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Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety

July 15, 2026 Jordan Barab
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Occupational Fatalities: The Weekly Toll

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Trump Pardons Another Toxic Chemical

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Heat MSHA Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process Silica

New Regulatory Agenda: No Good News for Heat or Silica

July 8, 2026 Jordan Barab
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Occupational Fatalities: The Weekly Toll
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Trump Pardons Another Toxic Chemical
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New Regulatory Agenda: No Good News for Heat or Silica
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Occupational Fatalities: The Weekly Toll
Agriculture Public Employees Weekly Toll
Occupational Fatalities: The Weekly Toll
Trump Pardons Another Toxic Chemical
Chemical Standards Environmental Protection Agency
Trump Pardons Another Toxic Chemical
New Regulatory Agenda: No Good News for Heat or Silica
Heat MSHA Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process Silica
New Regulatory Agenda: No Good News for Heat or Silica
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June 6, 2017 Jordan Barab

Milking the Workers? Farm worker advocates have published a survey of mostly undocumented Hispanic workers that describes discrimination and workplace…

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Trump Administration Continues to Attack Worker Protections

June 6, 2017 Jordan Barab

The New York Times takes another look at Obama administration worker protections that are being “revisited” in the early months…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Death on the Job

June 5, 2017 Jordan Barab

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Criminal Prosecution Enforcement OSHA

A Company That Was Bound to Kill Someone

June 5, 2017 Jordan Barab

Zachary Henzerling, a 20 year old ” big kid at heart,” was on his third week at work for Environmental…

Agriculture Combustible Dust Fatalities OSHA

Three Workers Killed in Corn Mill Explosion

June 5, 2017 Jordan Barab

In one of the biggest workplace disasters this year, three workers were killed in a massive explosion at the Didion…

Enforcement OSHA Workplace Violence

New Jersey Workplace Violence Case: DOL & OSHA Cave In

June 5, 2017 Jordan Barab

Which statement below represents reality? This one? NOTICE TO EMPLOYEES OF BRMC WORKPLACE VIOLENCE PREVENTION PLAN May 22,2017 Bergen Regional…

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Death, Amputation and Interesting Times in Saipan

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Not that you’d find it the homepage of its website, but OSHA issued a large press release earlier this week…

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Wolf to Pigs: Don’t worry. I’ve got your backs.

June 1, 2017 Jordan Barab

I swear, sometimes I don’t know if I’m reading facts or farce. Bloomberg BNA reports that the Labor Department —…

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Being as I am no longer gainfully employed in one of those jobs where you actually have to put on…

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May 31, 2017 Jordan Barab

America, we have a problem. And it promises to get worse. 2 Killed in Explosion at West Virginia Industrial Plant…

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