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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
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
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
Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Workers Lose Their Lives as Holidays Approach

November 29, 2021 Jordan Barab

This week: Confined space, machinery deaths, shootings, stabbings, forklifts, electrocution, vehicle incidents. On average, 14 workers are killed every day…

Books

Confined Space Holiday Book Shopping List. Shop here!!

November 29, 2021 Jordan Barab

Jingle Bells, Something Smells, COVID in the Air Oh what fun, it is to work, with respirators you must wear……

Blame the Worker

Reporter Follows Up on Worker Blamed for His Own Death

November 24, 2021 Jordan Barab

worker blamed for his own death

Job Postings

Job Postings: Do Good and Make Money

November 23, 2021 Jordan Barab

Lots of good union jobs out there. Workers need you! The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)…

Blame the Worker Construction

When in Doubt, Blame the Worker?

November 22, 2021 Jordan Barab

Those of you who have been following the various iterations of this blog since I first started in 2003 know…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Another Empty Chair at the Thanksgiving Table

November 22, 2021 Jordan Barab

Trench collapses, falls, shootings, building and bridge collapses, vehicle incidents. On average, 14 workers are killed every day in the…

Mine Safety This Day In History

This Day in History: Farmington Mine Explosion Kills 78 Miners

November 20, 2021 Jordan Barab

On November 20, 1968, 53 years ago today, 78 miners died in an explosion at the Consol No. 9 coal…

Budget OSHA Penalties

House Passes Build Back Better with Higher OSHA Penalties and Increased Budget

November 19, 2021 Jordan Barab

The House of Representatives this morning passed its Build Back Better bill which will significantly increase OSHA’s maximum penalties and…

COVID-19 State Plan States

Florida Tries to Secede from OSHA

November 17, 2021 Jordan Barab

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has made no secret of his belief that any government (or employer or school district) that…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Workers Who Will Never See the Fall Leaves

November 15, 2021 Jordan Barab

On average, 14 workers are killed every day in the United States due to traumatic injuries suffered at work. That’s…

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