Weekly Toll: Three Weeks of Death on the Job
Excuse the length of this depressing exercise, but I’ve been away for a couple of weeks and unlike me, workplace…
Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff
Your job or you unborn child. Your job or your bladder. Your job or your life. These are the choices…
Kentucky OSHA: NPR Story On State’s Failure to Enforce
Listen here to an NPR investigative story on serious investigation and enforcement problems at Kentucky OSHA. I wrote about this…
This Day in History: Farmington Mine Explosion Kills 78 Miners
On November 20, 1968, 40 50 years ago today, 78 miners died in an explosion at the Consol No. 9…
New Congress: New Opportunities
What changes for workplace safety can workers expect from the new Democratically controlled Congress next year? I give my best…
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Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff
OSHA: The Incredible Shrinking Agency: The number of OSHA inspectors has hit an all-time low according to data compiled by…
Are Kentucky — And Other OSHA State Plans — Failing Their Workers?
OSHA State Plans: love ’em or hate ’em, but we have to live with them. The Kentucky Center for Investigative…
Weekly Toll: A Few American Workers Who Will Never Come Home
Not a good week to be a worker in Indiana (California and Florida weren’t so hot either.) Construction worker killed…
Interview With Journalist Jamie Satterfield About Workers Poisoned by Coal Ash
Knoxville News Sentinal’s Jamie Satterfield, the investigative reporter who has been following the story about cleanup workers who died and…
Just Doing Their Job — And Now They’re Dying For It
This is one of those horrific stories that you think must have come out of the 19th century or early…