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Heat Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Failing to Protect America’s Workers: The Weekly Toll

September 21, 2026 Aina Atienza
Fires and Firefighting Weekly Toll

Those Who Didn’t Come Home: The Weekly Toll

September 15, 2026 Aina Atienza
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Dispatches From the Front Lines of Occupational Safety and Health

September 11, 2026 Jordan Barab
This Day In History

Thank You to Those Who Run Toward the Danger

September 11, 2026 Kathleen Rest
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The Quiet Heroes of the Back-to-School Season

September 9, 2026 Kathleen Rest
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Failing to Protect America’s Workers: The Weekly Toll
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Thank You to Those Who Run Toward the Danger
This Day In History
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Agriculture Congress

Lost Both Arms and a Leg: Life and Death for Farmworkers

July 16, 2017 Jordan Barab

Intrepid Idaho Journalist Showcases Hazards Facing Farmworkers Dairy workers drown in manure pits. Farmworkers poisoned by pesticides. Limbs amputated. Electrocutions.…

OSHA Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP)

VPP: An Important Tool or a Waste of Scarce OSHA Resources?

July 14, 2017 Jordan Barab

OSHA will hold a stakeholder meeting on Monday (and another in the Fall) to discuss how to improve the agency’s…

Budget MSHA NIOSH OSHA

House Releases Labor Budget Bill — And It’s Even Worse than Trump’s

July 13, 2017 Jordan Barab

You thought Trump’s budget proposal was bad for OSHA? Well, our Republican friends in the House of Representatives have issued…

Confined Space OSHA Trench Collapse

Workers Needlessly Killed: Near and Afar

July 12, 2017 Jordan Barab

Just heard about a worker killed in a trench collapse about a dozen miles down the road from me. He…

Budget Chemical Safety Board

BREAKING: Chemical Safety Board Survives

July 11, 2017 Jordan Barab

Good news! The House Appropriations Committee released its FY 2018 Interior and Environment Appropriations budget bill today and it fully…

Budget Labor Unions Susan Harwood Worker Training Program

Killing the Harwood Program Means Killing Workers

July 11, 2017 Jordan Barab

The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services will vote Thursday on OSHA’s FY 2018 budget. Most of…

Budget Chemical Safety Board

Save The Chemical Safety Board: Call Your Representatives NOW

July 10, 2017 Jordan Barab

The House Appropriations Committee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies will hold a mark-up on Wednesday, July 12 on the…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Suffocations, Shootings, Highways — again.

July 10, 2017 Jordan Barab

Fourth TECO worker dies after accident at plant Tampa, FL — A fourth person has died from the TECO Apollo…

Budget Chemical Safety Board MSHA NIOSH OSHA Susan Harwood Worker Training Program

Time To Act: Save Worker Training Grants, Health & Safety Research

July 10, 2017 Jordan Barab

If you haven’t yet done so, it’s time to do so. And if you have done so, do it again:…

Blame the Worker Poultry Industry Short Stuff

Dispatches from the Front of the War on Worker Safety: Short Stuff

July 7, 2017 Jordan Barab

Major, Radioactive Oops: More than 30 nuclear experts inhaled uranium after radiation alarms and ventilation systems at a Department of…

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