OSHA Healthcare Worker COVID-19 Hearing Starts Today
OSHA’s rulemaking hearing for a permanent standard to protect healthcare workers from COVID-19 begins this morning at 9:30 a.m. The…
AFL-CIO Releases 2022 “Death on the Job” Report
Tomorrow is Workers Memorial Day — the day every year that is dedicated, in labor organizer Mother Jones’ words to…
Weekly Toll: Remember the Dead…
On average, almost 100 workers are killed every week in the United States due to traumatic injuries suffered at work.…
Workers Memorial Day: Remembering Our Fallen Workers
Wednesday is “hump day” for many working people with Monday to Friday jobs. As Thursday dawns, their work week is…
If You Fail To Kill Your Workers the First Time Around — Try, Try Again.
I consider myself a fairly reasonable person. True, I believe that any employer who kills one of his workers in…
April: The Month of Workplace Disasters
April 28 is Workers Memorial Day — a day dedicated to memorializing those killed on the job and rededicating ourselves…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
On average, almost 100 workers are killed every week in the United States due to traumatic injuries suffered at work.…
Weekly Toll: Death on the job
On average, almost 100 workers are killed every week in the United States due to traumatic injuries suffered at work.…
Will Conviction of a Nurse Increase Medical Errors?
Right after Christmas in 2017, Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse RaDonda Vaught made a series of medication errors that resulted…
Bulldozer Tragedy: Prosecute the Operator?
If you’re an avid reader of The Weekly Toll, you may have noticed a few weeks ago the tragic death…