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Year in Review

Report Card on Previous New Year’s OSH Resolutions

January 1, 2026 Kathleen Rest
Weekly Toll Workplace Violence

No Happy New Year: The Weekly Toll

December 29, 2025 Jordan Barab
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll

December 22, 2025 Jordan Barab
Immigrants

An Open Letter to ICE Agents

December 18, 2025 Kathleen Rest
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

How Workers Died Last Week: The Weekly Toll

December 16, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Report Card on Previous New Year’s OSH Resolutions
Year in Review
Report Card on Previous New Year’s OSH Resolutions
No Happy New Year: The Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll Workplace Violence
No Happy New Year: The Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll
An Open Letter to ICE Agents
Immigrants
An Open Letter to ICE Agents
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
Report Card on Previous New Year’s OSH Resolutions
Year in Review
Report Card on Previous New Year’s OSH Resolutions
No Happy New Year: The Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll Workplace Violence
No Happy New Year: The Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll
An Open Letter to ICE Agents
Immigrants
An Open Letter to ICE Agents
Environmental Protection Agency

Scott Pruitt: RIP

July 5, 2018 Jordan Barab

MARLEY was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed…

Mine Safety MSHA Short Stuff

Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle For Workplace Safety: Short Stuff

July 5, 2018 Jordan Barab

Pork Processing Workers — From Bad to Worse: US meat workers are already three times more likely to suffer serious…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Workplace Deaths Over the Last Two Weeks

July 2, 2018 Jordan Barab

I took a week off compiling this list. No change in the deadly work that American workers do, except that…

Budget Susan Harwood Worker Training Program Whistleblowers

“Fund OSHA and List Workers Killed” Says the Senate

June 29, 2018 Jordan Barab

Some good news from the Senate, and God knows, we need a little good news. The Senate Labor, Health and…

Agriculture Ammonium Nitrate Chemical Plant Safety OSHA

House Farm Bill Threatens Chemical Plant Safety

June 28, 2018 Jordan Barab

Last week, the House of Representatives narrowly passed the Farm Bill. And a little noticed sentence in this this gigantic…

Chemical Safety Board OSHA Whistleblowers

Former CSB Chair Moves on to (Much) Greener Pastures

June 27, 2018 Jordan Barab

Last month, without any warning or explanation, Vanessa Sutherland announced her resignation as Chair of the Chemical Safety Board. Earlier…

Labor Unions Public Employees

Janus: Don’t Mourn, Organize

June 27, 2018 Jordan Barab

I don’t have too much original to say about the disgusting Janus decision today, so I’ll stick to a couple…

Department of Labor Labor Unions

Today’s Bad Idea: Merge Labor and Education Departments

June 21, 2018 Jordan Barab

The Trump administration today proposed to merge the Department of Labor into the Department of Education. While some have suggested…

Health Care Workers Labor Unions

SEIU Retires Its Safety and Health Program

June 20, 2018 Jordan Barab

A recent study by Harvard University professor Michael Zoorob showed that unionization saves lives. That’s the good news. But it…

Criminal Prosecution Labor Unions Short Stuff Trench Collapse

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

June 20, 2018 Jordan Barab

Death by Trench: Equipment World has just completed a special report on trench hazards and the dozens of preventable deaths…

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