Entertainers Deserve No Safety: OSHA Wants to Restricts Use of General Duty Clause
Earlier this week, OSHA dumped dozens of deregulatory proposals into the Federal Register — most dealing with respirator issues, as…
Slashed Throat, Cooked in an Oven, Electrocutions and Heat Stroke: Why We Write the Weekly Toll
This morning we published yet another edition of the Weekly Toll — a list of some of the workers who…
Weekly Toll: Killed At Work
How workers died last week: Heat stroke, trapped in an industrial oven, tree care, silo collapse, overturned heavy equipment, electrocutions,…
Weekly Toll: We All Have To Die Sometime
How workers died last week: Trench collapse, rail incident, pinned by a truck, trapped in a cistern, plane crash tree…
OSHA Heat Hearing: The Battle Commences
The first week of the public hearing on OSHA’s Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Indoor and Outdoor Workplaces proposed…
Who Cares For Injured and Sick Workers?
With the spectacle of Trump’s military parade and the massive nationwide NO KINGS protests behind us, it’s a good time…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
How workers died last week: Trench collapse, rail incident, pinned by a truck, trapped in a water tank, tree care,…
NIOSH Budget: The Horror Show
I promised to analyze President Trump’s proposed FY 2026 budget for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).…
Weekly Toll: Killed At Work
How workers died last week: Trapped in shredder, run over by a bulldozer, crane collapse, tree care, wind project, forklift,…
DeRemer and Keeling: Dueling Labor Hearings
I had the pleasure yesterday of watching two hearings at the same time (so you wouldn’t have to): The confirmation…