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Trench Collapse Deaths Ring Out the Old Year

January 8, 2026 Jordan Barab
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Weekly Toll: Dying in the New Year

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Students: Help Workers Fight for Safe Working Conditions

January 5, 2026 Jordan Barab
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2025 Confined Space Year in Review

January 5, 2026 Jordan Barab
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This Day in Workplace Safety History: The Sago Mine Disaster

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Trench Collapse Deaths Ring Out the Old Year
Weekly Toll: Dying in the New Year
Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: Dying in the New Year
Students: Help Workers Fight for Safe Working Conditions
OSHA
Students: Help Workers Fight for Safe Working Conditions
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DOGE Heat Journalism MSHA NIOSH Regulatory Process Year in Review
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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…

Workplace Illness

Radium Girls: Glowing and Dying

April 22, 2017 Jordan Barab

If you caught “Weekend Edition” on NPR this morning, you heard a fascinating, but tragic interview with Kate Moore about…

Labor Unions OSHA Susan Harwood Worker Training Program

Hit the fu**ing Road Jack: Why we need a strong OSHA enforcement program.

April 20, 2017 Jordan Barab

This is not generally how a good company wants a supervisor to respond to a worker who reports unsafe conditions:…

Department of Labor Environmental Protection Agency

Foxes, Henhouses and our Health

April 20, 2017 Jordan Barab

Earlier this week I reviewed a New York Times article on conflicts of interest among Trump political appointees that highlighted…

OSHA Workplace Violence

Your Job or Your Life

April 19, 2017 Jordan Barab

I just received an invitation to a Washington DC Workers Memorial Day event titled “No worker should have to sacrifice…

Congress Fatalities

Congress gets front row look at death in the workplace

April 19, 2017 Jordan Barab

A Congressperson looking out the office window or crossing the street to the Capitol yesterday morning could would have witnessed…

OSHA Press Releases

Shaming OSHA

April 18, 2017 Jordan Barab

Well, if Mr. Sulu thinks it’s a big deal…..It seems that we here at Confined Space and you, our faithful…

Deconstructing the Administrative State OSHA Recordkeeping Regulations and Standards

Swamp Monster in the White House: See no evil, fix no evil.

April 18, 2017 Jordan Barab

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank makes no secret about disliking Donald Trump. Instead of “draining the swamp” as he promised…

Congress Congressional Review Act Regulations and Standards

OSHA Regulations: The Next Target

April 18, 2017 Jordan Barab

By Scott Schneider After last fall’s election, with Republicans in charge of both the White House and Congress, it was…

Fatalities Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Death In the American Workplace

April 17, 2017 Jordan Barab

Another depressing installment of the Weekly Toll. Note that there are 39 fatalities listed here, going back, more or less,…

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