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A Thanksgiving Thank You for Those Working on the Holiday

November 26, 2025 Kathleen Rest
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

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
Weekly Toll

Killed on the Job: Weekly Toll

November 17, 2025 Jordan Barab
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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
Nevada Gov Drops OSHA Penalties for Musk
Enforcement Journalism
Nevada Gov Drops OSHA Penalties for Musk
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
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
Nevada Gov Drops OSHA Penalties for Musk
Enforcement Journalism
Nevada Gov Drops OSHA Penalties for Musk
Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: A Few American Workers Who Will Never Come Home

November 12, 2018 Jordan Barab

Not a good week to be a worker in Indiana (California and Florida weren’t so hot either.) Construction worker killed…

Journalism Occupational Disease

Interview With Journalist Jamie Satterfield About Workers Poisoned by Coal Ash

November 10, 2018 Jordan Barab

Knoxville News Sentinal’s Jamie Satterfield, the investigative reporter who has been following the story about cleanup workers who died and…

Workplace Illness

Just Doing Their Job — And Now They’re Dying For It

November 8, 2018 Jordan Barab

This is one of those horrific stories that you think must have come out of the 19th century or early…

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 –…

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