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DeRemer and Keeling: Dueling Labor Hearings

June 6, 2025 Jordan Barab
Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Workplace Death

June 3, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Trump Budget to Workers: Drop Dead

June 2, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

May 27, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Weekly Toll: Workplace Death

May 20, 2025 Dylan Chamberlin
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Trump Budget to Workers: Drop Dead
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September 18, 2017 Jordan Barab

Worker Dies in Industrial Accident at Northern Idaho Mill ATHOL, Idaho (AP) — Authorities say a worker at a northern…

Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week: Newark Airport

September 15, 2017 Jordan Barab

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Chemical Standards

OSHA Alliance: Protecting Workers or Protecting the Chemical Industry?

September 15, 2017 Jordan Barab

OSHA may have strong principles about not issuing press releases that might embarrass companies that endanger or kill workers, but…

Fissured Workplace Temporary Employees

Undercover: Working and Dying as a Temporary Employee

September 14, 2017 Jordan Barab

OK, stick the kids in front of the TV, send your spouse out with friends and sit down for a…

Enforcement Press Releases

OSHA to the Public: ‘You Can’t Handle The Truth!’

September 13, 2017 Jordan Barab

OSHA has engaged in a furious flurry of press activity over the past month. Well, “furious” by Trump-OSHA standards. By…

Hurricane Harvey OSHA Penalties Poultry Industry

Chickens, Hurricanes and OSHA Penalties: Media Interest in Workplace Safety

September 13, 2017 Jordan Barab

One would think with monster hurricanes, threatened nuclear war with North Korea, plans to deport some of America’s best young…

Climate Change Hurricane Harvey NIOSH OSHA Workplace Illness

It’s in the Water: Protecting Hurricane Recovery Workers

September 12, 2017 Jordan Barab

With both Harvey and Irma behind us (barely), the time for cleanup, recovery and rebuilding is here. And workers across…

Chemical Plant Safety Hurricane Harvey Immigrants International MSHA Office of Management and Budget Recordkeeping Short Stuff

Dispatches From the Front Lines of the War On Worker Safety: Short Stuff

September 11, 2017 Jordan Barab

The Incredible Disappearing Security Breach: Hard to know what to say about this. Remember that alleged security “breach” in OSHA’s…

Fatalities Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Workers’ Deaths Are Not Statistics

September 11, 2017 Jordan Barab

A couple of comments before we get to this week’s list. We’ve written about OSHA’s unfortunate decision to remove the…

Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week: Tour Bus Driver, Union Station

September 8, 2017 Jordan Barab

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