Workers Memorial Day 2026
I was traveling abroad over Workers Memorial Day this year, so I missed the nation world-wide commemoration that will dwarf…
Clocking in for the Final Shift: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Four security guards killed, grain bin suffocation, falls, shootings, machinery, stabbings, vehicular incidents, industrial incidents.…
Friday Night Massacre at Mine Safety Review Commission
Trump political retribution and the ghost of DOGE (remember that?) are still alive and finally reaching down into the smallest…
Workplace Fatalities: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Four killed falling from roofs, crushed to death, machinery, overturned vehicles, entrapment incident, medical episode,…
The Negligence Just Keeps Piling Up: The Bi-Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: electrocutions, tunnel collapse, explosion, falling, rollovers, brush fire, grain-bin, crushed by construction lift, vehicular collisions,…
Remembering Our Nation’s Fallen Workers
More than 50 years ago, Congress passed the Occupational Safety and Health Act to ensure that all working men and…
The sad decline in Cal/OSHA’s worker protection
Of the 21 states (and Puerto Rico) who run their own OSHA programs, CalOSHA is often held up as the…
OSHA Weakens Heat Emphasis Program While Virginia Commits to a Standard
It’s that time of year and it’s starting to get hot out there. Lacking any noticeable progress on an enforceable…
Republicans Work to Gut Toxic Chemicals Law: Bad for People, Worse for Workers
Tracking the activities of President Trump and his people makes me feel like I am standing in the path of…
No Rest for the Workers: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: trench collapse, parking lot collapse, crushed by a forklift, tanker truck explosion, pinned under pipes,…