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All in a Seven Days’ Work: The Weekly Toll

November 10, 2026 Aina Atienza
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Occupational Fatalities: The Weekly Toll

November 4, 2026 Aina Atienza
Mine Safety MSHA Weekly Toll

Clocking in for the Final Shift: The Weekly Toll

October 27, 2026 Aina Atienza
Weekly Toll

Workplace Deaths: The Weekly Toll

October 20, 2026 Aina Atienza
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Sacramento Bee investigative series documents shocking management failures at Cal/OSHA

October 19, 2026 Garrett Brown
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All in a Seven Days’ Work: The Weekly Toll
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All in a Seven Days’ Work: The Weekly Toll
Occupational Fatalities: The Weekly Toll
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
Occupational Fatalities: The Weekly Toll
Clocking in for the Final Shift: The Weekly Toll
Mine Safety MSHA Weekly Toll
Clocking in for the Final Shift: The Weekly Toll
Workplace Deaths: The Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll
Workplace Deaths: The Weekly Toll
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
All in a Seven Days’ Work: The Weekly Toll
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All in a Seven Days’ Work: The Weekly Toll
Occupational Fatalities: The Weekly Toll
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
Occupational Fatalities: The Weekly Toll
Clocking in for the Final Shift: The Weekly Toll
Mine Safety MSHA Weekly Toll
Clocking in for the Final Shift: The Weekly Toll
Workplace Deaths: The Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll
Workplace Deaths: The Weekly Toll
This Day In History

This Day In History: Pakistan Garment Fires Kill 289 Workers

September 11, 2018 Jordan Barab

September 11 is a date with deep meaning in the United States — but also in other parts of the…

Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Kavanaugh Testifies, While Workers Continue to Die

September 10, 2018 Jordan Barab

Firefighter dies after propane tank explodes in Tilford Rapid City, SD — A local firefighter died Friday afternoon while fighting…

Brett Kavanaugh Deconstructing the Administrative State OSHA

Kavanaugh’s Lies About SeaWorld: Annotated

September 10, 2018 Jordan Barab

Allow me to be blunt: Judge Brett Kavanaugh lied about the SeaWorld case during his Senate Confirmation testimony last week…

Brett Kavanaugh Deconstructing the Administrative State Regulations and Standards

Doing Harm in the Name of Liberty: Lisa Heinzerling on Kavanaugh’s Nomination

September 9, 2018 Jordan Barab

Georgetown Professor of Law Lisa Heinzerling has always been a fresh voice in defending workplace, environmental and consumer protections against…

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Acosta: It Wasn’t Me

September 6, 2018 Jordan Barab

All across Washington this morning, messages went out from the White House to Cabinet Secretaries ordering them to make a…

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Events For Those in Washington DC

September 6, 2018 Jordan Barab

A photo book release and a day-long journalist-research symposium LIFE’S WORK, A Fifty Year Photographic Chronicle of Working in the…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Labor Day Edition

September 3, 2018 Jordan Barab

Erie man killed in North East workplace accident NORTH EAST, PA — The Pennsylvania State Police and the Erie County…

This Day In History

Today in History: Anniversary Of Hamlet Fire That Killed 25 Workers Locked In The Plant

September 3, 2018 Jordan Barab

Twenty-seven years ago today, twenty-five chicken processing workers were killed when fire swept through the Imperial Food Products Company plant…

Short Stuff

Dispatches from the Front Line of the Battle for Workplace and Environmental Safety

August 31, 2018 Jordan Barab

See No Evil, Radiate No Evil: Nuclear safety advocate and form Department of Energy official Bob Alverez describes how Trump’s…

Criminal Prosecution OSHA Trench Collapse

Worker Killed In Trench Collapse — Again. Why? And What Can Be Done?

August 30, 2018 Jordan Barab

Another in a continuing, never-ending series on the tragedy of preventable trench collapses (and the journalism that accompanies them.) Anthony…

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