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Labor

No Moon Voyage Without a Timecard

April 8, 2026 Kathleen Rest
Budget Chemical Safety Board Enforcement NIOSH

Trump to Workers: Drop Dead. And Do It Faster

April 8, 2026 Jordan Barab
Mine Safety Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Fooling Around with Workers’ Lives: The Weekly Toll

April 7, 2026 Aina Atienza
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April 1 Special Report: A Nation Without Workers

April 1, 2026 Kathleen Rest
Public Employees Weekly Toll

No Accidents, Only Oversights: The Weekly Toll

March 31, 2026 Aina Atienza
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No Moon Voyage Without a Timecard
Labor
No Moon Voyage Without a Timecard
Trump to Workers: Drop Dead. And Do It Faster
Budget Chemical Safety Board Enforcement NIOSH
Trump to Workers: Drop Dead. And Do It Faster
Fooling Around with Workers’ Lives: The Weekly Toll
Mine Safety Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
Fooling Around with Workers’ Lives: The Weekly Toll
April 1 Special Report: A Nation Without Workers
Labor
April 1 Special Report: A Nation Without Workers
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
No Moon Voyage Without a Timecard
Labor
No Moon Voyage Without a Timecard
Trump to Workers: Drop Dead. And Do It Faster
Budget Chemical Safety Board Enforcement NIOSH
Trump to Workers: Drop Dead. And Do It Faster
Fooling Around with Workers’ Lives: The Weekly Toll
Mine Safety Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
Fooling Around with Workers’ Lives: The Weekly Toll
April 1 Special Report: A Nation Without Workers
Labor
April 1 Special Report: A Nation Without Workers
Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Workers Die Every Other Hour of Every Day

May 22, 2018 Jordan Barab

Tree trimmer dies in accident at Stanford housing complex Palo Alto, CA — A 36-year-old man died while working on…

Deconstructing the Administrative State House of Representatives Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process

House Hearing on Reducing Worker Protections Tomorrow

May 22, 2018 Jordan Barab

The House Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Workforce Protections will hold a hearing tomorrow on reducing protections for the American…

Chemical Safety Board

CSB Chair Vanessa Sutherland Resigns

May 21, 2018 Jordan Barab

CSB Chair Vanessa Sutherland announced her resignation today. She gave no reason. Sutherland had more than two years left in…

Chemical Plant Safety Chemical Safety Board Environmental Protection Agency OSHA Risk Management Program (EPA)

EPA Proposes to Rescind Obama Chemical Plant Protections; Puts Residents At Risk

May 21, 2018 Jordan Barab

Five years after a catastrophic ammonium nitrate explosion in West, Texas killed 15 persons, destroyed much of the city, and…

Chemical Standards Congressional Review Act David Michaels Environmental Protection Agency OSHA Short Stuff West Fertilizer Explosion

Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff

May 17, 2018 Jordan Barab

Michaels to Musk: Manage safety at Tesla and production will fall into line: Former OSHA head Dr. David Michaels has…

Chemical Safety Board

Chemical Safety Board Dodges Trump’s Bullet Again

May 16, 2018 Jordan Barab

But is the agency selling its soul? House Gives CSB Thumbs Up The House Interior and Environment Appropriations Committee has…

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…

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