Weekly Toll: Losses In The Holiday Season
How workers died last week. Electrocutions, tow trucks, railroad, falls, coal pile collapse, traffic, shootings….. On average, almost 100 workers…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
How workers died last week. Yet another trench collapse, rail explosion, frozen to death, fall off an overpass, traffic, shooting…..…
Workers and COVID-19: Who lives and who dies
I rant frequently about the lack of data — or possibly interest — revealing the severe health impact of COVID-19…
Weekly Toll: Death in the American Workplace
How workers died last week. Two women killed in forklift incidents, bridge collapse, dog attack, shootings, cotton gin and vehicular…
Weekly Toll: Killed At Work
How workers died last week. Healthcare workers shot and stabbed, cranes, forklifts, drowning, explosions, shootings and traffic incidents. On average,…
Healthcare Worker Shootings: Where is OSHA’s Workplace Violence Standard?
Workplace violence continues to kill and injure this country’s caregivers while the latest round of healthcare worker homicides has renewed…
Reefer Madness: Death of Cannabis Worker
Last January 4, 2022, 27-year-old Lorna McMurrey went into cardiac arrest at Trulieve’s cannabis cultivation facility in Holyoke, Massachusetts and…
Weekly Toll: How Workers Die in the United States
How workers died last week. Ground up in a wood chipper, killed on the tracks, crushed by garage door, traffic…
When Are Public Employee Memorials a Hollow Gesture?
Why do I often roll my eyes and shake my head when I read about a city or county or…
Weekly Toll: End of Watch
Yet another trench collapse, preventable falls, oilfield explosion and workers killed unjamming machinery. Two weeks of workplace death. On average,…