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Enforcement OSHA Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP)

OSHA CARES: About the Boss

March 27, 2026 Jordan Barab
Fires and Firefighting Public Employees Weekly Toll

Death in the Workplace: The Weekly Toll

March 24, 2026 Aina Atienza
Congress David Michaels Silica

Republicans Try to Impose Death Sentence on Silica Countertop Workers

March 23, 2026 Jordan Barab
Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Fatal Workplaces: The Weekly Toll

March 17, 2026 Aina Atienza
Occupational Disease Workplace Illness

Small but Mighty: How One Organization Has Championed Worker Health for Nearly Four Decades

March 13, 2026 Kathleen Rest
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Death in the Workplace: The Weekly Toll
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Republicans Try to Impose Death Sentence on Silica Countertop Workers
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Republicans Try to Impose Death Sentence on Silica Countertop Workers
Fatal Workplaces: The Weekly Toll
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The Purge: DOGE Kills NIOSH — And Workers

April 1, 2025 Jordan Barab

Trump’s war on workers is reaching full bloom. And not just a war on workers’ rights to organize or to…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed at Work

March 31, 2025 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week. Killed in highway construction, crushed by animal feed and concrete block, forklift incidents, crushed by…

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An Open Letter to the Good People of Michigan

March 28, 2025 Kathleen Rest

Dear Michiganders: You have a beautiful state. Though I don’t live there, I have friends who do, and I have…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Butchered On the Job

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,…

This Day In History Workplace Catastrophes

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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March 24, 2025 Jordan Barab

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Congress DOGE

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…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

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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