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Smoke Gets In Your Lungs

September 23, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

September 22, 2025 Jordan Barab
Fires and Firefighting Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: End of Shift

September 15, 2025 Jordan Barab
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September 12, 2025 Chip Hughes
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No one should go to work expecting to get hurt. And certainly no one should go to work expecting to…

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Budget Day: Workers Under Attack

March 16, 2017 Jordan Barab

So how do working people fare in Donald Trump’s first budget proposal? The short answer, “not well.” This is what…

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Tomorrow is Budget Day

March 15, 2017 Jordan Barab

Tomorrow the President will propose his Fiscal Year 2018 budget — which promises to be good news for pretty much…

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March 15, 2017 Jordan Barab

When you think coal mining, your think West Virginia and Kentucky. And when you think coal mine disasters, you think…

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History Lesson: Accurate OSHA Recordkeeping Key to Worker Safety and Health

March 14, 2017 Jordan Barab

The Senate will vote next week on repealing the Volks rule and thereby making it impossible for OSHA to cite…

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March 14, 2017 Jordan Barab
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March 13, 2017 Jordan Barab

New York Times reporter Barry Meier writes about OSHA’s failure to issue any enforcement-related press releases since inauguration and attacks…

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Barringer: Violate, rinse, repeat. Repeat again. And again.

March 13, 2017 Jordan Barab

Those of you who were quick on the draw may have noticed that for a few minutes this afternoon I…

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Volks Vote Postponed

March 13, 2017 Jordan Barab

Good news. The Senate vote on repealing the Volks rule has been postponed from tomorrow until next week. Repeal of…

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March 13, 2017 Jordan Barab

The Salt Lake City Tribune (partnering with The Utah Investigative Journalism Project) published an article last week entitled “Death on…

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