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Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll

December 22, 2025 Jordan Barab
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An Open Letter to ICE Agents

December 18, 2025 Kathleen Rest
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How Workers Died Last Week: The Weekly Toll

December 16, 2025 Jordan Barab
Journalism Labor Unions Railroads

Washington Post’s Road to Anti-Union Perdition

December 15, 2025 Jordan Barab
Labor

Give Workers the Gift of Kindness When Shopping for the Holidays

December 12, 2025 Kathleen Rest
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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
Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
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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
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OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
Weekly Toll
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll
An Open Letter to ICE Agents
Immigrants
An Open Letter to ICE Agents
How Workers Died Last Week: The Weekly Toll
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
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
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…

Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: More Workers Not Coming Home at the End of the Day

May 14, 2018 Jordan Barab

Mechanic dies after car falls on him in east Las Vegas auto body shop LAS VEGAS, NV — A mechanic…

Beryllium OSHA Regulations and Standards Workplace Violence

Full of Surprises: OSHA Spring Regulatory Agenda Released

May 10, 2018 Jordan Barab

When Spring is in the air, this man’s fancy turns to (where else?) the 2018 Spring Regulatory Agenda to discover…

Department of Labor

We won’t see their like again…

May 8, 2018 Jordan Barab

Although the sad news has been known to many of us for a while, Bloomberg Law officially announced the retirements…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Nothing New on the Workplace Death Front

May 7, 2018 Jordan Barab

Salisbury Chemical Plant Employee Dies After Falling Into Open Tank Salisbury, NC — The employee who died in a workplace…

Immigrants Journalism

Crushed to Death and Discarded: The Invisible “Third Men” of New York’s Garbage Industry

May 5, 2018 Jordan Barab

There are eight million stories in the Naked City, and some of them — like this one — you’d never…

Alex Acosta Department of Labor

Dreaming of Acosta Being Kicked Upstairs?

May 5, 2018 Jordan Barab

OK, it’s the weekend, so we can kick back and gossip and spread rumors. If you read last Monday’s Punching…

Mine Safety MSHA

Blankenship: Negros, Chinapersons and 29 Dead Miners

May 4, 2018 Jordan Barab

There are a lot of things to hate Don Blankenship for. Putting production over safety leading to the deaths of…

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