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Heat

Workplace Heat: The Hidden Toll of Injuries

October 23, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Weekly Toll: Killed At Work

October 20, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week

October 13, 2025 Jordan Barab
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OSHA & MSHA Get Leaders: A Good Thing?

October 9, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Weekly Toll: Workers Killed on the Job

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Workplace Heat: The Hidden Toll of Injuries
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Weekly Toll: Killed At Work
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Weekly Toll: Killed At Work
Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week
Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week
OSHA & MSHA Get Leaders: A Good Thing?
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OSHA & MSHA Get Leaders: A Good Thing?
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
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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
Workplace Heat: The Hidden Toll of Injuries
Heat
Workplace Heat: The Hidden Toll of Injuries
Weekly Toll: Killed At Work
Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: Killed At Work
Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week
Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week
OSHA & MSHA Get Leaders: A Good Thing?
OSHA
OSHA & MSHA Get Leaders: A Good Thing?
Congress Congressional Review Act OSHA Recordkeeping Trump Volks Rule

Tesla’s Recordkeeping Violations Show How Repeal of OSHA’s Volks Rule Hurts Workers

May 23, 2018 Jordan Barab

One of the first actions of the Republican Congress after Trump’s election was to repeal OSHA’s recently issued “Volks Rule”…

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NY Public Library Photo Collection

May 22, 2018 Jordan Barab

Just ran across the New York Public Library Digital Collection. And I’ll never sleep again.

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Workers Die Every Other Hour of Every Day

May 22, 2018 Jordan Barab

Tree trimmer dies in accident at Stanford housing complex Palo Alto, CA — A 36-year-old man died while working on…

Deconstructing the Administrative State House of Representatives Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process

House Hearing on Reducing Worker Protections Tomorrow

May 22, 2018 Jordan Barab

The House Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Workforce Protections will hold a hearing tomorrow on reducing protections for the American…

Chemical Safety Board

CSB Chair Vanessa Sutherland Resigns

May 21, 2018 Jordan Barab

CSB Chair Vanessa Sutherland announced her resignation today. She gave no reason. Sutherland had more than two years left in…

Chemical Plant Safety Chemical Safety Board Environmental Protection Agency OSHA Risk Management Program (EPA)

EPA Proposes to Rescind Obama Chemical Plant Protections; Puts Residents At Risk

May 21, 2018 Jordan Barab

Five years after a catastrophic ammonium nitrate explosion in West, Texas killed 15 persons, destroyed much of the city, and…

Chemical Standards Congressional Review Act David Michaels Environmental Protection Agency OSHA Short Stuff West Fertilizer Explosion

Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff

May 17, 2018 Jordan Barab

Michaels to Musk: Manage safety at Tesla and production will fall into line: Former OSHA head Dr. David Michaels has…

Chemical Safety Board

Chemical Safety Board Dodges Trump’s Bullet Again

May 16, 2018 Jordan Barab

But is the agency selling its soul? House Gives CSB Thumbs Up The House Interior and Environment Appropriations Committee has…

Trench Collapse

Trench Deaths: You Don’t Send Your Family To Die

May 16, 2018 Jordan Barab

And speaking of trench collapses… We wrote earlier this year about the tragic death of 25 year old Zachary Hess,…

OSHA Trench Collapse

Trench Deaths: A Tale of Two Dakotas

May 15, 2018 Jordan Barab

Check out the graphic on the right. What’s wrong with that picture? Somehow workers keep dying in trench collapses. Just…

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