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Workplace Safety: DO SOMETHING!
Among the many rousing speeches and resounding cheers at last week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago was the one delivered…
Weekly Toll: How Workers Die
How workers died last week: Trench collapse, quarry collapse, crushed a jeep plant, falls, vehicle incidents, drowning, shooting. On average,…
Baltimore Hires Anti-OSHA Law Firm to Investigate Worker Heat Death
We wrote last week about the tragic workplace heat death of sanitation worker Ronald Silver II who died of heat…
Tim Walz: Champion of Working People
Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz will give his acceptance speech tonight at the Democratic National Convention. In case you’re a…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
How workers died last week: 18-year old electrocuted and 17-year old killed delivering UberEats, heat, falls, machinery, grain bin, vehicle…
Heat Kills Baltimore City Worker Before OSHA Standard is Issued
When it comes to workplace safety and health, nothing sharpens the mind of politicians, the media, unions and regulators like…
Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Heat, electrocution, falls, fire, explosions, coal mining, helicopter crash, vehicle incidents, stabbing, shootings. On average,…
Coping with Hot
The planet is migrating toward heat waves too intense for humans to survive. In July 2024, scientists logged the four…
Does One-Size-Fit-All?
At last month’s House hearing on OSHA standards we constantly heard the tired refrain that OSHA standards are a “one-size-fits-all”…
Weekly Toll: How Workers Die
How Workers Died Over the Last Weeks: electrocutions, heat, lawn mowers, grain bin, aircraft, falls, construction, firefighting, vehicle incidents and…