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Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week

February 17, 2026 Aina Atienza
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Feds “Clear” Nevada OSHA of Favoring Musk Company. But Who Will Clear the Feds?

February 16, 2026 Jordan Barab
MSHA OSHA Recordkeeping Silica

OSHA Enforcement Staff at Record Low: Inspector General

February 11, 2026 Jordan Barab
Weekly Toll

Workers Who Won’t Be Coming Home: The Weekly Toll

February 9, 2026 Aina Atienza
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Seriously, Mr. President — We Cannot Afford to Dismantle FEMA

February 6, 2026 Kathleen Rest
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Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week
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Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week
Feds “Clear” Nevada OSHA of Favoring Musk Company. But Who Will Clear the Feds?
State Plan States
Feds “Clear” Nevada OSHA of Favoring Musk Company. But Who Will Clear the Feds?
OSHA Enforcement Staff at Record Low: Inspector General
MSHA OSHA Recordkeeping Silica
OSHA Enforcement Staff at Record Low: Inspector General
Workers Who Won’t Be Coming Home: The Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll
Workers Who Won’t Be Coming Home: 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
Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week
Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week
Feds “Clear” Nevada OSHA of Favoring Musk Company. But Who Will Clear the Feds?
State Plan States
Feds “Clear” Nevada OSHA of Favoring Musk Company. But Who Will Clear the Feds?
OSHA Enforcement Staff at Record Low: Inspector General
MSHA OSHA Recordkeeping Silica
OSHA Enforcement Staff at Record Low: Inspector General
Workers Who Won’t Be Coming Home: The Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll
Workers Who Won’t Be Coming Home: The Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Tow Truck Drivers, Cops, Truck Drivers, School Workers — Not Coming Home

January 15, 2018 Jordan Barab

Much-Loved Tow Driver Killed While Helping Stranded Motorist Saginaw, MI — For many, tow-truck driving may not seem like a…

Occupational Disease Workplace Illness

Radio Night at Confined Space

January 13, 2018 Jordan Barab

Don’t feel like going out on the town tonight? Too cold, too tired, too old? Well gather the family around…

Criminal Prosecution Fatalities Trench Collapse

Construction Company Owner Charged with Manslaughter in Trench Death

January 12, 2018 Jordan Barab

Nothing sharpens the mind like the prospect of spending time in jail. Those of you who know me know that…

Bureau of Labor Statistics NIOSH OSHA Recordkeeping

Report Calls For Studying Vulnerable Workers, Gig Economy, and Maintaining OSHA’s New Recordkeeping System.

January 12, 2018 Jordan Barab

Workplace safety and health surveillance and recordkeeping sound boring, but good data about who’s getting hurt, sick or killed —…

Blame the Worker Lac Megantic Railroads

“Perfect Storm” of Sub-Standard Company Practices Led to Disaster: Lac Mégantic Trial Goes To Jury

January 11, 2018 Jordan Barab

After a 3 month-long trial, jurors are finally deliberating on the fate of three rail workers accused of criminal neglegence…

Journalism OSHA Workplace Illness

The Lives They Lived. And The Gifts They’ve Left Us With

January 10, 2018 Jordan Barab

Jim Melius. Leslie Nickels. Jack Sheehan. Mike McGraw. Paul Nyden. As a new year starts, everyone from the New York…

Budget OSHA

Workers Are Dying Because OSHA Can’t Do Its Job: Barab on MSNBC This Morning

January 9, 2018 Jordan Barab

 (View here is the above video isn’t loading. Not too bad. And they even pronounced my name correctly. If…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Death in the American Workplace

January 8, 2018 Jordan Barab

Worker dies after northeastern Indiana industrial accident FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say a worker has died in an…

Agriculture

Trump to Speak to Farm Bureau. Will He Discuss Farm Worker Safety and Health?

January 8, 2018 Jordan Barab

Can’t wait to be back in the amazing state of Tennessee to address the 99th American @FarmBureau Federation’s Annual Convention…

Alex Acosta Budget Congress Enforcement OSHA

Trump Slashes OSHA Staffing, Endangering Workers

January 8, 2018 Jordan Barab

When the same party controls the White House and both houses of Congress, there is always a danger that Congress…

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