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Weekly Toll

Workers Who Won’t Be Coming Home: The Weekly Toll

December 1, 2025 Jordan Barab
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A Thanksgiving Thank You for Those Working on the Holiday

November 26, 2025 Kathleen Rest
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

How Workers Died Last Week: Weekly Toll

November 25, 2025 Jordan Barab
Mine Safety MSHA This Day In History

Farmington Mine Disaster and the Blood of Coal Miners

November 20, 2025 Jordan Barab
Enforcement Journalism

Nevada Gov Drops OSHA Penalties for Musk

November 19, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Workers Who Won’t Be Coming Home: The Weekly Toll
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Workers Who Won’t Be Coming Home: The Weekly Toll
A Thanksgiving Thank You for Those Working on the Holiday
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How Workers Died Last Week: Weekly Toll
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How Workers Died Last Week: Weekly Toll
Farmington Mine Disaster and the Blood of Coal Miners
Mine Safety MSHA This Day In History
Farmington Mine Disaster and the Blood of Coal Miners
Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
Deconstructing the Administrative State OSHA
Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
COVID-19 Supreme Court
Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
Brett Kavanaugh OSHA
Kavanaugh: Threat to Workers and to OSHA
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OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
Workers Who Won’t Be Coming Home: The Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll
Workers Who Won’t Be Coming Home: The Weekly Toll
A Thanksgiving Thank You for Those Working on the Holiday
Uncategorized
A Thanksgiving Thank You for Those Working on the Holiday
How Workers Died Last Week: Weekly Toll
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
How Workers Died Last Week: Weekly Toll
Farmington Mine Disaster and the Blood of Coal Miners
Mine Safety MSHA This Day In History
Farmington Mine Disaster and the Blood of Coal Miners
Criminal Prosecution Trench Collapse

If You Fail To Kill Your Workers the First Time Around — Try, Try Again.

April 23, 2022 Jordan Barab

I consider myself a fairly reasonable person. True, I believe that any employer who kills one of his workers in…

This Day In History Workplace Catastrophes

April: The Month of Workplace Disasters

April 20, 2022 Jordan Barab

April 28 is Workers Memorial Day — a day dedicated to memorializing those killed on the job and rededicating ourselves…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

April 11, 2022 Jordan Barab

On average, almost 100 workers are killed every week in the United States due to traumatic injuries suffered at work.…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Death on the job

April 4, 2022 Jordan Barab

On average, almost 100 workers are killed every week in the United States due to traumatic injuries suffered at work.…

Blame the Worker Health Care Workers

Will Conviction of a Nurse Increase Medical Errors?

April 4, 2022 Jordan Barab

Right after Christmas in 2017, Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse RaDonda Vaught made a series of medication errors that resulted…

Blame the Worker Criminal Prosecution

Bulldozer Tragedy: Prosecute the Operator?

April 1, 2022 Jordan Barab

If you’re an avid reader of The Weekly Toll, you may have noticed a few weeks ago the tragic death…

Budget

Biden’s FY 2023 Workplace Safety and Health Budget

March 29, 2022 Jordan Barab

President Biden released his FY 2023 Budget request yesterday and the OSHA budget request provides an $89 million (or 14.6%)…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed at Work

March 28, 2022 Jordan Barab

This week: Falls, building collapse, vehicle incidents, shootings, drowning. On average, almost 100 workers are killed every week in the…

Amazon Ergonomics

Washington OSHA Cracks Down on Amazon’s “Punishing Profit Model”

March 28, 2022 Jordan Barab

Last Sunday, March 20, marked the 21st anniversary of one of the greatest crimes in American labor history: President George…

This Day In History Workplace Catastrophes

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: Still Lessons to Be Learned

March 25, 2022 Jordan Barab

A call from an old friend reminded me that today is the 111th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. On…

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