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Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week

October 13, 2025 Jordan Barab
OSHA

OSHA & MSHA Get Leaders: A Good Thing?

October 9, 2025 Jordan Barab
Confined Space Weekly Toll

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
Occupational Disease

The Dark Side of the Chip

September 30, 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
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Criminal Prosecution Dipatches (Short Stuff) Mine Safety
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Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: How Workers Die

November 4, 2024 Jordan Barab

On average, over 100 workers are killed every week in the United States due to traumatic injuries suffered at work.…

2024 Elections

The Confined Space Endorsement: Kamala Harris and Tim Walz

November 4, 2024 Jordan Barab

As we approach the most important election of our lifetime (yes, this time it really is), the Editorial Board of…

2024 Elections Gig Workers

Massachusetts Decides if Uber & Lyft Drivers Have Rights

November 1, 2024 Kathleen Rest

Have you taken an Uber or a Lyft lately? What do you know about these two app-based ride-sharing giants and…

2024 Elections Labor Unions

As Election Nears, Teamsters Still Refuse to Endorse Harris

October 30, 2024 Rena Steinzor

For the first time in three decades, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced that it would not endorse a presidential…

2024 Elections Heat State Plan States

North Carolinians: Elect Braxton Winston Labor Commissioner

October 10, 2024 Jordan Barab

North Carolinians: You get to vote for Labor Commissioner on November 5th. And it shouldn’t be a hard choice: Braxton…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: The Last Shift

October 7, 2024 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Coal mining, Hurricane Helena, forklifts, falls, logging, vehicle incidents, stabbings and shootings. On average, over…

Labor

Tips Are On The Policy Menu

October 4, 2024 Kathleen Rest

Almost anyone following current labor issues (or who works at a minimum wage job) knows that the federal minimum wage…

Climate Change

Impact Plastics and How Climate Change Threatens Workers

October 3, 2024 Jordan Barab

At least six workers in a Tennessee plastics factory are dead or missing after managers allegedly told them not to…

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Weekly Toll: Workplace Death

September 30, 2024 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Forklift, logging, construction, machinery, vehicle incidents, shootings, hurricane work. On average, over 100 workers are…

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Maryland Issues Workplace Heat Standard

September 26, 2024 Jordan Barab

Last week, in a little noticed statement in the Maryland Register, the Maryland Division of Labor and Industry announced the…

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