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Workplace Heat: The Hidden Toll of Injuries

October 23, 2025 Jordan Barab
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October 9, 2025 Jordan Barab
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April 19, 2023 Jordan Barab

Workplace Violence Back on Congressional Agenda Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) and Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) re-introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation that…

West Fertilizer Explosion

ATF Doubles Down on Unscientific Finding of Arson in 2013 West Fertilizer Blast

April 18, 2023 Jordan Barab

Like certain politicians, some government agencies just have no shame. Despite widespread condemnation by fire investigation experts and the citizens…

Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week

April 17, 2023 Jordan Barab

Last week workers were crushed in a trench collapse, machinery and by a falling pipe. A worker died of a…

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The West Fertilizer Explosion Ten Years Later

April 17, 2023 Jordan Barab

It was exactly a ten years ago tonight that that my wife called me from another room to say she…

Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed at Work

April 10, 2023 Jordan Barab

Last week, two workers killed in a trench collapse, 19 year old killed in tree trimming incident, others killed in…

Books

Book Review: Flying Blind — Corporate Greed, Captured Regulators and 346 Deaths

April 7, 2023 Jordan Barab

Corporate greed kills. Mostly one at a time. But in some cases, hundreds. Specifically, in this case, 346 souls. Flying…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

April 3, 2023 Jordan Barab

Last week: Workers crushed by trees and stone slab, killed by mass shooter, hit by cars, killed by forklift, electrocuted…

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13 Dead in a Week of Workplace Catastrophes

March 27, 2023 Jordan Barab

Thirteen workers were killed in two workplace catastrophes last week. Six workers were killed in a highway work zone near…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: A Week of Deadly Catastrophes

March 27, 2023 Jordan Barab

Last week witnessed two workplace catastrophes: 6 workers were killed in a highway construction zone in Maryland and 7 were…

This Day In History

Triangle Shirtwaist: 112th Anniversary

March 25, 2023 Jordan Barab

Today is the 112th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire that killed 146 people, including 123 women, who burned…

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