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Department of Labor

The DeMise of DeRemer?

March 4, 2026 Jordan Barab
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Workers Dying in the US: The Weekly Toll

March 2, 2026 Aina Atienza
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Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health

March 2, 2026 Jordan Barab
Labor OSHA

OSHA’s New Poster Leaves Some Things to be Required

February 27, 2026 Jordan Barab
Agriculture Confined Space Weekly Toll

Workplace Fatalities: The Weekly Toll

February 24, 2026 Aina Atienza
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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…

DOGE Enforcement

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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Kentucky Republicans Launch OSHA Race to the Bottom

March 11, 2025 Jordan Barab

The Kentucky State Legislature is poised to pass legislation that will weaken health and safety protections for the state’s workers.…

Heat Public Employees

Baltimore DPW Cited For Heat Death, But No Penalty

March 10, 2025 Jordan Barab

Maryland OSHA (MOSH) cited the Baltimore Department of Public Works (DPW) with a “serious violation” last week in connection with…

DOGE

Federal Employees: You’re On Your Own Suckers!

March 6, 2025 Kathleen Rest

The Musk-Trump Administration has taken a chain saw to the federal workforce. Chop, chop, chop; cut, cut, cut. And the…

DOGE Enforcement

OSHA Cites Tesla

March 5, 2025 Jordan Barab

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a $49,650 citation against Tesla in Texas related to the August 2024 death…

Mine Safety Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Death on the Job

March 3, 2025 Dylan Chamberlin

How workers died last week. Trench collapse, crushed by industrial machinery, coal mine fall, electrocution, traffic accident, paint booth, shooting.…

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