There When You Need Them 8-21-2026
Imagine it’s Sunday noon, the kind of ordinary hour when nothing is supposed to happen, and you slice your finger…
Victims of Gross Negligence: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Falling objects, explosions, tree care, rollovers, transit death, welding, electrocution, firefighting, vehicular incidents, occupational cancer,…
Workers Not Coming Home This Week: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: rollovers, grain bin incident, three electrocutions, falls, firefighting, industrial incidents, and murder-suicide, on-duty medical emergencies,…
Do Cyberattacks on Water Plants Warn of More Bhopals?
Something wicked this way comes: More deaths, chemical releases and cyberattacks on this this nation’s water and chemical infrastructure. The…
Death in American Workplaces: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Trench Collapse, falls, tree care, electrocution, machinery, scissor lift, firefighting, lawnmower incident, farming, occupational cancer,…
The Dog Days of Summer and the Workers Who Can’t Escape Them
The Dog Days of Summer – July 3-August 11. The phrase was named after Sirius — the Dog Star —…
Mourning for Preventable Deaths: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: trench collapse, grain bin, heat(?), tree care, electrocutions, lightning, flooding, industrial incidents, grain bin incident,…
The Hands That Help Build America
If you’ve eaten fresh fruit this week, visited a hospital or nursing home, stayed in a hotel, repaired your roof,…
Heat Related Death? Who Knows?
Careful readers of yesterday’s Weekly Toll may have noted the death of UPS driver Umeshkumar Thakkar on July 20 near…
Failure to Survive Work: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Trench collapses, heat, rollovers, coal mining, firefighting, occupational cancer, cell tower, skid steer, explosions, grain…