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Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll

February 3, 2026 Aina Atienza
Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job

January 27, 2026 Aina Atienza
Bureau of Labor Statistics Recordkeeping

Reported Workplace Injuries and Illnesses decline in Last Biden Year

January 26, 2026 Jordan Barab
Labor

The Unsung Heroes: Workers Braving the Monster Storm

January 24, 2026 Kathleen Rest
Budget Chemical Safety Board MSHA OSHA Susan Harwood Worker Training Program

Congress Rejects OSHA & MSHA Cuts

January 22, 2026 Jordan Barab
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Bureau of Labor Statistics Recordkeeping
Reported Workplace Injuries and Illnesses decline in Last Biden Year
The Unsung Heroes: Workers Braving the Monster Storm
Labor
The Unsung Heroes: Workers Braving the Monster Storm
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
Weekly Toll
Public Employees Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job
Public Employees Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job
Reported Workplace Injuries and Illnesses decline in Last Biden Year
Bureau of Labor Statistics Recordkeeping
Reported Workplace Injuries and Illnesses decline in Last Biden Year
The Unsung Heroes: Workers Braving the Monster Storm
Labor
The Unsung Heroes: Workers Braving the Monster Storm
AFL-CIO Enforcement OSHA

OSHA Enforcement in Decline Data Shows

June 13, 2018 Jordan Barab

Words Words Words I’m so sick of words I get words all day through First from him, now from you…

Alex Acosta OSHA Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP)

OSHA Weakens Voluntary Protection Programs’ Integrity

June 12, 2018 Jordan Barab

OSHA issued a new policy document last week for its Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP), weakening measures taken in the last…

Silica

OSHA Silica Standard to Come Into Effect June 23 — with 30-day enforcement delay

June 11, 2018 Jordan Barab

In some fairly good news for workers who want to live a full life, but work in foundries or manufacture…

Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Last Week’s Workplace Fatalities

June 11, 2018 Jordan Barab

Another week, and another list of preventable deaths. Two double fatalities this week: Two workers killed in a power plant…

OSHA Trench Collapse

19 Year-Old Worker Killed in Baltimore Trench

June 6, 2018 Jordan Barab

Nineteen years is a short life, but that’s all that Kyle Hancock of Glen Burnie, Maryland will get. Hancock died,…

Chemical Safety Board

Inspector General Issues Bizarre Chemical Safety Board Report

June 5, 2018 Jordan Barab

The Inspector General (IG) issued a somewhat bizarre report yesterday on “management challenges” at the Chemical Safety Board. The IG…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Last Week’s Workplace Deaths

June 4, 2018 Jordan Barab

Man dies in pressroom accident at Pennsylvania newspaper ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A contractor (Ruben Ocasio-Fernandez, 32)became trapped underneath a piece…

Chemical Plant Safety Chemical Safety Board Climate Change Environmental Protection Agency Hurricane Harvey OSHA Process Safety Management

Arkema Chemical Plant Investigation Results in Weak CSB Recommendations

May 30, 2018 Jordan Barab

The Chemical Safety Board released its report on the Arkema chemical incident last week. You may recall that during the…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Memorial Day Edition

May 28, 2018 Jordan Barab

Today is Memorial Day when we remember those who gave their lives defending this country and the freedoms we defend…

Mine Safety Senate

Blankenship Does Us A Favor

May 27, 2018 Jordan Barab

Don Blankenship,who spent a year in jail because 29 miners died in his Upper Big Branch mine? What good is…

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