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Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week

October 13, 2025 Jordan Barab
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OSHA & MSHA Get Leaders: A Good Thing?

October 9, 2025 Jordan Barab
Confined Space Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Workers Killed on the Job

October 6, 2025 Jordan Barab
Criminal Prosecution Dipatches (Short Stuff) Mine Safety

Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health

October 3, 2025 Jordan Barab
Occupational Disease

The Dark Side of the Chip

September 30, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Trump & Republicans Escalate War on Coal Miners

August 27, 2025 Jordan Barab

Donald Trump has made a resurgence of the coal industry a top priority. That promise helped him win the nation’s…

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A Tribute to Trash Collectors

August 26, 2025 Kathleen Rest

Thursday is trash and garbage pickup day here in Boston. This week is also the week that students move in…

Confined Space Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed at Work

August 25, 2025 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Confined space, falls, logging, grain bin, skid steer, electrocution, fork lift, fire fighting, vehicle incidents,…

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Six Killed in Confined Space Catastrophe

August 22, 2025 Jordan Barab

Six workers were killed Wednesday on a dairy farm in Keenesburg, Colorado, about 45 miles northeast of Denver. Many details…

Public Employees

Who Cares About the Lives of Public Employees?

August 19, 2025 Jordan Barab

It’s once again time to remind everyone of one of the nation’s most tragic — and least known — injustices:…

In Memorium

Honoring the Life of a Working Man

August 18, 2025 Kathleen Rest

8-18-18. My dad loved saying his birth date aloud. The cadence, the sound, the alliteration. He would have been 107…

Confined Space Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

August 18, 2025 Jordan Barab

How workers died over the past couple of weeks: Trench collapse, confined space, plane crash, helicopter crash, drowning, electrocution, tree…

Budget

Senate Budget Offers Worker Safety a Stay of Execution

August 5, 2025 Jordan Barab

The Senate Appropriations Committee has sent a strong response to Trump’s efforts to undermine worker safety: Go To Hell. The…

Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Death in the American Workplace

August 4, 2025 Jordan Barab

How workers died over the past couple of weeks: three dead in trench collapses, heat, electrocution, machinery, firefighting, forklift, falls,…

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OSHA: The Optional Safety and Health Administration

July 31, 2025 Jordan Barab

You are about to enter another dimension. A dimension not only of actual sight and sound, but of corporate greed…

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