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Dispatches from the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health

Jun 29, 2022 Jordan Barab
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Texas County Official Try To Protect Citizen From Pollution, but the State is Trying to Stop Them The goal of…

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Weekly Toll: Workplace Death Takes No Summer Vacation

Jun 6, 2022 Jordan Barab

On average, almost 100 workers are killed every week in the United States due to traumatic injuries suffered at work.…

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Republicans Still Control The Mine Safety Review Commission — Putting Miners at Risk

Jun 2, 2022 Jordan Barab

These are troubling times at the obscure Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC) and that means troubling and…

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Three Deaths. Three Years. Same Site

May 31, 2022 Jordan Barab

When it comes to workplace safety and health, great journalism that thoroughly explores a problem is rare. When journalists put…

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Weekly Toll: The Deaths Continue

May 30, 2022 Jordan Barab

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Trench Deaths: Failure to Learn

May 26, 2022 Jordan Barab

I’m frustrated. Every few months I go on a tirade about workers who are needlessly suffocated and crushed to death…

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Tampa Electric Pleads Guilty to Criminal Charge in Death of 5 Workers

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May 23, 2022 Jordan Barab

I’ve been gone the past few weeks and behind on memorializing those killed in the workplace. I’ll catch up this…

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Last Friday was a beautiful, sunny day in Philadelphia. A perfect day for PhilaPOSH’s annual Workers Memorial Day celebration. This…

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Apr 28, 2022 Jordan Barab

Deny it or not, climate change is not just coming; it’s here.  And it’s not just homes in newly flood-prone…

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