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MSHA OSHA Recordkeeping Silica

OSHA Enforcement Staff at Record Low: Inspector General

February 11, 2026 Jordan Barab
Weekly Toll

Workers Who Won’t Be Coming Home: The Weekly Toll

February 9, 2026 Aina Atienza
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Seriously, Mr. President — We Cannot Afford to Dismantle FEMA

February 6, 2026 Kathleen Rest
Health Care Workers Workplace Violence

NY Nurses Strike for Safety

February 5, 2026 Jordan Barab
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Weekly Toll

February 3, 2026 Aina Atienza
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NY Nurses Strike for Safety
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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
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Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
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Kavanaugh: Threat to Workers and to OSHA
OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
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OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
OSHA Enforcement Staff at Record Low: Inspector General
MSHA OSHA Recordkeeping Silica
OSHA Enforcement Staff at Record Low: Inspector General
Workers Who Won’t Be Coming Home: The Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll
Workers Who Won’t Be Coming Home: The Weekly Toll
Seriously, Mr. President — We Cannot Afford to Dismantle FEMA
Climate Change
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NY Nurses Strike for Safety
Health Care Workers Workplace Violence
NY Nurses Strike for Safety
Job Postings

Job Postings

December 22, 2018 Jordan Barab

Are you a health and safety activist looking for a job? Check these out.

Chemical Plant Safety Chemical Standards Journalism OSHA

Oil Field Workers: “We’ve just got to find a way not to kill them.”

December 21, 2018 Jordan Barab

American workers drilling for oil have dirty, dangerous jobs that often kills them. In return, they're covered by weaker OSHA…

Congress OSHA

No OSHA Head This Session

December 21, 2018 Jordan Barab

Looks like OSHA will continue to be leaderless for the near future.

Journalism Mine Safety MSHA Occupational Disease Silica

“Suffocating While Alive” The Return of Black Lung

December 20, 2018 Jordan Barab

Howard Berkes has published a major investigative piece for NPR/Frontline on the resurgence of black lung among coal miners. Read…

Mine Safety This Day In History

Today in Mining History: December 19, 1984 and 1907

December 19, 2018 Jordan Barab

Darr Mine Fire: Dec. 19, 1907 At 11:30 a.m., a massive explosion rocked the Darr Mine of the Pittsburgh Coal…

Bureau of Labor Statistics Mine Safety MSHA OSHA

Death on the Job: 2017 Fatality Numbers Released

December 18, 2018 Jordan Barab

The Bureau of Labor Statistics today released its 2017 Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries — and it contained good news…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Workers Who Punched in, but Never Punched Out Last Week

December 17, 2018 Jordan Barab

Florida Construction Worker Killed After Being Trapped Under Crane at Marina Bradenton, FL — Authorities say a construction worker was…

Labor Unions Mine Safety MSHA

Mine Workers Sue MSHA Over Lifting Enforcement Action

December 13, 2018 Jordan Barab

Things have been somewhat quiet lately in the world of mine safety and health. We wrote earlier about the troubling…

Congress Labor

House Workforce Committee Goes Out With a Whimper, Not a Bang

December 13, 2018 Jordan Barab

The last hearing of the soon-to-be late, great Republican-controlled House Education and Workforce Committee of the 115th Congress was supposed…

OSHA Recordkeeping

Court Says OSHA Can Be Sued For Recordkeeping Delay

December 12, 2018 Jordan Barab

District Court rejects OSHA's motion to dismiss Public Citizen recordkeeping lawsuit claiming the agency violated the law.

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