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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
Criminal Prosecution Dipatches (Short Stuff) Mine Safety

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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DOGE Trump

Feeding Them Into a Wood Chipper

February 8, 2025 Jordan Barab

Poor timing Elon.

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2.5 Weeks into Trump 2.0

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I‘m pretty confident that those of you who read Confined Space are following, with fury and/or terror, the stream of…

Department of Labor DOGE Trump

Mass Demonstration, Lawsuit Drives DOGE From Labor Department

February 6, 2025 Jordan Barab

Millions of American workers converged on the U.S. Department of Labor yesterday blocking oligarch Elon Musk’s impending hostile and illegal…

DOGE OSHA Trump

Contact Me (Confidentially)

February 5, 2025 Jordan Barab

To all OSHA or DOL staff. If you know what’s going on at DOL or OSHA with Trump, Elon, etc,…

DOGE OSHA Trump

Musk Comes to DOL and Corporate America Takes Over OSHA

February 5, 2025 Jordan Barab

Something Elon This Way Comes It was only a matter of time. Numerous sources report that Elon Musk and his…

Budget Congress Deconstructing the Administrative State OSHA

Abolish OSHA? Again?

February 4, 2025 Jordan Barab

Labor activists are alarmed, workers are afraid and the internet is abuzz after Congressman Andy Biggs (R-AZ) has (yet again)…

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Weekly Toll: Death on the Job

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Something Wicked This Way Comes: Trump, Feds and Workplace Safety

January 31, 2025 Jordan Barab

It’s impossible not to be overwhelmed by all of the crazy and destructive crap coming out of the Trump White…

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Trump’s Attacks on Federal Employees

January 30, 2025 Kathleen Rest

It’s been hard to keep up and keep track of the barrage of Executive Orders (EOs) issued by President Trump…

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