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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
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Las Vegas

October 2, 2017 Jordan Barab

Maybe it’s because I’m a creature of Washington, but it occurs to me that if 60 people were killed as…

Blame the Worker Lac Megantic Railroads

Lac Mégantic: Blame the Worker on Steroids

September 28, 2017 Jordan Barab

An unmanned, half-mile long train “bomb train” carrying tank-cars full of highly explosive crude oil barrels toward a city where…

Agriculture

Dairy Workers: Suffocating in Manure

September 27, 2017 Jordan Barab

Tim Craig has written a very good, if disturbing article in the Washington Post about hazardous conditions for dairy farm…

Blame the Worker OSHA

Who Is Responsible For Worker Safety?

September 26, 2017 Jordan Barab

One of the free services we provide here at Confined Space world headquarter is helping journalists write better articles. Here…

Blog

I’m outa here….

September 26, 2017 Jordan Barab

For a couple of weeks… Blogging will be light over the next couple of weeks as I head out on…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Workers Not Coming Home This Week

September 25, 2017 Jordan Barab

68-year-old man killed in workplace accident in Hall County Atlanta, GA — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating.…

Fatalities OSHA Public Employees

Will We Ever Know How Rickey Nombrano Died?

September 25, 2017 Jordan Barab

Ricky Nombrano, part of the Ballinger, Texas city work crew was killed earlier this week “while operating heavy equipment.” We…

Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week: Vendor, New York City

September 22, 2017 Jordan Barab

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OSHA Silica

OSHA Delays Full Silica Enforcement For One More Month

September 21, 2017 Jordan Barab

You won’t see it in a press release, but yesterday OSHA announced another 30 day delay in full enforcement of…

Alex Acosta Department of Labor Environmental Protection Agency Silica

Houston, We Have A Fox-Chicken Problem…

September 20, 2017 Jordan Barab

While the new headlines are all about Hurricanes, health care, North Korea and tax “reform,” chickens around the country are…

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