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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
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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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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
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
OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
COVID-19 Health Care Workers OSHA
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
COVID-19 Supreme Court

Supreme Court Blocks OSHA Standard, Leaves Workers Without COVID-19 Protection

January 13, 2022 Jordan Barab

The Supreme Court, in a predictable 6-3 decision, blocked OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) that required employees in businesses with…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: New Year Rings In With Teen-age Workers Killed

January 10, 2022 Jordan Barab

This week: A 16 year-old, an 18 year-old and a 19 year-old worker were killed on the job last week.…

COVID-19 State Plan States

Supreme Court Allows OSHA Standard to Go Into Effect (as of this moment…)

January 10, 2022 Jordan Barab

I’m holding my breath and afraid to jinx it, but as of this moment, noon on Monday, we have not…

COVID-19 Deconstructing the Administrative State Supreme Court

Supremes Hear OSHA Case: To Block or not to Block

January 8, 2022 Jordan Barab

So of course everyone is dying to know what a non-lawyer like me thinks about yesterday’s Supreme Court arguments about…

Workplace Violence

Another Social Worker Killed: When will it end?

January 6, 2022 Jordan Barab

Deidre Silas, 36, an investigator for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), was stabbed to death Tuesday…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: No Holiday From Workplace Death

January 3, 2022 Jordan Barab

Trench collapse, falling trees, traffic incidents, building collapses, shootings, falls. On average, almost 100 workers are killed every day in…

COVID-19 Health Care Workers OSHA

OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise

December 29, 2021 Jordan Barab

OSHA withdraws its healthcare worker emergency temporary standard just when at-risk workers need it most.

COVID-19 OSHA

Health Care Workers Still Protected By OSHA Emergency Covid Standard — Experts Say

December 23, 2021 Jordan Barab

As of Tuesday, December 22, it has been 6 months since OSHA issued its Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) protecting the…

COVID-19 Dipatches (Short Stuff) Do It Yourself Labor Unions Meatpacking & Poultry Workers Short Stuff

Short Stuff: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Safety and Labor

December 21, 2021 Jordan Barab

Most Influential In our Hearts: Despite the global campaign championing Rory O’Neill for the most influential individual in health and…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Missing From the Table This Holiday Season

December 20, 2021 Jordan Barab

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

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