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Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

The Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week

December 8, 2025 Jordan Barab
Mine Safety MSHA Silica

Trouble in Republican Paradise? Mineworkers Don’t Want to Die

December 8, 2025 Jordan Barab
Mine Safety MSHA Trump

Death by Deregulation: MSHA to Roll Back Miners’ Silica Protections

December 5, 2025 Jordan Barab
Mine Safety MSHA

Donald Trump’s Mad Love of Coal Versus the Miners Who Pay for It with Their Lives

December 3, 2025 Rena Steinzor
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Workers Who Won’t Be Coming Home: The Weekly Toll

December 1, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Trouble in Republican Paradise? Mineworkers Don’t Want to Die
Death by Deregulation: MSHA to Roll Back Miners’ Silica Protections
Mine Safety MSHA Trump
Death by Deregulation: MSHA to Roll Back Miners’ Silica Protections
Donald Trump’s Mad Love of Coal Versus the Miners Who Pay for It with Their Lives
Mine Safety MSHA
Donald Trump’s Mad Love of Coal Versus the Miners Who Pay for It with Their Lives
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
The Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week
Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
The Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week
Trouble in Republican Paradise? Mineworkers Don’t Want to Die
Mine Safety MSHA Silica
Trouble in Republican Paradise? Mineworkers Don’t Want to Die
Death by Deregulation: MSHA to Roll Back Miners’ Silica Protections
Mine Safety MSHA Trump
Death by Deregulation: MSHA to Roll Back Miners’ Silica Protections
Donald Trump’s Mad Love of Coal Versus the Miners Who Pay for It with Their Lives
Mine Safety MSHA
Donald Trump’s Mad Love of Coal Versus the Miners Who Pay for It with Their Lives
Budget Centers for Disease Control Department of Labor Environmental Protection Agency Health Care Workers OSHA Short Stuff Susan Harwood Worker Training Program

Short Stuff: Eating Squirrels, Killing Health Care Workers and….

May 24, 2017 Jordan Barab

More Budget Follies – CDC Edition: We’ve discussed Trump’s FY 18 budget proposal. OSHA and MSHA don’t come out too…

Budget Chemical Safety Board Department of Labor MSHA OSHA Susan Harwood Worker Training Program

Trump FY 18 Budget Slashes Research, Kills Harwood Training Program and Chemical Safety Board

May 23, 2017 Jordan Barab

The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations. — Jacob Lew…

Alex Acosta Office of Management and Budget Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process

Acosta Reassures Business Community: “The Labor Department will roll back regulations.”

May 23, 2017 Jordan Barab

Responding to withering criticism from his friends in the business community for allowing the Obama administration’s “fiduciary rule” to go…

Immigrants Workers Compensation

ICE Goes After Undocumented Worker Seeking Workers Compensation

May 22, 2017 Jordan Barab

Every worker has a right to a safe workplace — whether they’re documented or not. And workers in many states…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Nothing Good Here

May 22, 2017 Jordan Barab

JCP&L employee dies after Freehold electrocution FREEHOLD, NJ – A Jersey Central Power & Light employee died after touching live…

Construction Do It Yourself OSHA Trench Collapse

Workplace Safety: Do It Yourself Edition

May 22, 2017 Jordan Barab

Do you sit in a comfortable office all day, outraged by what you read in Confined Space, and wondering what…

Immigrants Workers Compensation

Ohio Comp Bill Encourages Employers to Hire Undocumented Workers

May 19, 2017 Jordan Barab

I’m not sure that was their intention, but what could make hiring undocumented workers more attractive than passing a law…

Alex Acosta Budget Department of Labor House of Representatives MSHA NIOSH OSHA Senate

2018 Trump Budget Preview: OSHA gets cut, NIOSH gets Disemboweled

May 19, 2017 Jordan Barab

“Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” ― Joe Biden…

AFL-CIO Department of Labor Labor Unions

Chamber of Commerce: Killing Unions More Important Than Saving Lives

May 18, 2017 Jordan Barab

The Chamber of Commerce is nothing if it’s not consistent. Consistently opposed to each and every new protection issued or…

Deconstructing the Administrative State Recordkeeping Regulations and Standards

BREAKING: OSHA Announces Delay of Recordkeeping Rule

May 17, 2017 Jordan Barab

Probably hoping no one would notice, OSHA today subtly buried an “Update” deep in its website, announcing that it intends…

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