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Weekly Toll

Workers Who Won’t Be Coming Home: The Weekly Toll

December 1, 2025 Jordan Barab
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A Thanksgiving Thank You for Those Working on the Holiday

November 26, 2025 Kathleen Rest
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

How Workers Died Last Week: Weekly Toll

November 25, 2025 Jordan Barab
Mine Safety MSHA This Day In History

Farmington Mine Disaster and the Blood of Coal Miners

November 20, 2025 Jordan Barab
Enforcement Journalism

Nevada Gov Drops OSHA Penalties for Musk

November 19, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Workers Who Won’t Be Coming Home: The Weekly Toll
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Workers Who Won’t Be Coming Home: The Weekly Toll
A Thanksgiving Thank You for Those Working on the Holiday
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How Workers Died Last Week: Weekly Toll
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How Workers Died Last Week: Weekly Toll
Farmington Mine Disaster and the Blood of Coal Miners
Mine Safety MSHA This Day In History
Farmington Mine Disaster and the Blood of Coal Miners
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
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Kavanaugh: Threat to Workers and to OSHA
OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
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OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
Workers Who Won’t Be Coming Home: The Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll
Workers Who Won’t Be Coming Home: The Weekly Toll
A Thanksgiving Thank You for Those Working on the Holiday
Uncategorized
A Thanksgiving Thank You for Those Working on the Holiday
How Workers Died Last Week: Weekly Toll
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
How Workers Died Last Week: Weekly Toll
Farmington Mine Disaster and the Blood of Coal Miners
Mine Safety MSHA This Day In History
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Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

September 9, 2024 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Coal mining, railroad incident, forklift, electrocution, scaffolding collapse, vehicle incidents, shootings, stabbing, fires and falls.…

2024 Elections Deconstructing the Administrative State Journalism

Project 2025 and the Lives of Workers

September 6, 2024 Jordan Barab

The Washington Post ran an amazing article written by Michael Lewis yesterday, about Chris Mark, the “Principal Roof Control Specialist”…

Heat Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: How Workers Die

September 2, 2024 Jordan Barab

Today is Labor Day where we honor the important work that this nation’s workers do to make life in this…

2024 Elections

Workplace Safety: DO SOMETHING!

August 29, 2024 Kathleen Rest

Among the many rousing speeches and resounding cheers at last week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago was the one delivered…

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…

2024 Elections David Michaels State Plan States

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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