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A Thanksgiving Thank You for Those Working on the Holiday

November 26, 2025 Kathleen Rest
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How Workers Died Last Week: Weekly Toll

November 25, 2025 Jordan Barab
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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
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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
OSHA This Day In History

Why They Work For OSHA

July 28, 2018 Jordan Barab

This is why I work for OSHA. It’s why I’m proud to work for OSHA So someone I don’t know,…

OSHA Recordkeeping

OSHA Proposes to Roll Back Electronic Recordkeeping Rule

July 26, 2018 Jordan Barab

OSHA today released the text of a proposal to relieve workers of the alleged “risk” of having confidential information exposed,…

Agriculture OSHA

US to Workers Killed on Small Farms: We Don’t Care

July 24, 2018 Jordan Barab

SOUTH SIOUX CITY, NE — A man who suffered severe burns when a grain elevator exploded in South Sioux City…

Budget OSHA Susan Harwood Worker Training Program

OSHA Update: Bureaucracy, Budget and Leadership Rumors

July 19, 2018 Jordan Barab

It’s mid-summer and a man’s fancy turns to what’s happening in OSHA these days. Let’s update you all before you…

Blame the Worker OSHA

OSHA Speaks to Employers, Ignores Workers, About Deaths in Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska

July 19, 2018 Jordan Barab

Too many workers are dying in the states of Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, according to OSHA Region VII, and employers…

Short Stuff

Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Health and Safety: Short Stuff

July 18, 2018 Jordan Barab

Criminal Conviction Upheld: DNRB, a Missouri warehouse construction contractor (doing business as Fastrack Erectors) was confirmed to be criminally liable…

Brett Kavanaugh Deconstructing the Administrative State Supreme Court

Kavanaugh Watch: Bad Forecast for Worker and Environmental Protections

July 18, 2018 Jordan Barab

And in our continuing series of posts about why Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court would be a disaster…

Heat Labor Unions NIOSH Occupational Disease OSHA Regulations and Standards

Groups Petition OSHA to Issue Heat Standard

July 18, 2018 Jordan Barab

Peggy Frank, a 63-year-old California postal worker — and also a mother and grandmother — died last week while working…

Deconstructing the Administrative State Lac Megantic Railroads Regulations and Standards

Lessons Not Learned at Lac-Mégantic Anniversary

July 17, 2018 Jordan Barab

Steve Bannon may have moved out of the West Wing, but he left his goal of “deconstructing the regulatory state”…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Workers Not Coming Home From Work Last Week

July 16, 2018 Jordan Barab

1 worker killed, 1 hurt after Dumpster falls at NC Campbell’s Soup plant, reports say MAXTON, N.C. (WNCN) – One…

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