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OSHA Weakens Heat Emphasis Program While Virginia Commits to a Standard

April 16, 2026 Jordan Barab
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Republicans Work to Gut Toxic Chemicals Law: Bad for People, Worse for Workers

April 16, 2026 Rena Steinzor
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No Rest for the Workers: The Weekly Toll

April 14, 2026 Aina Atienza
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No Moon Voyage Without a Timecard

April 8, 2026 Kathleen Rest
Budget Chemical Safety Board Enforcement NIOSH

Trump to Workers: Drop Dead. And Do It Faster

April 8, 2026 Jordan Barab
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OSHA Weakens Heat Emphasis Program While Virginia Commits to a Standard
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OSHA Weakens Heat Emphasis Program While Virginia Commits to a Standard
Republicans Work to Gut Toxic Chemicals Law:  Bad for People, Worse for Workers
Chemical Standards Environmental Protection Agency
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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…

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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…

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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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