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June 6, 2025 Jordan Barab
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June 2, 2025 Jordan Barab
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American Nightmare: Wading Through Floating Fat and Chicken Guts While Machines Snap off Workers’ Arms

December 30, 2017 Jordan Barab

Peter Waldman, along with Kartikay Mehrotra have continued Bloomberg Businessweek’s amazing — and amazingly disturbing — coverage of the underbelly…

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Criminal Prosecution After Willful OSHA Citations for 5 Deaths at Tampa Electric?

December 29, 2017 Jordan Barab

On June 29, 2017, five workers were burned to death at Tampa Electric’s Big Bend Power Station — Michael McCort,…

Agriculture Deconstructing the Administrative State OSHA Regulations and Standards

NY Times Misses the Point on “Regulatory Fatigue”

December 28, 2017 Jordan Barab

Buried in paragraph 6 of an article on Page 11 of today’s New York Times — right next to an…

OSHA Silica

Appeals Court Upholds OSHA Silica Standard

December 22, 2017 Jordan Barab

There is no better holiday gift than the gift of life and that is what the DC Appeals Court gave…

Fatalities

Is Opioid Addiction the Most Important Workplace Safety and Health Problem?

December 22, 2017 Jordan Barab

I’m going ask some questions in order to start a conversation here — about workplace drug abuse, workplace fatalities and…

Enforcement Fatalities Lockout Tagout OSHA Voluntary Protection Programs

“Anything goes” Death at Goodyear — in the Workplace and on the Road

December 20, 2017 Jordan Barab

Goodyear Tire and Rubber makes tires. They also seem to be good a killing people in a variety of different…

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Workplace Fatalities Rose in 2016

December 19, 2017 Jordan Barab

In the unlikely event that anyone out there was thinking that workplace fatalities were fading into the past, check out…

Weekly Toll

The Weekly Toll: More Workers Not Coming Home

December 18, 2017 Jordan Barab

Firefighter battling SoCal wildfire dies from ‘thermal injuries, smoke inhalation’ SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — A firefighter died Thursday while…

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Trump’s War on Coal (Miners) Continues

December 18, 2017 Jordan Barab

When I noted last week that OSHA had come out of the new Fall 2017 Regulatory Agenda relatively unscathed, I…

Centers for Disease Control Humor NIOSH

CDC Censors List of Words: What Does This Mean For NIOSH?

December 16, 2017 Jordan Barab

We have just received word that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the government agency whose mission it…

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