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Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll

December 22, 2025 Jordan Barab
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An Open Letter to ICE Agents

December 18, 2025 Kathleen Rest
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How Workers Died Last Week: The Weekly Toll

December 16, 2025 Jordan Barab
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December 15, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Give Workers the Gift of Kindness When Shopping for the Holidays

December 12, 2025 Kathleen Rest
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May 21, 2024 Kathleen Rest

Good news America! Florida has solved climate change. Not be reducing greenhouse gases, championing renewable energy, and moving to electric…

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May 20, 2024 Jordan Barab

Last week two workers were killed in grain facilities, 8 migrant farmworkers were killed in a traffic incident, workers were…

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Birds, Beasts and Workers: Avian Flu

May 17, 2024 Jordan Barab

Now that we’re done with COVID-19, it’s time to move on to the next pandemic. Just kidding. We are, of…

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May 15, 2024 Jordan Barab

SMH Sometimes you don’t know whether to laugh or to cry. In this case, both. Check out the photo above.…

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Weekly Toll: Killed at Work

May 13, 2024 Jordan Barab

Last week workers were killed in a trench collapse, electrocution, vehicle accidents, falls, shootings, forklift incident and on a farm.…

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Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

May 6, 2024 Jordan Barab

Last week workers were killed in explosions, trench collapse, electrocution, vehicle accidents, shootings, crushed by machinery and stomped by a…

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Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health

May 2, 2024 Jordan Barab

New Mexico OSHA Cites City of Roswell for Fatal Trench Collapse New Mexico OSHA has issued a $621,768 citation against…

Do It Yourself Trench Collapse

It’s Trench Season! Let’s Be Watchful Out There

May 1, 2024 Jordan Barab

It’s spring. The flowers are blooming, the cicadas are coming and peoples’ water lines and roofs need repair. And to…

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Weekly Toll: Don’t Forget Us

April 29, 2024 Jordan Barab

Last Thursday, the Department of Labor held a Workers Memorial Day ceremony in Washington DC. OSHA’s family liaison, Tonya Ford…

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A Song For Workers Memorial Day

April 28, 2024 Jordan Barab

Today is Workers Memorial Day. It’s a day, in the words of Mother Jones, to “mourn for the dead and…

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