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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
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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
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
COVID-19 OSHA

Court Refuses to Lift OSHA Vax-or-Test Stay: Analysis

November 15, 2021 Jordan Barab

A Reagan-Trump panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals refused Friday afternoon to lift its stay of OSHA’s Emergency…

COVID-19 Short Stuff

Short Stuff: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety

November 11, 2021 Jordan Barab

As might be expected, lots of good writing about the political and legal drama surrounding OSHA’s recently issued (and blocked)…

COVID-19 Enforcement OSHA Whistleblowers

Are Concerned Workers “Informers?”

November 11, 2021 Jordan Barab

In 1995, a little known Republican Congressman named John Boehner stated that “Most employers would describe OSHA as the Gestapo…

COVID-19 OSHA

Dept of Labor Fights Back to Protect Workers

November 9, 2021 Jordan Barab

As more than 1100 Americans continue to die every day from COVID-19, the Department of Labor delivered a brief pushing…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Workers Killed Over the Past Week

November 8, 2021 Jordan Barab

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

COVID-19 OSHA Regulatory Process

OSHA Vaccine-or-Test Standard Injunction: What’s Next?

November 8, 2021 Jordan Barab

Last week, after a herculean feat of work, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued its second Emergency Temporary Standard…

COVID-19 OSHA

Court Blocks OSHA Vaccinate-or-Test Standard

November 6, 2021 Jordan Barab

Barely a day and a half after issuance of OSHA’s emergency vaccinate-or-test standard, a federal appeals court has blocked it.…

COVID-19 OSHA

Mixed Response to OSHA Vaccine-or-Test Rule

November 5, 2021 Jordan Barab

Yesterday federal OSHA issued its long anticipated Vaccine-or-Test Emergency Temporary Standard that requires all private sector employees in companies with…

COVID-19 OSHA

OSHA Issues Vaccinate-or-Test Emergency Rule: Vaccinate by January 4 or Test

November 4, 2021 Jordan Barab

OSHA’s much anticipated Vax-or-Test emergency temporary standard was put up on the web for “inspection” this morning and will be…

Bureau of Labor Statistics COVID-19 Health Care Workers Meatpacking & Poultry Workers Recordkeeping

Health Care Workers Hit Hard by COVID

November 3, 2021 Jordan Barab

It should come as no surprise that health care workers were hit hard by COVID-19. And if there was any…

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