Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Yet another Trench Collapse. Workers dead in industrial incidents, rail crashes, shootings, electrocutions and vehicle incidents. On average, almost 100…
Elise Stefanik and the Republican War on Workers
New York Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik is a piece of work. This comes as no surprise to anyone who follows…
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health
COVID Keeping Millions of Workers Off the Job COVID continues to take a major toll on the economy, and specifically…
Weekly Toll: Labor Day and Families Mourn
Another WV mineworker killed, falls, machinery, chemical release, drowning, shootings, vehicular incidents and woman killed when hair drags her into…
OSHA Plans Chemical Plant Safety Stakeholder Meeting
September is shaping up to be chemical plant safety month. First, EPA has scheduled public hearings for September 26, 27,…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
How workers died last week: falls, shootings, vehicles, tree work, electrocution, dog attack. On average, almost 100 workers are killed…
“I’m always worried the heat will kill me”
“I’m always worried the heat will kill me.” Those were the words of Fernando Castillo, a UPS driver after he…
OSHA Gets Serious About Fall Protection
How often to you drive by workers up on the roof of a new construction or re-roofing who are not…
EPA Issues Chemical Plant Safety Proposal; Where is OSHA?
In the next round of a years-long game of regulatory ping-pong — with potentially catastrophic consequences — the Environmental Protection…
Of Dogs and Postal Workers: Part 2
The troubled relationship between mail carriers and dogs are kind of a cliché — but also a deadly hazard. Two…