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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
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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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Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
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OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
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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Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health
Criminal Prosecution Dipatches (Short Stuff) Mine Safety
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Blame the Worker Chemical Safety Board

“Human Error?” Don’t Believe Everything Your Read

April 14, 2017 Jordan Barab

Dense cloud of chlorine threatens community near chemical plant. Chemical Safety Board issues preliminary findings of investigation of a chemical…

AFL-CIO OSHA Workers Memorial Day

Workers Memorial Day, April 28

April 13, 2017 Jordan Barab

Workers Memorial Day — when people from around the world come together to remember those who have been killed, injured…

Enforcement OSHA Press Releases

OSHA Enforcement Update: Confined Space Writes OSHA Press Releases

April 13, 2017 Jordan Barab

If OSHA won’t do it, Confined Space will. During the Obama administration, OSHA’s policy was to issue a press release…

COSH Groups Enforcement OSHA Press Releases Trench Collapse

BREAKING!!! OSHA Issues First Enforcement Press Release Announcing $1.5 million fine for two trench deaths

April 12, 2017 Jordan Barab

Employer in fatal Boston trench collapse did not provide safety training and basic safeguards for employees, OSHA finds Atlantic Drain…

Agriculture Bureau of Labor Statistics Congress Department of Labor OSHA

Blood in your food: Injury and Death on Farms

April 12, 2017 Jordan Barab

There are many metaphors that are commonly used in Washington DC . One of those metaphors is to describe something…

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Short Stuff

April 11, 2017 Jordan Barab

Home Sweet Home: Congress is home for two weeks. Hopefully all of you are planning on talking to your Senators…

Budget Environmental Protection Agency Trump

EPA Cuts: Making America Crap Again

April 11, 2017 Jordan Barab

The New York Times points out how much everyone will love the Trump administration’s drastic 31 percent cuts to the…

Blame the Worker Enforcement Fatalities Lockout Tagout workplace safety and health programs

“I had to watch this poor kid’s head get crushed”

April 10, 2017 Jordan Barab

Common procedure for a workplace fatality: Blame the worker. Then blame the guy who warned that the workplace was dangerous.…

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Legal Does Not Mean Safe: The Fate of Chemical Protections for Workers in the Trump Era

April 10, 2017 Jordan Barab

The fact that most OSHA chemical standards are old, outdated and don’t protect workers very well is something that government,…

Congressional Review Act Volks Rule

Alabama Congressman Blind to Constituents’ Workplace Hazards

April 8, 2017 Jordan Barab

“President Donald Trump repealed an Obama-era health and safety regulation this week that could leave Alabama workers more at risk…

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