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Climate Change Heat

Heat Dome Covers the Right Half of the Country

July 9, 2025 Rena Steinzor
Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll

July 7, 2025 Jordan Barab
Brett Kavanaugh Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process

Entertainers Deserve No Safety: OSHA Wants to Restricts Use of General Duty Clause

July 3, 2025 Jordan Barab
Weekly Toll

Slashed Throat, Cooked in an Oven, Electrocutions and Heat Stroke: Why We Write the Weekly Toll

July 2, 2025 Jordan Barab
Heat Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed At Work

July 2, 2025 Dylan Chamberlin
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Heat Dome Covers the Right Half of the Country
Climate Change Heat
Heat Dome Covers the Right Half of the Country
Weekly Toll
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Entertainers Deserve No Safety: OSHA Wants to Restricts Use of General Duty Clause
Brett Kavanaugh Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process
Entertainers Deserve No Safety: OSHA Wants to Restricts Use of General Duty Clause
Slashed Throat, Cooked in an Oven, Electrocutions and Heat Stroke: Why We Write the Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll
Slashed Throat, Cooked in an Oven, Electrocutions and Heat Stroke: Why We Write the Weekly Toll
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
Heat Dome Covers the Right Half of the Country
Climate Change Heat
Heat Dome Covers the Right Half of the Country
Weekly Toll
Public Employees Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll
Entertainers Deserve No Safety: OSHA Wants to Restricts Use of General Duty Clause
Brett Kavanaugh Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process
Entertainers Deserve No Safety: OSHA Wants to Restricts Use of General Duty Clause
Slashed Throat, Cooked in an Oven, Electrocutions and Heat Stroke: Why We Write the Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll
Slashed Throat, Cooked in an Oven, Electrocutions and Heat Stroke: Why We Write the Weekly Toll
Blame the Worker Lac Megantic Railroads

Charges Dropped Against Railroad for Lac Mégantic Catastrophe

April 11, 2018 Jordan Barab

Criminal charges have been dropped against Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway (MMA), according to Quebec’s Director of Criminal and Penal…

Alex Acosta Beryllium Budget Regulations and Standards

Acosta To Testify Thursday in Senate on FY 2019 DOL Budget

April 10, 2018 Jordan Barab

Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta will testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday morning regarding the Presidents FY 2019…

Public Employees

Massachusetts Moves Forward on Protecting Public Employees. But millions remain without protection.

April 10, 2018 Jordan Barab

Question 1: What did the following workers have in common? Mercer County village worker killed in industrial accident MENDON, MERCER…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Mourning for the Dead

April 9, 2018 Jordan Barab

Two Fatalities Confirmed in Helicopter Crash Near Smethport Keating Twp, PA — Two workers were killed when a helicopter performing…

Alex Acosta Criminal Prosecution Mine Safety MSHA Short Stuff Wage and Hour Division workplace safety and health programs

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

April 5, 2018 Jordan Barab

Kentucky Limits Black Lung Claims Reviews: We have recently noted that black lung is back with a vengeance after almost…

Mine Safety

Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster Anniversary: Don Blankenship Commemorates By Running for Senate

April 5, 2018 Jordan Barab

Today is the eighth anniversary of the Upper Big Branch mine explosion that claimed the lives of 29 coal miners…

Chemical Plant Safety Environmental Protection Agency

Nightmare Now Showing at Chemical Facility Near You

April 4, 2018 Jordan Barab

From my next screenplay….”The Day Before The Day After Tomorrow” Open Old film of an ominous fog spreading across the…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: The Monthly Version

April 2, 2018 Jordan Barab

FedEx truck driver killed after crashing over highway in Texas DALLAS, TX — A fiery crash killed the driver of…

OSHA

OSHA: We don’t need no stinkin’ advice — from workers

March 30, 2018 Jordan Barab

OSHA seems to be devaluing advice from outside stakeholders — or at least from workers. We’ve written before about the…

Enforcement OSHA

OSHA Issues Tiny Penalty for Three Communication Tower Deaths

March 30, 2018 Jordan Barab

OSHA has fined Tower King II Inc. $12,934 for the death of three workers who were attempting to install a…

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