

Workplace Death: Freak Accident or Preventable?

May 10, 2017 Jordan Barab

Sometimes, when you’re reading about the tragedies in the Weekly Toll, there are a few that you think, “Well, that’s…

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Short Stuff: News You Will Be Embarrassed Not to Know

May 9, 2017 Jordan Barab

Here’s the latest news that you can use to impress your friends and intimidate your enemies. Slashing and Burning: The…

Fatalities Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Remembering Those Who Aren’t Coming Home

May 8, 2017 Jordan Barab

The latest deaths in the workplace, at least as many as I can locate. Lots of vehicle related fatalities this…

Blame the Worker OSHA

“Unavoidable Employee Misconduct?” No.

May 8, 2017 Jordan Barab

A coffee packaging machine gets jammed, and the employee, instead of shutting the machine down, reaches under the machine guards…

Alex Acosta OSHA Press Releases

OSHA Issues Second Enforcement Press Release

May 5, 2017 Jordan Barab

Could Alex Acosta be ushering in a new era at OSHA (or maybe re-ushering in an old era)? Yesterday OSHA…

OSHA Walkaround

Walkaround: Trump’s OSHA Attacks Workers’ Rights

May 3, 2017 Jordan Barab

Summary One of the main challenges of running an agency like OSHA is ensuring that a mid-20th century law adequately…

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Short Stuff: Must-reads

May 2, 2017 Jordan Barab

Less Than Chickens In a MUST-READ article, Pro Publica’s Mike Grabell describes the plight of Case Farms poultry workers, most…

Fatalities Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Death in the Workplace

May 2, 2017 Jordan Barab

Death in the workplace does not stop for Workers Memorial Day Cab driver shot and killed while on duty NEW…

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FY 2017 OSHA Budget Slashes Funding in Standards, Statistics

May 1, 2017 Jordan Barab

The FY 2017 Omnibus Budget bill that was released by Congress today provides a flat overall budget for the Occupational…

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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…

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