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Mine Safety MSHA This Day In History

Farmington Mine Disaster and the Blood of Coal Miners

November 20, 2025 Jordan Barab
Enforcement Journalism

Nevada Gov Drops OSHA Penalties for Musk

November 19, 2025 Jordan Barab
Weekly Toll

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November 17, 2025 Jordan Barab
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November 10, 2025 Jordan Barab
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OSHA Press Releases Trench Collapse

“We were supposed to have another 20 years.” Death in the Trench

December 14, 2017 Jordan Barab

“Touching” “Infuriating” and hopefully “Educational” and “Motivating” are all words that come to mind reading this amazing article, Death in…

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Mugno Voted Out Of Committee

December 14, 2017 Jordan Barab

On a straight party line vote, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee voted late yesterday to approve Scott…

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December 13, 2017 Jordan Barab

COSHCON17 — The Young and the Active — : The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, the umbrella group…

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Jingle Bells, Something Smells, Chemicals in the Air Oh what fun, it is to work, with respirators you must wear……

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Falls, Trench Collapses, Shootings, Traffic Incidents. All In a Day’s Work

December 12, 2017 Jordan Barab

1 killed, 1 injured in scaffolding collapse at Md. elementary school construction site FREDERICK COUNTY, Md. (WJLA) — A subcontractor…

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OSHA Rejects GAO Poultry Recommendations: Sees No Problem With Workers’ Restroom Access

December 12, 2017 Jordan Barab

In a surprising and disappointing apparent rollback of OSHA’s enforcement policy related to poultry inspections, Acting Assistant Secretary Loren Sweatt…

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Methylene Chloride Deaths: “All Preventable”

December 8, 2017 Jordan Barab

Methylene chloride kills. We wrote about 21-year old Kevin Hartley last June. He died last April 29 — Workers Memorial…

OSHA Senate

Scott Mugno: What Can We Expect After His Hearing?

December 7, 2017 Jordan Barab

OK, now that the dust has settled, what do we think about the performance of OSHA Assistant Secretary nominee Scott…

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December 6, 2017 Jordan Barab

On Dec. 6, 1917 at 9:04 a.m., one hundred years ago today, the munitions ship Mont-Blanc, carrying nearly 3,000 tons…

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Weekly Toll: The Bell Continues to Toll For American Workers

December 6, 2017 Jordan Barab

Bentleyville man dies at ArcelorMittal plant in Monessen Monessen, PA — A Bentleyville man died Sunday night at the ArcelorMittal…

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