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Short Stuff: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety
Kentucky Limits Black Lung Claims Reviews: We have recently noted that black lung is back with a vengeance after almost…
Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster Anniversary: Don Blankenship Commemorates By Running for Senate
Today is the eighth anniversary of the Upper Big Branch mine explosion that claimed the lives of 29 coal miners…
Nightmare Now Showing at Chemical Facility Near You
From my next screenplay….”The Day Before The Day After Tomorrow” Open Old film of an ominous fog spreading across the…
Weekly Toll: The Monthly Version
FedEx truck driver killed after crashing over highway in Texas DALLAS, TX — A fiery crash killed the driver of…
OSHA: We don’t need no stinkin’ advice — from workers
OSHA seems to be devaluing advice from outside stakeholders — or at least from workers. We’ve written before about the…
OSHA Issues Tiny Penalty for Three Communication Tower Deaths
OSHA has fined Tower King II Inc. $12,934 for the death of three workers who were attempting to install a…
Corporate America’s Stealth Campaign to Stop Worker and Environmental Protections
Admit it. If they could, Trump and most Republicans would like to just get rid of OSHA, EPA the Consumer…
Workplace Safety: What Didn’t Happen
I’m back after a couple of weeks of travel and instead of focusing about what happened over the last couple…
Blogging Outlook: Slim to None
I’m travelling again for the next couple of weeks and not likely to write much. So go back and read…
Climate Change: They Can’t Handle the Truth!
When EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt had the brilliant idea last year to convent a “Red-Team/Blue-Team” exercise to debate the science…