Public Employees Killed by Preventable Hazards. And It’s all Legal
Imagine you’re recruited for a job with a bunch of other workers. It’s a job with lots of hazards —…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
How workers died last week: Coal mining, railroad incident, forklift, electrocution, scaffolding collapse, vehicle incidents, shootings, stabbing, fires and falls.…
Project 2025 and the Lives of Workers
The Washington Post ran an amazing article written by Michael Lewis yesterday, about Chris Mark, the “Principal Roof Control Specialist”…
Weekly Toll: How Workers Die
Today is Labor Day where we honor the important work that this nation’s workers do to make life in this…
Workplace Safety: DO SOMETHING!
Among the many rousing speeches and resounding cheers at last week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago was the one delivered…
Weekly Toll: How Workers Die
How workers died last week: Trench collapse, quarry collapse, crushed a jeep plant, falls, vehicle incidents, drowning, shooting. On average,…
Baltimore Hires Anti-OSHA Law Firm to Investigate Worker Heat Death
We wrote last week about the tragic workplace heat death of sanitation worker Ronald Silver II who died of heat…
Tim Walz: Champion of Working People
Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz will give his acceptance speech tonight at the Democratic National Convention. In case you’re a…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
How workers died last week: 18-year old electrocuted and 17-year old killed delivering UberEats, heat, falls, machinery, grain bin, vehicle…
Heat Kills Baltimore City Worker Before OSHA Standard is Issued
When it comes to workplace safety and health, nothing sharpens the mind of politicians, the media, unions and regulators like…