It’s National Public Health Week
By Kathleen Rest We could all use some good news, right? So how about this: Americans live an average of…
Housekeeping
A few odds and ends that will help us go into battle together. NIOSH I want to publish more about…
April is Still the Cruelest Month
Tomorrow is the 15th anniversary of the Upper Big Branch mine mine explosion that killed 29 miners. That was only…
Reflections on NIOSH
Fifty-five years ago, a Democratic Congress and a Republication Administration enacted a piece of landmark legislation to assure that “every…
Closing OSHA Offices will Not Save Money; It will Increase Worker Injuries, Illnesses and Deaths
Elon Musk’s DOGE team has announced that eleven OSHA area offices will be closed, presumably to save money on the…
The Purge: DOGE Kills NIOSH — And Workers
Trump’s war on workers is reaching full bloom. And not just a war on workers’ rights to organize or to…
Weekly Toll: Killed at Work
How workers died last week. Killed in highway construction, crushed by animal feed and concrete block, forklift incidents, crushed by…
An Open Letter to the Good People of Michigan
Dear Michiganders: You have a beautiful state. Though I don’t live there, I have friends who do, and I have…
Weekly Toll: Butchered On the Job
How workers died last week. 19 story fall, trapped in an auger, crushed by a forklift, tree care, vehicle incidents,…
114th Anniversary of Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: Still Lessons to Be Learned
I am reposting here a post that I wrote three years ago about the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and the lessons…