The Weekly Toll: Leaving Family Behind
This week: Mining incident, falls, machinery, shootings, forklifts, vehicle incidents. On average, 14 workers are killed every day in the…
Update 2: The Latest Developments on Workplace Vaccine Requirements
In politics, bad news always comes late Friday afternoon. And the whole vaccine/test requirement issue is no exception to that…
Update: Workplace Vaccine Requirements
So, it’s been almost a month since the Biden Administration issued OSHA’s Vax-or-Mask standard for employers with 100 or more…
Short Stuff: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Labor and Workplace Safety
Undocumented Workers Deserve Safe Workplaces: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration does not distinguish between American citizens and undocumented workers…
Weekly Toll: Workers Lose Their Lives as Holidays Approach
This week: Confined space, machinery deaths, shootings, stabbings, forklifts, electrocution, vehicle incidents. On average, 14 workers are killed every day…
Confined Space Holiday Book Shopping List. Shop here!!
Jingle Bells, Something Smells, COVID in the Air Oh what fun, it is to work, with respirators you must wear……
Reporter Follows Up on Worker Blamed for His Own Death
worker blamed for his own death
Job Postings: Do Good and Make Money
Lots of good union jobs out there. Workers need you! The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)…
When in Doubt, Blame the Worker?
Those of you who have been following the various iterations of this blog since I first started in 2003 know…
Weekly Toll: Another Empty Chair at the Thanksgiving Table
Trench collapses, falls, shootings, building and bridge collapses, vehicle incidents. On average, 14 workers are killed every day in the…