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Trench Collapse Deaths Ring Out the Old Year

January 8, 2026 Jordan Barab
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March 25, 2025 Dylan Chamberlin

How workers died last week. 19 story fall, trapped in an auger, crushed by a forklift, tree care, vehicle incidents,…

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114th Anniversary of Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: Still Lessons to Be Learned

March 25, 2025 Jordan Barab

I am reposting here a post that I wrote three years ago about the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and the lessons…

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Beshear Vetoes Kentucky OSHA Bill

March 25, 2025 Jordan Barab

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear yesterday vetoed a business-backed bill that will weaken Kentucky’s state OSHA program. The original legislation, which…

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OSHA Update: All Quiet Now, But DOGE is Coming

March 21, 2025 Jordan Barab

If you closed your eyes and cleared you mind…you might think we were experiencing a typical Republican administration over at…

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Kentucky Goes After Miners After Weakening OSHA

March 19, 2025 Jordan Barab

It’s Trump Time. But while Elon and the Trump regime pillage protections for workers, consumers and the environment, there is…

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Weekly Toll: Slaughtered at Work

March 18, 2025 Dylan Chamberlin

How workers died last week. Helicopter crash, drownings, hit by falling debris, falls, forklifts, payloaders, vehicle incidents, murdered by an…

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About Elon: Musk Appeals OSHA Citation

March 13, 2025 Jordan Barab

At the beginning of February, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a $49,650 citation against Tesla related to…

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March 13, 2025 Jordan Barab

Miners Beware Ten miners have been killed on the job between January 3 and March 5, 2025 – more than…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Slain on the Job

March 11, 2025 Dylan Chamberlin

How workers died last week. Fall from a skyscraper, crushed by industrial machinery, explosion, wall collapse, traffic accidents, shootings. On…

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