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Weekly Toll
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Weekly Toll
An Open Letter to ICE Agents
Immigrants
An Open Letter to ICE Agents
How Workers Died Last Week: The Weekly Toll
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How Workers Died Last Week: The Weekly Toll
Washington Post’s Road to Anti-Union Perdition
Journalism Labor Unions Railroads
Washington Post’s Road to Anti-Union Perdition
OSHA

OSHA Cites Two Multiple Death Cases Very Differently

July 31, 2018 Jordan Barab

OSHA has issued citations in two multiple fatality cases, one with a appropriately large penalty (for OSHA) and one not…

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Weekly Toll: Workers Killed on the Job Over the Past Two Weeks

July 30, 2018 Jordan Barab

2 firefighters killed as blaze rages in northern California REDDING, CALIF. —The National Park Service reports a second firefighter has…

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…

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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

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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…

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