Skip to content
  • Sat. Dec 27th, 2025

Confined Space

A newsletter of workplace safety and labor issues

  • Books, Resources and Publications
  • Organizations
  • Other Newsletters, Journals and Blogs
  • Political Action
  • About Confined Space
  • Contact
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll

December 22, 2025 Jordan Barab
Immigrants

An Open Letter to ICE Agents

December 18, 2025 Kathleen Rest
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

How Workers Died Last Week: The Weekly Toll

December 16, 2025 Jordan Barab
Journalism Labor Unions Railroads

Washington Post’s Road to Anti-Union Perdition

December 15, 2025 Jordan Barab
Labor

Give Workers the Gift of Kindness When Shopping for the Holidays

December 12, 2025 Kathleen Rest
  • Latest
Weekly Toll
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll
An Open Letter to ICE Agents
Immigrants
An Open Letter to ICE Agents
How Workers Died Last Week: The Weekly Toll
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
How Workers Died Last Week: The Weekly Toll
Washington Post’s Road to Anti-Union Perdition
Journalism Labor Unions Railroads
Washington Post’s Road to Anti-Union Perdition
Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
Deconstructing the Administrative State OSHA
Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
COVID-19 Supreme Court
Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
Brett Kavanaugh OSHA
Kavanaugh: Threat to Workers and to OSHA
OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
COVID-19 Health Care Workers OSHA
OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
Weekly Toll
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll
An Open Letter to ICE Agents
Immigrants
An Open Letter to ICE Agents
How Workers Died Last Week: The Weekly Toll
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
How Workers Died Last Week: The Weekly Toll
Washington Post’s Road to Anti-Union Perdition
Journalism Labor Unions Railroads
Washington Post’s Road to Anti-Union Perdition
Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Workplace Deaths

January 13, 2025 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week. Carbon monoxide, train collision, falls, logging, suffocation, coal mine, construction equipment, vehicle incidents, stabbing and…

Mine Safety

Labor Department Acts to Protect Miners’ Black Lung Compensation

January 7, 2025 Richard Miller

The excellent Confined Space 2024 year-end summary missed one important accomplishment of the Biden administration: In December 2024, the DOL’s…

Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Death in the New Year

January 6, 2025 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week. Trench collapse, falls, skid loader, machinery, firefighting, vehicle incidents, shootings and stabbing. On average, over…

Year in Review

Hopes, Dreams, and Resolutions for 2025

January 3, 2025 Kathleen Rest

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 Regulatory Process Silica Walkaround Year in Review

2024 Confined Space Year in Review

January 2, 2025 Jordan Barab

As 2024 thankfully disappears into the sunset, now we can all look forward, with great confidence to….2029? The one definite…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: The Last Shift

December 30, 2024 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week. 17 year old at amusement part, building collapse, correction officer beaten to death, stabbing, shootings,…

Journalism Public Employees Trench Collapse

Who’s Protecting Georgia’s Public Employees?

December 26, 2024 Jordan Barab

Hope you all are having a nice holiday. I did. But, of course, as I wrote earlier this week, there…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Not Coming Home For Christmas

December 23, 2024 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week. Trench Collapse, train derailment, plane and helicopter crashes, falls, tree care, shootings, vehicle incidents. On…

Public Employees Trench Collapse

Georgia to Public Employees: Die Like Dogs

December 23, 2024 Jordan Barab

Three city employees have been killed on the job in Georgia over the past month and a half. At least…

Criminal Prosecution Trench Collapse

Trench Death: Bright Red State, Deep Blue Prosecution

December 20, 2024 Rena Steinzor

Texas has the second largest percentage of Latinx voters in the country. Yet despite Donald Trump’s deep-seated racism toward brown…

Posts pagination

1 … 15 16 17 … 118
Subscribe to Confined Space

Enter your email address to subscribe to Confined Space and receive notifications of new posts by email. (NOTE: YOU WILL GET AN EMAIL ASKING YOU TO CONFIRM YOUR SUBSCRIPTION.)

Join 1,887 other subscribers
Search
Tip Jar
Feel free to drop a few bucks in the tip jar now and then. Use Paypal by clicking below. And thank you!
Archives
Categories
  • 2024 Elections
  • AFL-CIO
  • Agriculture
  • Alex Acosta
  • Amazon
  • Ammonium Nitrate
  • Asbestos
  • Automobile Industry
  • Avian Influenza (H5N1)
  • Beryllium
  • Blame the Worker
  • Blog
  • Books
  • Brett Kavanaugh
  • Budget
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • Centers for Disease Control
  • Chemical Plant Safety
  • Chemical Safety Board
  • Chemical Standards
  • Child Labor
  • Climate Change
  • Combustible Dust
  • Confined Space
  • Congress
  • Congressional Review Act
  • Construction
  • COSH Groups
  • COVID-19
  • Criminal Prosecution
  • David Michaels
  • Deconstructing the Administrative State
  • Department of Labor
  • Dipatches (Short Stuff)
  • Do It Yourself
  • DOGE
  • Election 2024
  • Enforcement
  • Environmental Protection Agency
  • Ergonomics
  • Fall Prevention
  • Fatalities
  • Fires and Firefighting
  • Fissured Workplace
  • Freak Accident
  • Gig Workers
  • Government Accountability Office
  • Harwood (See Susan Harwood Worker Training Program)
  • Health Care Workers
  • Heat
  • House of Representatives
  • Humor
  • Hurricane Harvey
  • Immigrants
  • In Memorium
  • Infectious Diseases
  • International
  • Job Postings
  • Jordan Barab
  • Journalism
  • Labor
  • Labor Unions
  • Lac Megantic
  • Lockout Tagout
  • Meatpacking & Poultry Workers
  • Mine Safety
  • MSHA
  • NIOSH
  • Occupational Disease
  • Office of Management and Budget
  • OIRA
  • OSHA
  • Penalties
  • Photo of the Week
  • Poultry Industry
  • Press Releases
  • Process Safety Management
  • Public Employees
  • Railroads
  • Recordkeeping
  • Regulations and Standards
  • Regulatory Process
  • Risk Management Program (EPA)
  • Senate
  • Short Stuff
  • Silica
  • State Plan States
  • Supreme Court
  • Susan Harwood Worker Training Program
  • Temporary Employees
  • This Day In History
  • Trench Collapse
  • Trump
  • Uncategorized
  • Volks Rule
  • Voluntary Protection Programs
  • Wage and Hour Division
  • Walkaround
  • Weekly Toll
  • West Fertilizer Explosion
  • Whistleblowers
  • Workers Compensation
  • Workers Memorial Day
  • Workplace Catastrophes
  • Workplace Illness
  • workplace safety and health programs
  • Workplace Violence
  • Year in Review
States
Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
Meta
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
Top Posts & Pages
  • Cars stained with the blood of American workers
  • Washington Post's Road to Anti-Union Perdition
  • Weekly Toll
  • How Workers Died Last Week: The Weekly Toll
  • Weekly Toll: How Workers Died
  • 2025 Holiday Book List
  • Political Action
  • The Dark Side of the Chip
  • An Open Letter to ICE Agents
  • After Two Decades of Advocacy, Federal Firefighters Expand Federal Workers’ Compensation Protections for Occupational Diseases
Follow Me on Bluesky
  • Bluesky

Confined Space

A newsletter of workplace safety and labor issues

Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Newsup by Themeansar.

  • Home
  • Books, Resources and Publications
  • Organizations
  • Other Newsletters, Journals and Blogs
  • Political Action
  • About Confined Space
  • Contact