Labor Department Acts to Protect Miners’ Black Lung Compensation
The excellent Confined Space 2024 year-end summary missed one important accomplishment of the Biden administration: In December 2024, the DOL’s…
Weekly Toll: Death in the New Year
How workers died last week. Trench collapse, falls, skid loader, machinery, firefighting, vehicle incidents, shootings and stabbing. On average, over…
Hopes, Dreams, and Resolutions for 2025
Tempus Fugit! Yes, I had to take 4 years of Latin in high school. Little did I know how fast…
2024 Elections
Deconstructing the Administrative State
Heat
Journalism
MSHA
OSHA
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Silica
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Year in Review
2024 Confined Space Year in Review
As 2024 thankfully disappears into the sunset, now we can all look forward, with great confidence to….2029? The one definite…
Weekly Toll: The Last Shift
How workers died last week. 17 year old at amusement part, building collapse, correction officer beaten to death, stabbing, shootings,…
Who’s Protecting Georgia’s Public Employees?
Hope you all are having a nice holiday. I did. But, of course, as I wrote earlier this week, there…
Weekly Toll: Not Coming Home For Christmas
How workers died last week. Trench Collapse, train derailment, plane and helicopter crashes, falls, tree care, shootings, vehicle incidents. On…
Georgia to Public Employees: Die Like Dogs
Three city employees have been killed on the job in Georgia over the past month and a half. At least…
Trench Death: Bright Red State, Deep Blue Prosecution
Texas has the second largest percentage of Latinx voters in the country. Yet despite Donald Trump’s deep-seated racism toward brown…
Nevada’s Heat Standard: Much Ado About Little
When writing about Trump 2.0, I expressed the hope that OSHA state plan states would take the initiative to protect…