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Heat Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Failing to Protect America’s Workers: The Weekly Toll

September 21, 2026 Aina Atienza
Fires and Firefighting Weekly Toll

Those Who Didn’t Come Home: The Weekly Toll

September 15, 2026 Aina Atienza
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Dispatches From the Front Lines of Occupational Safety and Health

September 11, 2026 Jordan Barab
This Day In History

Thank You to Those Who Run Toward the Danger

September 11, 2026 Kathleen Rest
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The Quiet Heroes of the Back-to-School Season

September 9, 2026 Kathleen Rest
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No Moon Voyage Without a Timecard

April 8, 2026 Kathleen Rest

Before one small step for man, there are millions of very ordinary steps—clocking in. The safe and successful launch of…

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Trump to Workers: Drop Dead. And Do It Faster

April 8, 2026 Jordan Barab

Welcome to Groundhog Day 2027. Last year, Donald Trump, that shell of a man living in the soon-to-be half demolished…

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Fooling Around with Workers’ Lives: The Weekly Toll

April 7, 2026 Aina Atienza

How workers died last week: trench collapse, electrocutions, coal mining, falls, tree care, crane collapse, vehicular collisions, stabbed, ruptured hot…

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April 1 Special Report: A Nation Without Workers

April 1, 2026 Kathleen Rest

This morning, the United States conducted a bold experiment nobody authorized and everyone immediately regretted. It attempted to function without…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

No Accidents, Only Oversights: The Weekly Toll

March 31, 2026 Aina Atienza

How workers died last week: helicopter crash, fall, occupational cancer, explosions, electrocution, skid steer rollover, head injury, and crushed by…

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OSHA CARES: About the Boss

March 27, 2026 Jordan Barab

Let’s do some philosophizing and theorizing. Deep thoughts like: why does OSHA exist, how is it working out for workers…

Fires and Firefighting Public Employees Weekly Toll

Death in the Workplace: The Weekly Toll

March 24, 2026 Aina Atienza

How workers died last week: airplane and fire truck collision, falls, crushed by industrial equipment, medical episodes, train and truck…

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Republicans Try to Impose Death Sentence on Silica Countertop Workers

March 23, 2026 Jordan Barab

A very new, yet very old and always deadly health specter is haunting American workers: acute silicosis. It’s not your…

Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Fatal Workplaces: The Weekly Toll

March 17, 2026 Aina Atienza

How workers died last week: Trench collapse, pushed down the stairs, electrocution, heavy equipment, logging and tree care, railroad worker,…

Occupational Disease Workplace Illness

Small but Mighty: How One Organization Has Championed Worker Health for Nearly Four Decades

March 13, 2026 Kathleen Rest

Dateline: September 28-October 2, 1986, Las Vegas Nevada: The American Public Health Association was holding its annual meeting. A small…

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