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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
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
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
Brett Kavanaugh OSHA
Kavanaugh: Threat to Workers and to OSHA
OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
COVID-19 Health Care Workers OSHA
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
Farmington Mine Disaster and the Blood of Coal Miners
Heat

Coping with Hot

August 8, 2024 Rena Steinzor

The planet is migrating toward heat waves too intense for humans to survive. In July 2024, scientists logged the four…

Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process

Does One-Size-Fit-All?

August 6, 2024 Scott Schneider

At last month’s House hearing on OSHA standards we constantly heard the tired refrain that OSHA standards are a “one-size-fits-all”…

Heat Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: How Workers Die

August 5, 2024 Jordan Barab

How Workers Died Over the Last Weeks: electrocutions, heat, lawn mowers, grain bin, aircraft, falls, construction, firefighting, vehicle incidents and…

Congress Heat

House OSHA Hearing: I Came, I Testified, (I Conquered?)

July 26, 2024 Jordan Barab

As I announced earlier this week, I navigated through the Bibi Netanyahu security perimeter to testify before the House of…

Congress Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process

House to Hold Hearing to Trash OSHA Standards

July 23, 2024 Jordan Barab

In case you don’t have anything better to do at 9:00 EDT tomorrow morning, tune in here to watch a…

Heat Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

July 22, 2024 Jordan Barab

How Workers Died Last Week: electrocutions, heat, lawn mowers, forklift, farming, shootings, vehicle incidents. On average, over 100 workers are…

Heat Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll

July 15, 2024 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Heat, electrocution, drownings, shootings, wood chipper, bee attack, firefighting, vehicle incidents. On average, over 100…

Do It Yourself Fall Prevention OSHA

Right Outside Our Kitchen Window

July 11, 2024 Jordan Barab

Nothing is easy. They’re rebuilding the house next door — right outside our kitchen window. Last week they had guys…

Regulatory Process

Fate of Spring Regulatory Agenda is Riden’ With Biden

July 10, 2024 Jordan Barab

The federal Spring Regulatory Agenda was released a few days ago, but the fate of future OSHA standards is linked…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

July 8, 2024 Jordan Barab

How Workers Died over the past few weeks: Crushed, electrocuted, shot, suicide, explosion, vehicle incidents. On average, over 100 workers…

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