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Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week

October 13, 2025 Jordan Barab
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OSHA & MSHA Get Leaders: A Good Thing?

October 9, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Weekly Toll: Workers Killed on the Job

October 6, 2025 Jordan Barab
Criminal Prosecution Dipatches (Short Stuff) Mine Safety

Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health

October 3, 2025 Jordan Barab
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The Dark Side of the Chip

September 30, 2025 Jordan Barab
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OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week
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Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week
OSHA & MSHA Get Leaders: A Good Thing?
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OSHA & MSHA Get Leaders: A Good Thing?
Weekly Toll: Workers Killed on the Job
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Enforcement Health Care Workers OSHA Regulations and Standards Workplace Violence

Shot, Stabbed and Assaulted: Violence Against Nurses

November 7, 2018 Jordan Barab

Check out this excellent video on workplace violence against nurses by Newsy investigative reporter Patrick Terpstra. Aside from the jarring…

OSHA Recordkeeping

Hiding Injuries at Tesla: Where The Worker Still Doesn’t Matter.

November 6, 2018 Jordan Barab

Under-recording of workplace injuries and illnesses is bad, and far too common. But at the automaker Tesla, in Fremont, California,…

Mine Safety

This Day In History: 82 Miners Killed in Millfield Mine Disaster, November 5, 1930

November 5, 2018 Jordan Barab

On this day in 1930, at 11:45 a.m., a tremendous explosion rocked the Sunday Creek No. 6 mine near Millfield,…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Death In the Workplace

November 5, 2018 Jordan Barab

U.P. woman dies in workplace accident in Mackinac County MACKINAC COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) — An Upper Peninsula woman is dead…

Congress MSHA OSHA

Why Vote?

November 1, 2018 Jordan Barab

In case anyone hasn’t heard, there’s an election coming up next week. One of the messages that I try to…

Chemical Safety Board Lac Megantic Mine Safety OSHA Railroads Recordkeeping Short Stuff

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

October 31, 2018 Jordan Barab

Workers Can Participate in CSB Investigations: A major goal of the Occupational Safety and Health Act is to encourage workers…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Who Didn’t Come Home From Work Last Week

October 29, 2018 Jordan Barab

Officer dies after falling off on-ramp to Poplar Street Bridge during struggle with 2 suspects EAST ST. LOUIS, IL –…

OSHA Poultry Industry

Mar-Jack: OSHA Inspectors “Are Not There For Us”

October 26, 2018 Jordan Barab

I wrote earlier this month about a court decision in the Mar-Jac case restricting OSHA’s ability to expand inspections at…

Alex Acosta Health Care Workers Wage and Hour Division

Bringing Back Child Labor: In Nursing Homes and Health Care

October 24, 2018 Jordan Barab

It’s the 21st century, so why are we still arguing about the safety of child labor? Continuing on its mission…

Freak Accident

“Complacency Killed My Brother!”

October 23, 2018 Jordan Barab

A couple of months ago, I wrote a post about how “freak accidents” are neither “freak,” nor “accidental.” As I…

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