Agriculture
Deconstructing the Administrative State
Environmental Protection Agency
Regulations and Standards
“Stop Poisoning Children and Farm Workers” Court Tells EPA
Every day we read about how EPA or OSHA announced their intention to roll back this protection, or failed to…
“Freak Accidents” — Neither Freakish, nor Accidental
Freak Accident: An incident, especially one that is harmful, occurring under highly unusual and unlikely circumstances. (Wiktionary) This is another…
Worker Not Crushed to Death in Trench Collapse
What does it take for some employers to get the message? OSHA announced yesterday that it had issued citations with…
OSHA Comings and Goings
Mostly goings. Tom Galassi, OSHA’s Director of Enforcement Programs retired as of last week. Tom is a certified industrial hygienist…
Harwood Grants Announced
“Harwood” must be short for “Hard to Kill.” Despite receiving the death penalty from the Trump administration and the House…
Weekly Toll: Last Week’s Workers Reporting for the Final Shift
Death Toll in California’s Carr Wildfire Raises to 7 as Utility Worker Dies CLEARLAKE, Calif. — A utility worker was…
Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff
Captives on the Kill Line: Hiring immigrant workers — even undocumented workers — can be a headache. They get rounded…
Nice Try: OSHA’s Rollback of the Recordkeeping Rule–The Real Story
OSHA proposed last week to roll back parts of the “Electronic Recordkeeping” regulation that the Obama administration issued in 2016.…
OSHA Cites Two Multiple Death Cases Very Differently
OSHA has issued citations in two multiple fatality cases, one with a appropriately large penalty (for OSHA) and one not…
Weekly Toll: Workers Killed on the Job Over the Past Two Weeks
2 firefighters killed as blaze rages in northern California REDDING, CALIF. —The National Park Service reports a second firefighter has…