OSHA Penalties: How Low Can You Go?
Penalties for violating OSHA standards and imperiling workers health and lives are already embarrassingly low. But apparently not low enough…
Heat Dome Covers the Right Half of the Country
I am an environmental lawyer who came to the challenge of ensuring worker safety and health midway through my career.…
Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Fireworks explosion, flash flood, tanker explosion, electrocution, tree care, shootings, vehicle incidents. On average, over…
Entertainers Deserve No Safety: OSHA Wants to Restrict Use of General Duty Clause
Earlier this week, OSHA dumped dozens of deregulatory proposals into the Federal Register — most dealing with respirator issues, as…
Slashed Throat, Cooked in an Oven, Electrocutions and Heat Stroke: Why We Write the Weekly Toll
This morning we published yet another edition of the Weekly Toll — a list of some of the workers who…
Weekly Toll: Killed At Work
How workers died last week: Heat stroke, trapped in an industrial oven, tree care, silo collapse, overturned heavy equipment, electrocutions,…
Weekly Toll: We All Have To Die Sometime
How workers died last week: Trench collapse, rail incident, pinned by a truck, trapped in a cistern, plane crash tree…
OSHA Heat Hearing: The Battle Commences
The first week of the public hearing on OSHA’s Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Indoor and Outdoor Workplaces proposed…
Who Cares For Injured and Sick Workers?
With the spectacle of Trump’s military parade and the massive nationwide NO KINGS protests behind us, it’s a good time…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
How workers died last week: Trench collapse, rail incident, pinned by a truck, trapped in a water tank, tree care,…