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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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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
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
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…

Chemical Standards Health Care Workers In Memoriam Labor

Rest in Power: Workplace Safety Heroes John Mehring and Samuel Epstein

May 2, 2018 Jordan Barab

The workplace safety movement lost two of its heroes in March — one fairly well known (enough to get an…

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