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Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

May 6, 2025 Dylan Chamberlin
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Partial Stay of Execution? What’s Happening at NIOSH?

May 1, 2025 Jordan Barab
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American Poison: How Leaded Gas Companies Beat The Toxicologists

May 1, 2025 Scott Schneider
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Weekly Toll: Workers Memorial Day Edition

April 30, 2025 Dylan Chamberlin
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A Workers Memorial Day Letter to President Trump

April 28, 2025 Kathleen Rest
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American Poison: How Leaded Gas Companies Beat The Toxicologists
Books Occupational Disease
American Poison: How Leaded Gas Companies Beat The Toxicologists
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Weekly Toll: Workers Memorial Day Edition
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
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OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Partial Stay of Execution? What’s Happening at NIOSH?
Agriculture Mine Safety NIOSH
Partial Stay of Execution? What’s Happening at NIOSH?
American Poison: How Leaded Gas Companies Beat The Toxicologists
Books Occupational Disease
American Poison: How Leaded Gas Companies Beat The Toxicologists
Weekly Toll: Workers Memorial Day Edition
Fires and Firefighting Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: Workers Memorial Day Edition
Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week: Construction, Judiciary Square

November 3, 2017 Jordan Barab

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Environmental Protection Agency Poultry Industry Short Stuff Workplace Violence

Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff

November 2, 2017 Jordan Barab

The Scott Mugno Show: Reviews continue to dribble in about Trump’s nomination of Scott Mugno to head OSHA. Katie Tracy…

Humor Mine Safety

Halloween 2017 at the Department of Labor

November 1, 2017 Jordan Barab

As one of my former co-workers at OSHA said: “You know you work at the Department of Labor when it’s…

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Hotel Housekeepers: Tipping as Hazard Pay?

October 31, 2017 Jordan Barab

The New York Times has an article about failure of most hotel guests to give low-paid, hard-working housekeepers a much…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Work Continues Its Deadly Course

October 30, 2017 Jordan Barab

Bourbonnais Man Dies From Possible Pesticide Exposure In Chicago Ridge CHICAGO RIDGE, IL — A Bourbonnais man died after he…

OSHA Press Releases Regulations and Standards Susan Harwood Worker Training Program

Scott Mugno Nominated to Head OSHA

October 30, 2017 Jordan Barab

After months of rumors, the White House has finally announced that it has nominated Scott Mugno, Vice President for Safety,…

Labor Unions

Good Union News. What?

October 28, 2017 Jordan Barab

Most of the news you hear about the state of the labor movement these days is either bad…or worse. Falling…

Fatalities

Just Another Day In The Workplace

October 27, 2017 Jordan Barab

I get a lot of health and safety-related news alerts emailed to be every day. Some days are worse than…

Environmental Protection Agency Hurricane Harvey Labor Unions Short Stuff Silica

Short Stuff: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Safe Workplaces

October 25, 2017 Jordan Barab

Bad News For Supporters of Silica-related Disease: As of October 23, OSHA’s Silica rule has finally come into full effect.…

Blame the Worker Lac Megantic Railroads

Lac-Mégantic Trial Reveals More Damning Evidence

October 24, 2017 Jordan Barab

The trial of three rail employees blamed for the deaths of 47 people due to a train carrying 73 cars…

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