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City Decides to Protect Public Employees. Where’s the Rest of the State?

September 5, 2025 Jordan Barab
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September 2, 2025 Jordan Barab
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City Decides to Protect Public Employees. Where’s the Rest of the State?
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House Budget Bill Mostly Duplicates Trump Request
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Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
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City Decides to Protect Public Employees. Where’s the Rest of the State?
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City Decides to Protect Public Employees. Where’s the Rest of the State?
DOL Issues Spring 2025 Regulatory Agenda
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House Budget Bill Mostly Duplicates Trump Request
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House Budget Bill Mostly Duplicates Trump Request
Labor Day Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job
Confined Space Heat Mine Safety Weekly Toll
Labor Day Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job
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Weekly Toll: Slaughtered at Work

March 18, 2025 Dylan Chamberlin

How workers died last week. Helicopter crash, drownings, hit by falling debris, falls, forklifts, payloaders, vehicle incidents, murdered by an…

DOGE Enforcement

About Elon: Musk Appeals OSHA Citation

March 13, 2025 Jordan Barab

At the beginning of February, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a $49,650 citation against Tesla related to…

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Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health

March 13, 2025 Jordan Barab

Miners Beware Ten miners have been killed on the job between January 3 and March 5, 2025 – more than…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Slain on the Job

March 11, 2025 Dylan Chamberlin

How workers died last week. Fall from a skyscraper, crushed by industrial machinery, explosion, wall collapse, traffic accidents, shootings. On…

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Kentucky Republicans Launch OSHA Race to the Bottom

March 11, 2025 Jordan Barab

The Kentucky State Legislature is poised to pass legislation that will weaken health and safety protections for the state’s workers.…

Heat Public Employees

Baltimore DPW Cited For Heat Death, But No Penalty

March 10, 2025 Jordan Barab

Maryland OSHA (MOSH) cited the Baltimore Department of Public Works (DPW) with a “serious violation” last week in connection with…

DOGE

Federal Employees: You’re On Your Own Suckers!

March 6, 2025 Kathleen Rest

The Musk-Trump Administration has taken a chain saw to the federal workforce. Chop, chop, chop; cut, cut, cut. And the…

DOGE Enforcement

OSHA Cites Tesla

March 5, 2025 Jordan Barab

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a $49,650 citation against Tesla in Texas related to the August 2024 death…

Mine Safety Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Death on the Job

March 3, 2025 Dylan Chamberlin

How workers died last week. Trench collapse, crushed by industrial machinery, coal mine fall, electrocution, traffic accident, paint booth, shooting.…

Criminal Prosecution Trench Collapse

Workplace Carnage: Two More Killed in Maryland Trench Collapse

March 3, 2025 Jordan Barab

Two Maryland workers were crushed to death in a trench collapse in Catonsville on Friday morning. 24-year-old Emerson Amestica and…

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