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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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Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week
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Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: How Workers Die

August 26, 2024 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Trench collapse, quarry collapse, crushed a jeep plant, falls, vehicle incidents, drowning, shooting. On average,…

Heat

Baltimore Hires Anti-OSHA Law Firm to Investigate Worker Heat Death

August 23, 2024 Jordan Barab

We wrote last week about the tragic workplace heat death of sanitation worker Ronald Silver II who died of heat…

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Tim Walz: Champion of Working People

August 21, 2024 Jordan Barab

Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz will give his acceptance speech tonight at the Democratic National Convention. In case you’re a…

Heat Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

August 19, 2024 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: 18-year old electrocuted and 17-year old killed delivering UberEats, heat, falls, machinery, grain bin, vehicle…

Heat

Heat Kills Baltimore City Worker Before OSHA Standard is Issued

August 15, 2024 Jordan Barab

When it comes to workplace safety and health, nothing sharpens the mind of politicians, the media, unions and regulators like…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll

August 12, 2024 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Heat, electrocution, falls, fire, explosions, coal mining, helicopter crash, vehicle incidents, stabbing, shootings. On average,…

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August 8, 2024 Rena Steinzor

The planet is migrating toward heat waves too intense for humans to survive. In July 2024, scientists logged the four…

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Does One-Size-Fit-All?

August 6, 2024 Scott Schneider

At last month’s House hearing on OSHA standards we constantly heard the tired refrain that OSHA standards are a “one-size-fits-all”…

Heat Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: How Workers Die

August 5, 2024 Jordan Barab

How Workers Died Over the Last Weeks: electrocutions, heat, lawn mowers, grain bin, aircraft, falls, construction, firefighting, vehicle incidents and…

Congress Heat

House OSHA Hearing: I Came, I Testified, (I Conquered?)

July 26, 2024 Jordan Barab

As I announced earlier this week, I navigated through the Bibi Netanyahu security perimeter to testify before the House of…

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